How does digital marketing add value to your business? We all know that everyone is jumping into the digital bandwagon these days with the spread of Covid 19 and all but how can you sustain your current business in the retail side but at the same time getting digital marketing to help? What I’m about to cover is not about why you should run an online store or get your product listed onto an online store (which you actually should have actually done) but rather understand what is digital marketing and how it can help in adding value to your business.
So before I go any further, when someone talks about digital marketing, what comes across your mind? The internet, social media and what else? Well, you’ve basically covered most about what digital marketing is about but the right ideology of digital marketing is the marketing efforts used in the digital environment. With this, how can or does digital marketing add value to your business?
So here are some advantages and why you should consider digital marketing as a tool on adding value to your business
Cheaper ad cost
Compared to traditional ads that you’ve previously used, digital marketing ads cost relatively cheaper. Some ads depending on what are the objectives of your advertising campaign is only paid when a netizen clicks on it. Moreover, some ads also go through bidding process for key words ensuring that you paid the fair price in accordance to the popularity of the words. If you have not invested in any ads before you can also consider digital ads because they don’t cost you a bomb and burn a hole in your pocket but at the same time able to reach to a good amount of netizens
Understand your target consumers
Of course, before you dip yourself into digital advertising, one should know your target consumers but sometimes digital ads can bring you to a new light of a whole new market segment as well
Forge stronger relations with your consumers
Digital marketing can also help you to build a stronger relationship with your consumers. They can help build stronger ties through the usage of EDM (Electronic Direct Marketing) or relating to the influencer that you have recently hired
Accurately reach out to the right target market
Digital ads can also pin point exactly to the target market you want to reach. Previously through traditional advertising, you can only segment your market through say geographical or gender based segments. However, digital ads is able even segment further based on interests
