Has it ever occurred to you how quickly big brands that we have grown to know are giving way or dying to the competition of new brands in this 2017 digital world ?
The creme de la creme brands that has always become a household name and a product category, what happened to some?
In Ghana all toothpaste is included in the retail store and buyers refer to it as pepsodent, all detergents as OMO, all beer as CLUB etc.
Well as the sales agents say, It’s a game. and you have to give in your best shot!
Let me explain how these newbies are overthrowing brand giants and how giants like coca-cola has learn to use analytics and big-data to ensure they are always ahead of the competition.
To set you on the path, marketing as we all know is not the same again, it has taken a very fast and changing form and if your organization do not move with it , then it would go down the drain.
What has changed is that new brands are quickly adapting to the 21st century way of marketing and they are providing job slot for digital marketer and influential marketers. As the former brand giants continue to embrace the old ways of doing things, the newbies are constantly adapting to digital change and how it affect marketing.
Marketing in principles has always contained four strong ‘P”s that strongly influence how a brand thrives. These four “P’s are the product, price,promotion and placement. These four Ps connectively plays a major influence in the purchasing decision of a customer.
In Ghana the most favored of the four P’s is the price. I call it price per quantity because a typical Ghanaian would pay more for a large quantity of goods that is being offered at a low price.
For example in my local grocery store at Kotobabi, there are two people who sells exactly the same groceries but you would always see people trooping into the other competitor to buy more. Why? because that competitor offers his products at a wholesale price in order to be on top of the competition!!
This is some form of smarketing by such an individual although he is not a brand , but he is building a pool of customers as well as a way of facilitating FCMG using pricing.
So what do I mean when I say big brands being swallowed up?
To explain that I will bring up my idea that marketing has never being the same again since th 90s’, Elements that once form marketing is now being democratized with the advent of digital tools .
The major annals or P’s to ensure a brand survival is by making effective use of of all the four P’s and thinking digitally.
As in the case of Kleesoft and OMO and how the former has overtaken competition of the latter.How did they do it? some people would think it was through influential marketing,by using the popular footballer Asamoah Gyan.
Yes, Influential marketing counts but it is a no new factor that the OMO industry isn’t aware about. Kleesoft has really made its penetration by adapting a marketing mix that effectively building awareness that we in the digital world are aware of.
One thing you have to know is marketing is trend, if a brand rise, automatically, purchasers by word of mouth follow along to ensure it rise. it is like a synchronized affirmative. If a brand falls , everybody desist, people become aware of their environment and are constantingly adapting to new changes.
So for a brand to put its head into the game, it has to put its head in digital world game and ensure feasibility of pleasing customers through the four P’s.
Source: Seoghana | ET Ampofo
Digital marketing is no longer a passing trend as it was considered a few years back. Today, this is a proven marketing technique and brands that are harnessing its power enjoy a competitive edge. According to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), there are over 3.26 billion internet users today. To get the attention of these users, you need to have a strong presence online. Using a reliable digital marketing company helps you adopt the best marketing strategies today for the best outcomes from your online campaigns.
Through digital strategies, you can tap into the rapidly growing online market and increase the reach of your business. However, there is a catch; the internet marketplace is volatile and new techniques keep emerging. Staying abreast of all these changes and implementing them is not easy, especially for a small business. Luckily, digital marketing agencies have the expertise and resources necessary to drive a full-fledged online marketing campaigns.
Services offered by Digital marketing Agencies
The highly competitive nature of the internet marketplace calls for innovative thinking. A Digital marketing company brings this skill to the table with them. The primary goal of such a marketing partner is to increase your presence online, integrate your online profiles and platforms and perform market research for you.
To do this, a digital marketing agency will offer a broad range of services including:
Internet Marketing
This encompasses a number of strategies including market research, data analysis, quick monitoring and insights, digital optimizations and many others. A dedicated team of specialists will work with you to first understand your business before coming up with a tailored strategy.
Among the components of a digital marketing campaign are social media, online branding, cross platform, email, content marketing, content curation and mobile marketing to name a few.
Web Design And Development
Your website is a powerful tool and you cannot start without first developing a powerful platform. The best digital marketing agencies offer a comprehensive range of web design and development solutions, that would include ecommerce support, responsive web design, content management system (CMS), web application development, website maintenance and support, web performance analysis and many more. Your professional website will form the basis of all digital marketing campaigns.
Search Engine optimization (SEO)
Now that search still remains the #1 driver of traffic to content websites, you have to optimize your website for search engines. An optimized website ranks highly on search engine result pages (SERPs) for keywords they target, and is easier to find. A recent report shows that 93% of online experiences start with a search engine hence the need to boost your website’s presence on search engine result pages.
