How Does Digital Marketing Impact Your Ability to Build Your Brand Awareness?
Digital marketing has leveled the playing field for companies of any size to build awareness. Unfortunately, it has created some unique challenges as well. Whereas an established brand may have carried value for years (or even decades) with traditional media; brands may become stale or erode in a matter of months in the new media environment.
Taking a quick SWAT analysis of branding in a digital environment, we can quickly identify the following opportunities and challenges:
Strengths of Digital Marketing: There’s a low cost/ease of entry. And, you have the ability to reach the world in one “market.”
Weakness: Your competition can create a lot of noise. New entrants can continually challenge your brand position.
Opportunity: A sustained/successful approach to digital branding will generate an influx of qualified leads. Converting such leads should cost a fraction of the cost of traditional media, and traditional sales efforts. The world can become your marketplace!
Threat: If your competitor has a head start on you, it’s hard to catch up to their brand. The greater their lead, the harder it is to overtake their position. Many companies have solutions that can out-compete their competition at every level, but lose opportunities because of their failure to win the branding war.
So What is the Solution?
Each solution is going to be unique to the company that is being advised. What we do know is that nearly 100% of all purchases over $100 will result in some sort of online investigation by the decision maker and influencers. As such, it is important to build your brand with a balanced approach of attraction (ex: PPC/SEO, retargeting, proactive outreach, etc), listening (visitor tracking, data intelligence, surveys, etc), relevant communications/education (targeted email, direct mail, videos, etc), and execution (sales calls, relevant calls to action) and remarketing (effectively supporting and upselling to your existing list of fans and customers).
If you are interested in learning more about how you could build your brand, Lead Liaison is currently offering a free brand analysis to all interested parties. Simply click here to talk to someone about our process and to enroll in the program.
