Thursday, 3 July 2014

Think Optimized


Optimization is very important to a brand and is used to attain the organizations goals in line with its objectives. Optimization gives data, insights and digital direction, using tools such as Google analytics brands can find out how to use data and insights to direct its digital actions.  In other words optimization will aid an organisations digital presence in a constructive and data driven way. Data will help analyse and identify marketing gaps and opportunities to inform effective strategy development. It creates brand awareness by increasing visibility in relevant areas, content structure, marketing, etc. Digital marketing is an ongoing revolution, that has led to vast data on the world wide web, marketing, research, display advertising, real-time data, key word searches and so on.  Brands compete with the information they have gathered from consumers through different forms of research or testing on the web.
In addition, digital marketing inventions such as search engine optimization, Adwords, keyword campaigns, display advertising, banner ads, pay per click, pay per month, real-time discussions, live chats, google analytics and others have helped to target and re target a brands target audience and generate new leads. Brands can now leverage on the online ad agencies and google display network to reach their target audience globally.  To illustrate, key word searches are created and used to narrow down searches and target the relevant audience, live chats are used by businesses in customer service and real-time discussions are used to interact with consumers online to create a bond with the brand. For instance, Dove soap started a discussion on what beauty means to customers, asking them to send in photos and videos on the mentioned topic. This got people talking and they were able to interact. 
Optimization allows brands to utilize their data on location, traffic sources, mobile reporting, adwords, multi- channel analytics, landing pages, referrals, page visits and bounce rate for content and high impact marketing purposes,  thereby identifying marketing gaps and opportunities that will inform on future types of campaigns, where to improve on and successful measuring metrics . 
As a whole, optimization allows brands to test and keep testing landing sites or pages; high traffic sources,  give recommendations and strategic directions/ improvements for the brand in line with the objectives.



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