With the rise of the internet, homeowners, property investors, and your other potential clients have countless new ways to find what they want. Sticking with print advertising alone means missing these new opportunities to reach them. If your ideal clients use the Internet, then online advertising is a sensible investment.
Extending Your Market Reach
Ultimately, online advertising makes sense if it brings you more revenue than it costs. That doesn’t mean just bringing you more of the same old clients, though. Digital advertising lets you more effectively reach the type of clients you really want so you can win more profitable projects.
If you’re moving from general commercial construction into medical facilities construction, you’ll have more ways to reach this specific target market online than through trade magazines alone. If you do remodeling and you’re tired of low-budget clients, online ads can help you zero in on wealthier, luxury-oriented homeowners.
The only time digital advertising isn’t worth it is when you know with certainty that your target clients are rarely online.
Fine-tuning Your Strategy
Paid online advertising is complex. There are search engine ads, social media ads, email ads, video ads, and native ads, and each has its own set of best practices that are constantly evolving. Because of this, advertising on the Internet only makes sense when you have a well-defined goal and a clear plan for reaching it. Without this, you’ll only waste time and money.
Before you jump in, research where your ideal clients spend time and what they’re looking for online. Are those wealthy homeowners on Pinterest browsing for sunroom ideas or are they reading blogs about renovating historical homes?
Make your ads a strategic part of your marketing funnel. Offering a lead magnet, such as a free case study or email course, will get better results than just giving your prospects a number to call. Have a plan for tracking the results of each ad so you’ll know which to continue and which to drop.