What do small businesses expect to achieve from digital marketing agencies?
We are a digital marketing agency from Bangalore - www.kayendigitalmarketing.com. We wish to know what startups and small businesses expect from a digital marketing agency? How much importance do they give to digital marketing, multi-channel branding, and having good consistent digital designs?
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Jan 12, 2021
Nowadays, if you think marketing is not a big thing, then you should think again! Marketing plays the prominent role in any business in connecting with your audience at the right time in the right place. There are some reasons why small businesses should hire digital marketing services and expect them.
Difference between Traditional Marketing and Digital Marketing:
Digital Marketing provides real-time results, unlike traditional marketing. In traditional marketing, newspaper ads cannot measure how many have interacted with your ad note. You don't have any particular number of data, and you don't know an only newspaper ad is responsible for your all sales or not. But Digital Marketing can provide you the actual number of user's data, and you can measure the return of investments (ROI). Traditional marketing has a limited scope and targets the area of users. But with digital marketing, you can take your business worldwide by spending the penny amount.
Expectations of Small Business Owner:
When any company hires the digital marketing agency, they provide the list of expectations they want to achieve overnight. In the sense, they want quick results within a concise budget.
Top Rank on Google Search Results:
During hire the Digital Marketing agencies, the client gives explicit instruction to the SEO team. He wants to rank the keywords on the 1st position into the organic method's Google Search Results. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the organic process of optimization the website rank higher in the search engine result. This process helps to increase the organic traffic which the website receives. This process takes a minimum of 6 months for any start-ups. Business Owners always have a mindset; digital marketing can do the magic and give them instant results; of course, digital marketing can do the magic compared to the traditional media, but digital marketing is a paid media. And we can expect the results organically, and it is a long dead.
The game of an agency with the client:
The main point is that business owners want a dedicated digital marketing team to execute digital marketing services with the proper plan and get the results. The business owner should also have to understand a real digital marketing campaign takes time to give the results, and it depends upon the goals and target. And agencies want feedback from the business owner to improve their strategy and get the best results.
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Sep 17, 2020
Digital marketing refers to advertising distributed through digital channels such as search engines, websites, social networks, email, and mobile apps. Although this term covers a wide range of marketing activities that are not always used, we will focus on the most common types.
Every business expects to see the results of their investments, benefits, these are both regular visitors and sales. You can use a variety of tools that can help with this. I haven't used leading creative agencies very often, but I always expect a strong strategy and result
Aug 11, 2020
The simple answer is market penetration, increased website and social traffic and engagement. Through SMM, SEM, SEO, PPC, and brand management the compounding effect is to generate more consumer engagement and leads.
It is also an expectation for the agency to create a strong brand identity and persona that people associate with the brand. For this, you need to align yourself with and understand their vision.
Aug 11, 2020
Small business owners should first thing about what they want. Not everyone can spend lakhs and lakhs of rupees in marketing every month.
And also getting a position in google cannot be done in over night. It is a perennial process. Its an compounding effects of all the techniques like SEO, SEM, SMO.
The owners should first understand the process of Digital Marketing before approaching any agency.
The owners can expect good guidance from the agency. And also let the agency know what exactly you want from them. Tell them whether you want to go for Brand visibility or you want get ROI for what you spend.
After that they would give you the price for their services. In Digital Marketing, there is no fixed price. It is calculated based on what the customers wants.
An good Agency should be open to the customers. They should not give false promises to the customers about bringing them in the first page of Google or other search engine. They should explain how each process is working and want to make the customer understand the process of Digital Marketing.
Cause in Digital Marketing we can only able to predict the result but we cannot promise them with accurate results. So its always better to be open with the customers.
Aug 6, 2020
Being highly competitive in the digital marketing Agency industry means that you must not only provide consistent and excellent services, but also strive to achieve your goals. No one will want to continue hiring your services if they don't always meet the sales targets that the organization intends to get when they hired you
May 28, 2020
They Need to Focus on there Business Goal and Services, They make satisfied clients relationship by providing the best quality Services. Optimized their own website.
Mar 5, 2019
What small businesses do expect from marketing agencies is increased sales and higher lead generation. One thing those small businesses can do is implement Live Chat in their websites because according to recent studies this has proven to be a working strategy for increased sales and higher lead generation.
Feb 28, 2019
Hello Narayan Nair, how are you? I'm fine.
