How to optimize your online marketing budget
Published on 02 April 15
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Todays business is very complicated and the entire selling and marketing process is can be very puzzling. A lot goes into executing the steps needed in order to receive the desired outcome from a marketing strategy. Due to global economic uncertainity, companies are facing crucial situations for creating lofty marketing budgets. Every dollar has to be allocated efficiently to maximize return on investment. Here are some online marketing strategies that aim to optimize marketing budgets:
- Focus on what brings best results: Set goals and measure the potential source and quantity of sales. Also, compare various sources such as advertising campaigns, social media channels and word of mouth interest. By this, you can figure out which source will generate the majority of sales and where budgets will be most useful.
- Controlled budget and targeting: It is nearly impossible to find a marketing solution that gives full control over the budget and who is targeted. So rather than spending your budget on multiple marketing ideas, focus on one area where you can control targets and cost. For example, the use of any online advertisement giant such as Facebook or Bing. By effectively controlling the budget, you can easily handle your limited resources and avoid unprofitable practices.
- Scale the profitability: Scaling means experimenting with different types of marketing strategies. Both offline and online marketing campaigns should be tested on a small scale and focused target group. Campaigns can be scaled on the basis of profitability. Starting with small steps and waiting for results has its advantages: it helps to understand what will work and what unprofitable practices should be avoided within the campaign. Putting additional money into a plan which has been proven successful at the initial level usually means less risk of losing advertising dollars.
- Alignment of market efforts: In business, time is money and the money is everything. This means marketing campaigns should communicate the similar message to the customer. Print advertisement and paid online marketing should be handled in the same manner.
Cross channel re-marketing: In marketing, the term re-marketing or re-targeting means to target website visitors who are still not customers by developing new campaign to them on the same platform or website. Advertisers can see a potential customer who clicks the website on Google but who is not yet a customer. The customer is then targeted again on Google with a new advertisement. An effective cross-channel re-marketing strategy can effectively boost an entire online marketing campaign.
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