ADVICE, TIPS & INSIGHTS
The following is a guest blog post from Mike Klein. Mike is an online communications strategist for the University of Saskatchewan. He’s an avid reader and he loves to write about marketing strategy on his blog: http://www.michaelklein.ca
I provided a presentation to a group of marketing professionals at Saskatchewan's leading research park, Innovation Place, on June 2nd and finally decided to post it to my blog. It's best when accommodated with commentary but hopefully there is enough here to provide you some tips and tools for your own digital marketing purposes. If you have questions, let me know...
It's a fact - Traditional methods of marketing (TV, Radio, Newspaper, Magazine Ads, Trade Shows, Direct Mail, Etc) have become less and less effective. These "push" tactics are intrusions that people have become numb to or developed defense mechanisms for. There will always be a need for some "push" tactics in marketing but it is giving way to the new paradigm of "pull" marketing...
No website is an island! Left alone, a website is not much more than a little billboard on the information superhighway, so for it to be effective it's important that you weave it and other digital efforts frequently into your overall marketing activities. And like any marketing activity, the purpose should be to generate qualified leads...