Agenda
1. An Introduction to Generate UK
2. A Digital Marketing Strategy for your Business
3. Generate UK Advantage
Refreshments and Networking
4. Top Ten Tips to Accelerate your Website Success
5. Case Study – An Integrated Social Marketing Strategy
6. Q&A Panel
So what do we do?
We quite simply work hard with our clients
to achieve their online objectives.
We form strategic partnerships with our clients and
develop our relationships through coaching,
training and deliverables.
A Clear Vision
You’re directionless
We find that
companies without a
digital strategy (and
many that do) don’t
have clear vision
Goals and Objectives
• Strategic goals allow you to understand
what you want to achieve?
• Sell more products
• Gaining new customers
• Build deeper relationships with
existing customers?
• If you don’t have goals
• You don’t put enough resources to
reach the goals
• You don’t evaluate through analytics
whether you’re achieving those goals.
With no strategy do you know your
potential?
• You won’t know your online
market share
• You could underestimate
customer demand
• Waste time, resource and
money in the wrong areas
• An ad-hoc approach simply
does not work!
• You’re always second
guessing
You struggle to define your online value
proposition
• Will help you differentiate
your online brand
• Encouraging existing and
new customers to engage
• With the aim to stay loyal
Integrated not “disintegrated”!
• It’s all too common
for digital activities to
be completed in silos
• Statistics prove that
digital marketing
works best when
integrated with
traditional media
Have an open mind!
• Embrace digital marketing
• Be sceptical
• Be open in new ideas
• If you look at the top
online brands like Amazon,
Dell, Google, Tesco they’re
all trialling new approaches
to gain or keep their online
audiences.
You’re simply not optimising
• Most company
website now have
analytics
• We find many senior
managers/owners
don’t ensure that
they take time to
review them
Analyse and Benchmark!
• Do you know how big your online
footprint is?
• Do you know your competitors?
• What are they doing?
• Do you know your customers?
• Do you know where they hang
out?
• Do they have a typical profile?
• Search criteria?
• Do you know the potential for
different online channels?
Understand the Market Place
• Google has updated their algorithm 200
times in the last 6 months!
• Facebook have 1 billion users!
• 140 million Twitter users globally
• Twitter now has 10m users in UK
• UK is the fourth-largest country
with 80% accessing it with mobile phones
Sources:
Guardian
Mashable
Maolcom Coles
VIDEO
"Social Media Revolution" by Erik Qualman.
Based on #1 International Best Selling Book
Socialnomics by Erik Qualman.
Stats are from 2011
WEBSITE & ONLINE
PLATFORMS
Transfer Skills Consultancy
WEB ANALYTICS WEBSITE DESIGN &
BUILD
Support Customer Service
ONLINE STRATEGY
Be careful!
...Attract More New Customers,
Sell More to Existing Customers,
and Bring Back Your Customers
More Often, With Less Effort —
No Matter What Product or
Service You Sell
"You Will Discover The Secrets To Making $50,247 Per
Month Online And How To Grow Your Own Insane Profit
Machine - Even If You're Totally New To The Web!"
Don’t take the easy option..
• Don’t be fooled
• Don’t be tempted
• Online marketing is a long
term and continuous
commitment
• Cheap is not always best
If you’re not achieving...
Ask yourself a number of straight questions...
• Is my strategy clear?
• Are my goals realistic?
• Do I have enough resource……
Final thoughts
• If you’re not devoting enough resources to
digital marketing or you’re using an ad-hoc
approach with no clearly defined strategy,
then your competitors will gain the advantage
What does it take to get a potential
customer to you site?
Investing in a great Ecommerce Website,
SEO, Link Building, Social media, etc.
is a must but it’s not enough
For an Ecommerce site It’s vital to get your pricing right
Too high and you lose a potential sale.
Too low and you’ve lost out on potential margin. The last
thing you want is to sell something too cheap.
Getting your price point correct is extremely important.
So, is the solution is to spend all day, every day comparing
prices on your competitors websites?
Generate Advantage is the answer
We track your competitors online
prices daily.
This is done discreetly without your
competitors' knowledge.
Daily report showing latest price from
each of your competitors for your
chosen products.
All price changes that have occurred
since the previous day will be
highlighted
Increase profitability and cut cost
Top Tip 1
Flexible website
• Make sure you can update it
• Ensure it is easy to update
• Add videos/images etc
• Search engines are focused on fresh, quality
content. Can you provide this?
Top Tip 2
Be clear on your objective
• Not just at homepage level but also subpages
• An objective drives focused decision making
Top Tip 3
Know Your Competitors
• Certainly the top 3 in your sector, both
online and offline
• See what they have on their website
• How do they engage?
• Where do they rank?
Top Tip 4
It’s all about the Keywords
I repeat…. It’s all about the keywords.
Top Tip 5
Content is still King..
• Content is written, it’s video, it’s images,
podcasts, blogs/news etc
• Make it engaging
• Consider the User Experience
• Make sure it is better than your competitors
– Google base their rankings on content they think is better
Top Tip 6
Have an Internet Marketing Strategy
• Focuses on the Now.. Ie, Pay Per Click, Email
Marketing
• Focuses on the Mid Term… Ie, SEO, Video, Blogs
• Focuses on the Longer Term… Ie, Social
Media, Community Building
• Budgets, resources and priority will dictate which
is most important.
Top Tip 7
Be a Social Butterfly
• I’ve not met a business yet where Social
Media could not help them. The question to
ask is whether it is a priority.
