As with any marketing system, your main goal is lead generation and customer retention. Using marketing to increase brand recognition and drive sales will be the backbone of your digital marketing campaign
Identifying Goals
Most digital marketing goals are in place to create new customers and better leads. You should analyze your current marketing methods, identify weaknesses that need to be addressed, and improve them with your digital marketing campaign. Perhaps you have many repeat customers and have gotten so efficient at fulfilling their repeat orders that you now have large amounts of spare time. Your goal should be to gain more customers for single-transaction relationships. Those singular transactions often lead to long-lasting connections.
Measuring Progress
During your campaigns, you may want to get a measurement of what it has done for you using services such as Google Analytics and other traffic-tracking plugins. Using these statistics and metrics, you can see what does and does not work. Noticing an increase in sales of your products is also a good indicator that your digital marketing campaigns are working as they should.
Achieving Goals
Putting your goals into a list will help you track which ones you have achieved. Achieving these goals is greatly exciting for small businesses who wish to expand their customer base. These goals are a great way to track your success. After you have achieved your goals, your marketing is not done yet. You can now update your goals to expand even further.
It is important to not only work within your means but also market within your means. Advertising and meeting your goals during a digital marketing campaign is the bottom line, but having too many leads to cover can lead to a reputation of slow response times.
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