When the going gets tough, the tough go Digital....
So the economy is not looking as strong as it has been. Or so people tell us! The fact is the current downturn is an opportunity for the better agencies and their clients to grab a march on the competition. How? Go Digital!
The current downturn should be approached as an opportunity for agencies to sell their clients into digital marketing as an alternative to traditional routes to market.
There are several reasons why this may be the case:
- Digital media is more accountable than traditional media. You can more easily measure the performance of your campaign.
- Analytics and technology like multivariate testing allows you to continue to optimise your campaigns in real time, constantly improving campaign performance as you go.
- Digital media campaigns don't have such high costs associated with them. For example, email has no printing or postage costs associated with it, so is a lot cheaper than snail mail!
- Improve performance of Digital campaigns by integrating them. Add a digital platform to your campaign enhance your offering. Integrate email with a direct mail campaign, or drive traffic online to a website, competition or game.
- Blog. Its cheap, quick and has many benefits - not least that it will drive more traffic to your site!
- Take advantage of the growing popularity of Social networking platforms. They offer you access to a huge and inexpensive audience.
- Online PR distribution generates traffic, good search rankings and awareness, and cost a lot less than its offline alternative.
In short, agencies shouldn't be scared of clients rethinking their spending. It should be an opportunity! Good agencies will use the economic downturn to focus clients budgets on digital alternatives such as search marketing, blogging, affiliates, PR and social networking
Organic Development can help you sell these ideas to your clients, grow your business and keep your client relationships fresh. Call Organic Development now on 0845 869 7654 to discuss your client requirements and take advantage of our free no obligation advice.


