Tools need in digital marketing.
As Floor Focus contributor Irene Williams likes to remind readers, a productive online marketing program is not simple tapping the young member of your staff to post on social media every once in a while. A mature online marketing strategy involves established metrics and conducting frequent audits.
They have an agency or multiple agencies that they hire to oversee and implement their strategies. Massachusetts-based A.J. Rose Carpets & Flooring has vendors that specialize in digital marketing, traditional marketing and social media.
If you don’t have your hands on it,” says Kevin Frazier of Knoxville, Tennessee-based Frazier’s Carpet One, “your agencies will drift on you. A floorcovering offering isn’t what they are used to advertising-it’s turnkey goods versus consumer goods [with which they are more familiar]. You have to have a sense for what the turnkey customer is looking for and how best to market it.” Since 2003, Frazier has been meeting with his online marketing partner once weekly for 45 minutes each time. At these meetings, the rep provides Frazier with a digital scorecard of about two dozen bullet points that detail things like: How much did YouTube impressions cost? How was traffic to the website? How did the digital leads platform perform? This includes Carpet One-supplied data about his website performance.
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course, hiring agency mean financial investment. In addition to pay his agency, Frazier commits 4% of his sales to marketing, with an increasing portion of that going to online marketing. That includes a $1,700/month spend on Google and Facebook advertising and another $1,200/month on YouTube and Spotify ads-with three-quarters of that going to YouTube. In addition, Frazier’s spends about $700/month on content produced by his advertising agency.
Measuring success for online marketing, as with all marketing, is about compelling the consumer to take desired action. The desired action may change from one company to the next but it should be something concrete, not something as amorphous as “brand recognition.”
Digital marketing sets
Almost anything can be a digital marketing asset, meaning any marketing tool that you use online. That being said, you may not realize how many you have at your disposal. Here are a few examples:
Your website
Branded assets (logos, icons, acronyms)
Video content (video ads, product demos)
Images (infographics, product and company photos)
Written content (blog posts, eBooks, product descriptions, Help Sections, “learning center-type” content or online courses)
Online products or tools (SaaS, calculators, interactive content)
Reviews
Social media pages
As you can probably imagine, this list only scratches the surface. Most digital marketing assets will fall into one of these categories. However, clever marketers are constantly coming up with new ways to reach customers online, and the list keeps growing.
Digitalmarketing strategies
Though the list of digital marketing strategies is also constantly evolving, these are some of the most common and effective strategies that businesses are using.
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