How to Make Your Business Stand Out Among the Crowd Online

December 10, 2020

With so many businesses moving away from the office or retail unit and making their homes more online, it has never been more important to get your name out there and make yourself stand out from the crowd.

It’s no good being the best in your field if nobody knows about you–which is why making a name for yourself in the big world wide web is imperative. 

Regardless of whether you’ve just started out, or you’ve been running your business for decades, a strong digital marketing plan is vital in making sure you are able to extend your reach and achieve the targets you need in order to achieve. 

Here are some of the areas that you need to focus on to get people talking about your brand.

SEO- Search Engine Optimization 

To get your name known in the digital universe, you will need a strong SEO plan. Correctly formulated SEO will help your website to achieve top rankings on search engine results. The higher you are in the rankings, the more likely people are to click onto your website and buy into your brand down the line. 

If you have no idea where to start, then there are specialist agencies such as Clickthrough SEO who can help you to put an effective plan in place. 

Seamless Web Design and Navigation

An attractive, informative, easy to navigate website is crucial when it comes to the success of your business. It should be user friendly while remaining loyal to your brand. Uniformity when it comes to colour scheme and logo designs will help customers with brand recognition. 

Your website should offer the potential for the same seamless service that they would come to expect in a physical store. For example, if customers make a purchase online, transactions should be handled swiftly and acknowledgement and follow up prompt. 

Top Quality Content 

What is a good website if it is all style over substance? Your potential customers will look at pretty pictures and top quality graphic design–but they won’t get much else from it if the content you display is sub par. 

Having quality is highly beneficial to your business in a number of ways. The more content you have that pays attention to what users are searching for, the higher your rankings on search engines. 
Quality content can come in the form of ‘about me’ pages, testimonials, blog posts, and FAQs. Whatever you choose to post on your website, be sure that your content gives the answer to the questions that are being asked by your potential customers online. 

Social Media 

Most potential customers spend a significant amount of time on social media. Being dedicated to your social media presence is a great way of digitally extending your reach to potential new customers. This can be through paid advertising or asking customers to ‘like and share’ your page to improve the visibility of your business page. 

A well managed social media page will give your business the human approach to customers and potential new customers as they feel as though they are talking to a person who posts online as they are dealt with professionally and promptly.

Mark Asquith

That British podcast guy, Mark is co-founder of Captivate.fm, the world's only growth-oriented podcast host. A Harvard, TEDx, Podcast Movement and Podfest speaker (amongst many more!), he's a wildly approachable Brit and Star Wars/DC Comics geek.

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