Digital Marketing is an ever-changing field with new trends popping up now and then. Well its mid-2019, and as of now, we have three such trends that have towered over the others.
So, how to make the best use of these trends, for your business? Let’s find out.
1. Artificial Intelligence
AI or what I like to call “the Smart robot” has been an absolute boon to the digital marketing world.
Real-Time value offering, something that has become a stark necessity for every online business and at the same time, a challenge for the human marketer, is like a walk in the park for the Smart Robot.
More than anything, AI has been in the business world for a modest number of years and almost every other digital marketing business has imbibed it in their business models.
So, here comes the million-dollar question, “How can you provide exclusive value to your customers through AI.”
Chatbots are the most popular by-product that AI has to offer right now.
Here are a few tips that will surely help you in building a brand out of your chatbot:
Give the Chatbot a name
Siri, Alexa are names that you can synonymously relate to the brands that own them. That’s the magic a short and sweet name weaves for your business.
A potential lead of yours would remember having a chat with, let say “Mr. Tech” the chatbot and will eventually start associating your business with Mr. Tech.
The icing on the cake would be to provide your Mr. Tech with an animated physical existence, much like the android bot. Something that can provide a visual association to the customer with the chatbot and eventually your brand. Check out GoodFirms’ curated listed of top bot development companies for more information on chatbots.
Promoting your Chatbot on social media
It can be said with utmost conviction that every potential lead you are soliciting is on social media. So, why not introduce your shiny new Chatbot to them?
You can always write a few interactive and humorous posts, introducing your Mr tech and inviting your leads to have a quick chat with it, and augment them with trending chatbot hashtags and your own business hashtags.
As a final tip, you can always write a unique and engaging (funny, if you want) punch line that your chatbot would deliver during the commencement of the conversation.
2. Videos
An inevitable phenomenon that you have to adapt eventually or you are out of the race! It’s a well-known fact that videos provide significantly higher consumer engagement (to be specific- 3 times) than written or infographic content.
Therefore, it’s high time that you significantly include video content in your digital marketing strategy.
Luckily, for you, the scope of video marketing is gaping wide.
Here are a few tips for smashing your video strategy:
Feed your product/service utility to your audience.
“I would blindly choose to watch an unboxing video of the next I Phone, rather than going to a website and reading about its features.”
The live interaction created by videos is the wow factor.
It’s because of this that adding “Product Walkthrough” videos in your YouTube Channel are a bull’s eye when it comes to communicating your product’s value offering to customers in a highly interactive and engaging manner.
Want to go a step further? Strike a deal with a famous influencer or You Tuber in your product category, and you can have access to their widespread reach across YouTube.
Live streams
Live streams on social media are also a hidden gem if customer engagement is your goal.
Where else would you find an opportunity to provide your customers with an iconic real-time, one on one experience of your product, something that would stay in their mind for a very long time?
In fact, experiential Marketing is your go-to thing if you are in the mood of achieving some killer social media lead generation through live streaming.
Building your brand through video content
What is it that can evoke a strong emotional bond between a customer and brand? The answer is obvious. It’s your products, your company’s culture, and also your customer testimonials?
Well, it’s when you associate your brand with a story, a success story to be precise.
A story where the hero overcomes a lot of hardships and comes out strong and becomes the hero as he is today, is made up.
The idea is to start a series of such motivational videos of your company CEO or employees within your business and associate your own brand with them. There is a good chance of your customers strongly resonating with such video content and in turn, developing an emotional connection with your brand.
3. Personalization
Do you still focus on creating Blanket ad campaigns and catchy phrases as a part of your Digital Marketing Strategy? Well, my friend, its 2019, and it’s the era of personalization!
Creating standardized content can get you leads; however, if you are in for some serious lead conversions, personalization is the key.
Long term customer retention is also a very strong incentive, which is also a by-product of creating personalized content. A customer would always want to revert back to you, if his specific personal needs have been acutely met.
Here are a few tricks that you can use to create personalized content:
Leveraging the power of e-mail marketing
This starts with separating your e-mail database into multiple categories as per demographics, psychographics, and preferences. There are numerous tools in the market for these.
Based on this, you can prepare e-mail campaigns for every customer group and include a specific call to actions regarding specific products and services that are best suited to them.
It would be even better if you manage to squeeze in some video content regarding the offering for which you have provided the Call to Actions.
Personalized Chatbots
This is a smart way to enhance and personalize the user experience of your leads. In most cases, Chatbots act as the first level of conversation that a user has with your business.
A generic conversation may act as a turn off for many leads as they exit your website with an unfulfilled expectation, but of a more personalized nature.
What’s necessary is a Chatbot interface that can analyze prior information shared by the user during the conversation and provide real time solutions or options that are based on the previous information shared.
“A Fitness Website Chatbot, can’t suggest me high-intensity weight loss programs if I have mentioned at an earlier stage of the conversation that I am Asthmatic.”
Push Notifications
“Instant Personal Engagement,” yes, that’s the unique value that Push Notifications can add to your marketing strategy.
Both e-mails and Chatbots are time-consuming tactics that require the consumer to perform specific actions prior to engagement with your content.
With push notifications, all you need is a small personalized message with a definite call to action; your consumer is just a click away from landing on your website.
Always design your push notification messages based on his prior browsing behavior on your website, and based on this you could provide him with offerings that he might be interested in.
And those were the major trends 2019 has to offer. I hope you have got a sound guidance as to how you can make good use of these trends.
