{"id":1776,"date":"2020-09-29T00:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T00:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liswise.com\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2021-01-15T20:32:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T20:32:49","slug":"digital-marketing-can-help-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liswise.com\/digital-marketing-can-help-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"How digital marketing can help businesses during COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Digital marketing<\/strong> is all marketing efforts which make use of the internet, mobile devices, social media, and other channels to promote products and services by reaching customers.<\/p>

Due to the sudden and increasing outbreak of COVID-19, businesses have been forced to adopt digital marketing media to ensure their survival. Some businesses had already adapted this form of marketing before the pandemic. Still, those who were used to the traditional marketing ways have been forced to embrace digital marketing channels to be able to keep their profit margins stable, keep their customers and to be able to bounce back after the pandemic. This happens because digital marketing ensures businesses are running efficiently without face to face interactions as people are forced to stay at home.<\/p>

Digital marketing can help businesses during this COVID-19 in the following ways:<\/p>

Access to customers
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Digital marketing helps businesses in researching as to where the customers can be found online. By use of social media platforms, digital marketing can help businesses to know where most of their customers are found online. Hence, it gives the ability to interact with customers and learn what they need. As a result, it helps businesses to know more about their audience, which can help to create brand loyalty.<\/p>

Reduced losses
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Businesses which had not adopted digital marketing channels have suffered huge losses. The financial stability of most businesses has suffered immensely. Most of the people are forced to stay at home around the globe. Hence, businesses can use digital marketing to sell their products on online platforms available through the internet to the customers like eBay or Amazon or their website and deliver them to the customers keeping the sales ongoing and the profit margins stable.<\/p>

Low costs
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The costs of running the business have gotten higher. The global economy has suffered much due to this ongoing pandemic. For a business to efficiently deal with this problem, they might have to allocate a budget to digital marketing to be able to advertise and kick start your business again. Digital marketing is a very affordable way of marketing at a low cost.<\/p>

24\/7 access and high targeting
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Most businesses have had to relocate wholly to online business and close up offices. This means that they have had to reach customers in another way. By use of digital marketing, the businesses can be able to get their customers at any time and anywhere since the businesses are round the clock on the web. Also, the businesses can be able to target a particular group of dedicated customers who love to hear from them and shop with them.
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Global advertising
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The pandemic has paralysed global travels. By use of digital marketing channels, businesses can communicate through web conferences and even able to a worldwide market for their product through online platforms. Social media has a wide range of users and hence increases the chances of your businesses having many customers. Your business may end up making more profit even during the pandemic.<\/p>

Accessibility
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People around the globe are advised to stay in their homes with minimal access to the outside and other people hence making business slow and increasing inventory of the products stored or in possession by the business that is to be sold. By using digital marketing channels, the business can get the customer’s requests through their business website and send it to their home at a small price. Also, the customer can give feedback on the product. This helps the business reduce its inventory while keeping sales and even customers during the pandemic.<\/p>

Customer interactions
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Customer to business interactions has significantly reduced since the countries have put up a limited number of people gathering in one place policy to control the spread of COVID-19. By adopting digital marketing channels, the business can interact with these customers while they are at home. By use of podcasts, websites and even through web conferencing, the business can show customers how to use their products or even market them through voice on podcasts and get the customers to ask questions and give feedback on the product.<\/p>

Readily available tools
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The outstanding feature of digital marketing is that the marketing of the products and services can go on even when the marketing individuals are miles away. Today the world has seen the market dominated with digital marketing tools to enable them to work something out very effectively. A business that has not adopted this marketing strategy cannot do any better in sales because digital marketing is more of a must-use tool during this COVID-19 pandemic. Facebook campaigns can help your business unleash the full potential even when it seems impossible today. Use of email marketing can land you the clients you would never have reached while at home. Businesses need content marketing to stay in business. Without content marketing and social media advertisement, people may not know the existence of your business and may risk closure because sales may go down.
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During this pandemic, the global economy has been disrupted, and traditional marketing channels have been rendered ineffective and useless. The businesses that adopt digital marketing channels can deliver products and services as quickly and generally as they can during this pandemic compared to traditional media. Hence, companies that embrace digital marketing channels whatever they are continue to do their business effectively in the new pandemic environment where there is great reliance on digital means for businesses to be able to run normally. The COVID-19 has come with strings of problems that affect nearly everyone today. Therefore, to cushion your location from the impacts of the COVID-19, you may need to adopt this new technological strategy. You would need to make use of email marketing, social media advertisement, web design and content marketing for your business. This is the only way to make sure your business succeeds.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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