Digital Marketing Explained: How to do Digital Marketing?

This is the third part of the Digital Marketing Explained Holy Grail Post Series, the outline will be kept together on the Digital Marketing page.

Digital Marketing Explained

The what, why, how and when part of this series is the most important part; simply grasping the concepts laid out will put you a long way ahead in the path to effective digial marketing.

What is Digital Marketing?

Why do Digital Marketing?

How to do Digital Marketing?

Tailor your message and find your audience.

LESSON #3: CAVES = CREDIBLE, ACCESSIBLE, VISIBLE, ENGAGING AND SHARABLE.

Digital marketing is done crafting your message(s) and then finding your audience and sharing that message using a variety of digital platforms.

Each platform has its specialties, your first priority is to define your goals first and then decide on your marketing plan. These goals must be tangible, measurable and consistent. In most cases hits, visits and clicks just will not cut it. Try for goals that show some level of engagement, for example: sales, email signups or competition entries.

Once you’ve decided upon your goals then decide on then ensure that you can track those goals against your efforts and that they allow for optimisations (e.g. changing the creative message). Optimisations will improve performance over time and help inform future marketing activities.

To get the most out of your efforts and have continued brand awareness a useful acronym is CAVES.

	Examples
Credible	Have unsubscribe links on emails, do not send unsolicited emails, include privacy policies etc.
Accessible	Subscribe forms, links to about page, no distractions, simple interface.
Visible	Be where your audience is (campaign targeting); be found when looked for (search engines).
Engaging	Create content that people want to engage with.
Sharable	Create content that people want to share, and make it easy for them to do so.

The rest of this document will outline the specifics of “how to do digital marketing,” and provide case studies and user guides, however, these principals should be at the front of your mind as you are guided through this process.