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The 5 Components of a Successful

Online Marketing Strategy

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Whether you’re thinking of taking your business to the next level or initiating a new ecommerce project or marketing campaign, the level of success will be determined by your online marketing strategy.

The strategy formulation and ideas you’ll see in the next few pages are the results of years of direct observation and hands on experience from Expandeer.com

www.expandeer.com | [email protected] | +297 661 7780

Before we start, let’s get the definitions right. There are many definitions for strategy from the outright complex versions to outdated ideas.

Online marketing strategy can be simplified as follows:

Strategy = I think

Tactics = I do

More specifically:

Strategy = Analysis, planning, ideation

Tactics = Mechanisms, activities, deployment

And if you drill down even more:

Strategy = Analysis, planning, ideation

Tactics = Mechanisms, activities, deployment

Strategy - tactics = Einstein's brain in a jar

Tactics - strategy = Einstein without a brain at all

Strategy + tactics = GROWTH

Next: let’s look at the 5 key components…

5 components of an online marketing strategy

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats

CUSTOMERS POSITIONING MEASURETACTICSMESSAGE

Technology

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Next: customers, who are they?…

Components of an online marketing strategy?

CUSTOMERS

1. Who are your customers?

2. Do you clearly understand your customer perspective?

3. What are their needs and goals?

There is a simple truth. Customers don’t care about you or your company . What customers really want to know is how you are going to solve their current problems. Are you going to relieve their worries or is your service or product going to bring them happiness? Because of this fact, you have only one job to do: to understand your customers’ fears, wants and desires.

Your job as a marketer is to fully know:

Next: your positioning…


POSITIONING

Within 5 seconds of shaking someone’s hand you are able to draw some conclusions of the person’s disposition: friendliness, height, speaking tone, confidence and much more. So it is with your company. The value of your product or service, your unique competitive advantage, should be clear within 5 seconds of visiting your site. What benefit do you offer consumers? You need to make the immediate benefit or ROI of using your service or product crystal clear. For example, Diamonds.com does an excellent job with their value proposition. They don’t sell diamonds, they sell moments that last forever.

What you should know:

Next: the message…

1. What problems do your prospects have that your business solves?

2. What makes you different (your Unique Selling Points. USP)?

3. What is your value proposition?


MESSAGE

Writing copy (content) is one of the most important elements of any effective online marketing campaign. Copywriting involves creatively delivering words that get people to take some form of action. It’s best explain with the following quote:

“Advertising is based on one thing: happiness. And do you know what happiness

is? Happiness is the smell of a new car. It’s freedom from fear. It’s a

billboard on the side of a road that screams with reassurance that whatever

you’re doing is Okay. You are Okay”. Don Draper

What you should know:

Next: tactics…

Advertising - a judicious mixture

of flattery and threats

1. What are the product/service truths?

2. What do we need to do to communicate this?

3. What do we want the audience to do?


TACTICS

Any successful business uses multiple customer acquisition channels, constantly adapting its tactics to shifting trends in the market. It’s important that a business experiments with several online channels to find out which one performs best. While it’s natural to immediately think of Google and Facebook as advertising channels, the truth is there are 100’s of possible effective channels. The deeper you go, the more targeted your campaign will be and the cheaper the overall acquisition costs.

Your job is to find out where you customers live online and target them with:

Next: measuring…

Paid Search

SEO/Blog/copy

Affiliate Marketing

Display Advertising

Email Marketing

Social Marketing

Lead Generation

Retargeting Advertising

Sponsorships and much more…


MEASURE

Unlike tv, radio and print, online marketing gives you powerful analytics tools to measure your performance. As a business you have to be able to track from the first click all the way to a conversion or action. Similarly you need to track across all channels: website, Google, email, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. Why is all of this important? Consider the phrase below:

“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know

which half” John Wanamaker

What you should do:

Next: Key takeaways

1. Choose the right tracking and measuring technology

2. Set up tracking

3. Measure every $$$ spent and re-allocate budget to most profitable channel

4. Optimise, optimise, optimise


1. Online marketing like everything else is constantly evolving. Experiment.

2. Online marketing isn’t just Facebook, banners or driving traffic. It’s about creating a

coherent strategy. It’s about creating a marketing machine that lets you track,

optimise and get results.

3. Start now. If you’re not online, your competition will be. And most importantly your

customers already are online.



KEY TAKEAWAYS

We leave you with these key takeaways:

Next: contact…


Should you find any of this daunting, there’s a huge amount of help and

information already on the internet. Someone else has almost always been

there first and left some advice on how to navigate your way through these

issues. And don’t forget that you can always contact us at Expandeer.com for

help and advice.

www.expandeer.com | [email protected] | +297 661 7780



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