This document outlines the key components of developing a comprehensive marketing strategy, including setting objectives and goals, analyzing the business and competitors, developing a branding and positioning strategy, and planning the execution across various channels. It discusses creating keyword strategies, optimizing websites for SEO, converting traffic into leads, content marketing, email campaigns, social media promotion, campaign strategies, creative development, budgeting, and analyzing performance to refine strategies. The overall process described is how to plan, execute, and measure an integrated marketing strategy across different digital and offline tactics.
2. Process
Objectives
• What do we
want to see
happen?
• How will we
measure
success?
• Goals must be
measurable.
Analysis
• Self Analysis
• Competitive
Analysis
• Target
Analysis
Positioning and
Brand Strategy
• Be Different
• Better than the
competition
• The Sweet
Spot
• Consider
brand
personality
Executional
Planning
• Digital
• Media
• Public
Relations
• Creative
• Budgeting
3. Strangers Visitors Leads Customers Promoters
Attract Convert Close Delight
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Website
Blog
Social Media
Call-to-Action
Landing pages
Forms
Contacts
Email
Workflows
Lead Scoring
CRM Integration
Social Media
Smart Call-to-Action
Email
Workflows
Inbound Methodology
4. Create a Keyword Strategy
Why Build a Keyword Strategy?
increase chances of
getting found
quality traffic to
business website.
valuable insight on
industry trends and
product demand
save from
spending money on
pay-per-click (PPC)
campaigns
How to Create a Keyword Strategy?
Create a list of 3-5 keywords
relevant to business
Design and optimize the website
around the keywords
Choose keywords based on
difficulty and relevance
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5. Optimize Website to Get Found
On page SEO
• Page Title
• Meta Description & meta data
• Headings
• Cascading Style Sheets
• Images
• Domain Info
• MOZ Rank
• Google Crawl Date
• URL Structure
Off page SEO
• Improving Off-Page SEO With Inbound Links
• Good URL Structure
6. Convert Website Traffic into Leads
Website
Call-to-Action
• Live Chat Button
• News Paper
Subscription form
Campaign
Landing Pages
• Dedicated landing
page for each
campaign
• Customer Profile
Form
• Social Media
integration
Reporting
• Integrated with
CRM
• Test, Measure &
Iterate
• Lead Scoring
7. Create a Blog & Marketing Offers
Business Blogging is about Lead Generation
CTA
Download some
content
Follow the
business on
social media
Subscribe to the
blog
Join
newsletter
9. Promote content through Social Media
Social
Media
Monitoring
Social Media
Using Twitter
for Business
Using
Facebook for
Business
Using
LinkedIn for
business
10. Campaign Strategy
NEW EXISTING
NEWEXISTING
Launch
• Promotional Campaign
• Awareness Campaign
• Lead gen Campaign
Up-Sell
• Promotional Campaign
Expand
• Awareness Campaign
• Lead gen Campaign
Retention
• Inactive Campaign
• Follow up
• Feedback
• Relationship
12. Other Promotion activities may include
Promotion
activities
may include
• Advertising
• Sales promotions
• Publicity
• Events
• Webinar
• Sponsorships
• Direct selling
• Promotional materials
• Brochures
• Gifts
13. Budgeting Strategy
• Establish annual budget
• Research and Development
• Advertising
• Promotions
• Public Relations
• Must be sustainable
• Based on percentage of projected sales
14. Analyze & Refine Strategies
Steps for Analyzing & Refining Strategies
• Implement an Analytics Program
• Identify Opportunities
• Set a Metric for Success
• Refine strategy and Evaluate performance
Metrics to Track & Report on
• Traffic – Leads – Customers
• Customer Acquisition Cost
• New vs. Repeat Visitors
• Effectiveness by Channel
Steps for Improvement
• Keywords
• On-Page SEO
• Content Strategy
• Social Media Promotions
• Lead Nurturing & email marketing