How to create an effective digital marketing strategy by Tereza Litsa #348

Ep. 34838 min2016-11-23

An effective digital marketing strategy requires five steps: define goals, analyze existing media assets, plan action steps, execute the plan, and measure results to make ongoing adjustments.

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Key takeaways

About this episode

This week Chris and Charles walk you through creating an effective digital marketing strategy. You'll learn how to Analyze, Execute, Measure and more!

Questions this episode answers

What are the five steps to creating an effective digital marketing strategy?

According to the article covered in this episode, the five steps are: define your business goals, analyze your existing owned, earned, and paid media assets, plan how to turn goals into action, execute the plan with room for creativity, and measure results at every stage to improve over time.

What is owned, earned, and paid media in a digital marketing strategy?

Owned media includes assets you control such as your website and social profiles. Earned media is coverage you did not pay for, such as reviews, social shares, and guest blog posts. Paid media is any channel where you spend money to place content or ads.

In their words

47% of businesses don't have a set plan or strategy for their digital marketing efforts. And this may affect their long-term goals.

Charles Lewis

Don't get stuck in the planning stages where you're always planning and never executing because your peak season will pass by, you will miss opportunities, and then when you do get ready to execute, it may be time for a new plan.

Charles Lewis

Measure everything. Yes. Like everything. Like how many visits to what that level of engagement was to how many conversions you had to what your cost was.

Charles Lewis
Terms defined in this episode
Shiko
An eWebResults branded term for social engagement, standing for shares, likes, or follows on any social media platform.
Owned media
Digital media assets you control directly, such as your website, social profiles, and email lists.
Earned media
Digital coverage you did not pay for and do not own, including reviews, social shares, guest blogging, and PR mentions.
KPIs
Key performance indicators, the measurable metrics used to evaluate whether a digital marketing strategy is meeting its defined goals.

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