How can a small business create its first digital marketing strategy?

1 Set Clear Business Goals

Before you start, decide what you want to accomplish.

For example:

Increasing web traffic

Generating more leads

Boosting online sales

Raising brand awareness

Your digital marketing plan should be a work, instrument of your business goals.

2 Identify Your Target Audience

It is important to clarify:

Who are your customers?

What is their age, where do they live, and what are their interests?

What problems do they have?

A simple customer persona creation is very helpful in targeting the right people with the right message.

3 Build a Professional Online Presence

Good starting points include:

An optimized mobile website

Social media platforms with regularly updated content

Google My Business

Your website should be able to explicitly present your services, provide your contact details, and have attractive call, to, action buttons.

4 Create a Content Plan

Decide on the content you will share on a weekly or monthly basis:

Informative posts

Reviews from customers

Offers of products

Samples or perspectives of your work or your team

Doing the same thing over and over again enables people to remember you and builds up their trust.

5 Set a Budget

Even a small budget can make a difference. Work out:

How much money you will allocate to ads

Costs of tools and software

Content creation expenses

If you want, you can begin with a small amount of money, then test your campaigns and increase the size of the winning campaigns accordingly.

6 Track and Measure Results

For instance you can use:

Google Analytics

Insights from social media platforms

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