15/01/2022
Steps to create your first Marketing plan
Digital marketing lets any business promote their product or service online. A proper marketing plan will help acquire the right audiences with proper digital marketing tools. Steps to follow while carrying out digital marketing plan:
1. Apply SWOT Framework which refers to analyzing the strength & weaknesses of the business and explore the opportunities in context to the competitors in the market. It is important to analyze the unique selling point of the business, its advantages and what are the weaknesses that need to be improved. Further, the threats to the business-like competitors and obstacles need to be identified.
2. The marketing plan can be used as a roadmap that will guide throughout the campaign. It is advised to follow the pattern of the SMART framework that lets setting the goals as Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and the Timeframe required. Creating quality blogs and publishing them on social media, keeping a track of the analytics with the help of tools are the activities that need to be planned.
3. Identifying the target audience is the next step. Analyzing the persona of the customers, keeping track of their buying patterns will be useful in planning the target audiences. Furthermore, identifying the target customers based on the demographics will be beneficial.
4. Decide on the type of media that will be used for the promotions. This refers to finalizing the digital assets that include own media channels, paid media and earned media. The websites, blogs, social media pages are termed to be own media channels. Earned media is referred to as the reviews by the customers, testimonials. While paid media is using online video ads on YouTube, social media, and ads on Google.
5. Choosing appropriate digital marketing tools is an important step as this will be beneficial in carrying out the marketing campaign easily. These tools can be used to promote the business and target the right audiences. The digital marketing tools that are rated amongst the effective ones are Buffer, Google Analytics, Office 365 and many more.