Today crucial digital marketing is key to your business. In the not-so-distant past, online marketing was this emerging and different way of selling your products and services. It may not have been immediately obvious.
However, it was the beginning of a massive change in how advertising is seen and done.
Today, it’s an integral part of running a business. Every single major brand has a digital strategy, and so any brand that wants to be successful needs one. Even a dental practice needs a digital strategy in today’s environment.
Since the barrier to entry for digital marketing is relatively low, it’s an inexpensive marketing strategy and widely accessible. Hence, most companies are employing some kind of digital strategy.
There is a lot of competition for your target audience’s attention. It is no longer enough to just have a website and a minimal social media presence.
Here is a list of reasons why digital marketing is necessary for every single business, regardless of size or niche.
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Why Digital Marketing is Crucial – Gives You Better Reach!
The point of an advertising campaign is to speak to your target audience. Therefore, the beauty of digital marketing is that it reaches people where they already spend their time.
Instead of asking them to make an effort to see your ad, you just conveniently appear where they already are. However, this does take some research and work prior to you spending money on digital advertising.
In today’s connected world, your clients are most likely on social media.
The average internet user has at least seven social media accounts, and 98% of people have at least one social media account. The amount of time people spend using social media is also increasing.
For example, over half of Facebook and Instagram users are online every single day.
Now, there are even more social media channels with alternative social media networks becoming more popular in 2024.
Social media is also where roughly one-third of users spend time interacting with branded content.
All these statistics basically say that social media is a critical battleground for businesses. If you aren’t spending time speaking to your audience on those platforms, you’re missing out. That’s why digital marketing is crucial today!
Here is an example of Inspire To Thrive’s past Twitter ad campaign. You can see the cost is pretty low for clicks. There was a time a while back when you needed thousands of dollars to advertise on X Twitter.
However, that is no longer the case with Elon Musk at the helm of X today.
Helps with Lead Generation
Generating leads as a business is something you really need to make sure you work on as much as possible. There are a lot of ideas that you can do to help your business generate more leads, and this is one of the things that makes digital marketing so important.
So, you have to make sure you do your best to come up with ideas that are going to help you with lead generation.
A big part of this is trying to make sure you improve your online presence, and that you make the best choices for things like social media and your business website.
Using things like organic traffic tips is also an essential way of being able to improve upon this, and there are so many ideas that will play a role in helping you here.
Try to make sure you come up with ideas that are going to help you improve this as much as possible. Organic traffic is a great way of being able to help improve this process moving forward.
Plus, you have to make sure you come up with wonderful lead generation ideas that are going to help you make the most of this moving forward right now.
Gets Results for Your Business with Crucial Digital Marketing
Traditional marketing, or outbound marketing, just doesn’t have the same effect on consumers that it used to have. Generally, outbound marketing is inconvenient and overly aggressive, and the message tends to get lost.
Outbound marketing gets lost because there are more distractions your audience needs to ignore.
If you haven’t yet, it’s time to switch your efforts over to crucial digital marketing, or inbound marketing, because it has a much higher success rate than traditional efforts do.
You can use Google Adwords, Facebook ads, Twitter ads, Instagram ads, and NextDoor just to name a few of the big ones.
If you aren’t a marketer but recognize the need for digital marketing, you can outsource the work to an agency to guarantee the results you want.
Instead of spending time learning and trying to build campaigns and strategies yourself, you can turn to those with experience. They can help bring your business into the digital age in terms of advertising.
Gives Direction for Your Business
While you’re building your digital strategy, you will need to complete a few steps. These steps include:
Learning what you need to do to build your online marketing strategy if you don’t already know,
- Create a plan of action
- Put the plan into place
- Measure the success
- Rinse and Repeat!
A positive side effect of your strategy building is that you will uncover a clear direction your business should take, as well as what goals you will need to hit along the way.
Without these goals, it becomes difficult to know what your campaigns will revolve around.
Not only that, but you will save time working on your business once your digital marketing is doing its job for you
Your Turn: Crucial Digital Marketing
Are you using crucial digital marketing today for your business? Are you outsourcing any of the digital tasks? What are you finding that works the best?
I’d love to know more about it in the comments below!
She has 30+ years of experience in marketing/advertising with 12 years of experience in content marketing, social media, blogging, and SEO.
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Lisa, how are you doing?
Generally, digital marketing does not cost much unless you do multiple streams. Do you agree omnichannel is the way to expensive Digital Marketing?
Hi Hammad, I am well, thanks for asking. Yes, omnichannel can be expensive but works if you can do it. It may harder for smaller businesses to use that method. Thanks for coming by and have a great day!
Hey Lisa,
Digital Marketing is crucial. I think digital marketing is very important for an online business to grow. Your website will perform a lot better with better SEO. Thanks again. Loved reading your post.
Hi John, thank you. It really is today as the competition is fierce. SEO is a critical component as well and can deliver the most bang for one’s buck. Thanks for your input and have a great day John.
Hey Lisa,
Digital marketing nowadays performing a great role. Most digital marketing does cost less unless you do multiple streams of them. Thank you for the compilation
Hi Sathish, that is an excellent point! Most digital marketing does cost less than the old traditional marketing. It sort of levels the playing field for the smaller businesses. Now, if it weren’t so complicated so the smaller businesses could do their own! You are most welcome and have a great day!
Hi there, thanks for posting such an informative post. I think digital marketing is very important for an online business to grow. Your website will perform a lot better with better SEO. Thanks again. Loved reading your post.
Hi Roman, you are most welcome. SEO certainly does help but it changes very often and one has to keep up on it or outsource the major task of it. I do both here. Have a nice weekend!
Hi Lisa. This is a brilliant post. Digital marketing is indeed the need of the hour and can’t stress enough all the benefits that it offers.
To begin with, digital form of marketing is much more targeted than any of its counterparts. In addition, digital marketing campaigns drive better results and are easier to execute.
The reason being, like you mentioned contrary to the traditional marketing methods, you don’t have to be spammy and intrusive in your pursuits for fresh customers.
The beauty of it all is that it can be done on a budget. You only need to pay for the ad campaigns you run on these platforms. But, then again the ad campaigns are totally worth each penny you shell out because the ease it involved in tracking crucial metrics of the campaign is unrivalled.
Another thing that definitely should find its mention here is ‘Retargeting Ads.’ Most of the visitors just won’t make a purchase the first time they land on your website.
In some cases, they might even abandon their shopping cart. Retargeting ads reminds and reinvites such people to your website. You can employ cookie data for re-running ads of the shopping items the visitor viewed.
Hi Hitesh, welcome to Inspire To Thrive. Thank you. So true that digital marketing is more targeted in most cases. (The only other I can think of is direct mail to a particular list.) Most of the digital marketing does cost less unless you do multiple streams of them.
Very true about re-targeting, thank you for that addition. I appreciate your coming by and have a great day Hitesh.
Hi Lisa,
Digital marketing is now making much sense than ever. Like you said…it as low barrier of entry but the competition is high.
No business that want to succeed will ignore digital marketing, infact, it as become an essential part of any business.
Cheers,
Folajomi
Hi Rolajomi, That’s interesting if you think about it, easy to enter but high competition. One has to pay attention and participate in some digital marketing to increase their business and let people know they are still around or if they are new a great way to obtain new customers. Thanks for coming by and have a great rest of the day there!