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The Top 10 Industries That Need Digital Marketing in 2023 – Part 1

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The way business is conducted evolved tremendously in today’s ever-changing environment.

Despite the existence of traditional practices and hard copies in the real world, online presence is gradually replacing and overshadowing them.

During the past several years, digital marketing has helped businesses develop a sturdy brand – look at Facebook and Instagram advertising, for instance.

You might find it challenging at first to gain the attention of target customers, especially if you are using a startup marketing agency.

Still, you will soon be engaged with prospective customers and in touch with those who are likely to purchase your products or services.

Getting the first customers through the door is often the main focus of businesses when they first start. Advertisers might use traditional methods like print ads, coupons, or outdoor advertisements.

Many businesses believe that they will attract customers in no time since they offer a good product or service.

While this strategy might bring in some business, there is an easier and more effective way. It is vital for small businesses to consider the global marketplace of prospects online and to converge their traditional and digital marketing strategies.

Since digital transformation services push brands and businesses to greater heights in the new age, no small business should overlook digital channels to generate leads and convert interest into customers.

Let’s look at the industries that need to adapt to digital marketing solutions and the ways online platforms can be used to help make these industries survive and thrive through time, ready to face new challenges that may come their way.

Healthcare

Are you aware that 77% of people Google their symptoms when they feel ill or off?

Hence, it makes sense to monetize this problem through blogs, quizzes, and online portals via Digital Marketing to interact with future patients and increase revenue.

It is more likely that a person will trust a healthcare provider in person if they can develop trust with them digitally. So make use of the amazing digital world.

Quality SEO content is crucial for the healthcare industry, which spends a lot on content marketing.

The medical industry invests in producing high-quality content to answer users’ questions.

Fun fact: Healthcare-related searches own 1% of total global searches daily.

People use online healthcare because they can get instant replies and communicate with specialists from their homes.

The McKinsey survey showed that 75% of respondents preferred digital healthcare over traditional face-to-face consultations.

Patient Referrals

Digital marketing gives healthcare companies more digital tools and techniques to generate quality leads. For example, a digital marketing campaign drove the 250,000th referral to M.D. Connect Inc’s Vein Market.

Optimizes CPA (Cost Per Acquisition)

By investing in digital marketing, you will be able to reduce the cost of acquiring a new patient.

According to a survey conducted among U.S. vein practices, the most common media channels used are print (68%) and television (30%), costing about $314 and $348 per patient throughout the survey. 

It is estimated that digital outreach can reduce the overall marketing cost by 50 percent.

Ensures Demographic Targeting

It is important to note that digital marketing is an effective way of targeting patients based on their specific age, gender, location, as well as other demographics. As a result, it will be easier for healthcare professionals to provide a better experience to potential patients.

Encourages Data-driven Decisions

The tracking of the patient’s user experience is a highly challenging task when it comes to traditional marketing. However, it is straightforward to track the user experience and make decisions with the help of excellent digital marketing techniques and tools.

Search Engine Visibility

It has been found that one out of every twenty searches on Google is related to healthcare services.

Therefore, the internet is excellent for anyone seeking health-related information, such as wellness tips, symptoms, medical centers, specialists, etc.

With the help of effective digital marketing and search engine optimization (SEO) techniques, you can improve your visibility on search engine results as you implement these techniques.

Entertainment 

It is important to note that the entertainment industry is heavily dependent on the current era because of the internet and the availability of users. The promotion of films has relied little on promos on social media in the past since it was not used to promote films very heavily.

There was no internet before. Nowadays, film marketing relies heavily on social media to produce movie teasers and trailers to keep our interest throughout promotional campaigns.

Streaming movies and series via cinematic and OTT platforms and websites offer plenty of entertainment options.

Advertisers can now create visually stunning content for distribution on social media, gaining traction and creating buzz for their stories.

Additionally, this content is distributed to dedicated social media accounts for movies and films or a website showcasing the footage.

Media and entertainment are experiencing unprecedented change, exasperated by recent unforeseen developments—business strategies such as traditional linear methods and paper printing struggle to generate profits.

Moreover, digital business models are rapidly adapting to the industry.

For example, more consumers stream content online, participate in gaming tournaments and attend events effectively. As a result, content creation and delivery, and consumption must be transformed faster to meet rapidly changing consumer habits.

