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Why Businesses Must Integrate Artificial Intelligence [AI]?

In 2017, Artificial Intelligence became one of the hottest topics and is still attracting attention and investments. There was a void in businesses without AI – Artificial Intelligence, before that social networking, mobile apps, the Internet of Things, and Data Analytics have filled that void. Scientists have been working upon the technology and been talking about the benefits of AI from the past four decades, it’s about time that society’s AI dreams are coming true.

When the term AI is told, people think of the AI we encounter in personal lives which is web ads dependent and based on our search history, facial recognition on Facebook, or the IVR of banks or other companies. Or perhaps, some people think of personal digital assistants namely, Siri (Apple), Alexa (Amazon), Cortana (Microsoft), and Google Assistant (Google). But AI applications impacted both consumer and business operations. For example, a Harley Davidson dealer implemented an AI-driven marketing platform into his marketing mix and the results were astonishingly high. He witnessed a 2930 percent increase in sales, which literally tripled his business over the previous year. But every AI integration is not as successful as that dealer. Social Networking and Smartphones were into the consumer world first then they moved into Business, in the same way, we can expect AI to seep into business applications in a natural way. However, with an increase in the volumes of people, places, and things plus there is also an increase in computing speeds and real-time processing power. AI applicability and business benefits are becoming a reality with immediate effect.

AI Estimations

A survey of Cowen and Company, currently 81% of IT leaders are investing in or planning to invest in AI. CIOs are also heralding to their companies for the integration of AI into their entire technology hub. Meanwhile, 43 percent are doing a proof of concept for AI, and 38 percent of organizations have already implemented AI and been planning to invest more into it.

Estimation from McKinsey research states that tech giants spent $20 billion to $30 billion on AI in 2016. Of that, R & D and deployment will get 90 percent and 10 percent to AI acquisitions. Artificial Intelligence will grow to a $47 billion market by 2020, says industry analyst firm IDC with a compound annual growth rate of 55%. Companies will spend around $18 billion on software applications, $billion on software platforms, and $24 billion on services and hardware, states IDC. Your business will risk irrelevancy if your business doesn’t already have a strategy to incorporate AI or machine learning (ML) into your development efforts by 2020 that too with this level of investment.

Related Post: What is Internet of Things [IoT]?

Exponential Growth of AI

Google, Amazon, and Facebook are leading the AI race right now, with Microsoft just behind between those three are catching up rapidly with the investment of a lot of time and resources in AI. With access to thousands of researchers on staff and billions of dollars set aside for investing in capturing the next generation of leading data scientists, proving these organizations a head start over the rest of the market. For example:
1. Google’s 25,000 engineers, only a few thousand are knowledgeable and proficient, that makes roughly 10 % and they are making efforts to make that number 100 percent.
2. The AI and research group at Microsoft grew by 60% through hiring and acquisitions in the first year of its operations.
3. FBLearner Flow is being used by over 750 Facebook engineers and 40 different product teams, which helps them leverage AI and ML. Over a million models have been trained on the new software.

Moreover, Infor, Microsoft, and Salesforce have also been researching and implementing AI in their business. In the market today, these tech giants are just a few of the serious artificial intelligence contenders. It makes smaller companies very tough to attract and retain the skilled work required to make their AI dreams a reality. Recruiting efforts won’t just be it to create an impact, but also the time required to conduct a new employee onboarding, supervised learning, and training to effectively scale AI programs.

Most companies lack analytical infrastructure and general knowledge needed to apply AI and ML to its full potential. Secured access of data without having to deal with multiple authentications must be enabled by engineers. Often it’s a case if the company has several isolated data warehouses or enterprise resource planning application systems. IT leaders must have the ability to bring large data sets together from several unique and varied data sources into centralized, scalable and observed data repository, for this they have to attempt to successfully deploy and conquer an enterprise-wide AI strategy.

