Post on 15-Apr-2017
The 6 questions you need
to ask before you start
digital marketing
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• Eximo Sports Project
• Irish Tech News
• MSc Marketing
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The 6 questions you need
to ask before you start
digital marketing
Deliberate v Intuitive v Emergent
What
strategy
does your
organisation
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Deliberate
• Business schools
• Big business
• Time consuming
• Systematic
• Invest NI
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Emergent
• Evolves over time
• Flexible
• Mintzberg is an advocate
• Methodical
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Intuitive
• Micro and Small Business
• Kept in your head
• Must be close to the customer
• Doesn’t scale well
• Still useful
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6 Questions
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A STAR
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6 Questions
• Customer
• Context
• Competence
• Competition
• Content
• Capital
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Customer
Who
are
your
customers?
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Customer
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Context
How is
it done
in your
industry?
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Context
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Context
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Context
Product
Price
Place
Promotion
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Context
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Context
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Context
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Context
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Context
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Context
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Context
http://thetomorrowlab.com/2016/04/how-i-reached-over-80000-people-on-facebook/
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Context
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Competence
What
skills
do you
have
in-house?@andijarvis @thetomorrowlab
Graphic Design
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Copywriting
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Social Media Strategy
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Competition
Who
has
your
money?
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Competition
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Competition
Image: http://www.chunkofchange.com/2015/11/planning-for-growth-how-to-scale-up-using-a-swot-analysis/
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Competition
Image: http://visual.ly/porter%E2%80%99s-5-forces-model
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Competition
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Content
What
stories
can you
tell about
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Content
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Content
Mimetic isomorphism
Copying
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Content
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Content
Image: http://blog.readytomanage.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/business-silos.jpg
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Content
Image: http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/photo/young-people-buying-hiking-shoes-royalty-free-image/532022777
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Content
Image: http://wywy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/livesync-wywy-hyundai.png
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100 Ideas in 30 Minutes
• The 6-3-5 technique
• 6 people
• 3 ideas
• 5 minutes
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100 Ideas in 30 Minutes
• No idea is a bad idea
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100 Ideas in 30 Minutes
• Collate your ideas
• Identify your strongest
• Research the idea and find a hook
• Now decide your content format
• Plan who will do them
• Put them in a calendar
• Put the calendar where everyone can see it
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Capital
What
is this
worth
to your
business?@andijarvis @thetomorrowlab
Capital
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Capital
Images: http://www.smartinsights.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/The-AIDA-model.pnghttp://www.ignitepeterborough.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/AIDA-sales-promotion-powerpoint-slide.png
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Capital
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The Tomorrow Lab Presents
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The Tomorrow Lab Presents
• Winning with content marketing
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• http://thetomorrowlab.com/2016/05/digita
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Build Your Digital Strategy
• Group strategy development day for small
businesses
• 10 companies
• 6 questions
• 1 day
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