Create valuable content that helps your buyer personas.
Help your prospects make the best purchase decision.
Understand data and human behavior for better sales results.
Therefore, the strategy is a path or a continuous process that never ends and whose nature is to provoke the movement of people throughout the stages of the journey.
If at each stage of the Customer Journey it is possible to add value to people, then the strategy will be successful and a high return on investment will be obtained.
This implies
1. Many tactical activities are getting done (advertising, social media, content, etc.) but sales do not reach the goal.
2. Communication is effective to the target audience, but most of the prospects choose the competition which means the company is losing competitiveness.
3. More than 30% of marketing resources (time and money) are invested in generating website traffic (typically advertising) and sales goals are not being met.
4. There are no long-term plans (or they exist but are not followed), and instead, they seek to test ideas that are fashionable or that work "well" for other companies.
5. Growth in sales projections is not supported by a conversion model.
6. Investment in digital marketing does not consider the existence of market segments throughout the Customer Journey.
7. The value proposition of the company/service/product is not clear to the target audience, or it is clear but lacks differentiation.
8. Decisions about digital marketing programs are not based on data (analytics), either because they are not available or because they are ignored.
9. There is no technology to align digital marketing with sales, and therefore work in separately (marketing on the one hand and sales on the other hand).
10. There are no work processes in the marketing teams; therefore, the operation tends to be very tactical and short-term.
At Cliento, we have developed and executed successful strategies for companies of all sizes and in all industries. From small B2C companies and some of the most successful Mexican startups in history, to leading global companies with a presence in Latin America.
All the projects we do at Cliento have the ultimate goal of helping our clients achieve sustainable sales growth, therefore in all projects there is a component of digital strategy.
And eventhough each case is different, we normally help companies in 3 key strategic aspects to grow their sales:
Maximize return on investment (ROI) in digital marketing through a proper balance between inbound marketing and outbound marketing.
Improve demand generation through the strategic alignment between marketing and sales, with the support of a solid commercial process, technology and content.
Implement a system of metrics and KPIs aligned to sales growth.
At Cliento we see the strategy stuck to the ground; In other words, our process is simple and does not last more than 5 weeks
Normally the development of a digital marketing strategy is carried out in 3 steps:
1. Diagnosis
2. Analysis
3. Game Plan
We have been fortunate to help more than 100 companies with digital marketing strategies, but some of them have been outstanding for the great collaborative work that went throughout the project.