Development of AI Applications Market Place

When it’s clear that the use of AI is important, not all companies have the IT budgets to hire the employees required to build AI-fueled applications that too in-house. For that reason, we can expect to see on an immediate effect, the rise of AI services marketplace in the near future. There is already an emerging form of companies providing AI self – service tools that are very easy to use for the non-data scientist and not that expensive to acquire. These AI market places will resell AI services and specialized algorithms that companies can completely buy and implement within their business, which will make the business process management more easier to handle. To compete in this race of AI, this marketplace will provide companies AI services which are in a modest budget.

Conclusion

We have only seen a few examples of the major AI benefits, we will see a rise in the integration of the AI in the coming future. Having the roots in computer science since, a few decades. It is only now that this concept is getting popular among the organizations as well as the consumer applications, and the need for it increasing day by day. By embedding AI into the core functions of the software enterprise software providers are making AI a necessity. We can see this integration more in the coming years. For businesses, this will mean that they no more need to hire computer scientists or invest large capital to develop their own AI systems.

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What is Internet Of Things [IoT]?

Almost everyone has been heard of this term ‘IoT’, but never could have actually figured out that what it really is. Well, let’s get familiarize to the topic by introducing the person who coined this term. Kevin Ashton coined this topic in 1999 at presentation to Procter and Gamble. Kevin co-founded MIT’s Auto-ID Lab. He believed that Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) is essential to the internet of things, which basically allows computers to manage all individual things. heard of a company named zensi, it’s about energy sensing and monitoring technology, it was started by Kevin Ashton as well.

Introduction to IoT

So, what is IoT? If put in a simple way, IoT can be any ‘thing or object’ which is connected to the internet than people. It is more a device that has sensors in it with the ability to collect and transfer data over a network without human intervention. The technology which is embedded in the device helps it to interact with internal states or within itself and of its external environment which helps in the decision-making process. In short, IoT describes the internet where data is created by things.
Gartner stated, by 2020 there will be more than 26 billion connected devices and will keep on increasing as it grows further and can reach up to 100 billion devices. Just like us, the humans the network is only going to get stronger and will increase the object-object and people-object connection. Imagine the giant network of connected things where IoT does not only impact the standard of living but also how we perform our day-to-day tasks. And just like humans learn from each other those devices who are in a network will learn experiences from other devices.
Here’s a quote by Kevin Ashton on IoT –

“If we had computers that knew everything there was to know about things—using data they gathered without any help from us—we would be able to track and count everything, and greatly reduce waste, loss, and cost. We would know when things needed replacing, repairing or recalling, and whether they were fresh or past their best.”

Whenever a new product is being released, before going to the consumers they test it manually for the error and defects which that product may come up with, and then we learn from those errors and defects and try to eradicate it. It’s a process. In the same way, a room temperature sensor collects data and transfer it across the network, which is received and used by multiple other devices or sensors to adjust their temperature accordingly. For example, a refrigerator’s sensor will receive the outside temperature and will adjust its internal temperature according to it. And air conditioners are already sensing the room temperature and adjusting the power according to it. This is how devices create their own eco-system by interact, contribute and collaborate. Currently, we are surrounded by lots of IoT enabled devices that are continuously connected to each other and emitting data and communicating through multiple devices. IoT will be the future and will survive as technology grows. All the data is stored in the cloud and many organizations provide cloud consulting services maintain and optimize the data.

Advantages of IoT

IoT has the functionality that devices could be controlled remotely across the internet. So, by the use of the sensors and the internet IoT created opportunities to directly connect and integrate the physical world to the computer-based systems. It will create automation in nearly all fields by the interconnection of these multiple embedded devices. therefore increasing the efficiency, accuracy and economic benefit with less human intervention. It encapsulates technologies such as smart grids, smart homes, intelligent transportation, and smart cities. Some major advantages of IoT

1. Better customer engagement

Automation of action is vastly improved by the help of IoT, for example, a car will automatically detect the issues within the car by the help of the sensors built in it. The driver, as well as the manufacturer, will get notified about it. Till the time driver takes the car to the service station, the manufacturer will make sure that the faulty part is available in the service station so it can be repaired or replaced immediately.

2. Optimized Technicality

Improving technologies and making them better is another benefit of IoT, the car manufacturer can collect the sensor data from so many different cars and analyze them to optimize their design and functionality and make them much more efficient.

