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Digital Marketing Plan Template Smart Insights
Digital Marketing Plan Template Smart Insights
it useful when creating or refining your plans to All businesses need an agile approach to improve.
make better use of the fantastic opportunities Our unique RACE planning framework, shown on
available from digital marketing. It’s a short the next page, is divided into 25 key optimisation
sample of our in-depth actionable advice for activities explained in our member resources.
marketers including 7 Steps guides; marketing
templates and online training courses. We believe that businesses need to first define a
separate digital plan to quantify the case for
Our recent research showed that shockingly, investment in digital marketing and change your
many organisations are doing digital marketing, approach to managing digital marketing. Then
but they don’t have a strategy. The reality is that move to a better integrated approach where it’s
part of your marketing strategy.
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1 PLAN
Key Measures:
Publish and promote your content, allow sharing • Unique visitors
to other outposts, networks and influencers. Draw
• Value per visit
people to your content hub ..
• Fans/Followers
Bl'.JYER STAGE
Key Measures:
Be worth finding via clear customer journeys and a • Leads/Lead conversion rate
content hub that is relevant, inspirational. useful and
• Time on site
creates leads
• Shares/comments/likes
Key Measures:
Captilalise on marketing investment using CRO, marketing • Sales (on and offline-influence)
automation and remarketing to ensure contextual relevance
• Revenue/Profit
drives conversion
• Average Order Value
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PLAN OPPORTUNITY
Review marketplace and set objectives
STRATEGY
Create digital strategy
Create a digital
marketing strategy Start with these key activities to define your
digital opportunity through marketplace analysis:
Review your digital proposition and communicate
it using digital targeting techniques:
☐ 1. Review digital marketing capabilities ☐ Select target market segments and personas.
☐ 2. Analyse performance using KPI dashboards Define digital targeting approaches
after customising analytics for your business ☐ Define your online value proposition (OVP)
☐ 3. Summarize customer insight in customer including review of business and revenue
personas and customer journey maps model, brand positioning and integration with
traditional channels
☐ 4. Audit brand and benchmark competitors
☐ Review marketing mix for online options for
☐ 5. Review influencer outreach, co-marketing the 4Ps - Product, Price, Promotion and Place
and intermediaries
☐ 6. Define SMART objectives with conversion ACTION
spreadsheet models to quantify opportunity
Implement and manage digital marketing
communications
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ACTION Defined deliverables
☐ Act: Using content marketing and persuasion
to prompt brand interaction and leads
Your Digital Plan will be more believable if you
have SMART objectives for each part of the ☐ Convert: Use conversion rate optimization
to boost online and offline sales
RACE customer lifecyle.
☐ Engage: Develop customer loyalty and repeat
Deliverable: Use summary tables to link your sales
strategies, KPIs and actions as shown in our
premium - Example Digital Marketing Plan u
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REACH
Grow your audience
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OPPORTUNITY ACTION
Define your online audience potential Optimise your digital communications
RECOMMENDATION
Set realistic targets for building traffic, awareness Work on optimising content marketing to support
INVEST IN CONTINUOUS INBOUND MARKETING
and social media followers key digital communications for your business:
☐ Define KPI dashboards to review effectiveness ☐ PR, influencer outreach and SEO
Ensure you harness customer purchase intent of current digital media in analytics
as they seek information about products ☐ Optimize Google AdWords (paid search)
☐ Review current use of digital media and ☐ Review opportunities from Display Advertising
through ‘always-on’ communications to reach opportunities to improve
your audience through Search and Social media ☐ Review relevance of affiliate and partner
☐ Set VQVC (volume, quality, value, cost) marketing
marketing fuelled by content marketing.
objectives using conversion budget models
☐ Social media marketing optimization
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(Available to Business premium members)
ACTION
OPPORTUNITY
Implement online customer
Review potential to increase customer
communications plan
RECOMMENDATION activity levels
Create a Customer Lifecycle ☐ Review customer loyalty using RFM ☐ Implement or refine personalization rules on
desktop and mobile sites
Communications Plan analysis for interactions and sales. Quantify
incremental revenue potential ☐ Customer onboarding including event-trig-
gered personalized emails and enewsletters
Map all customer touchpoints to create a plan ☐ Review customer satisfaction drivers
to use Marketing Automation to deliver ☐ Review effectiveness of customer ☐ Manage social media and email campaigns for
personalised relevant messages by Email, customer engagement and advocacy
communications
Social Media and Web.
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