What type of digital marketing strategies should we implement for a startup?
What type of digital marketing strategies should we implement for a startup? We are in the primary stage and do not have much money.
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May 30, 2019
It depends on what type of business you have.
If you have a lot of local competitors, then try focusing more on digital marketing rather than going head on and competing with more established businesses.
Find out where your target market is, and focus your marketing campaign there.
In my experience, I've had a better result from small FB ad campaigns rather than Google Ads.
Building your brand is critical and is something that you should be doing from the launch of your startup until you gain customers.
May 21, 2019
Initially, we need to look to the website on which we are going to start work for digital marketing purpose. Firstly, we need to understand that digital marketing is very vast and broad sector. In digital marketing, many of the tools come under it. There are some techniques which I am going to explain below.
1. Email Marketing - Just find out the data and start sending emails to them.
2. Social Media Marketing - Create creative ads for your business and start boosting the post.
3. Content Marketing - Start doing content marketing by using a paid press release, guest blogging at the lowest cost.
These three are the best way to start Digital marketing at the lowest price. Still, if you have any query regarding this, you can SEO Ninja, USA based company. They will help you out with the best strategy in less time. You can also email them at info@seoninja.com.
Jun 19, 2018
So my thought is.. Why sell eggs at the bottom of your driveway, hoping people will drive by, want eggs, and come buy from you, when you can go sell them at the flea market in the middle of town, with 100s of passer buyers, actively shopping.
In other words, my strategy would be to go where your target market is already hanging out versus busting your butt to get them to come to where you are from the jump (your website).
So what I'd do, is go join groups on Facebook and other social sites that match your demographic. Start interacting. When you or others ask target market specific questions, I'd friend and connect with the people who interact with the posts (only people who interact).
If you start building a concentric internal audience based off of your target audience, going after people who specifically INTERACT and ENGAGE - you will quickly build an audience of the right people.
From there- create your OWN group, and put out a post, inviting all of your connects interested in the target market or are looking for cures to specific pain points you solve.
From there, go hard with your group, putting up content 2-3x a day (bulk schedule a week at a time on FB) and ask your members to invite people who are the RIGHT fit.
You then can start pushing group members to your website, by adding links to the group via posting.
I'd concentrate on building SOCIAL communities where your audience is already hanging out on FB, and depending on your business, YouTube second. YouTube is a longer play, but you can build an incredible community and drive a ton of leads/sales. I've built a channel to 1.3m subs, and get hundreds of thousands of free leads every year for example. YouTube also archives the content, so you have videos being found on YouTube, watched, and people visiting your site on automation.
I don't disagree with those saying SEO is good - I just don't think expecting the audience to come find you when we already know where they are hanging out - let's go find them.
Jun 15, 2018
I think SEO is the best strategy. But this strategy is not cheap and you need good SEOers and a good copywriter.
Jun 14, 2018
Wix is the best option for a startup website. Wix is very user-friendly. You can start your own database (contacts) through Wix and maintain it for a small investment. Publish a newsletter on a regular basis and get a blog going as well.
May 28, 2018
Search engine optimisation would suit you the best.... do you have a website?
SEO strategy:
Competitor analysis: Use some tools like - semrush to find keywords for your potential products/services.
Keyword analysis: Find at least 100 keywords to start with.
Content: Collect product data. If it is services then you just need to create write-ups. Create 1500+ writeups on each product/service. If the product doesn't have much content, then use images and video to enhance page quality.
Website: Simple design - find a free WordPress template and implement. Make homepage and most important product or inner pages.
Content optimization: Now, optimize the content - keyword density should be 1% and you should use semantic keywords/phrases.
Make the site live with at least 50+ pages including the homepage. Setup Google webmaster & analytics. Create XML sitemap and upload on the root. Submit to webmaster.
1st Month: Now start promoting the website on different sites - yellow pages, quality directories, press releases.
2nd Month Onwards: SEO - Start building anchor links on keywords: guest posts, article marketing, forums, etc.
3rd Month: Continue the 2nd-month work.