3. Reduced Waste

Till now, what we know about the insights are they are superficial, but with the help of IoT, we can get real-time information leading to effective decision making and management resources. For example, just imagine there is a fault in the entire manufacturing belt of the spare part that car which broke down and there are problems with multiple engines, he can track the manufacturing plant of those engines and can correct the issues with manufacturing belt.

Hardware required for IoT

Ever wondered what hardware we might need for preparing an IoT solution? well, the answer is simple. The raw materials required for it is ‘sensors’ which senses the environment, and also a remote dashboard to monitor your output and display it in a clear form. And lastly, you will require a device that can connect to the internet, or is capable of serving and routing. Detecting specific conditions and taking actions accordingly would be the key function of these devices. Here comes the tricky part, we should always secure the connection and communication between the devices and the dashboard.
Accelerometers, temperature sensors, magnetometers, proximity sensors, gyroscope, image sensors, acoustic sensors, light or photosensors, pressure sensors, gas RFID sensors, humidity sensors, and micro-flow sensors are some of the common sensors we are surrounded with. Nowadays, we are familiar with devices like smartwatch, shoes and 3D glasses, these devices are best examples for smart solutions. The 3D glass is capable of adjusting the television’s brightness which is comfortable to one’s eyes, and smartwatches keep track of your daily activities and they also keep track of the heart rate which gives us approximate insights of our health. A device called Raspberry Pi is a credit-card-sized computer developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. It has four USB ports, one LAN port, one audio port, one HDMI port, one SD card slot, one general-purpose Input/Output [GPIO] port, and one charger port. The current generation device also houses Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.

But, the most important device which has tremendously contributed to IoT is cell phones. Mobile apps are the most revolutionizing contribution to the technology of the world. Cell phones are devices that come with apps and sensors which reveal a lot of information about the user. From geo-location information to tracing light conditions, also to orientation of the device and a lot more information. Since the main function of a cell phone is to make calls, so cellular function, and other functions like Wi-fi, Bluetooth are some of the connectivity options the cell phone comes with which helps them to communicate with other devices. Because of all these functions, the cell phone remains the core of the IoT ecosystem. Further, it can now talk with the smartwatch and fitness band to ease and improve the user experience. Bluetooth, Wifi, NFC, RFID, radio protocols and Wifi-Direct are some major technologies and protocols to communicate with devices based on requirements. Across all industries and markets, IoT applications are flourishing. The IoT has a crowd of expansion over various industries, including the vast group of users, from individual who wants to conserve energy by implementing IoT automation to the large scale companies who want to enhance their business operations. IoT not only is very useful in optimizing critical applications but also they have enhanced the concept of advanced automation which we have imagined a decade ago. Let’s now dig into the capabilities of IoT across different industries and look at how they are revolutionizing them.

Applications of IoT Across Various Industries

Here are some major industries where IoT is integrated and been proven it’s worth. Automation with the help of IoT is the key to the technology of the future.

Energy Industries

Due to an increase in the rates of energy, individuals, as well as organizations, are looking for a way to take control of consumption in their hands. Hence, IoT provides a solution for not only monitor the energy usage at the application level but also at house level, grid-level or maybe at the distribution level. Devices used to measure and monitor energy consumption are smart meters and smart grids. It protects appliances by detecting threats to system performance and stability.

Healthcare Industries

Fitness bands and smartwatches have revolutionized the frequency of health monitoring. An individual can monitor hos own health by the help of it. And if a patient is reaching the hospital by ambulance, his reports are prepared and been diagnosed by doctors by the time he reaches the hospital, and can quickly start the treatment as soon as he reaches there. Furthermore, that data is collected and analyzed by doctors to find various information about the diseases and find a cure for it.

Education Industry

In order to fulfill the gaps in the education industry, IoT provides education aid. It not only improves the quality of education but also enhances the cost and furthermore, enhances the management by taking student’s performance and response into consideration.

Government

IoT also provides solutions for building smart cities. Armed forces systems and services are also enhanced by the help of IoT. Be it better Border Security or high-performance vehicle, everything is taken care of from the data which is collected and analyzed.

