{"id":11255,"date":"2023-02-06T11:12:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T10:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ddigitals.net\/?p=11255"},"modified":"2024-09-13T18:44:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T16:44:40","slug":"digital-marketing-small-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ddigitals.net\/en\/blog\/digital-marketing\/digital-marketing-small-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital marketing for small businesses: how to create your strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

A good digital marketing strategy for small businesses<\/strong> can be an opportunity to talk on a level playing field with the bigger players and with far fewer resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is an exciting challenge, which can mean the difference between subsistence and exponential growth. However, we must also bear in mind that this is not magic. The digital marketing for small businesses<\/strong> It takes time, as the investment usually cannot be as high as in their competitors, and perseverance becomes the key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the reward is worth it. It is a journey full of surprises, with enormous learning for the company and its employees. There is clearly a before and after working on marketing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The way of working and optimising processes often ends up being transferred to other departments and the benefits are seen even earlier than expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this article I will tell you the key points from which you will be able to create your digital marketing strategy<\/strong>. If you have a small business and are thinking about improving your strategy, then you've come to the right place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be clear about the big picture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The marketing world<\/strong> is immense. That is why the first thing I would advise you to do is to be clear about the business overview<\/strong>. It is very common in small and medium-sized companies that the stress of day-to-day business prevents them from stopping for a second to think about medium- and long-term objectives and strategies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nor to analyse the current situation in depth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, it is worth taking the time. It will help you to avoid a lot of blind steps and it will help you to establishing your marketing strategy<\/strong>. Even if you hire a digital marketing agency<\/strong>You have to know what you are going to ask for and what you need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No one knows your business better than you and you will be the one in charge of translating that vision. Once the marketing team knows the vision and the goals to be achieved, then they can work on the details that will make it a reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, the first thing is to know where you are and where you want to be or what you think you need to be there. Then you may find that your marketing team<\/strong> believe that the path is different from the one you had thought of, but the final destination must be clear to everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Optimising time and resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Secondly, you have to understand that the world of marketing is very broad. There are almost endless possibilities of things to work on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, if we have a small business, it is very likely that we do not have infinite resources to work with. Therefore, you need to know how to optimise and focus the strategy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We may want to be present in all the social networks, work on the SEO<\/strong>the SEM<\/strong> and the emailing<\/strong>for example. However, you may have a choice between SEO or SEM<\/a><\/strong>and add the leads you get to a automated email flow<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or, on the contrary, it may be that the core <\/em>of your business is in the social media<\/strong>. Or that, before anything else, you have to invest in improving usability<\/a><\/strong> of your website and create an ecommerce<\/strong> to sell your products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Surround yourself with professionals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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A very common problem when it comes to making digital marketing for small businesses<\/strong> is to think that anyone can do the job. Yes, you might be able to promote a Facebook post with just two clicks, but are you targeting correctly? Do you know what copy to use? Do you know how to optimise your ad to get better results?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When it comes to making a SEO content strategy<\/a><\/strong>do you have the tools for the keyword research<\/a><\/strong>Are you able to analyse the work of your competitors and know where you can gain an advantage?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my experience, when you try to do things that you are not trained to do, you end up blundering around and wasting time and money. A SEM campaign<\/strong> that does not take into account the parameters of Google Ads optimisation<\/a><\/strong> is doomed to failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A SEO content<\/a><\/strong> produced by someone inexperienced is not going to stand out from the competition. On the contrary, it will be full of SEO errors<\/a><\/strong> that can penalise the entire website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not to mention the feedback aspects, such as the SEO web design<\/a><\/strong>If you want to make your website look good, you not only have to make a cool web design, but you also have to make sure that it does not harm the positioning of the page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It doesn't matter if you hire a external digital marketing agency<\/strong> or you create your own department internally, but you need to have people in charge who know what they are doing. Otherwise, and it happens all too often, we will be investing for no result, or at least an acceptable result in economic terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Measuring investment and results<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Another of the most important keys to working on the digital marketing for small businesses<\/strong> is to take into account the investment<\/strong> and the results<\/strong> that you hope to achieve. In aspects such as online advertising it is very simple, we only need to calculating the average profit per lead<\/strong>The conversion of the conversion rate is a very important step in the conversion process, so we can see how much we can spend for each conversion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To this price we have to add the cost of hours\/staff or the fee of the agency we have contracted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other aspects such as the SEO<\/strong> or social media, the results are long-term, so you can't expect an immediate return. Even so, it is important to always manage the figures so that we know how much we can invest and what we can expect. return on investment<\/strong> we need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we want our marketing work to be profitable, we need to have exhaustive control over what we do, even if we do not have a clear vision of what we are doing. respecting the times<\/strong> depending on the type of marketing we are going to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working with SMART objectives<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The best way to implement the above point is the SMART objectives<\/a><\/strong>. These objectives are characterised by being specific, measurable, time-bound, realistic and achievable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is, if for example we are going to work on SEO, examples of SMART objectives<\/strong> would be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n