4th Month: Check the keywords rank, SEO typically starts showing results in the 3rd month if things are implemented seriously on time. You should receive a good amount of traffic by the 4th month. Keep monitoring the growth through google analytics and webmaster and keep doing the link building activity.
Precautions: Do not copy content from other websites and do not make bad quality links to your site. Bad quality means from thin sites, check the site DA on Moz tool - the DA should be at least 30.
All good, for more info you can search on Google - "SEO guides"
Thanks.
May 24, 2018
The benefits of digital marketing are you can start it with ZERO funds. For any start-up, the most critical part is to get publicity, and the best source for it would be social media activities. Try to make some viral content related to your niche segment and promote it with your friends and family.
If you can share your website, I can have a free audit for you and will give my recommendations on your on-page SEO status.
All the best!
Cheers,
Govind
May 20, 2018
There are many ways to promote your business. But some ways fit or not depend on your business type. If you run a local business in Canada, you can advertise your business using Yelp. The Yelpers usually search for local businesses such as restaurants, hotels, car repair stores, dentists through Yelp. On Yelp, people can get helped thanks to the review system. Actually, you can advertise your local business on Yelp for free. But if you want your Yelp business page get more customers, try its paid ads plan. Besides, there are also some proven ways to advertise your business for free here: http://skillonpage.com/advertise-a-business-online-for-free/
May 15, 2018
Hi,
If you don't have that much of a budget for your startup then start with SEO, SMO and email marketing. Basically, these are the conventional unpaid strategies that generally are easy and very much affordable but take months to fetch results. We were a startup and followed the same rules. Once the unpaid strategies started paying off, we moved on towards PPC/Adwords.
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All the best!!!
Apr 26, 2018
Jenny,
Congrats on the new business. Being a business I see the world differently, my question is how long you want this to take to see results. If you have time then digital marketing is the best bet, like SEO, SMM, blogs and social media as you know this method will take three to six months.
If you want to be a little aggressive, I would get a sales team hiring rock stars and depends on your sales cycle pay them a straight commission. Then I would use email marketing and get a call center at a good rate. This way you can see money coming back in ASAP... and you can focus on the low hanging fruit. Then you can put the money in the digital marketing strategies.
Remember there is more than one way to skin a cat...
What seeds are you planting in your business...
Apr 19, 2018
Hi friend,
If you want to get started in digital marketing then follow my steps-
Most important on your website is ON page content, and then OFF page techniques.
When doing backlinks on your website, you should focus on your page DA and PA and relevant high authority websites. It will help to increase the factor for your website.
.Edu and .Gov websites are high authority sites so you should try to create backlinks from these sites.
Hope my advice is useful for your business startup.
Apr 17, 2018
Hi Jenny,
The digital marketing strategies are basically divided into four categories:-
1) Organic Marketing
2) Paid Marketing
3) Reporting
4) Mobile Marketing
Organic Marketing- It includes search engine optimization (SEO), social media optimization (SMO), email marketing. These are skills for marketing of any product or services in an organic way.
Paid marketing - Paid version of marketing includes pay per click (PPC), display ads, video ads, social media marketing (SMM mainly includes Facebook and Twitter ads).
Reporting- Reporting basically surrounds around analytics and checking current traffic, the target audience for particular product or services.
Mobile Marketing - As mobile has become the major part of our daily life so has become important for digital marketing. Mobile marketing includes Ads in Applications, etc.
As you mentioned that you are startup then organic marketing suits you the best which includes:
Search engine optimization (SEO)
Social media optimization(SMO)
Email marketing
Apr 11, 2018
Hi Jenny,
It would be helpful to know what type of business you are starting because digital marketing will need be geared towards what it is you are offering.
There are great cheap/free services you can use to help your startup.
The first thing to do is network. Finding others that are excited about what it is you offer and spreading word of mouth is extremely helpful. The only problem is this can be limited if you are only networking with people in your demographic area so be sure to find friends everywhere. That would be LinkedIn, Facebook and of course here where you can talk to other business owners.