Air and Water Pollution

We can detect the pollution in air and water by frequent sampling with the help of various sensors. Substantial contamination is prevented because of it. IoT automation plays a vital role in this industry as is allows the operation to minimize human intervention in farming analysis and monitoring which notifies the user if there is any change in the structure of crops, soil, environment and more.

Transportation Industry

Self-driving cars with sensors, traffic lights that can sense the traffic and switch automatically, parking assistance, giving us the location of free parking space, etc are some of the existing IoT examples in the transportation industry. Like we discussed above in an example, there are sensors in the vehicle which indicate about the current status of the vehicle, so we don’t run into problems while driving. By the end of 2021, it is projected that 82% of cars will be connected to the cloud or the internet.

Marketing Industry

By delivering relevant content and solutions, organizations analyze and respond to customer preferences, using IoT. Business strategies could be improved in real-time.

Business Process Industry

Inventory management and automation are possible by using IoT, ultimately, smart devices will be implemented to track the inventory data in the system. Creating new gadgets, furniture, home appliances, and devices to meet the new demands consumers have will offer a new and reliable source of revenue for the entire business world. A task that used to require the on-site presence of humans for its competition will also be done with IoT. All this massive data generated from smart devices will help businesses to gain knowledge of how and what to create ultimately transforming for the greater impact.

Conclusion

Implementation of IoT is just a beginning, Businesses will get a competitive advantage of this technology who are taking a step to develop or expand IoT technology in services, products and business operations will grow exponentially.
Sooner the digital marketing agencies understand how to integrate IoT in their services and what opportunities and challenges they might face as more devices start to get webbed in the network on IoT.

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What is the best time to send push notifications?

Introduction

A push notification is a marketing message that companies can send at any time, regardless of whether the user is currently browsing through the application or website, on mobile phones or laptops respectively. So that means it can be both- app-based and web version.

These days push notification has become the most popular and efficient tool for increasing sales and retention. They are basically used to engage and re-engage your existing users and also create new clientele and inspire them to use your application actively. While sending or triggering push notifications is is really very important to follow a few guidelines so that the purpose of sending such notifications is solved. Here when we talk about guidelines our main focus is when where and how. Because if the notifications are sent in a vague manner untimely that may annoy and irritate the user and chances are that he may opt-out. So it is very to research regarding the frequency and time before sending the notifications. Thankfully because of the emergence of technology, you can automatically segregate and set the time for your notification only once, without repeating the steps every time.

In order, not to annoy your users with unnecessary push notifications, we recommend few guidelines that help you find the right time for sending push notifications to your web users using PushPush.io.

Check the timezone of your users

Technology has bought the world very close. So it may happen that the timezone of your client and you are different. Business is spread across the globe so here time plays a very important role. The time at which your users get notifications from you is one significant aspect adding to the achievement of your campaign. You have to make sure that the scheduling of your push notifications is in inline with the timezone of all your target users. For example: Being a radio taxi cab like Uber, if you send a push notification on its mobile app giving discount coupon during peak commute hours will boost the bookings.

Plan the Days

While planning your push notification strategy, one thing you can not afford to miss is the day. If you have a restaurant and you have planned a promotion -meal for two’ on Friday. Sending a reminder notification to users on Saturday will not really be a good idea. There are particular days and time which has shown evidently high click rates for most of the brands. Make sure you are scheduling your notification around these days.

We have segregated each day of the week with its best time to send push notifications according to our research made and that has given high ROI to companies.

Tuesday: 4-5 pm, 5-6 pm
Wednesday: 10 am-12 noon, 3-6 pm
Thursday: 3-5 pm, 5-6 pm
Friday: 10-11am, 2-3 pm, 3-4 pm
Saturday: 4-5 pm

Check on Upcoming events

You may customize your message based on the time of year or any upcoming holidays to make the brand attractive.

Make sure that your notification calendar is always in sync with the events happening throughout the year. It’s done to avoid a situation where your notification may get ignored reason being that day falls on a busy festival day. Further, following a track of events will ease you develop and create festive offers for those events which have constantly gained considerable response rate.

