Marketing has experienced massive growth and transformation over time to an extent that if you do not embrace and fine tune to a digital marketing strategy, disaster waits and you might soon have to count your losses.
It is not just enough that you have a digital marketing strategy, because everybody out there does. Today, everything is about competition. You need to ensure that your head is above the water, and that you can be found with ease by people searching for you services.
If you already have a digital marketing strategy up and running, you need to evaluate its effectiveness. There are several ways you can go about doing this.
- One, you can employ the services of market analytics. These are services offered online by various players that allow you to know how your marketing framework is doing. Such services are available even for free on Google.
- Secondly, it is very important to listen to what people say about how your company is doing. You can access the opinions of people through interfaces like social media. There will always be some element of bias in what people say about something, but it is never really far from the truth. Track your customer’s sentiment to gauge what you are doing right or doing wrong.
- Having interactive sites where your clients are able to get back to you with comments is also the other way of killing it. After you have heard some insight into how your strategy is doing, the next step is to work on ways to improve it.
In order to take an improvement path that will give you results, you need to put the data you have collected into use. In making your data pay, you must carry out an analysis and some of those things you will be looking at during analysis including:
- Is there a general improvement with time?
- How are you performing compared to your competitors?
After the analysis, it is important to set goals so that you can know where you want to take your business, and have some kind of a track to monitor if you are working well enough towards the goals.
Erica Miller is the Senior Marketing Coordinator at GMR Web Team, a full service digital marketing agency located in Tustin, CA. She joined the team shortly after graduation and has immersed herself in the marketing world. With everything from proofing content to strategizing marketing campaigns she has hit the ground running and is enjoying every bit of it.
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Jay North
March 3, 2014 at 11:36 am
Interesting blog on refining strategy on Digital Marketing. The ways for evaluating the effectiveness for Digital Marketing running strategy are well explained. Thanks Erica for sharing this article!
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