As a result of COVID-19, fundamental concerns and trends that the media and entertainment industry have faced for years have been accelerated.

Additionally, video advertising is increasing, digital experiences are becoming more pronounced, and mobile data usage will increase due to growing demand. Those trends continue today.

Increases product placement revenues

Over the past decade, product placement revenues have grown steadily. According to P.Q. Research, product placement values are expected to increase by 23% in 2024. According to a study by the University of Wisconsin, these placements drove more packaged goods sales than T.V. commercials.

For example, Marvel’s character Tony “Ironman” Stark, played by actor Robert Downey Jr. has been driving Audi cars in several movies under the franchise, which is an excellent example of visual product placement — with the actual product being marketed visibly on screen.

According to a Deloitte study, marketing strategies that target cord-cutters are more effective than those targeting linear viewers. In addition, cord-cutters say entertainment marketing has a medium to high impact on their purchases.

A trend in ad blocking is rising, with desktop usage growing 12% and mobile usage growing 18% in 2023. In contrast to pop-up ads, entertainment marketing strategies are more intertwined with the content they support.

Promotes dynamic Brand Integration

Would a brand benefit if its product or service was embedded into or integral to the plot of a movie, T.V. show, game, etc.? Again, this is a case of brand integration, not product placement.

Integration is everywhere.

 According to The Drum, 92% of the 25 most popular streaming shows in 2017 featured brand integration. 

For example, one episode of Hulu’s “Four Weddings and a Funeral” featured Hotels.com sponsoring a couple’s wedding. Even the brand mascot, Captain Obvious, shows up at D.J. the wedding.

Enhances Co-Promotion

A prominent feature of the third season of the series “Stranger Things” was a failed attempt to reformulate Coca-Cola’s flagship beverage in the 1980s, New Coke.

As New Coke isn’t integral to the plot, it’s more of a visual product placement than a brand integration. But it’s also more than that.

Coke’s placement on the show coincided with the company’s revival of the long-discontinued soda. Several vending machines and online retailers offered New Coke with the “Stranger Things” logo.

While the result did not bode well for Coca Cola, it is evident that co-promotion gets a boost through digital marketing – they did not just play their cards right.

Increases the impact of endorsements 

Getting an endorsement from an opinion leader or influencer can have huge ripple effects. A celebrity endorsement, for example, can instantly put a product in front of millions.

A successful endorsement-led entertainment marketing campaign depends on it.

According to the 2020 Trust Barometer from Edelman, “a person like yourself” was second only to academic and technical experts. This demand for “relatable” recommenders is one of the driving forces behind influencer marketing.

The concept of influencer marketing has already been covered in depth, but briefly, it involves people promoting or promoting products through digital channels, primarily social media.

Influencer marketing targets people who consume most of their entertainment online, similar to entertainment marketing.

Streamlines and simplifies licensing procedures

The licensing process integrates branding and co-promotion. Licenses are agreements between rights holders and licensees in which the latter uses the former’s intellectual property to attract a particular audience.

“Epic Mickey,” a Nintendo Wii cult classic developed by Junction Point under license from Disney, is considered to be a beneficial partnership.

With nearly 100 million console owners, Disney granted I.P. rights to its characters Mickey Mouse and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit to the Wii game.

With Junction Point and Nintendo’s collaboration, a Disney-themed game was sold exclusively on the Wii platform and to Disney fans.

Food Industry

Recipe cards are just one of the things in the food industry. People love watching videos of how to prepare certain foods when they’re emotionally attached to those foods and brands.

Social media is a place to make fun of people taking pictures of their dinner tables. Yet, this simple exercise has become a growing trend in the food industry.

Among the many types of brands and companies operating digitally in some form, the beverage and food industry is one of the most diverse.

The biggest brands, successful restaurant chains, fast food outlets, producers, and distributors are among them.

There is no surprise since they provide an essential service at every level.

Food items get so much attention, and businesses that don’t use digital advertising to gain traffic will lose out.

According to an industry report, over 57% of customers order food online. Therefore, online conversations must be addressed by businesses.

Broadens customer base

B2B sales are challenging. What if they came to you?

A digital marketing campaign can get your products in front of prospects you never knew existed.

Writing content for a particular market will reach many different audiences.