For example, push notification for a restaurant review set to go out two days prior to Valentine’s Day could be like, “Happy Valentine’s Day! Have a lovely evening. Here’s a discount code for dining out with your loved ones.”

The frequency of Sending Notifications

The frequency at which you send the notifications to your users depends on various factors like industry specific-News app, Gaming app or website, Travel portals, Fitness apps, E-commerce or your Notification purpose like retargeting users, brand awareness of your product. We have segregated the frequency as per the industry.

News: 3-4 times a day which depends on the news, it’s significance and gravity as per your users.
Games: Once a day or less and that too after deciding its time slot as to when the users will be excited to receive your notifications and give the maximum response.
Travel: 2-3 times a day. This number may vary depending upon the holiday seasons. Also if your plan to promote a new holiday package.
Fitness: 3-4 times a week or even daily reminders are acceptable depending on the type of fitness business. For example, if you are a fitness band app then daily morning and evening notifications are fine to alert the user to remind about his target.

Right Content

When the right content is sent to the right audience and that too on right time then that is surely going to help you achieve your business goals.

Push notifications study reveals that there are a huge amount of users that find these notifications as important and essential. It is may happen so since the notifications sent by you are of user’s interest or the content provided is giving valuable. Content that is relevant to users generate high user engagement. As per the recent study, Personalisation can boost push notification open rates by up to 800%. When the content is personalized it boost the open rate 4 times than sending a generic message. This can be done reciprocating your user with their name, including a custom image, a thank you note, personalized message etc.

Content and timing go hand in hand for any push notifications’ success. Giving a customized and personal touch to your notification on right is sure to give an immeasurable response.

Targeting the right audience

Always consider sharing the right content with the right audience with your users. Your information should be as targeted as possible. Creating and recognizing who you plan to target must be an essential part of determining your push notification plan. There is a greater risk of your entire communication being a failure if you target the wrong audience. Therefore, building specific customer personas benefits you plan the most powerful push notification strategy. It is better for companies to learn more about users and take extra efforts to avoid their push notification to be seen as annoying by users.

Let us take an example of women to fashion retail brand wherein they have segmented their target audience in personas like Let’s say you run a female fashion retail chain. You have successfully segmented your audience in personas such as- working class, middle-aged housewife, a young mother, and student. So here you would never want to notify all the personas with one push messaging for the sale of babies wear. That just does not make any sense.

Choose the right timing

You have to choose the right time to share the right content with the right audience. Timing should be an indispensable part of your push messaging plan.Suppose you receive a disturbing push notification message at 5 am when you are in deep sleep. What would be your reaction, will u still like that brand or unsubscribe its offers? Here, you are required to take care of local time notification delivery. For example, In New York, it is morning 5 am and at the same time in London, it is 9am.You can determine the right time for your push notifications depending upon your Industry or targetting persona.

Industry-based time

News-10-12 pm,5 pm
Fashion & lifestyle-12 pm, 5pm, 9 pm
Travel-9 pm
Hospitality-10 am, 2 pm, 8pm-10 pm
Entertainment-8 pm -10 pm
Education-11 am-1 pm, 8 pm
Healthcare-12 pm

Persona-based time determination

Working class-9 am, 12 noon-2 pm, 9pm -11 pm
Young mothers-11 am-12 pm, 7 pm-8 pm
Middle-aged housewives-12 noon 2 pm, 9 pm-11 pm
Students-9 am-12 am, 7 pm-2 am

So to conclude we may say that tailoring your push notifications to your users is not just about what you say and how you say, but first and foremost factor is about time i.ewhen you say it. Lastly, don’t forget to expire messages when they go out of date.

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Push Notification-Modern Advertising Channel!

What is Push Notification and how it works?

Push notifications are a communication channel built into every mobile device sold today. They enable apps to reach out to users with short messages that users may respond to. They are notifications that can be sent to a user through a desktop web and mobile web. Web push notifications are delivered on a user’s desktop or mobile screen anytime they have their browser open despite whether or not the user is on the website.

Types of Push Notification

1.Transactional Notifications

Transactional notifications are used to send a notification to users about events upcoming. For example, If a user has ordered some book from an e-commerce application or website, they are notifying a user that their package has been shipped and will be delivered on a particular time and date. Airlines sending notification about the delay in flight and latest status of the fight.

