INSCMagazine: Get Social!

When you’re a business leader, you’ll know that your marketing has to be top-notch if you want to stay ahead. Whatever existing strategies that you may have in place, these can always be improved if you wish to keep on growing. With this concept in mind, let’s dive in and consider a few surefire ways that you can improve your marketing strategy!

Video Marketing

If video marketing isn’t already part of your strategy, then you’ll want to change that as quickly as you can! Video marketing is an excellent way to build relationships with your customers, entertain your target audience, present your branding, and build up a hype around your products or services.

Video is the type of content that is shared the most via social media platforms. According to stats by Insivia, watchers will retain 95% of a message when they view it in a video in contrast with retaining just 10% of a message when reading it in a text. When search engines are looking for content that engages viewers, they highly favour video content. You’ll be fast getting in on the action if you upload your videos to your website and Youtube both. Don’t forget to promote via social media to increase your followers even further.

Specialize your marketing

To improve your marketing strategies, you’ll need to make sure that your techniques are specialised according to what kind of business you are. If your a technology company, for instance, your strategy will need to differ from that of a travel company. As an IT company, it’s crucial to create educational content which establishes you as a thought leader and to use LinkedIn as a B2B tool. As a travel company, you should use influencers with popular travel blogs to link back to your site.

If you are an HVAC company, then you’ll need to focus on marketing for HVAC companies specifically. You can approach specialised HVAC marketers who can help you to develop a strategy based on your industry. Regardless of the type of company that you are, you need to use your target market research to hone in on your customers, the platforms that they use, and how to reach them.

Keep on analyzing

To improve your marketing strategy, you need to make sure that you are always analyzing it. You need to identify the strong points and weak points and make adjustments accordingly. Software like Google Analytics can be an excellent tool which can show you which marketing channels are bringing in more traffic than others. Reach out to your existing customers with surveys and ask them where they are finding you.

If you are always looking for ways to adjust your strategy according to your successes so far, you’ll be allowing yourself to keep on growing.

Remain Persistent

While we are talking about analysis, you’ll want to keep in mind that some marketing strategies will take longer than others to see the effects. Methods like PPC marketing will see you faster results. Using SEO to drive traffic to your page organically will take longer yet will still be worth it and effective (so keep on at those keywords and blogs)! Don’t be tempted to throw in the towel on a strategy because you assume it’s not working (sometimes you just have to wait a little longer)! If you’re trying to increase your online presence on social media, this can also take some time. Remember to be responsive, post regularly at prime times, and share content to tap into the values of your target audience.

Offer testimonials

When you get some success stories, don’t forget to rave about them! People love a success story, and if you provide testimonials on your website, you will immediately be increasing the likelihood that others will like what they hear and buy from you. You can far enhance your credibility by doing so, and this is a particularly great marketing idea for those who are less well established within their industry.

Write guest articles

As a business leader, you’ll likely have a blog that’s SEO optimized to drive traffic to your website. You should also write guest articles for other publications in your industry. This can be a great idea because it allows you to establish yourself as an authoritative and trusted source and link back to your site. As well as this, you should invite high-quality guest bloggers to write for your blog. These bloggers are likely to promote their content that’s on your site and thus gain you more followers.

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