As an example, a meal prep company started a meal delivery service.

Their digital marketing efforts led to football teams and gym groups contacting them.

Their goal was to buy several months’ worth of meals at once. It would have never occurred to the owners of the meal prep company to reach out to a client of this type if they had not been aware of this possibility.

But there’s more.

A business that gets information requests can step up its outbound marketing methods, fueling growth initially driven by food digital marketing.

More importantly, when businesses and brands promote content with outreach, they maximize visibility and the potential for generating new clients with different needs associated with the brand’s food or beverage products.

Increase profit margins

In today’s retail environment, where corporate retailers continue to squeeze margins, digital food marketing is an excellent way to target higher-volume markets while maintaining price stability.

Margins are expected to increase when businesses can maintain their prices over the long term.

For example, suppose a website is designed to sell directly to consumers, and the revenues are channeled now to the business. In that case, you are eliminating the middleman and putting your money in your pocket.

Small, independent businesses, who typically are willing to pay the asking price for your services, will be able to find you using digital marketing. In this way, the business can only chase after the customers occasionally. In addition, companies can maintain a healthy profit margin through this process.

Brand awareness

A great way to grow your website in search engine results is by reaching out to other websites to obtain backlinks.

However, the truth is that link outreach is much more than it appears on the surface.

Producing a fantastic food and drink product is one of the best things you can do to put your product in front of people without having to think about it too much.

That will encourage more people to try out your products, resulting in more people talking about your company – one of the best ways to increase brand awareness.

It was based on a case study developed by a digital marketing agency commissioned by a food brand that helped a client work with a group of bloggers to achieve a specific goal.

A gift token with a sample of the client’s food products was sent to the bloggers. 

The food product was sent to only five different bloggers at a time. Still, the products reached over 15 other bloggers simultaneously, who sponsored an event to showcase the food product.

The business generated unprecedented sales through the promotion of bloggers who loved the product, produced referral traffic due to the promotional features and search rankings went up using targeted keywords as a result of the campaign.

Blogger outreach isn’t just about getting backlinks from your blog. There is no doubt that this form of outbound marketing is essential for brands when done correctly.

Social media, tagging influential people regularly, and conversing with them are excellent ways to create awareness for your brand.

The more you help others achieve their digital goals, the more likely they will also be able to help you achieve yours.

Educate consumers

To grow your food brand, you need to get to know your consumers as much as possible. A great way to achieve that is by email marketing, especially regarding food digital marketing.

Businesses must be proactive in building an email database and engaging target markets to help educate consumers and position food products in a way their customers need to decide to buy them.

Another method of conducting the campaign would be to create a survey that asks questions related to their habits, tastes, and preferences, which can be further refined.

Send it out with an incentive for them to complete it.

You can also entice your customers through social media and obtain valuable information about their palates through social media.

Engage your audience, then use a quick-fire survey to get their attention.

Checking boxes is a great way to keep people busy!

Improves success rates of New Product Development (NPD)

As explained earlier, food brands would pay a lot of money to find precisely what consumers want from a potential new product.

Testing new products before launching them into the market is one of the ultimate benefits of food digital marketing.

The first thing you can do is share insights about upcoming products with your followers, customers, and email subscribers. Your target market is all but certain to be them.

You can gather information about what people want, especially information you don’t already have. Take these consumer insights and start your NPD from there.

As a result, digital marketing is an excellent opportunity for marketing and NPD to build stronger relationships.

Establish more extensive professional networks.

As long as the information is used correctly, collecting data from the public can be valuable to SEO efforts.

This is because research and data pieces are among the best ways to build backlinks.

Research campaigns should be used to improve a brands’ digital marketing and content efforts.

Increases sales channels

Food products can be introduced to your target consumers in various ways.

It is sometimes difficult to think of online channels as viable sales channels.

Nevertheless, selling food online can expand the avenues through which customers can access food.

Reduces (long-term) Risk

The difference isn’t just between offline and online but also between PPC and SEO.

For those looking to reduce long-term risk, the call of the times is to prioritize SEO over paid advertising.

You can expect sales to drop once you stop paid advertising because visibility is reduced, and your business loses ground.

PPC is still critical, though. By increasing the number of digital channels used to grow the business, the risk of an immediate decline in sales will be significantly reduced.

