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You’ll be joining the 165,000 Smart Insights members from 170 countries who trust our advice to Plan, Manage and Optimize their marketing.
My clients love the insights I am now capable of providing them
- Drew Shug, Owner, Big Storm
Just like having an expert working by your side
- Sharon Sheridan, Digital Marketing Manager
It's made my digital marketing tangible, measureable and actionable
- Kirsty H, Director of Content and Brand, Presentation Studio
Use our hub pages as a reference to get up-to-speed on all the main digital marketing techniques. They will help you quickly understand how to make the most of the technique through definitions and recommendations on our member resources and blog articles covering strategy, best practices and the latest statistics.
We believe that a digital marketing strategy is essential to take advantage of the growing opportunities from digital marketing, yet even in 2019, many companies don't have a digital marketing strategy.
Our recent Managing Digital marketing research report (a free download) showed that almost half (45%) of companies don't yet have a planned digital marketing strategy:
An integrated digital strategy will give you a foundation for all the key online marketing activities we recommend in the Smart Insights RACE digital marketing planning framework. This integrates 25 essential multichannel marketing activities covering all parts of the customer lifecycle broken down in these sections:
This page groups our key recommendations on creating a digital strategy. Register as a member to access our resources that show you how to structure a digital marketing plan.
1. Free download - Digital marketing strategy template - structured around our RACE planning template, it gives you a fast way to create a digital marketing plan.
2. Free report - Managing Digital marketing research report
3. Article - Digital Marketing statistics 2018 - our pick of the top 10 free sources
4. Paid report - Digital marketing healthcheck - a rapid audit of your digital marketing
5. Paid report - Digital strategy guide - 7 Steps to create a successful strategy
An effective digital strategy will help you take the right decisions to make a company successful online. A strategy process model provides a framework that gives a logical sequence to follow to ensure inclusion of all key activities of strategy development and implementation. We recommend the SOSTAC planning approach.
A Digital Marketing Strategy should involve a review to check that all of your capabilities are in place to help your organisation manage all of the digital touchpoints. But which capabilities are important, which do you need to review?
In our Managing Digital Transformation Guide for Paid subscribers we show these in our capability visual:
You can download this visual and others all the main online marketing channel in this free digital marketing templates download.
A successful Digital Strategy should be built on reviewing 7 core capabilities which are strategic approach, performance improvement process, management buy-in, resourcing and structure, data and infrastructure, integrated customer communications and customer experience.
A digital marketing strategy is a channel strategy which means that it should...
So put another way, digital marketing strategy defines how companies should:
For the latest on how business create strategies and manage digital marketing, see our Managing Digital Marketing 2015 research or our listing of the top Digital Marketing statistics sources.
There are surprisingly few quality digital marketing strategy sites since most focus on the strategy. We like to think we're different in our focus on strategy too. These are our top 10 sites to learn more about digital marketing strategy:
These are the related techniques which we recommend as important for managing Digital marketing strategy: How to structure a plan? effectively. View these hub pages giving details on best practices, statistics and examples for these techniques:
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