Today more than 86% of all searches done for new products and services begin online. Visibility is critical. Understanding how digital marketing works is the first step to creating a path to success for your new product. The path may include a website, one that works well on a phone or table as well. If your product is unlike anything else then generating awareness and interest through social marketing may make more sense. Understanding your wide range of options and how to develop the best strategies to meet your specific goals is important in today's digital world.
2. AGENDA
• Introduction – WSI / Bob Koehler
• High level overview of Site, Search & Social
• Internet Marketing Trends and some cool
tools in 2014
• Case Studies and Examples
3. Who is WSI?
• Founded in 1995
Birth of the Internet
• 1,100 Digital Marketing
Consultants
• 81 Countries Worldwide
• Collectively we have
touched more than 30,000
businesses.
4. Who is Bob Koeher?
• Started first company at age of 19- Earth
Arts Candle Co.
• Launched Roscoe & Co. a manufacturer’s
rep agency
• Launched Koehler Companies ,inc. – a
business that designed and sub-contracted
the manufacture of custom
products for the mail order catalog
industry.
• Figmints, inc. – partner responsible for
designing new products and managing
relationships with licensed artists.
6. Website Design
Your website represents your portal to the
world, your most permanent online asset
which communicates your brand,
messaging, and offerings…
Great, now what?
7. Conversion Architecture
• Someone is on your site!
• What do you want them to do?
• How easy is it for them to do that?
• Do you want
• A Sale?
• Contact information?
• A phone call?
• To be a resource site?
8. Your home page is your most important place to
make a good impression…This one does not
9. This does a better job of making an impression that suggests
professionalism and cutting edge technology but it needs
some content and a call to action.
11. Why this is great:
Beautifully designed
Good use of white space and contrasting colors
Headlines are clear and compelling as are the calls-to-action
The copy CREDIBLE CONTENT in yellow guides the reader to quickly
understand the company’s value proposition
Source: Hubspot
12. understanding why humans decide to do things is
one of the great drivers of the current big data
movement
13. The path to developing a
strategic, goal oriented website
• Clearly answers "Who I am," "What I do," and/or
"What can you (the visitor) do here.“
• Resonates with the target audience.
• Compelling value-proposition.
• Usability and mobility.
• Calls-to-action (CTAs)
• Great overall design.
• Keep it Fresh
15. US Mobile Internet Users 2010-2016
• eMarketer
estimates that
by 2016, nearly
200 million
people will go
online via the
mobile
• Marketers
expect this to
change the
existing digital
advertising
dynamics in
the US market
16. SEARCH
• OK, so now you have this shiny new
website with all the necessary bells and
whistles to keep people engaged. Now
what are you going to do to drive traffic to
your website?
21. •PPC
•Pennies - $$ per click
•Search, Display, Retargeting
•Ability to geo-target
•When turned off, it goes away
SEO:
•Requires more effort
•Organic results get more clicks
•Better staying power
•Rules change/Penquin, Panda,
•Pigeon
28. US Social Media Ad Spend
• By 2014, social
network ad
revenues will
climb to more
than $5billion
• By 2014, 10.5%
of total digital
ad spending in
the US will
come from
social networks
30. Social Media Marketing
• Boost SEO – Quality Backlinks
• Advertising
• Important to target the type of social
media where your customers would hang
out.
• Customer communication
• Brand awareness
• Develop royal fans
• Etc
32. Email Marketing
• Collect email addr
• Grow email list
• Organically
• Opt-in
• Import to DB
• Create a newsletter
or flyer
• Send out with push
of a button
• Check stat
Site – So, they either searched for you with a “branded” term or a “non-branded” term and they’re at your site. What do they see? Does it reflect your business?
Website design has changed a lot, do they see a modern site or a dated site? What do you ask them to do once they get there? Is it obvious? Do you make it really easy for them to buy, call, email, download in exchange for contact information, etc.
How most business gets done online…someone has a need, but not a solution
They “google it”. If they don’t find what they’re looking for, they modify their phrase until they do