Why Outsource Digital Marketing?
Many businesses try to manage their digital marketing campaign with disastrous effects. Many do not comply with Google Webmaster Guidelines leading to penalties, while others lose money trying to implement quick-fix techniques. Outsourcing your digital marketing campaign to an established agency comes with a lot of benefits including:
1. Comprehensive Expertise
An established firm has the resources required to hire the best personnel in a broad range of areas. There are web designers, SEO experts, copy writers, editors, specialist, and social media experts among others. When all these people work on your campaign, the outcome is better and you will have an edge over the competition.
2. Cost-savings
Hiring a agency for your digital marketing campaign might appear costly initially but that is until you consider the overall benefits. These experts save you money that would have been spent training your in-house marketing team and also bring in cutting edge technology to keep track of the campaign. You don’t have to hire more personnel to manage your campaign and the tools deployed during a campaign will come in handy in other aspects of the business.
3. Keeping Up With Latest Trends
The world of digital marketing is fast paced and staying up-to-date is not easy. By partnering with an experienced digital marketing agency, you will bring in the latest ideas in digital marketing. These agencies are able to evolve with the industry and will help you leverage the latest trends.
There are many other reasons to partner with a digital marketing company. You will learn invaluable tips, have more time to focus on your core business, enjoy high ROI on your campaign and get invaluable outside insight into your business. All these benefits will help your business grow by boosting its online presence, raising ranking on SERPs, increasing conversion rates and building your brand as an authority.
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Many traditional fast food restaurants are slowly being left behind especially in Ghana. It’s not that customers don’t crave their greasy goodness.
It’s that many fast food restaurant brands feel a touch old-fashioned and new rivals have come along, offering a heady recipe of a more exciting brand and better food. Now the furthest digital brand of style a food restaurant in Ghana would use to stay in technology is to create an ecommerce website a an instant food delivery plan.
Never, though, has one of the monolithic fast food brands tried what this KFC is doing that would change the approach of marketing style used by restaurants in the 21st century digital world.
In Ghana, KFC has installed retail outlets with digital ordering machine that process order in out in Haatso, Accra and tema Community 8.
In a South China Morning Post reports, a KFC-owned restaurant called KPRO — an oddly healthy place that serves salads, panini and fresh juice — is allowing customers to pay with a smile and this is big!
Here, you walk up to a large screen. You use a touchscreen to select the very healthy food you’d like to quickly consume. Then you click on the Smile To Pay feature.It uses facial recognition to decide who you are.
https://youtu.be/VLAtO7RgVM4
Then it asks you to enter your phone number, for a little extra authentication.This could be a little awkward if there are people standing behind you.
Don’t these technologists care about privacy? Oh, you know the answer to that one.
Once you’ve ordered, you go and sit down and your food is magically delivered by someone who, one hopes, doesn’t say: “We know where you live.”
KFC worked with Ant Financial, part of the vast Alibaba Group, to create this system, one that will surely make people feel so very modern.
Some might look at the video and think that all this button-pushing and pausing to take a picture isn’t all that fast.
It’s also gloriously impersonal. Then again, isn’t that what technology would prefer we become? A face and a phone number, rather than, say, a living, breathing, purse-bearing, picky-eating human.From finger-lickin’ good to face-bearin’ payin’.
This is progress!! and it would change the digital marketing phase.
The effectiveness and the rise in the use of social media is going to see a major increase in 2018 where majority of these platforms are going to receive a massive monetization.
Digital platforms and the use of social media has become a basic necessity where people can’t just do away without. As a necessity evil, people meet on the various social media platforms to share ideas, memories or to have fun,
But as a basic necessity, where the number of users keep on increasing with different interest of discussions, it has now become a basic tool for advertisers to take as a major opportunity to market their goods and services.
If you take a look at Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn which are the widely most used social media platforms, one could see that all of them has a way of generating money , even the almighty Google. This money generated is mostly from advertisers and digital marketers who want to push their products out there for target acquisition or creating awareness.
So what does this tell us? This make it clear that before Jack Dorsey (founder of Twitter), Mark Zuckerberg (founder of Facebook), Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, Steve Chen ( founder of Youtube), Larry Page, Sergey Brin ( founder of google), Reid Hoffman, etc ( founder of LinkedIn) put aboard these social media platforms they had advertisers in mind. Advertisers equals to getting an effective digital marketer who can really make these social media platforms generate high ROI once you decide to use them.