2.System Notifications

System notifications are used to inform users about new product features or openings. For example, sending a notification to the user of a new product feature, or of a vacation or holiday discount offer. Such information when send may attract users and are having chances to conversion.

3.User Notifications

User notifications are used to send alerts or notify users of new messages received from their friends or office colleagues, such as in an e-mail or social networking application. For example, if an important message that’s awaited from a client, push notification alerts to make the further course of action saving time.

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Importance of Push Notification to Website Owners

Push-notification advertising is a modern type of advertisement, that enables advertisers to reach their target audience more efficiently and website owners to earn more without adding any banners. So fundamentally it’s a new method to monetize your website.

According to a recent study,73% of publishers are not convinced with their website monetization. They are continually seeing for new ad channels and header bidding solutions to get higher returns on cost per click or cost per impression.

Launch push-notification advertising on your website is very simple. It is more or less similar to any other type of ad types. If You have apparently tried display or native, push notification also works the same way. You just install the code of the ad network of your choice like PushPush.io and start getting more money.

Importance of Push Notification to Advertisers

Push notification technology is fast evolving from a simple message delivery system to a strong and interactive medium. They are the first and often most important communications channel used by apps. Almost all major app uses push notifications for transactions and re-engagement. They signify a great way to interact with your audience. According to a study made, 52% of smartphone users let push notifications on their devices, and this method can benefit businesses in the following ways:

Pointing users to visit your social media networks or channels.
Advertising your existing products and services or promoting the new ones especially ones having special offers.
Developing trust, loyalty and brand reputation by delivering valuable content to users.
Engaging users who are currently on your website.
Re-engagement is possible for users who have abandoned carts, especially for e-commerce applications.

Best Practice when using Push Notification technology

An important element of notifications is that users must opt-in to receiving such messages. The number of notifications that most users get, many choose to opt-out of receiving more unless and until there is a compelling value of those notifications.

The simplest idea for an application to increase the opt-in rate is to define the value of notifications before prompting the users for notification permissions.

Using Permission Messages before showing a device Permission Requests is a genuine practice as it increases the probability that users will remain subscribed to your push notifications and find them valuable. Permission messages do the following three things

They inform a user of the value of subscribing to push notifications.
They obtain user intention with buttons like ‘Enable’ and ‘No Thanks’.
Trigger a Permission Request, if the user shows his preference to get such notifications.

PushPush.io provides a modern day advertising platform where a website owner can use push notification to monetize their web traffic and advertiser can send notifications to their targetted audience and wherein the users grant permission to receive such messages.

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Why your Business Needs Digital Marketing to Grow and Thrive?

At one time online marketing was simply a new and different way to market. It opened up a new kind of media on which to trade goods and services. But in past few years, the importance of digital marketing has become something else. It’s become an indispensable part of what a business is to its clients. It’s no longer sufficient to have a website or run any un-focused AdWords campaign. If you don’t have integrated digital marketing solution working for your business then time is working against you because of it. As the Internet grows twisted with everything we do, the value of digital marketing is becoming crystal clear. The main benefit of digital marketing is that a targeted audience can be reached in an economical and measurable way. Other digital marketing advantages add increasing brand loyalty and pushing online sales.

Let’s take a look at why your business requires digital marketing to grow and succeed.

Advanced Analytics

Digital Marketing helps you know the following about your ads and user:

You can know whether they viewed or not. But in the case of TV ads, you don’t even know that much. The TV might be on mute or they could have been in some other room.
If they interacted with the ad after viewing
Have they shown a liking for the ad by checking the likes?
If they shared the ad with friends or family which itself gives an indirect boost to the ad.
If they click on some action button mentioned on the ad.
We can also track the demographics of the viewers as this is much easier to track with free analytics tools provided by Google like Google Analytics. Also, there are many paid tools available which even give more insights.

Personalization

When your client database is linked to your website, then whenever someone visits your website, you can welcome them with your targeted offers. The more they purchase from you, the more you can improve your customer profile and business effectively and efficiently to them. With the help of digital marketing services, you can build a very strong presence on social media platforms. Also by getting connected with social media and handling it carefully, you can develop customer loyalty and build a reputation for being easy to engage with.

