By Mila Jones
The COVID19 pandemic has retarded all business activities and even brought many enterprises to a standstill. With the onset of the pandemic, governments imposed a lockdown to curb the spread of the Coronavirus and also reduced movements from country to country.
With businesses slowing down and hurdles in the international movement, marketing became a difficult task for companies worldwide.
In such a problematic situation, businesses have no other choice but to turn towards online marketing companies to market their products and services digitally.
However, the pandemic shows signs of abating, and days seem not very far away when businesses will return to normalcy.
Even after the pandemic days, digital marketing will rule the marketing landscape. With a reliable and reputable digital marketing company, you can implement the best online marketing techniques to help your business keep afloat and flourish both during and after the pandemic phase.
Digital marketing techniques are many, and each of the methods becomes effective only when you implement it in the right way in your marketing strategy.
To reap the best results out of your digital marketing strategy, you should align the plan with the current online marketing trends.
The pandemic’s business interference has affected marketing campaigns, and businesses need to implement selective digital marketing strategies to do away with the challenge.
The following digital marketing techniques are expected to drive businesses after the COVID19 pandemic:
Email Marketing
The email’s relevance as a potential marketing tool will remain intact even after the pandemic days getting over. It is an impactful digital marketing tool that entails good RoI.
Businesses have been using email marketing to showcase their products and services to consumers. And experts believe that it will continue to drive businesses in the future.
Through email marketing, you can build a direct connection between your business and consumers. You can showcase your business offerings to consumers and alert them when you launch new products or services or offer discounts.
In terms of RoI, email marketing is the best when compared with other digital marketing techniques.
Since most people tend to check their emails regularly, your promotional emails reach many potential customers.
Influencer Marketing
No business can ignore the influencer marketing technique during the post COVID19 phase. It is one of the best marketing techniques in the digital space.
When businesses use influencer’s power with a significant number of followers on social media to promote their products and services on social media platforms, it is called influencer marketing.
The underlying trick is that the influencer can recommend your business offering to the followers, who are likely to buy your products or services as they trust the influencer.
What is remarkable is that you can gain the consumers’ trust apart from creating awareness about your business offerings and strengthening your brand.
When it comes to RoI, influencer marketing yields higher RoI in comparison with SEO and PPC techniques. However, there is a downside too, and that is the cost vis-a-vis other digital marketing methods.
One of the distinct advantages of influencer marketing is that followers of the demographic to which the influencer belongs tend to engage more with the influencer. It helps you to reach people of a particular demographic.
Using Chatbot
With the gradual proliferation of Artificial Intelligence, chatbots in the digital marketing space are gaining ground.
A website hosts a chatbot to enable communication between the company and consumers.
In this method, you can create awareness about your products or services using a digital application installed on a computer that answers all your queries. Chatbots also uses videos along with text in communicating with people.
Of late, many businesses incorporate chatbots on their websites, and more businesses are joining the fray.
The main advantage of a chatbot is that it can offer virtual assistance to respond to people’s queries around the clock.
Artificial Intelligence has been gradually gaining popularity among businesses, and it is expected to drive digital marketing initiatives in the future.
PPC
Pay Per Click (PPC) is an essential digital marketing tool in which businesses have to pay money against every click on their online advertisements.
The higher the traffic, the higher the probability of the more number of clicks, which accounts for higher earnings for the digital marketing agency involved in the marketing campaign.
In any PPC advertising, the search engine advertising method is mostly used, and keywords play an essential role. And Google Ads helps in optimizing the number of clicks on a website.
Video Marketing
The trend of preferring to watch a video rather than reading words is growing among people today. And you can leverage the trend to promote your business offerings among consumers effectively.
The video form of digital marketing can be used on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram platforms. With catchy videos, you can make your products or services more appealing to consumers and efficiently convey your brand message.
One of the advantages of this method is that when people get satisfaction after watching a video, they tend to share it on social media. It increases the viewer base to increase the possibility for you to get customers.
Voice Search
Voice search is gaining immense popularity among businesses as a potential digital marketing technique. Doing a voice search is more comfortable than typing the keywords. And with the predominance of mobiles, voice search has become a significant component of any digital marketing strategy.
Conclusion
The bottom line is that digital marketing will play a significant role in enabling businesses to market their products or services post COVID19 slowdown effectively.
Therefore, businesses need to partner with reliable digital marketing agencies to market their business offerings on digital platforms effectively. If you have already entered into such a partnership, then make sure you ask the agency to deploy the latest and effective digital marketing strategies for your business.
Prepared by Patrick O’Brien.
About the author:
Mila Jones is a Senior Business Consultant, with rich experience in the domains of technology consulting and strategy, she works with both established technology brands and market entrants to offer research inputs and insights on leveraging technology as a source of strategic competitive advantage.
She is a prolific author and shares her expertise with tech enthusiasts on popular digital publishing platforms. She loves not only to write about several topics but also loves to explore new ideas about Lifestyle, Travel blogs, and many more.
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