Every business needs marketing. In the olden days, traditional marketing used to rule. The concept of marketing is nothing but advertising your products in the areas consisting of more people. Many of us watch and are still watching Televisions, reading newspapers and listen to the radio.
So, those areas are targeted with ads and are costly. With the introduction of smartphones and internet, a lot of things changed. People no longer spend their time on TV’s or radio but they are spending on the internet. Reports say that on an average, each individual spends around 4-5 hours a day on the internet.
Mostly product oriented or service oriented businesses are done. Customers are kings in both aspects. A business is said to successful when it incurs profits and it is achieved with more customers. Digital marketing is far better than traditional marketing admitting the fact that people it covers are way more than in traditional marketing. Let’s see why exactly manufacturing industry needs Digital marketing.
Digital Marketing is Cost Effective
In traditional marketing, it’s very costly to advertise in TV channels and newspaper ads. Even though that much money is spent on ads, there are no tools to analyze the progress. You can’t know whether people actually saw advertisements.
If a debate is done on which type of marketing is better, then obviously Digital marketing is the clear winner. With less pricing, your business can reach more number of audience in less amount of time.
The money that is saved can be used for other purposes as there are a lot of things to deal in a business. If planning and execution of strategy are perfect then a huge amount of profits can be obtained.
Broadly Reach to Your Audience:
Everyone who watches advertisements won’t buy. Only a few of them will show interest and from those few, only some people will actually buy a product. It is important to advertise to as many people as possible.
In traditional marketing, there are only a few options for promoting. Well in those options too, not many people turn up to actually watching the full advertisement. But with Digital marketing we have lot of options to display ads like PPC ads, social media ads, blog and website ads and search engine ads.
And with the introduction of online buying and selling, it has become easier to sell your products. A basic outline of strategy would be to advertise with all forms of techniques mentioned above and place the products for buying online on your website.
People who are interested will redirect to your site to find more info. If everything looks promising, they will become your clients.
High Conversion Rate of Leads to customers:
People who give their emails for signing up need not buy the products. Those are described as Leads. As we have obtained few leads, now you have to attract them with offers and make them believe in the products to buy.
In traditional marketing, giving the ads is only in our hands. Whether it is reaching an audience or not is not known. It is like, you have to hit a thing in a dark room and you are throwing stones in hope of hitting it.
Here the thing is goal and stones are strategies trying to reach the goal. In traditional marketing, as said you go on trying to promote your business, but you never know whether people saw or not. That’s the reason conversion rate is too low.
In Digital marketing once the leads are obtained, you will be following them with emails. Any queries regarding payments or durability related issues, everything can be answered through emails. As the audience is getting clarified and based on reviews and ratings, most of the people buy products. The conversion rate is, therefore, more with Digital marketing.
Interacting with Customers is Possible with Digital Marketing:
Manufacturing industries manufacture products. Whether they may be supportive products for other vehicles or gadgets or their own gadgets, customers will experience problems at some point in time. They need a platform for querying the problem and expect an answer.
Why most of the people won’t buy from unknown sites? It’s because of the doubts in product quality and if any problem occurs, there is no guarantee they will respond or not? That’s the reason people buy from trusted sources only.
It is important to maintain a healthy relationship with customers by answering their questions. In general, before buying a product too, people will have lots of doubts. It is your duty to answer patiently. Nowadays there are many plugins and tools providing interaction right at the point of time.
Generate more revenue
People do jobs or put a business for the sole reason of earning money. People with the passion of owning a business also will be there but they also need money to continue business. There are many strategies in Digital marketing to try out for and there is no universal strategy that applies to every business.
A plan needs to be changed for every business. So, it is important to stay focused even though results are not coming as expected. Modify the plan and execute again and there are more chances of earning huge amount of profits once the business gets recognition.