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How to do Digital Marketing for small businesses?

A guide to doing digital marketing for small businesses in the pandemic.

By Vishal KaplishPublished 5 years ago 3 min read
How to do Digital Marketing for small businesses?
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There are a lot of things to do when you start a new business. From doing a company registration to facing rejections by clients, getting first order, spending a big profit on marketing, and delivering your 100% to maintain a long term relationship.

One of the most important aspects of a business in 2020 and further will the online presence of the business.

It is very less likely that you are hearing about it for the first time, in case you have then consider reading the complete article than skimming.

It has everything a small and local should do to become successful in the digital space.

As covid started, most businesses were shut and still shutting down. It is more than important right now to connect with customers online than offline if your business isn't getting enough visits.

Let's get started with the list of things that a small business should do in a top to bottom or high priority to low priority order where 1 holds the highest priority and 8 the lowest.

1. MAKE SURE YOU REGISTER ON GOOGLE MAPS:

Is it a need that you form a very good firm and not registered on google maps. Registering on Google maps is free, very very important for small businesses, and will help a lot to grow as people will find it friendly to reach out your company and when users will review your company on maps it will also digitalize your company.

So, these are some of the small but effective initial steps to start digital marketing for your small business with not using a single penny and creating a strong impact on the user-end.

2. BUILDING STRONG SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE:

Creating strong social media platforms are one of the key functional aspect of digital marketing for small businesses which will create a digital impact on the minds of customers.

3. USE OF VIDEO MARKETING:

Videos create a large impact rather than reading on a website, on average a user spends 88% time on the videos rather than a website or an article. An eye-catching video will let remember the user the info of your company for a longer time.

4. DETERMINE AND ATTACK YOUR GOALS:

First of all your identify your goal as this step will let reduce your time and attack your goal and start a email marketing of this goal.

5. USE OF PROFESSIONAL WEBSITE:

Creating a SEO optimized and quality content website will give an enhanced experience creative strong infographics on the website with strong blogs on the company website with serving your users with creative a chat box in your website which will also create mouth publicity from the user-end.

6. AUTOMATE EVERYTHING:

The Machine can adopt faster changes rather than a man and the machine will optimize the work faster and will lead to advancements in your marketing materials. Tools like IFTT can be quite helpful and reduce the manual work that goes through email and order management.

7. Go live on FACEBOOK

Creating strong Facebook channel will also help to reach out to lots of audiences. Also, live streaming on the Facebook page will engage your users and will help to build healthy relations with your company and user-end.

When you go live, a notification gets sent to every page liker. It works way better in terms of reach unlike posting an image or uploading a video.

8. USE OF EMAIL CAMPAIGNING:

Some people may think email marketing is an outdated trend but email marketing has a huge potential to digitalize your company. It’s a key digital marketing tool to expand the brand of your company and very helpful and for small businesses.

Research Links & Credits:

  • Stages of small business growth - Harward Business Review
  • Digital Marketing for Small Business - stablx
  • business

    About the Creator

    Vishal Kaplish

    Vishal is a digital marketing expert who helped 22+ small buinesses in growing their business online. He has done his marketing from Sharda University and now focused on helping the next group of entrepreneurs from India.

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