In a nutshell, digital marketing is advertising your product or services online through platforms like Google and social media outlets. All of which are paid for. Traditionally businesses used to rely on marketing through TV, radio, magazines, billboards and events. However as more an more people head online, the growth of digital advertising has rocketed. So naturally business owners have had to take the same route and drive sales online.
It’s all good and well having a website but if you can’t drive direct traffic to your site then you need to make you’re seen on google. There’s many ways to do this, one of which is to make sure your website is fully search engine optimised (SEO) and ticks all of google’s recommended criteria. Google updates these on a regular basis, so it’s something you must keep on top of. Second option to push your site to the forefront would be to invest in Google advertising.
Google offers many different forms of advertising and you can tailor different adverts to your needs. One of the key results companies want out of these campaigns is to appear at the top of google for various search queries. These can be achieved with some of following.
Here’s some great features that let you really customise your adverts…
Some examples below of adverts appearing at the top of search results, shopping campaign, display ad (images on other sites).
Paid for social media advertising or ‘sponsored’ posts can be used to amplify your organic content or used to create new sale leads or increase brand awareness. Like google you can target different demographics etc and reach a broader audience.
You really need to know your audience and create content or ads that will help you drive traffic to your website from your social accounts. Not all of the below will be suitable for your business.
It’s surprising to know that a lot of companies don’t actually know their ‘ideal customer’ and they waste money marketing to everyone. It really pays off to know this information and use this to target your campaigns.
Social Media accounts worth investing in…