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TEMPLATE
Your Company Name
One liner/Mission
Statement
TABLE OF CONTENT
Step 1: Understand Your Industry
Step 4: Understand the Digital Channels that will work for you
UNDERSTAND YOUR
INDUSTRY
It’s worthwhile to analyze the state of your industry – whether as a prospective
new entrant or as an existing player in the game. One way to do this is with
Porter’s Five Forces Analysis.
Threat of
Substitution
Very High
High
Low Very Low
Analyzing Your Results
After you complete your analysis, take note of how often categories are
marked as “high” or “low.” If there are more lows than highs, this is good!
UNDERSTAND YOUR
COMPETITION
Once you understand your industry as a whole, dive into where you fit into that
industry with a SWOT analysis.
Competing this analysis will highlight the direct areas of opportunity your
company can start building on or working to overcome.
Competition Research
Strengths: A company’s strengths are its internal pros. Strengths are usually unique to
that company, but can also be generally positive features that might be shared by another
company.
Weaknesses: Weaknesses are the internal faults that are within the company’s control.
This is not a time to mention the strengths of other industry players, but rather problems
internally.
Opportunities: Analyzing opportunities requires looking at the industry, market, and world
as a whole to identify chances for a company to grow the business.
Threats: Threats, like opportunities, exist outside of the company, but can be damaging to
its success and profitability. This is where we consider government regulation, the
influence of other companies, the economy, consumer trends, and more.
Competition Research
Strengths: Weaknesses:
Opportunities: Threats:
Use this analysis as a snapshot for your company’s performance or
potential performance. Don’t just compare the amount of strengths and
opportunities with the amount of weaknesses and threats – weigh their
importance to determine if you’re currently in a good place or if you could
be doing better.
UNDERSTAND YOUR
BUYER
While you need to know where you stand in your industry, it’s ultimately worth
knowing where you stand in the eyes of your customer and potential
customers.
Taking the time and effort to learn how your company or product will be
perceived in the market is a vital action all businesses must routinely take.
Buyer Persona
Buyer Personas
Before you get to surveying your buyers, it’s helpful to define them with buyer
personas – semi-fictional generalizations of who your target customers are.
Buyer Persona
Buyer Persona
Their Name
Their Occupation/Title
Their Age or Location
UNDERSTAND YOUR
DIGITAL CHANNELS
Your Company Goal
Organic growth channels brings in slow growth to a business but is the most valuable and
trusted source, especially when you are looking to build a quality lead pipeline.
This is the fastest source for lead generation and sales for any business. It is the
backbone of growth for all businesses to start seeing revenue growth.
UNDERSTAND YOUR
MARKETING METRIC
& GOALS
Digital Marketing KPIs or Key Performance Indicators are quantifiable goals
which help you to track and measure success. KPIs are a useful way for
Business owners to see the actual results of their digital marketing campaigns
Marketing Metrics Sales Metrics
Marketing Metrics
All digital marketing campaigns needs to achieve set marketing goals which
are generally derived from the business goals.
Marketing Metrics
Data Point What Was the Most Important Data Point?
4x
Customer lifetime Value
If your digital marketing strategies are focused on
increasing your customer lifetime value i.e. repeat business,
it automatically sets you up for continuous growth.
PART SIX
1. Digital Technology
2. Digital Data
3. Digital Channels
4. Digital Metrics
5. Digital Devices
Let’s understand what each of these means and how together they build a
digital marketing strategy that will improve your digital presence and boost
conversions
• Customer Data Platform: CDP like Segment allows you to track a customer following
GDPR guidelines
• Marketing Automation: Platforms like Hubspot are great automation platforms that
helps you setup inbound marketing to increase your customer retention rates and
build a high quality sales pipeline. Hubspot also takes the headache off social media
management campaigns
• Customer Relationship Management: CMS systems like salesforce are most
imperative to start seeing quality leads and conversions
• Analytics & Metrics: Tools like Google analytics, Mixpanel and Amplitude helps in
giving you the right picture
• Digital Marketing Tools: Keyword search tools, Content analysis tools and various
other SEO tools needs to be shortlisted
Digital Channels: Digital channels are another component that involves the
analysis of the preferred platforms to target the audience. Evaluate from the
digital marketing channels explained above to build your digital marketing
strategy. A collection of paid, owned, and earned channels utilize to build
engagement with the target market through several ways such as advertising
e-mails, messaging, search engines, and social networks.
How To Start? – A
Summary
1. Build your unique positioning & messaging
2. Build your buyer personas.
3. Identify your business goals & marketing goals
4. Prepare the list of digital marketing tools you'll need.
5. Evaluate your existing digital channels that work for you
6. Audit and plan your owned media campaigns.
7. Analyzing your digital marketing strategy’s past success and failures
8. Identify Your Means (& Stick to Your Budget)
9. Measure and monitor the performance of your digital marketing strategy and to change
elements where needed.
10. Setup Inbound Marketing
11. Understand the Digital Sales Funnel
12. Focus on Blogging
13. Focus on Mobile Optimization & SEO Friendly Content