Top Tip 8
You Can’t Avoid Video
• Videos are showing in search results
• They are more engaging (user experience)
Top Tip 9
Ignorance is no longer bliss…
• Mobile – Don’t forget it.
• You heard already… this year alone Google made
over 200 updates to their search algorithm.
• New platforms arriving all of the time, Fancy,
Pinterest etc… are these good for your business?
Top Tip 10
Learn to love analytics
• Google Analytics, Facebook Insights etc
• Extend analytics with IP tracking for B2B
• Knowledge allows you to make informed
changes
Bonus Tip!
It’s not just about online marketing
– Business cards
– Flyers
– Leaflets
– Local newspaper
– Editorials
Hinweis der Redaktion
As a company we’re very proud in the fact that we have built an excellent reputation both locally and nationally for delivering quality work and knowing our subject matter. Recently we appear on the BBC, a programme called Click a technology programme talking about the benefits of business blogging. As a company we try and do things differently and try bring an element of fun to the work place and working ways to raise money for charity
So today will focus on understanding the task head – asking ourselves some hard hitting questionsDon’t take the easy option – often we find people taking short cuts.....Ecommerce example...only yesterday I was talking to someone who has recently found a piece of software online to build a shopping cart website, so uploading products etc is great, drag and drop and he said it was really cheap but now he found out that platform only processes paypal transactions and he needs a full shopping cart facility to process all the other payment options....and these is now going to cost him twice as much and has delayed his project?Know your competitors! Do your research, often this really overlooked as you can learn loads from your competitors, understanding what’s working for them and capitalising on areas where there focus is less.Creating Platforms is probably the most important part of this presentation – companies need to invest in future proof web platforms. We’ve seen some real horror story’s here and it pain me every time I see companies investing good money in bad technology and often its not the fact that the technology is bad it a case of it doesn’t fit their business requirements. And this is due to bad preparation and planning. Lastly once you know the task ahead, understand what your competitors are doing and you’ve researched and opted for some great flexible platforms to enable you to grow, you can start to develop a effective online strategy!
So today will focus on understanding the task head – asking ourselves some hard hitting questionsDon’t take the easy option – often we find people taking short cuts.....Ecommerce example...only yesterday I was talking to someone who has recently found a piece of software online to build a shopping cart website, so uploading products etc is great, drag and drop and he said it was really cheap but now he found out that platform only processes paypal transactions and he needs a full shopping cart facility to process all the other payment options....and these is now going to cost him twice as much and has delayed his project?Know your competitors! Do your research, often this really overlooked as you can learn loads from your competitors, understanding what’s working for them and capitalising on areas where there focus is less.Creating Platforms is probably the most important part of this presentation – companies need to invest in future proof web platforms. We’ve seen some real horror story’s here and it pain me every time I see companies investing good money in bad technology and often its not the fact that the technology is bad it a case of it doesn’t fit their business requirements. And this is due to bad preparation and planning. Lastly once you know the task ahead, understand what your competitors are doing and you’ve researched and opted for some great flexible platforms to enable you to grow, you can start to develop a effective online strategy!
So today will focus on understanding the task head – asking ourselves some hard hitting questionsDon’t take the easy option – often we find people taking short cuts.....Ecommerce example...only yesterday I was talking to someone who has recently found a piece of software online to build a shopping cart website, so uploading products etc is great, drag and drop and he said it was really cheap but now he found out that platform only processes paypal transactions and he needs a full shopping cart facility to process all the other payment options....and these is now going to cost him twice as much and has delayed his project?Know your competitors! Do your research, often this really overlooked as you can learn loads from your competitors, understanding what’s working for them and capitalising on areas where there focus is less.Creating Platforms is probably the most important part of this presentation – companies need to invest in future proof web platforms. We’ve seen some real horror story’s here and it pain me every time I see companies investing good money in bad technology and often its not the fact that the technology is bad it a case of it doesn’t fit their business requirements. And this is due to bad preparation and planning. Lastly once you know the task ahead, understand what your competitors are doing and you’ve researched and opted for some great flexible platforms to enable you to grow, you can start to develop a effective online strategy!
So today will focus on understanding the task head – asking ourselves some hard hitting questionsDon’t take the easy option – often we find people taking short cuts.....Ecommerce example...only yesterday I was talking to someone who has recently found a piece of software online to build a shopping cart website, so uploading products etc is great, drag and drop and he said it was really cheap but now he found out that platform only processes paypal transactions and he needs a full shopping cart facility to process all the other payment options....and these is now going to cost him twice as much and has delayed his project?Know your competitors! Do your research, often this really overlooked as you can learn loads from your competitors, understanding what’s working for them and capitalising on areas where there focus is less.Creating Platforms is probably the most important part of this presentation – companies need to invest in future proof web platforms. We’ve seen some real horror story’s here and it pain me every time I see companies investing good money in bad technology and often its not the fact that the technology is bad it a case of it doesn’t fit their business requirements. And this is due to bad preparation and planning. Lastly once you know the task ahead, understand what your competitors are doing and you’ve researched and opted for some great flexible platforms to enable you to grow, you can start to develop a effective online strategy!
Don’t take the easy option – often we find people taking short cuts.....Ecommerce example...only yesterday I was talking to someone who has recently found a piece of software online to build a shopping cart website, so uploading products etc is great, drag and drop and he said it was really cheap but now he found out that platform only processes paypal transactions and he needs a full shopping cart facility to process all the other payment options....and these is now going to cost him twice as much and has delayed his project?