The future of the marketing industry
Marketing is one of the most important things to any company as it helps you promote your business and helps you to build your brand. Marketing is also useful as it can help you promote an event or product you are selling to a much wider audience than you could reach by simply hoping that people stumble across you. When you are beginning your marketing campaign it is important that you know your market and who is your target demographic. This is because you do not want to be relying on targeting a generation x customer online, as they are more likely to find their information via another, likely more traditional, source. A generation x customer is someone that is born before 1982 and has generally not embraced modern trends like Twitter and Facebook; certainly not to the same degree as generations that followed.
Marketing can generally be split into two different forms; creative and digital; with each form having it benefits and negatives that you have to settle to find the branch that is right for you and your company. One of the traditional forms of marketing, and the most successful forms in recent years, has been advertising. This is because advertising allows you to reach a wider audience at a fraction of the cost and also allows you to target a number of different target demographics. This type of comes in a number of forms, from newspaper advertising; radio; TV; and in the last few years, online advertising. If done correctly all these types or forms of marketing add revenue to your business and generate a large amount of sales for your business. Although advertising can generate a large amount of sales it can prove to be one of the most expensive forms, as a 30 second advert on TV can cost many thousands of pounds, especially in a prime time spot. Also there are no guarantees so it is important that your company can afford it and should not be used to get you out of trouble as it may not work. Although advertising is seen as a good form of marketing is not seen as the future as it seen as dying art form with the rise of online or digital marketing.
Digital is made up of a number of channels including SEO, PPC, Social Media, and Display marketing and website design. Digital is seen as the future and your company needs to be considering the digital side of things when you are trying to put your product to market and increase the visibility of your brand.
It is widely considered that digital marketing is the future, and though there are still other channels that can yield results, an SEO agency London can give you massive, increasing returns.