Why You Need A Digital Marketing Strategy

Just a decade ago, word of mouth and a few strategically placed print ads may have been enough to bring in a steady flow of construction clients. These days however, if you don’t have a cohesive digital marketing strategy, you risk being left behind.

Lead Your Prospects to the Sale

Because choosing a construction firm is a major decision, your prospects need time to get to know and like your firm before calling you for a consultation. To avoid losing their interest before then, you need to lead them step by step through the sales process.

Without a strategy, it’s easy to become overwhelmed with your online marketing options and end up taking a scattershot approach. If you’re only publishing a few posts here and there on blogs or Facebook, your prospects won’t see the next step to take in getting to know your firm and are likely to forget about you.

A defined digital marketing strategy leads your prospects through the stages of awareness, interest, desire, and action. It helps you guide your prospects from the first time they discover you in an online search or on social media, through signing up for your free downloads or email list, to finally contacting you.

Use Your Resources More Efficiently

With so many ways to promote a construction firm online, without a plan, you’re liable to spread your resources too thin and waste time on fruitless tactics. Developing an online marketing strategy helps you determine the most productive uses for your time and money. By mapping out exactly how you’ll reach out to prospects and lead them toward a sale, you’ll know where to concentrate your limited resources.

When you know how each component of your strategy fits together, you’ll be better able to analyze your results and optimize your approach.

A strategy makes budgeting and hiring easier, too. You’ll know ahead of time what funding, skills, and other resources you need to execute your plan.

Take time to create a digital marketing strategy, and you’ll attract more clients in less time while staying ahead of your less organized competition.