Digital Marketing

Why visiting a ‘one stop shop’ can sometimes be a bad idea

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There are many businesses who offer a ton of digital services under one roof, and you probably don’t have to look too far in your local town centre to find a small firm offering printing, web design, email marketing, brochure production and social media management among other services. But why is visiting a shop like this sometimes a bad idea?

Well, so many businesses struggle because they branch out into areas they’re not too familiar with, so they may not have all of the experience needed for each of those areas. Think of it this way, one particular service could demand years of experience, so is it likely a small team of two or three can manage everything they’re offering to a really high standard. We’d say it’s unlikely and it’s important to learn about their experience before you choose them to manage all of your digital design, marketing and advertising work.

Never rule out offline marketing strategies for your business

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Ruling out offline marketing would be a be mistake for any business. Although it is easy to say digital marketing is most effective in recent years, old techniques still work extremely well. Many businesses focus their marketing budget on online marketing and easily forget the importance of direct marketing.

There are many ways to promote your business offline, through mail, newspaper advertisements, brochures and leaflets to name a few. It has been said the mail marketing remains more effective than email marketing, and that’s why it is so important to still use these marketing methods to your businesses advantage.

With the right design and marketing team, you can create high quality designs, promote sales and products all whilst incorporating your brands identity. Leaflets and brochures are a great way to engage with your audience and create curiosity, driving them to your store or website, with the aim of increasing sales.

Making email marketing work for your business

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Email marketing helps you to stay in touch with old and new customers and can work for any type of business, big and small. Emails are a great way to promote a new product, advertise a sale, or simply touch base with your subscribers/customers.

The most difficult part of email marketing is getting a good open rate, that’s why business emails should be kept simple yet engaging with their intended audience. Always include good quality written content, whilst having eye-catching visuals to compliment the text is key. Having a good ratio of text and visuals make the email more pleasing to the eye, and keeps the reader engaged. This is only if they actually open up the email that is.

Getting your readers to open the email will require a title the creates curiosity, making them want to know more. Always include easy links to your website and any items mentioned within the email, if the user has to jump through hurdles to get to the information on your website, you will likely lose their interest quickly.

Should I hire an online marketing professional?

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There are many ways to help promote your business, with both online and offline methods. With the constant growth of online users, there is no better time to optimise some of the online marketing strategies.

Online marketing can be a very time consuming job, that’s why hiring a professional may work well for your business. Hiring a team that can help improve your position on search engines and help provide organic traffic towards your website.

Online marketing also includes management of social media, the biggest growing platforms on the web. Business accounts should be created and managed with quality content both written and visual, and also engagement with followers and potential customers. Social media platforms not only provide an easy way to reach the website, with each click to your site you are improving your websites trust, which search engines like.

Hiring an online marketing team could be the next step your business needs, research a trusted company and see the positive results for yourself.

Advertising Your Business In Your Local Newspaper

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Promoting your business in your local newspaper could help boost your sales and followers. There can be some tricks to help you decide whether to choose free or paid advertising, or both. We feel that whatever strategy you choose, getting newspaper coverage will increase your community profile.

Paid Advertising

This could be the easy way to get your business in to a local publication since you simply have to pay to advertise your business. You get to dictate the content they will write about your business and optimise commercial messages to attract customers, but the cost of the ad may not provide a return, so perhaps signing up to a series will work better.

Free Editorial

Most newspapers host free editorial spaces to help promote your business. However, you don’t get to dictate what they will write about you and your business. Most reporters will summarise the good or bad things and compile them to make the write-up. The best thing to do is get in touch with reporters and foster good relationships with them.