When startups are entering the business and want to grow fast, a digital marketing platform is the best place to reach more customers/clients to get aware of. Small businesses can start up doing promotion and ads for their business on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, and Google Plus, where startups can spend less and get more awareness created for the business. Typically, when some small agencies and company enter they are not aware of objective and goals and this manipulates the company to shut down. If you want to sustain in the market and grow well you can digital marketing activities.
1. Website Development- Companies can build a website which can give the best information about your services and can contact you.
2. SEO- Search Engine Optimization where you can rank your website on the first page of Google Search with the most searched keyword.
3. Social Media Marketing- Social Media Marketing is the best place where you can drive more traffic and can do brand promotion for your business. In social media, you can target age, demographic, location and interest as well. You can show the ads to people whom you want to show. You need to set the best budget for the campaign which can make your business reach more clients and customers. There are platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Google Plus, Dzone, Forums, and many more platforms where you can do your marketing and get your potential customers for your business.
However, this does not waste your resources and small business and agencies can achieve their targets.
Feb 21, 2019
To be honest, digital marketing is a hard sell. A lot of small businesses, due to pressure or priorities, don't think it is a good idea to spend on digital marketing. And since digital marketing demands time and patience, ROI is also an issue.
If you manage to sell the service, expectations vary based on the nature of the business + the owner/entrepreneur you're dealing with + what you sold them. Here are some common expectations depending on your commitment to the client:
1. RANKINGS - Everyone wants to be on top. Sometimes, it is easier, sometimes it is just impossible. But irrespective of competition and limitations, businesses expect to get on the first page of Google for all the possible keywords.
2. TRAFFIC - A lot of times, traffic does the trick. If you are able to generate quality traffic to the website, businesses will be happy to pay you for your service. But remember the emphasis here is QUALITY TRAFFIC.
3. VIRAL CONTENT - Everyone wants to be in the news. Businesses are no different. They're paying for marketing and getting into the feed of people. So, they expect you to do the kind of content that breaks the internet.
4. FOLLOWERS | LIKES - If you're managing social media pages, businesses expect you to bring followers, likes and consistent engagement to their social media profiles.
5. LEADS - Last but probably the most important thing businesses expect from you is lead generation.
Feb 19, 2019
Hey Narayan!
From a personal and professional standpoint, I'd say the number one thing expected by SMBs from digital marketing agencies is heightened visibility and engagement through targeting. Typically, when any business gets in contact with a digital marketing agency, it's to increase their reach and drive more sales. For small businesses with tight budgets, it can be harder to locate and engage with your tribe.
As for multi-channel branding and consistency with designs, these are all expected and extremely important assets to any digital marketing campaign, whether it's through an outside agency or within your business itself. However, don't waste resources where they won't be rightfully spent. For instance, if your target audience is between the age of 18-35, spending time and money on Facebook ads may not lead to the highest conversion rates when compared to the likings of Instagram and Twitter, to name a few. Digital marketing agencies can do all of the market research for small businesses, and take the guesswork out of it; providing solid results and a game plan that the small business and its team can easily learn and recreate on their own accord.
Feb 19, 2019
Well, I will try to answer this in a short manner.
Start-ups want fast exit and most of them are prepared to pay big money for marketing, any form. If you are enough lucky to get on board with one start-up, it will be much easier in other stages.
Well, for small business is an entirely different story. The small business owner doesn't have time to hear your explanation or even proposals. So if you are pursuing clients, the odds are bigger to land middle size client or startup than small business.
This I tell you from my own experience.
The bottom line is that start-ups are seeking brand exposure mainly and small businesses asking results, closed sales and this is how they evaluate you and work of your agency.
Blazho from Exai.
Aug 11, 2020
I hired a seo agency.
from past 2.5 months snap shot: 1.5 month on On page seo.
after that from past 1 month he is just doing submissions again and again. He is not building links.I am not sure of his seo skills. No good results so far.Please suggest?
Feb 14, 2019
Hello,
Myself, Sam Roger, working with Amazing7 Studios, leading website design & development company and digital marketing company in Florida. We deal with all type of businesses either the business is small or the business is large. Basically, it depends on the business model for which type of a business category we are working. Under the small businesses, there might be several categories like the food business, restaurant business and many more. If you are approaching business owner to do business with your company, then firstly analyze the whole website as per the SEO aspects and design aspects. Because both are very important and play a vital role to give the fruitful results. Analyze the competitors, analyze the keywords, target location, USP. After done with all of them, then explain that business all the things and make them clear each and everything.
Thank you for all the answers.