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How will this digital marketing strategy guide help me and my business?<\/h2>\n

In the pre-digital era, marketing activities were planned in campaign \u2018bursts\u2019 around new product launches and promotions. Today, the popularity of search engines, review sites, and social networks to inform purchase decisions means that online consumers and business people are looking for products, services, and experiences throughout the year, not only when your campaigns are live. Digital marketing requires a change in mindset so that businesses invest sufficient time and budget into the many \u2018always-on\u2019 omnichannel activities which can be used in an integrated way to maximize visibility and conversion through the customer lifecycle.<\/p>\n

To help keep your strategy actionable and integrated we recommend you review marketing activities across the customer lifecycle. A key part of your strategy should be to map the gap between current digital activities and future \u2018aways-on\u2019 activities across the lifecycle.<\/p>\n

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In this guide we focus on creating a digital marketing strategy using integrated digital communications to grow a business. We explore options for using digital media to add to a brand proposition, but without looking at the options of varying pricing and creating digital products since they\u2019re not relevant in all sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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