Easy to Scale & Adapt

With any marketing campaign or tool to run, there’s initial investment needed to get traffic streaming to your business. But the effect of a digital marketing plan for small businesses becomes very obvious when you see how simple it is to scale and adapt as your business develops and grows. For instance, with social media campaigns, you can choose a daily budget with display ads and search ads. Which will help you know exactly how much that campaign will cost you. You start seeing amazing results and you also need not have to go and renegotiate an ad spot to keep the ad going. Your ad remains uninterrupted. As you continue to convert that traffic, you just increase your everyday spend and revenues with it. And If something is not working in your marketing campaign, you do not have to wait for the ad agreement to run out. Also, you don’t have to start from scratch. Since you have got the control and power so you need to just make a few small changes and re-launch the ad. The importance of digital marketing rests in the fact that you can get on-the-spot results. Analyze data and bring changes quick to decrease wasted ad spend and spent revenues. This proves to us how digital marketing solutions for a small business.

Best ROI

Email marketing is one marketing method which as the highest ROI. It can show great results for the business. It is a conversion machine. But you need to build your email list with quality subscribers. Then deliver very relevant and quality content to a subscriber’s inbox. This is usually achieved through a blend of social media marketing and content marketing. But these marketing methods have an effective ROI of their own. Content marketing can create three times the leads for about 62% less than traditional marketing. When we talk about leads we are just not talking about website traffic but they are likely to buy your product and become loyal consumers as you nourish that relationship.

Social media can give indirect ROI at times. Forbes study observed that companies using social media exceed 78% of businesses when compared to ones who don’t use social media. IBM noticed that a lead which comes in through social media is seven times more likely to convert into a paying customer. That also means it is more likely that you are spending less money when trying to convert people who will never develop as paying customers. The ultimate priority as a small business is cost-effectiveness. Every Rupee you spend matters. You need to know it is going to give you an ROI. That is the value of digital marketing to small business.

Global Influence

A website empowers you to discover new markets and trade globally with only a small investment. The growth of digital and social media marketing has motivated brands to adopt global marketing at a very deeper level. The lines between separate markets have become smudged. Digital Marketing campaigns appeared in one region surely ‘leak’ to others via social media channels, as are the people’s comments, feedback, and opinions, whether positive or negative.

This approach has worked especially well for certain brands. For instance, Coca-Cola established the initial concept of global marketing and has maintained to hold its slogans universal over the years. From slogans like ‘Have a Coke and smile’ in 1979 to ‘Can’t Beat The Feeling’ in 1989 and ‘Always Coca-Cola’ in 1993, its taglines attracted to its audience’s emotions – universally so. Similarly, Nike has also placed the bar pretty high when it comes to embracing digital as a platform to accelerate global campaigns. A shift positively occurred when Nike launched the Nike iD online store, that allows customers to customize their own shoes. It was a success, with sales reaching above $100 million in a few years. Nike has not looked back since then.

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10 Incredible Benefits of Social Media and Social Media Marketing!!

The importance of social media in business is growing at a very accelerated pace. With more and more people joining social media sites and using them on a regular basis and efficient manner, the social media industry is bound to become larger in days to come. It is booming like never before.

Social media is soon becoming one of the most important aspects of digital marketing, which provides incredible benefits that help reach millions of customers worldwide. And if you are not applying this effective source, you are missing out an incredible marketing opportunity, as it makes it easy to reach the word about your product and mission.

With such marvellous growth, every business now needs to leverage proper social media channels in the best possible way. By giving your business brand the social media touch, you not only create more business but also relate with your customers better and serve them on a higher level. It actually makes your digital marketing easier.

According to an infographic published by Ambassador, 71% of consumers are more likely to promote a brand to others if they have a positive experience with it on social media.

