Is your business ready to overhaul its marketing plan? Starting off the New Year by planning a brand-new marketing plan is a great opportunity to rebrand, gain a wider reach, and get more business and more customers. We understand how difficult it can be to start planning your new marketing strategy. There are so many pieces to the marketing puzzle, but we have prepared a quick list of some of the most important items to focus on while planning for 2018.
1. Understand Your Brand
One of the most important areas of concern when beginning a new marketing plan is making sure you understand your brand and that it meets the image you’re trying to portray to your followers and customers. Is your logo modern and neat? Is your current brand in line with your business goals and image? Could you change your brand to meet your image goals? These questions are most important when thinking about whether it’s time to make some changes.
2. Creating Meaningful Content
One of the tips that has developed over time is that the more content your business shares with others, the better off your online rankings will be in the long-run. Making sure you have a long range plan of meaningful and engaging content will make your marketing strategy much easier to execute. Having a good idea of what content your business wants to produce, how you want to make the content, and how you want to share it with your potential and current customers makes being able to produce meaningful content easier, more concisely, and in the image of your business’ brand.
3. Overhaul Your Social Media
Overhauling your social media presence can be one of the easiest ways to make connections with possible customers and establish a voice for your business. Great goals to set when thinking about how and why you want to revamp your business’ social media plan are gaining followers, increasing engagement rates, and promoting webpage traffic. While increasing the numbers of your follower counts is not just important for your business’ brand awareness, it’s important for your conversion rates, generation of leads, and engagement rates. By gaining followers with the sharing of meaningful content, you gain more traffic to your business webpages, which can eventually be turned into true engagement with your posts. The wider your reach, the better chances you have to finding who your most promising leads will be for the rest of the year.
4. Webpage Traffic
Is your website easy to navigate, modern in design, informative, always updated, and parallel to your business’ voice? Having a great webpage can not only bring more visitors, but it makes them stay longer on your site and get to know your business and brand. In addition to making sure your site is both enjoyable and easy to use, continuous blogging and content additions are extremely important when deciding how to improve your website. Adding content regularly to your webpage is extremely helpful to increasing SEO and site rankings. Building SEO takes a good amount of time and a large amount of content, so starting off early is a great way to reach your goals by the end of the year.
5. Email Marketing
One of the greatest ways to reach possible customers efficiently is by using email marketing. Making a cohesive email marketing plan early on in the year will make following your plan easier and making edits to your plan more feasible. Using a variety of email ideas and plans will allow you to see what your subscribers enjoy reading and what attracts new subscribers. Being able to merge a redesign of your webpage, social media, and email marketing strategy allows for an easier plan to drive new subscribers, making for easier lead generation. Email marketing directly interacts with your consumers, making for higher conversion rates and repeated visitors to your pages.
While all of these focuses can lead to a great marketing plan for the new year, the most important detail to consider when trying to intensively redo a marketing plan is making sure that your goals are attainable and not overly aggressive. Gaining online recognition, a higher search engine ranking, and a large list of followers takes time to achieve, and the first step to achieving great marketing goals is realizing what is truly attainable.
BG Digital Group is a Google Partner digital marketing agency located in eastern North Carolina. We understand what it takes to create a modern, effective marketing plan, and we’re ready to take on the New Year with you and make a difference in your business’ success. From North Carolina website design, to logos, to social media management and content creation, we can do it all from top to bottom, exactly how you need. Contact us today to begin making your personal list of goals a reality this New Year.
