{"id":3105,"date":"2019-02-01T12:53:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T12:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/softscripts.net\/?p=3105"},"modified":"2019-02-04T08:04:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T08:04:18","slug":"digital-marketing-for-small-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/digital-marketing-for-small-business\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Grow Your Small Business with Digital Marketing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brand identity and brand awareness are always two concepts at the forefront of every marketing strategy regardless of the nature of business or organization. Often at times, small businesses will struggle to make it to the radar with insufficient or ineffective attempts at making their brand known to the public.<\/p>\n

However, thanks to the versatile nature of the tech, it is much easier to grow and expand the bounds of the business by knowing how to utilize the digital landscape properly and this is what we will be focusing on today.<\/p>\n

An Effective Use of Time and Resources<\/h2>\n

One of the reasons why small businesses marketing can now and even compete to a certain extent with established and well-reputed companies is because digital marketing is not nearly as expensive or resource-heavy than traditional marketing (billboards, TV ads, newspaper and magazine entries etc.).<\/p>\n

Furthermore, thanks to the many analytical tools provided by popular platforms like Facebook Audience Insights, Google Trends, and Google Analytics, every marketer regardless of the scope and financial position of the company can employ a sufficient strategy to target its audience and spread the word of the brand.<\/p>\n

In fact, due to the highly affordable nature of digital marketing<\/a>\u00a0for business and the ease with which marketers can carry it out, almost 40% of the companies claimed that using a digital marketing strategy led to considerable savings for the money to be spent elsewhere. Furthermore, the results also reflect the success of such a marketing strategy as digital marketing helps companies have a 2.8 times better revenue growth expectancy. There\u2019s also the aspect of internal growth of the company, as internet marketing is 3.3 times more likely to allow businesses to expand their workforce and user base.<\/p>\n

So what exactly are the many channels made accessible via digital marketing?<\/p>\n

The brand\u2019s website<\/h3>\n

First and foremost, digital marketing for business is all about creating a digital \u2018presence\u2019. This is where the information hub for your brand as a business and as an \u2018investment\u2019 of trust and money lies. Your website must seamlessly integrate the latest design trends and optimum usability.<\/p>\n

From the \u2018About Us\u2019 section for detailing the goal or vision of the brand to \u2018Contact Us\u2019 page for details to get in touch by proceeding forth with the deal, a website is a must even if the associated company operates entirely out of a physical store following the \u2018brick-and-motor\u2019 model.<\/p>\n

Marketers know the real value of online presence since having a website more or less puts you on the radar when it comes to Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Here it is when the valuable metrics come into play including traffic, click-through rates, conversion rates and bounce-rates, domain authority (DA). This puts the focus on optimizing both the desktop and mobile versions of the website to establish a user-convenient and streamlined platform.<\/p>\n

From effective Call-to-Actions (CTAs) to an intuitive and interactive navigation bar, every little detail adds to the overall reputation and confidence among the users as well as the search engine ranking algorithms. Backlinks<\/a>, which serve as references that redirect back to your company\u2019s website, are especially significant when it comes to ranking higher in the organic search results.<\/p>\n

Page load times are also an important factor that contributes to the overall user experience and such an aspect is especially relevant to mobile optimization as Google highly values the metric<\/a> for ranking purposes. Of course, above all, a website is the personification or the identity of any brand when it operates in an online environment. With specific color palettes, patterns, design choices and page layouts, the website is the visual reflection and representation of what your brand is all about.<\/p>\n

Social media and shareable content<\/h3>\n

We can\u2019t host a conversation about digital marketing for business without bringing social media into the picture. As the numbers suggest, almost 71% of small businesses<\/a>\u00a0marketing utilize social media in one way or another in their digital marketing strategies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Apart from the Audience Insight Tool for a segmented marketing approach, Facebook is ahead of the other social networking and media sites thanks to its video ads and live podcasts. As videos constitute to 135% more organic reach compared to image-based advertisements.<\/p>\n

