The ultimate guide to getting digital marketing right
The strategic and creative process of telling your customers
what your brand is all about is the act of branding. This usually
includes who you are, what is it that your brand stands for, what is it
that customers can expect from the brand, and finally why they should
work with your brand. When this process is done on the internet via the
use of websites, apps, social media sites, videos and more this is then
the act of digital marketing.
Many marketers would equate a
brand without a digital presence to a car without tires, it isn’t going
to go anywhere. Even though traditional branding and advertising
haven’t been completely abandoned as of yet any brand in this day and
age needs a diverse range of digital branding tools if it wishes to
succeed in its market and to cement their place as a leader in their
segment.
Here’s our essential guide to digital marketing to help kick off your own brand strategy:
Logo
A single image that a customer should associate with your brand,
that is what a logo is. Designing a logo is usually a difficult process
as it should match your brand’s personality as well as its values.
Other things to keep in mind when designing a logo are the market in
which the brand operates and finally the target audience.
Website
If the logo of a brand can be considered as the sign of the
business, then the website of that brand is the digital storefront of
that brand. It is here that comes come to, to get to know more about
your brand. It must include all essential information such as locations
of your physical store, your working hours, the list of products that
you have for sale, and finally your contact information. Nowadays no one
goes through phonebooks to find information such as this, all they do
is search for your website on Google to get all the information.
Some
key factors to keep in mind when designing a website for your brand are
that it should be easily navigable and that it should be
mobile-friendly since nowadays almost everyone browses the web via their
mobile devices.
Brand Messaging
Brand messaging represents what your company says as well as the
manner in which it conveys this message. A good rule of thumb to keep
in mind is that the message that you wish to put out must contain facts
such as what your company does, what it believes in and finally it
should briefly go into meeting the customer’s needs and desires.
A
thing to keep in mind when drafting these messages is the tone of these
messages, it should align with the services that the brand offers.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
SEO is the act of ensuring that your online content is readily
available to potential consumers when searched on all major search
engines. SEO plays a major role when the design process of a website
takes place. One good tool to have in your back pocket to understand how
SEO and websites interact is Google’s Webmaster Guidelines, which will
help explain how the search giant indexes and ranks websites.
Social Media
In this day and age when social media is prevalent and almost
permeates through all levels of a consumer’s life, it becomes necessary
for brands to have their presence felt on all major platforms such as
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, etc.
Some tips to
keep in mind when designing posts for social media sites is that almost
every post must be tailored to fit the demographic of that social media
platform, and finally that there should be a steady brand image
portrayed across all accounts of the brands on the different social
media platforms.
Finally, digital marketing is not just
the act of finding a new avenue to sell your brand’s products but also
about developing a passionate and loyal fanbase of your brand that not
just buys your products but also believes in your brand identity.