25th August 2022 || 1,000 words ||
As the internet keeps changing, so does the way marketing works. The way businesses and brands market their products and services now is vastly different from how it was 10 years ago.
When social media became more popular, it changed the way marketing works forever. Social media allows you to reach your target market directly and it also allows you to see similar things they are into so you can change up your tactics.
In order to have a good marketing strategy in this day and age, you need to have good marketing practices in place. In this article, we’ll be going over some of the best marketing practices you need to implement into your own strategies. So let’s get started!
1. Data Is Your Best Friend
Because social media is so advanced now, it allows us to do some pretty cool things on the marketing side. One of these things is it allows us to look at customer information to see what sort of products and things they are reacting to and looking at.
By utilizing this information, it allows us to predict how we can grip potential customers’ attention, based on the data they are already making. Data marketing allows you to make your marketing a bit more personalized to your audience.
When you appeal to your target audience, you are more likely to get more purchases, especially if you’re catering your ads and products to them. Analyze the data and actually pay attention to it. It could quite literally lay out exactly what you need to be advertising!
2. Always Prioritize SEO
SEO is one of, if not the most important part of online marketing. For those who don’t know, SEO (which stands for Search Engine Optimization) helps your website show up on the search engine results pages, usually by analyzing the keywords of your website.
We all know that when we type in a query on Google we very rarely check any page after the first one, and even then, we very rarely check more than four or five of the top links. So it really goes without saying that the higher up you appear on the search engine results, the more traffic and exposure you will get.
SEO is also great because it lets you look at the analytics of your website, so you can see what is popular and getting the most traffic and what needs work. It saves a lot of time to optimize your SEO and check your website analytics.
3. Utilize The Right Social Media Platforms
Regardless of what kind of business or service you are selling, you’re not going to get very far without having some social media presence. Everyone spends the vast majority of their time online, and most people find their ads online too.
Once you know who your target audience is, it’s in your best interest to use a few social media platforms that you know this target audience is going to frequent. You’ll have to do a bit of research to know which social media platforms your target audience use the most, but once you know, you can focus your attention on those sites.
Let’s take teenagers as an example. If you’re trying to advertise something to teenagers, you’re more likely to reach them on Instagram rather than on LinkedIn. Knowing the habits of your target audience will save you a lot of time and wasted effort, and will heavily benefit your marketing strategies.
4. Optimize Your Website
This practice works hand in hand with SEO optimization. When your website is optimized properly, it will affect your SEO positively, and it will appear higher on the search engines.
Websites that are outdated or aren’t mobile-friendly won't have a good SEO ranking, and that's because they don’t meet the right parameters of the search engines.
Let’s take a brief look at two important ways you can optimize your website for search engines.
Make Sure Your Website Is Mobile Friendly
Because smartphones are such a huge part of everyone’s day, you’ll actually find that most of your website hits will be from a mobile device. Because of this, you need to make sure that your website is mobile-friendly.
It can be incredibly frustrating when you, as a mobile user, go to a website to buy a product or look for more information and the website is still in desktop form. Most people don’t even bother to stay on the website, and the lack of engagement can damage your SEO ranking.
When you make a mobile version of your website, it means that more people will view your website and it will rank higher on the search results.
Consider Your Website's Design
If your website is quite a bit older and you haven’t updated it in quite a while, then there’s practically a 100% chance that your website is incredibly outdated.
Because the internet is always changing, you need to keep that in mind and keep up with the times. The “newer” your website looks, the more people are likely to visit.
You also want to make sure that the whole website is user-friendly and easy to navigate. Complex website designs won't do you or your customers any favors.
Make sure that your website is clean and not cluttered, on brand, and easily accessible to anyone who may be visiting it. You can experiment with your website to make it better, but keep these things in mind above everything else when you’re designing your website.
Conclusion
Though it can be quite difficult to keep up with the neverending changes of the internet, when you do manage to keep up, your marketing strategies and campaigns will definitely benefit from it.
You may need to trial and error a few concepts along the way, but the more you understand and know your audience, the easier it will be to cater your marketing strategies to them.
Utilize the practices we have talked about today, and you’ll see a drastic improvement in no time at all!
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