From a survey hosted by HubSpot<\/a>, 76% company owners said that advertising via video content helped them increase their sales while 81% of the surveyed individuals claimed to have successfully convinced a visitor to purchase a product online via video content<\/a>. It\u2019s no surprise that YouTube is now the second largest search engine in the world after Google, and processes almost 3 billion searches<\/a> every month.<\/p>\n

Most importantly, 83% of consumers are likely to share content with their close friends and relatives if it\u2019s in video format, which brings us to the next important aspect of online marketing: shareable content.<\/p>\n

Apart from Facebook, other platforms including Twitter and Instagram are all about redirecting traffic to-and-fro between the business\u2019 website and these social networking platforms. Twitter is especially viable when creating the buzz for any new arrivals or trending products for the business and any issues are addressed directly with satisfactory responses. An astounding 82% of users actively engage with brands on Twitter. With Instagram, we have the Insta Story or short videos that have 250m daily active users.<\/p>\n

Why social media sharing is so important?<\/h3>\n

Sharing is important not just because of the awareness for the brand it creates, but the positive reviews and impressions you can potentially spread among the dear friends of the individual who made a purchase. This \u2018social proof<\/a>\u2019 concept is relevant to business strategists because all individuals look forward to people with authority or experience, namely those who\u2019ve tried a particular service and if it\u2019s a close relative or a credible source, then the reputation and authenticity of the business also receive a huge boost.<\/p>\n

OfferFactor<\/a> is e-commerce specializing in clothing & apparel which, in addition to providing the social media icons on its product pages, will ask for permissions to sync the shopping cart with the Facebook Messenger app.<\/p>\n

\"\"

Source: Offer Factor<\/p><\/div>\n

This is activated by default, so there\u2019s a constant reminder to the individual of cart expiry which is good as an anti-cart-abandonment measure.<\/p>\n

\"\"

Source: Offer Factor<\/p><\/div>\n

Email marketing<\/h3>\n

Finally, the fact that people regularly like to check their inboxes cannot be overlooked. This makes the channel, a primary one for daily or monthly reminders in the form of newsletters about any promotions, special discounts or voucher codes and customer services including electronic receipts. The numbers speak volumes as well since email marketing is reportedly said to have an incredible ROI of 3800%<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s the matter of email lists<\/a> which you can utilize to promote a new range of products on every special occasion. Here the number of newsletters you roll out and their quality and relevance for the particular individual matters. PlayStation does a good job in this regard by constantly keeping in touching with its players, which is the core value they stand on as evident in their slogan: \u2018This is for the players\u2019.<\/p>\n

Apart from handing out free voucher codes, communicating any advancements or purchases from the PlayStation store, the company will even congratulate the player on completion of a video game and sometimes, if you\u2019re lucky, even get 10$ allotted to your account as a kind gesture from the company. As this year ended, PlayStation rolled out interesting statistics associated with every player that counted the number of hours they\u2019d spent on a daily basis, which games they played the most and how many trophies they earned while doing so. This is an excellent case of when businesses are willing to nurture their relationships with their users and strive to continue improving and building upon it.<\/p>\n

\"\"