Try using a free service like MailChimp to create free email campaigns and market to potential or existing customers. Setting up a profile on social media outlets is important yet those take a lot of time and effort to maintain. If you are going to be local like a have a local pet grooming shop this is dynamic in always speaking to your audience. Offer promotions and post them online with links to your website. Tweet them out. Anything you can do to get social media working for you is helpful. Blogs, as mentioned in other answers, are also a great way to get the word out. Create your own blogs and content and ask others related to you to post or boast about your business.
With SEO, SEM and any type of search, I would recommend taking a class to learn how this works. As long as you are working on managing things organically it is of no cost to you. If you do paid ads those can be really expensive. I've set up an account and put $10 in it, bid on a few keywords and saw how it worked just to get an understanding. A full-on SEO campaign will cost you so try and see what you can do locally and organically. There are free courses online for these.
Apr 5, 2018
Follow these steps
1. Hire a digital marketer
2. Do proper keyword research
3. Do on-page
4. Continue with off page
5. Write blogs on the business website, 4 per week
6. Do social media manually
Keyword ranking depends on many factors, so continuous white hat digital marketing is required. It all depends on the business nature. If you have a web-related business, there is very tough competition.
Apr 5, 2018
Hi Jenny,
Start with SEO to make your website more user and search engine friendly.
Get some quality backlinks from your theme relevant high authority websites. It will help to improve your website presence on Google search results.
Make some social presence through pages likes, followers, and reviews. It will help to build trust and a reputation in the eyes of your customers about your business. That will convert in your future conversions and improve your sales.
Make some quality and unique posts on your website and share them with the help of social media sites.
All this will helpful for a new startup...
Apr 5, 2018
Hello Jenny,
First of all, you must know your target audience. Once you have discovered your target audience, plan a campaign that targets customer's pain points.
For example, in today's era there is a scarcity of water and if you do something that can replace water scarcity then it would automatically attract your customers.
Secondarily, you can go to Google's Digital Unlocked Course. It's a free online certified course that will really help you learn to start the business from scratch.
Thank you and keep growing!
Feb 6, 2018
As in any business venture, it is important to put together a plan where the services are turned into useful digital informational packages. The plan must define goals and objectives, target-market profiling, possess an interesting theme to promote search-and-share on social media, determine competitive price points, and most importantly, define how the services will eventually be monetized.
However, you do not need to agonize for months on getting the plan just right or choosing the perfect company name, website domain, and catchy brand. The beauty of internet marketing is that it provides a low cost entry into the market of your choice. In order to achieve a low cost start-up, you must either be personally experienced in website design, and understand the intricacies of search engine optimization and ranking, or find a partner who can take charge. Quality content must be linked to other authoritative websites, networks, and affiliated marketing sites. Without this, your website and bright ideas will be invisible on the net. This is the big caveat to low cost start-ups. If you cannot find a website developer as a partner then look for a web wizard on a pay-per-hour basis.
Feb 6, 2018
Hi Jenny,
Glad to hear you planning to start your business.
Having been involved and advised clients on a start-up digital marketing strategy may I suggest the following techniques:
- Blog on stories your business, opinions on latest developments in the industry (using WordPress.com, plus you can build a website on this platform)
- Social Media profile on Twitter and Facebook with content on your business start-up journey, latest trends in your industry, promoting your blog plus don't forget Instagram to show any images. LinkedIn is good if you are targeting a B2B audience.
- Email: this technique will be useful with targeting clients/customer but have links to your blog posts and social media channels.
- SEO: develop profiles on Google My Business and Bing, from which will help enhance your presence in organic search.
All of these would form part of your inbound marketing strategy and the costs to implement this will be low.
As for a website, I would suggest using WordPress.com https://wordpress.com/learn-more/?v=site to build a site. If in doubt look on Udemy.com for courses.
Hope my advice is useful and good luck with your start-up business venture.
May 25, 2018
What I can tell you is that whatever strategies you implement, have quantifiable metrics for which to measure. For example, if we spend "X," we expect it to yield "Y" new clients and/or "Z" revenue within [this time period].
One of the biggest complaints I hear from companies is: "The company we hired never delivered." When I ask, what they were expecting, it's almost always a generic, "more customers/sales." That's a goal, not an objective. Even if you are doing this in-house, you need to have objectives in place.
Jan 18, 2018
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