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How The 4C’s of Digital Marketing Strategy Will Boost Your Sales

“It's not what you sell that matters as much as how you sell it!” — Brian Halligan

By Arsalan HaroonPublished 3 years ago 7 min read
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How The 4C’s of Digital Marketing Strategy Will Boost Your Sales
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Most businesses and digital marketers forgot these simple but effective 4 C’s of a digital marketing strategy because these C’s will make or break your digital marketing strategy. If you are not focusing on one of those 4C’s. Then do now because later you will regret it.

As the digital world and technology improving, we have lots of digital marketing tools today to make our work effective. But you don't improve your sales with digital marketing tools. Because they are just tools, you have to know how to use them.

If you use tools for these 4Cs in digital marketing strategy. You can make your digital marketing strategy successful.

Digital marketing today is not only about how you market your products on the internet, but It is also about how effectively you can serve them and provide value, so they trust your business.

It is all about building loyal customers, which can make your business successful. So let’s get into simple But effective 4 C’s of digital marketing strategy that will boost your sales.

1. Company strategy

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Knowing what your business goals are, what your target audience is, how your company helps their target audience in their life is crucial to answering your company strategy.

Businesses should define their clear objective about why their product is needed and how it can help people. Most business owners focused on increasing their sales, but they failed to do that. WHY?

Because they forget their True vision. Business owners don't know what their goals are. They Fail to make fact-based decisions because they believe in someone’s opinions.

Some of the things startup founders need to do, For developing a strong company strategy.

Develop a true vision: knowing your company’s true vision will play a crucial part in your digital marketing strategy.

Define competitive advantage: what makes your product unique? If you have the same product or service, then your competitors. Why do people buy from you? Defining your competitive advantage over your competitors is crucial and plays an essential role in increasing your sales.

Define your target audience: you have to identify what your target audience is. Because if you don't know who your target audience is, then your digital marketing strategy will fail in the first step.

Create a buyer persona and include all the hobbies, habits, ages your ideal customers have. It helps you know what your ideal customers would be.

Make fact-based decisions: if someone tells you to change your marketing strategy. Then don't blindly believe even if they are experienced marketers. You have to ask them to provide a fact about why you change your marketing strategy.

Because without fact they are just telling their opinion and remember you have to make the fact-based decision, not on others opinions.

2. Customer Experience

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One of the crucial and essential C’s in digital marketing strategy is customer experience. You have to focus on customers’ experience more than anything else. You have to know what you can do for your customers. Which makes their life easier and, they have a positive experience with your business.

If you don't provide the best customer experience to your customers. They probably will go away to your competitors who value customer experience more than you do. It can make or break even your whole business. Customer experience should be the number one priority for every business.

You have to make sure you can make your customer experience better than your competitors. This will separate you rest from the industry.

If your competitor providing something to customers, which takes around three days. Then you have to figure out how you can provide to customers in only two or one days with more good quality.

It can make a big difference in your digital marketing strategy and also in your business.

Make sure you don't make it harder for customers to reach out to you. Make their journey as much easier as possible.

Listen to the feedback of your customers, listen to what they have to say about your business. Listen to what they like about your company and what they don’t like.

Then make sure you improve the things which they don't like. Keep looking at customers’ feedback. It can help you improve the customer experience.

Solving the problem of your customers before they realize they have this problem. It can make them think that you know what they want better than themselves.

3. Content Creation

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Without content creation, you can’t stand out today. Because customers want free content which provides value before they buy your product.

So it is a crucial thing to provide value in your content, Because if you don't. The audience will think your product will also don't have value in it. Content creation is not just about writing content or recording a video.

It is about solving a problem that your customers have through your content and making them comfortable with your business, so people are more likely to buy your product.

Make sure when you create content, you don't talk only about your brand. You have to talk about your customers and how this content helps them.

So they don't think you only care about your business, not about customers. Which makes people disappointed because they don't want to know about your business. They want to know how your business can help them solve their problem effectively.

Look into google about the Topic that you want to write about. See what content already available on the same Topic. You have to create more valuable and informational content than content that is already available.

Because if you create the same content which already been available. Then it dont makes sense that the audience will give your content more valuable.

Because you create content that is the same content available to the audience. So it dont makes a significant difference in the audience's life.

This makes the audience think like you are another Common business that creates content same. Which is already available, You are not creating something unique, which makes the audience excited.

Don't make these mistakes, See how you can provide unique and valuable information to the audience which isn’t available on the internet.

4. Channel Promotions

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It doesn't matter how valuable your product is if you don't know what channels you need to promote your product or service. You are making a big mistake.

When you create content on-site, make sure you promote through different channels like SEO, Social media marketing.

So your content could reach people who want this and, if your content is valuable, then customers will trust your business. When they trust, they will buy your product as well. One of the best channels I like to promote products and content on the site is seo.

Search engine optimization is the process of optimizing your site and content on the site for search engine ranking factors. If you optimize for more search engine ranking factors. The more top-ranking you achieve on google, and the more top-ranking you get. The more audience you will get.

The best thing about SEO is that it doesn't require any money to get hundreds of traffic, It just takes time and hard work.

Sure, Other channels like search engine marketing, social media marketing, display advertising to promote your business, But no one gives you a better ROI than seo.

But also understand it doesn't give you traffic, Once you optimize it for one week. It takes six months or even years to get great results. seo is the long-term strategy, but it’s worth it.

Define what channels would be effective for your business. If you own a b2b company, Then might your focus is on channels like LinkedIn. If you have a b2c business where you sell t-shirts. You can target Instagram and Facebook as channel promotions.

Understanding what channels will work for you is crucial. Before selecting channels, find what audience channel has the most. So you can target those channel, who has your target audience.

If your business target people who are in their 40s and 50s. Then it is probably not a good idea to promote your business on TikTok. Because 48% of U.S adults between 18-29-years-old use TikTok.

Finding the right channels for promotion is crucial. So you don't spend money on advertising in a channel, Where your target audience didn’t exist.

Conclusion

If you study each of C’s and practice it, you can make your digital marketing strategy successful. These 4Cs won’t deeply understand in one article because they are broader topics. You have to study each of them.

So you can get a deep understanding of how you can do them. The more you understand and practice these 4Cs of digital marketing strategy. The more successful you can make your marketing strategy.

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