Source: Sony<\/p><\/div>\n

Conclusion<\/h3>\n

An online environment houses just the right tools and tech that can help you understand the user\u2019s behavior and patterns, target them accordingly and allow them to share the experience with their dear comrades ultimately helping the business gain traction, recognition, and credibility as it continues to expand and spend more resources on digital marketing for business via the social media and email channels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brand identity and brand awareness are always two concepts at the forefront of every marketing strategy regardless of the nature of business or organization. Often …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mo_disable_npp":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,109,55],"tags":[466,348,310,467],"class_list":["post-3105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-marketing","category-email-marketing","category-social-media","tag-digital-marketing-for-business","tag-digital-marketing-strategies","tag-marketing-strategies","tag-small-business-marketing"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nHow to Grow Your Small Business with Digital Marketing?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"You have a startup or small business & can't spend much on digital marketing. Follow our article this contains small business marketing tricks\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/digital-marketing-for-small-business\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to Grow Your Small Business with Digital Marketing?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"You have a startup or small business & can't spend much on digital marketing. Follow our article this contains small business marketing tricks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/digital-marketing-for-small-business\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Softscript Solutions Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/softscriptsolutions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-02-01T12:53:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-02-04T08:04:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Featured-image-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"611\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"340\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Megan Dennis\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@https:\/\/twitter.com\/megandennis07\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@softscripts\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Megan Dennis\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"7 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"How to Grow Your Small Business with Digital Marketing?","description":"You have a startup or small business & can't spend much on digital marketing. Follow our article this contains small business marketing tricks","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/digital-marketing-for-small-business\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"How to Grow Your Small Business with Digital Marketing?","og_description":"You have a startup or small business & can't spend much on digital marketing. Follow our article this contains small business marketing tricks","og_url":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/digital-marketing-for-small-business\/","og_site_name":"Softscript Solutions Blog","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/softscriptsolutions","article_published_time":"2019-02-01T12:53:50+00:00","article_modified_time":"2019-02-04T08:04:18+00:00","og_image":[{"width":611,"height":340,"url":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Featured-image-1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Megan Dennis","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@https:\/\/twitter.com\/megandennis07","twitter_site":"@softscripts","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Megan Dennis","Est. reading time":"7 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/digital-marketing-for-small-business\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/digital-marketing-for-small-business\/"},"author":{"name":"Megan Dennis","@id":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/bf1edd8291e84cd6913a9c81a0594aba"},"headline":"How to Grow Your Small Business with Digital Marketing?","datePublished":"2019-02-01T12:53:50+00:00","dateModified":"2019-02-04T08:04:18+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/digital-marketing-for-small-business\/"},"wordCount":1385,"commentCount":2,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/digital-marketing-for-small-business\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Featured-image-1.jpg","keywords":["digital marketing for business","digital marketing strategies","Marketing strategies","small business marketing"],"articleSection":["Digital Marketing","Email marketing","Social Media"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/digital-marketing-for-small-business\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/digital-marketing-for-small-business\/","url":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/digital-marketing-for-small-business\/","name":"How to Grow Your Small Business with Digital Marketing?","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/digital-marketing-for-small-business\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/digital-marketing-for-small-business\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Featured-image-1.jpg","datePublished":"2019-02-01T12:53:50+00:00","dateModified":"2019-02-04T08:04:18+00:00","description":"You have a startup or small business & can't spend much on digital marketing. Follow our article this contains small business marketing tricks","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/digital-marketing-for-small-business\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/digital-marketing-for-small-business\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/digital-marketing-for-small-business\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Featured-image-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Featured-image-1.jpg","width":611,"height":340},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/digital-marketing-for-small-business\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"How to Grow Your Small Business with Digital Marketing?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/","name":"Softscript Solutions - Digital Marketing Agency in Vizag | India","description":"Digital Marketing Agency","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/#organization","name":"Softscript Solutions - Digital Marketing Agency in Vizag | India","url":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"http:\/\/softscripts.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/softlogo.png","contentUrl":"http:\/\/softscripts.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/softlogo.png","width":152,"height":80,"caption":"Softscript Solutions - Digital Marketing Agency in Vizag | India"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/softscriptsolutions","https:\/\/x.com\/softscripts","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/softscriptsolutions"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/bf1edd8291e84cd6913a9c81a0594aba","name":"Megan Dennis","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/AtmmHaSI_400x400-150x150.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/AtmmHaSI_400x400-150x150.jpg","caption":"Megan Dennis"},"description":"Megan Dennis is a passionate tech blogger at Appiskey, an Orlando based Mobile App Development Company specializes in iOS and Android game development. She is passionate about technology and loves to analyze the tech industry in his spare time and stay in touch with the latest happenings.","sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/megandennis07"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softscripts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}