1.Improved Brand Awareness

Social media is one of the most stress-free and effective digital marketing platforms that can be used to increase your business visibility. To begin with, create social media profiles for your business and start networking and connecting with others. By applying a social media strategy, it will help you significantly improve your brand recognition. By employing only a few hours per week, over 91% of marketers claimed that their social marketing efforts hugely increased their brand visibility and increased user experience. Surely, having a social media page for your brand will benefit your business and with regular practice, it can also produce a wide audience for your business in no time.

2.Cost-Effective

For an advertising strategy, social media marketing is likely the most cost-effective channel. The account can be created for free for almost all social networking platforms. But if you choose to use paid advertising on social media, always start small to see what you should expect. Being cost-effective is significant as it helps you achieve a higher return on investment and hold a greater budget for other marketing and business payments. Just by investing limited money and time, you can significantly enhance your conversion rates and ultimately generate a return on investment on the money that you primarily invested.

3.Engage With Your Customers

Social media is a great way to engage and interact clients. The more you communicate with the audience, the higher chances you have of conversion. Establish a two-way communication with your target audience so that their preferences are known and their interest is catered with ease. Moreover, connection and engagement with customers are one of the ways to gain their attention and convey them your brand message. Hence, your brand will reach a wider audience in genuine terms and gets itself established without any hassle.

4.Increased Traffic

One of the other benefits of Social Media is that it also helps boost your website traffic. By sharing your content on social media, you are supplying users a reason to click-through to your website. On your social account, the higher the quality content you share, the more inbound traffic you will generate while making conversion chances.

5.Improved Brand Loyalty

When you have a social media presence, you make it accessible for your customers to locate you and connect with you. By connecting with your customers through social media, you are more likely to upsurge customer retention and customer loyalty. Since generating a loyal customer base is one of the principal goals of almost any business. It is vital to often engage with your customers and start developing a connection with them. Social media is not just restricted to introducing your product, it is also a leading platform for promotional campaigns. A customer considers these platforms as service channels where they can directly communicate with the business.

6.Stronger Customer Satisfaction

Social media plays an indispensable role in networking and communication platform. With the aid of these platforms, building a voice for your company is essential in enhancing the overall brand image. Customers appreciate the fact that when they post comments on your page, they receive a modified reply rather than an automated message. A brand that values its customers, takes the time to form a personal message, which is perceived naturally in a positive light.

7.Marketplace Awareness

One of the best ways to find the requirements and wants of your clients rather than directly communicating with them is Marketplace awareness. It is also marked as the most important advantage of social media. By following the activities on your profile, you can see customers’ interest and views that you might not identify otherwise if you didn’t have a social media presence. As a complementary analysis tool, social media can help you get data and a greater knowledge of your industry. Once you get an immense following, you can then use added tools to measure other demographics of your consumers.

8.More Brand Authority

For earning your business more strong, brand loyalty and consumer satisfaction both play a vital role, but it all comes down to communication. When customers see your company posting on social media, mainly replying to their queries and posting unique content, it helps them develop a positive image in their minds. Constantly interacting with your customers shows that you and your business care about them. Once you get some satisfied customers, who are vocal about their positive buying experience, you can let the advertising be done for you by genuine customers who appreciated your product or service.

9.Enhanced SEO Rankings

Social media presence is becoming a vital part in determining rankings. These days, to achieve a successful ranking, SEO requirements are continuously changing. Therefore, it is no longer enough to only optimize your website and regularly update your blog. Companies sharing their content on social media are carrying out a brand signal to search engine that delivers to your brand validity, integrity, and constancy.

10.Real-time Performance Analysis

Knowing if your advertisement is working or not is essential in order to improve it. When you’re doing any kind of offline advertising, you’re unable to analyse the performance of your ad campaign. Which paralyzes massively efforts. Social media ads, on the other hand, lets you to constantly have a track of how great (or how bad) your ad is working. You’re able to edit your ad on the fly and spontaneously view the results.

Final Words

There is no denying that Social media marketing has several benefits for start-ups and established brands. By frequent updating the appropriate social media marketing plan, it will lead to increased traffic, better SEO, enhanced brand loyalty, better customer satisfaction and much more. Your competition is already growing on social media day by day, so don’t let your competitors take your likely customers. The immediate you start, the faster you notice the growth in your business.

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