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Marketing Strategy

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Get Results With A Solid Marketing Strategy

Don’t Take the Wrong Turn With Your Marketing Efforts!

It’s estimated around 50% of new businesses fail within their first five years of operation.  There are numerous reasons a business could fail.  They could decide to pivot directions or retire, but more often than not, businesses are investing their time, money and resources into marketing without a well-planned approach for marketing direction, tasking or budget and resource allocation. This lack of strategic foresight is especially tough in today’s fast-changing digital world, where marketing trends are always on the move. Making it crucial to solidify a marketing strategy before launching your business.

In Business, Where are you now?
Where do you want to be?
What do you want to achieve?
How much money should you budget for marketing?

Our marketing strategy team helps you find the answers to set clear marketing goals that align with your overall business objectives, effectively outsourcing your marketing to experienced professionals. This process often begins by helping you craft or refine your company’s vision and mission statements, then extending to tactics like social networking. 

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At the heart of any successful business is a well-crafted strategy. It provides direction and purpose to your tactical decisions, helping you allocate resources in a way that effectively communicates your value to the right audience, at the right time and place. By creating a solid marketing strategy, you’ll be able to maximize the impact of your marketing budget and drive your business forward.

Let us assist you in building a successful marketing strategy for your business. Get results with Dot Marketing’s marketing strategy services.

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What is Marketing Strategy

At the heart of any successful marketing campaign is a well-crafted marketing strategy. This plan provides direction and purpose, helping you allocate resources in a way that effectively communicates your value to the right audience, at the right time and place. By creating a solid marketing strategy informed by your business’s current situation, you’ll be able to maximize the impact of your marketing budget and drive your business forward. Trying to do your own digital marketing can lead to significant challenges.

We start with having you fill out this worksheet for business goals and target audience (AI can also help), then we work together on filling the holes on the worksheet. If the worksheet is complete, we can give you an accurate proposal for your monthly marketing services. 

We Are A Reliable Marketing Company That Maps Out Each Step

Marketing strategies are not a one-size-fits-all solution since each business is in its own unique situation. This is precisely why a well-defined marketing plan is indispensable. Crafting a successful marketing strategy requires a comprehensive understanding of your business’s current position. It requires a thorough exploration of the landscape in which your business operates. The most effective way to gather this intelligence is through a situation analysis that comprises the components below.

Target Market Research

Identify and understand the characteristics, needs, preferences, and behavior of a specific group to uncover your business's ideal customers, what matters to them, and the most effective communication channels to reach them.

Competitor Analysis

You can gain valuable insights into the strengths and weaknesses of your competition's marketing strategies. Identifying these gaps can help you capitalize on opportunities and gain a competitive edge in your industry.

Your Situational Analysis

A Situational Analysis evaluates, then addresses weaknesses and threats while capitalizing on strengths and opportunities.

Marketing Goals

We analyze your SMART marketing goals and determine the metrics we will use to measure the success of your marketing campaigns such as sales, website traffic or even social media engagement

Digital Audit

This is a comprehensive audit or your brand, website performance, user experience, technical aspects of website and utilization of off page optimization techniques so we can produce a higher ROI.

Digital Advertising Strategy

We find opportunities with the digital ad space for your unique type of business. Google Search Ads, Social Media Ads, Hulu Ads, YouTube Ads and Spotify Ads are some of the more popular choices right now.

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Your Marketing Strategy Proposal

Once we have completed the situation analysis, we leverage it alongside your business goals to develop a marketing strategy proposal. This proposal outlines how we should concentrate our marketing efforts based on the goals we want to accomplish and the situation in which we find ourselves.

Once you partner with us, this marketing strategy document will be fundamental to all future marketing decisions. It serves as our benchmark for assessing all subsequent marketing actions to ensure that they align with our strategic direction.

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