Integrating Digital & Traditional Marketing

Today, many marketing consultants are eager to tell business owners like you all about the long list of benefits digital marketing can provide. They’ll brag about the success of their custom pay-per-click campaigns and their ability to engage customers on social media platforms. Some may also talk about an interactive infographic they made that increased awareness of one of their client’s brands. To put it simply – if it has anything to do with marketing online, a digital marketer will want to sing its praises.

While that’s the case in many instances, it’s essential for you to avoid getting caught up in the “mania” that currently surrounds digital marketing. Although digital marketing has its place in your overall marketing strategy, it’s not your entire strategy. There are also some things you should know about running digital ads.

What You Should Know About Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Campaigns

Digital ads and PPC campaigns often carry high costs and results are not always clear. While some metrics are highly measurable, brand awareness is not easy to gauge.

Pay-per-click can produce fast results, but it’s also a very time-consuming and complex job if you want a well-managed campaign. Even if you have a trusted consultant managing your digital strategies, this still leaves a gap in your overall marketing strategy. A more sensible, and quite possibly more lucrative, approach is to combine digital and traditional marketing to promote your business.

Stop and think about the last time you bought something online. Did you see a television commercial for the product on television or hear its name mentioned in a radio ad and then look it up online? If so, your actions were a great example of why integrating digital and traditional marketing techniques is essential. Customers react to different marketing channels at various points of the buying cycle. Quite often, their response to one channel leads them to another channel, ideally one that moves them to the next phase in the sales funnel.

The Combination Can Be Powerful

When you combine digital and traditional marketing, the result can be impressive. Imagine coming up with a commercial for a kids’ toy that has a catchy tune, plenty of colors, and images of children having a blast playing with your product. While parents may want to turn the volume down and change the channel, your ad is sure to mesmerize any kid who wants your toy.

When you combine your television commercial with a pay-per-click ad, you have one avenue to market to children and a second to reel in parents. While your television commercial will get kids interested in your product, your PPC campaign will entice parents to purchase the toy you’re selling for their children, if only to get them to stop asking for it.

Take Control of Your Branding With a Custom Phone Number

While you may run various ads for different target audiences, it’s crucial to keep your branding consistent across all media and all advertisements. Your brand identity won’t change just because you use both digital and traditional marketing, after all. Be sure you use the same logo, design, and voice across all your marketing channels. This helps consumers instantly recognize your brand in every ad and on every marketing platform.

One way to do this is with a memorable, vanity toll-free phone number. Custom 800 numbers like 800-NEW-CAR increase response rates by 25 to 50 percent compared to numeric phone numbers. Plus, 65 percent of businesses say inbound phone leads convert more than those generated online.

When you get a custom toll-free number from 800response, we’ll also help you track your campaign performance, and much more.

To find a vanity phone number for your business, search the 800response directory! You can also request a custom quote for any of our toll-free numbers.