In the year 2020, the most vibrant and well sought after job position would be digital marketers since they would be the horsepower to spearhead a companies ability to perform on non-perform at its online presence.
From Hubspot, The table below shows a research and survey of how the various social media platforms is being used and hiow they tend to rise with the impending years.
credit: hubspot
The rate of change in social media and its marketing is such that the industry is simultaneously one of the most exciting and challenging in business. From mobile usage to ad blockers, new trends emerge constantly and digital marketers can often feel like they’re playing catch up. Staying ahead of trends is now one of the most integral facets of a digital marketers work, as consumer behavior and new technology necessitates a change in approach with startling frequency. To dot this and make your company thrive with convertible leads you would need effective digital marketers.
Hitherto marketing has become increasingly a digital. On average, 60% of a marketers’ time is devoted to digital marketing activities, a number that will only increase as companies move further down the line of digital transformation. 71% of companies planned to increase their digital marketing budgets this year, and it seems the vast majority are ready to go all in on honing their efforts to reach consumers on both mobile and desktop. There are many opportunities to exploit and issues to tackle, like user experience, personalization, mobile engagement, and video strategy, as well as new techniques in more traditional areas like email marketing and SEO.
Digital marketing is no longer a passing trend as it was considered a few years back. Today, this is a proven marketing technique and brands that are harnessing its power enjoy a competitive edge. According to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), there are over 3.26 billion internet users today. To get the attention of these users, you need to have a strong presence online. Using a reliable digital marketing company helps you adopt the best marketing strategies today for the best outcomes from your online campaigns.
Through digital strategies, you can tap into the rapidly growing online market and increase the reach of your business. However, there is a catch; the internet marketplace is volatile and new techniques keep emerging. Staying abreast of all these changes and implementing them is not easy, especially for a small business. Luckily, digital marketing agencies have the expertise and resources necessary to drive a full-fledged online marketing campaigns.
Many traditional fast food restaurants are slowly being left behind especially in Ghana. It’s not that customers don’t crave their greasy goodness.
It’s that many fast food restaurant brands feel a touch old-fashioned and new rivals have come along, offering a heady recipe of a more exciting brand and better food. Now the furthest digital brand of style a food restaurant in Ghana would use to stay in technology is to create an ecommerce website a an instant food delivery plan.
Never, though, has one of the monolithic fast food brands tried what this KFC is doing that would change the approach of marketing style used by restaurants in the 21st century digital world.
In Ghana, KFC has installed retail outlets with digital ordering machine that process order in out in Haatso, Accra and tema Community 8.
In a South China Morning Post reports, a KFC-owned restaurant called KPRO — an oddly healthy place that serves salads, panini and fresh juice — is allowing customers to pay with a smile and this is big!
Here, you walk up to a large screen. You use a touchscreen to select the very healthy food you’d like to quickly consume. Then you click on the Smile To Pay feature.It uses facial recognition to decide who you are.
https://youtu.be/VLAtO7RgVM4
Then it asks you to enter your phone number, for a little extra authentication.This could be a little awkward if there are people standing behind you.
Don’t these technologists care about privacy? Oh, you know the answer to that one.
Once you’ve ordered, you go and sit down and your food is magically delivered by someone who, one hopes, doesn’t say: “We know where you live.”
KFC worked with Ant Financial, part of the vast Alibaba Group, to create this system, one that will surely make people feel so very modern.
Some might look at the video and think that all this button-pushing and pausing to take a picture isn’t all that fast.
It’s also gloriously impersonal. Then again, isn’t that what technology would prefer we become? A face and a phone number, rather than, say, a living, breathing, purse-bearing, picky-eating human.From finger-lickin’ good to face-bearin’ payin’.
This is progress!! and it would change the digital marketing phase. 
The effectiveness and the rise in the use of social media is going to see a major increase in 2018 where majority of these platforms are going to receive a massive monetization.
Digital platforms and the use of social media has become a basic necessity where people can’t just do away without. As a necessity evil, people meet on the various social media platforms to share ideas, memories or to have fun,
But as a basic necessity, where the number of users keep on increasing with different interest of discussions, it has now become a basic tool for advertisers to take as a major opportunity to market their goods and services.
If you take a look at Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn which are the widely most used social media platforms, one could see that all of them has a way of generating money , even the almighty Google. This money generated is mostly from advertisers and digital marketers who want to push their products out there for target acquisition or creating awareness.
So what does this tell us? This make it clear that before Jack Dorsey (founder of Twitter), Mark Zuckerberg (founder of Facebook), Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, Steve Chen ( founder of Youtube), 