Businesses will continue to prosper if this is coupled with a consistent outbound marketing process.

Business is all about reducing risk over time.

Establishes a direct link to customers

Social media marketing allows businesses to build direct connections with their consumers. Brands can create direct contact with customers using this method, which is unique to email marketing.

In this way, brands establish themselves as authorities in the market and provide the information consumers need to make informed purchases.

Social media platforms are followed by people who are interested in a brand. Brands can reach consumers through postings and messaging when consumers follow their accounts.

Developing a relationship with the consumer market through this method is excellent.

Business owners who directly connect with their audiences are likelier to sell their products to consumers.

Legal practice and law firms

Many law firms are investing in marketing, and marketing professionals are gaining influence.

Managing their online presence or social media accounts is optional for lawyers. However, using digital marketing in law firms makes sense, so why not take advantage of it?

Effective marketing strategies are proven methods for growing a business. To attract clients to your legal practice, you may wonder how and where to start marketing.

Law firms can benefit greatly from outsourcing their digital marketing. A good agency can have various benefits, and here are five reasons why that is the case.

Focuses on practice knowledge and expertise

A lawyer is an expert in the law, and law schools probably don’t teach their students a minute of digital marketing. Therefore, it makes sense for you to work with a marketing agency with experience in this field.

Furthermore, as a result of using an agency, you can bring to the table various skills since the most effective campaigns typically involve a team of experts rather than just one individual.

The benefits of working with a digital marketing expert are many, such as the possibility of getting a greater return on your investment, as campaigns often require in-depth knowledge of a wide variety of topics, such as SEO, branding, email marketing, social media, and rich media for mobile.

As well as dedicating themselves to these topics, digital marketing experts also reduce the chance of making errors that could occur if you were to do it on your own when dealing with them. Therefore, it is a better value for money and a better use of time.

Saves time and increases productivity

Law practice owners must remember that they are, first and foremost, attorneys, even if they have some experience with marketing.

Marketing is very time-consuming, and agencies have more time to devote than you do. When you hire an agency, you can focus on what you do best and not on what you don’t know.

Why not look for experts capable of dedicating their work to this process and can help you achieve the best results?

Ensures cost-effectiveness

An excellent digital marketing agency will always devise a budget that is specifically tailored to address the extraordinary efforts necessary to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.

In addition, they can define strategies and find ways to enhance and fully integrate their marketing efforts with other marketing efforts due to their experience and expertise.

The agency can also provide insight into more cost-effective marketing techniques you may not have known existed or might not have used, by monitoring metrics, using valuable data, and measuring results, which may give you an edge over your competition.

Taps into enhanced marketing capabilities

While agencies are equipped with the tools to create content that will generate a high level of engagement, they are also always up to date on the latest technology updates to use the most cutting-edge tools available on the market.

Depending on your law practice’s goals, various digital marketing methods, such as newsletters, videos, social media, or pay-per-click marketing, might be required.

You only need to spend a little time looking for software suitable for you and then learning how to use it.

Instead, you can get a jump start on your efforts by hiring an agency that can provide you with the tools and resources your team members need to get right to work.

Encourages fresh ideas for the practice

Although you may know what you are doing in your law firm, you might need to learn what your competitors are doing (and why they seem to be bringing in more clients).

An effective digital marketing agency can clearly understand what’s happening across the legal industry because of its marketing expertise and tools.

As a result, not only will you be able to develop a better marketing strategy for your company, but you will also acquire a fresh perspective.

Even if you have already started marketing your law firm to get more clients if you only rely on the strategies you are familiar with, how will you be able to tell whether you can improve them?

A marketing agency may help you target the high-value clients your practice is looking for and offer insight you might not have had before. In addition, providing your business with fresh ideas can be a great way to improve your company’s overall success.

Retail Industry

There is a great deal of benefit that can be achieved for the retail industry by using digital marketing strategies to get input on new products and resolve consumer complaints even before they end up becoming a significant problem.

There has been an increase in consumers’ adoption of digital channels over the last year. The retail industry has experienced a significant change due to new forms of shopping that have emerged in recent years.

Undoubtedly, digital marketing plays a crucial role in retailers’ ability to engage with their consumers online.

To stay competitive in the retail sector, retailers must adopt digital marketing strategies to ensure brand awareness, become relevant to their customers, and stay on top of mind.

