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4 Digital Marketing Strategies For Small Business

“Take a risk and keep testing, because what works today won’t work tomorrow, but what worked yesterday may work again.”

By Arsalan HaroonPublished 3 years ago 5 min read
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4 Digital Marketing Strategies For Small Business
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Chatbots, a/b testing, and Complicated marketing things are not your main purpose if you are a small business owner.

In these Articles, we discuss some of the 4 digital marketing strategies for small businesses that work best for you.

Content Marketing with SEO

Content Marketing is the best strategy for you to become an authority in your industry But not just content marketing you need to keep this in mind only content is not work you need to do proper SEO as well.

If you just put content on your site no matter how much your content is useful if this is not going to your customers then it's trash.so for this process SEO is best with content marketing.

So the question is why you use these strategies? Let's say you sell computer parts online and you need traffic through content marketing with SEO.

The first step is to see what people are facing problems with the help of search query if they are searching most for how to build computer then you create a complete guide about this and solve a problem of your audience and also recommend your product.

So chances are high they trust you because you solve their problem first and then you recommended your product. This strategy builds trust with new customers and continues to give you traffic as well.

“Content marketing is a commitment, not a campaign.”

Social media Marketing

Facebook has 2.7 billion monthly users Instagram has 1 billion monthly users in the world. These big social media platforms have a large amount of audience that you benefit from by advertising your brand on this platform.

But wait if you post boring posts and promotions daily for increasing followers so please don't do that this is not a social media marketing strategy.

You need to focus on one network to stick in. WHY? If you are focusing on multiple networks you do not build your trusted audience in any network. you need to find where your audience is. But finding the right platform is also a big decision.

Let's say you have a Product for men and your target network is Pinterest. What do you think it's a good platform for this or not?

77 percent of females use Pinterest and only 14 percent of males use it. so this is probably the wrong choice for everyone who is selling products for men.

You need to find the right platform for your business. Think before choosing your social media network. Think what your business is if it's a Serious type of business then LinkedIn is good for you. But you are selling some cool stuff so Instagram is a platform to focus on.

Facebook Ads with Pixel

You know that Facebook has 2.7 billion active monthly users in the world. so this social media platform is for anyone. because they have rich, middle class, lower-middle-class from all over the world. It means they have a large amount of audience, so they also have a large amount of audience categories as well.

You find almost all business categories on Facebook. No matter what your business is. You find your audience on Facebook.

Facebook's ads give you lots of options such as audience interest, location, gender, age etc but you all know this.

Now if you don’t have an audience on your site. So how do you get your audience to throw Facebook?. Let's say you advertise first and you find your audience and you want to target those who previously went to your site landing page then you need to use Facebook pixel.

What this is going to do is that this will give you the ability to target those people. who came to your site previously but did not purchase anything. How do you do this? if you want to activate Facebook pixel on your site.

First, this will give you the code so you paste this code in the header of your page that you're targeting and then you advertise with Facebook then what Facebook does is. Next time if you want to target those people who previously visited your page with Facebook pixel. You can again advertise the same audience as well.

Email Marketing

I know you don't have a big budget to daily advertise so what you can do is collect your audience’s email and build a strong email list. Now it's a lengthy process to collect emails. But it works great. You can send your emails to a thousand people without paid advertising.

But the first step is how to get your audience email? You can give them some free bonuses, free e-book, free courses, and in return, you can add them to your email list. Email marketing is still effective and generates sales if you use these in the right way.

“Every email is a customer survey of your target market, by testing they vote on what resonates best with them.”

–Kath Pay, Founder and Senior Consultant at Holistic Email Marketing.

Conclusion

Content marketing with SEO will boost your sales and generate organic traffic through search engines.it takes a long time but it also gives you long-term positive results. you can generate a thousand sales with this strategy. This should be your first focus if you have a limited budget.

If your brand is not active and advertising on Social media. You are making a big mistake in your business. Billions of people use social media.

You need to identify what platform best suits your business so you more focus on them. Social media marketing is playing the most crucial role in digital marketing if we talk about generating sales.

Facebook has over 2.7 billion active users monthly these are very big numbers AS you can see and you need to benefit from these by Facebook ads and target your audience. But what if you want the data about how many people visit your site through Facebook.

But not purchase anything and how much people purchase something and what page of your site they quit. For this, you need to activate Facebook pixel in your site. So whenever you advertise You know what purchase you have with Facebook and more data with the help of Facebook pixel.

Email Marketing is still effective; you can reach a thousand people without spending money.

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Arsalan Haroon

Writer┃SEO Expert┃Investor

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