Retailers need to embrace the opportunities that digital marketing offers them and be present where their audience is to reach them. 

Ensures accurate customer targeting

Digital marketing has many benefits. One of the most important is its ability to help you reach the right person, at the right time, with the most effective marketing channels.

Additionally, you can direct your efforts as a retailer towards the platforms your consumers utilize to plan their shopping and impact them throughout the entire customer journey as a result of digital marketing.

A retailer can target a hypersegmented audience using digital marketing to reach the right consumers.

With geo-profiling and online behavioral data, retailers can send personalized ads to an audience based on their online behavior and purchase intent.

Additionally, retailers can target a similar audience to their own, namely an audience browsing their competitors’ products and offers online to determine what they have to offer.

Promotes personalized communication

When delivering personalized content, data is the key to success.

By using digital marketing, you can gather relevant information about your customers. Using this data, retailers can create tailored messages for their consumers by analyzing them and putting them to use.

By sending personalized messages to customers, you are enhancing their experience and building their loyalty.

Currently, consumers expect retailers to provide them with personalized shopping experiences, and they will be successful if they can deliver them.

It is more likely that consumers will interact with your communications when they receive personalized communication based on their wants and needs.

You must convey the right message and ensure that the products and offers you advertise are relevant to your consumer.

There is a need to stand out in such an oversaturated environment such as the digital sphere for your brand and products to be heard.

To effectively influence customers’ purchase decisions, retailers need to use personalized communication at the right time of the customer journey.

Promotes seamless omnichannel experiences

Today’s customer journey is characterized by endless touchpoints, which are crucial to ensuring the ideal customer experience. 

For example, imagine yourself in the position of wanting to buy a new desktop computer.

As you may be looking online for different brands, comparing prices, reading reviews, and possibly even visiting the physical store, you might find that after much consideration, you decide to purchase the product online and pick it up later in the store.

There is no doubt that the line between online and offline is becoming fuzzier and fuzzier daily.

Providing seamless experiences across all touchpoints is essential for retailers to keep top of mind in the minds of the new generation of consumers whose shopping journeys are non-linear.

Retailers must be familiar with all the devices consumers can use when planning their shopping journeys.

For its content to be successful, it must be able to adapt to various channels, including mobile, apps, and social media, to name a few. The user experience is critical.

A poor user experience can cost retailers much money and make them lose out on potential customers.

Retailers must present a flawless design where consumers can navigate easily and find all the information they need to purchase, whether they are shopping online or in a physical store.

When it comes to expectations and user experience, consumers have high standards.

Therefore, retailers need to use tools and platforms that can adapt to all types of devices and a design that will lead to the purchase of their products to satisfy their customers’ expectations.

A well-designed omnichannel experience can ensure that retailers capture the attention of their target audience and increase customer loyalty in the long run.

Ensures sustainability and responsible communication

Sustainability is becoming a more critical issue for consumers.

Most of them have changed their lifestyle habits and have turned to a more sustainable lifestyle. Increasingly, consumers are aware of the types of products they consume and what retailers and brands do to deliver sustainable outcomes.

There is no doubt that retailers are on the spot at this point. It is becoming increasingly important that consumers choose environmentally friendly and sustainable companies. Retailers must show that environmental protection and sustainability are among their core values and are committed to the environment.

As a result of digital marketing solutions, retailers can reduce their environmental impact by lowering actions such as print marketing.

In addition, developing an eco-friendly strategy can be made more accessible by partnering with companies offering sustainable solutions to retailers who want to build an eco-friendly approach.

Allow for profitable campaigns and efficient budget allocation

By investing in digital marketing, retailers can identify their strengths and weaknesses to improve. As a result of leveraging digital data, retailers can gather compelling insights, enabling them to adjust their campaigns and meet their targets.

It is crucial to monitor the performance of campaigns through digital marketing continuously. As a result of having a well-rounded overview with real-time data, retailers can evaluate their campaigns from every angle.

In addition to evaluating what channels are the most appropriate for retailers to use, retailers will also be able to identify which ads will work best for their target audience.

Through digital data, retailers can make consumer-based decisions that will increase their profitability by distributing daily budgets more effectively, with digital transformation consulting playing a key role in marketing development, strategy planning, and campaign implementation.

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