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How to Utilize Instagram at Every Step of the Sales Journey

Instagram continues to be a valuable marketing tool for many brands, especially as the popularity around influencer marketing continues to grow as well. However, not many businesses use their own profile to build a complimentary marketing channel to create a more effective sales journey for their customers. 

With that being said, here are tips to utilize your Instagram profile at every step of the sales journey. 

Step 1 (Top of the Funnel): Post engaging stories 

Stories continue to be an increasingly effective marketing channel, especially with Instagram’s most recent update and the ability to include clickable links within the frame. 

One of the most valuable story features being “swipe-up.” This can be added to the bottom frame of a story and allows users to swipe up to be redirected to a brand’s website or a specific landing page. Because of the nature of this feature, it’s generally highly-converting. The only downside is not everyone has access to it. To qualify for the feature, your profile has to have at least 10,000 followers and be verified. While this takes some work, it’s still very attainable. 

When it comes to stories, it’s important to not only post sales content. This is a good way to lose followers quickly. Instead, focus on being engaging and incorporate soft-sales when it feels natural. You can add polls, quizzes and Q&A’s to stories to make it easier for your audience to engage with you. The more people have engaged with a brand at the top of the sales funnel, the easier it will be to move them to the next step. 

Step 2 (Middle of the Funnel): Curate and display social proof 

This is the stage of the journey where a customer decides whether to leave or give your brand a chance. Social proof can be a big factor in this decision. Many retail brands have started to use regular customers’ Instagram posts, showcasing them in their products on their website. This shows that real people have purchased your product, increases engagement and can help build a more loyal community.

If you go about this strategy and incorporate customers’ content yourself, be sure to ask for their permission first. This can be as simple as commenting on their original post, or just direct messaging them. 

Step 3 (Bottom of the Funnel): Retargeting 

Since Instagram is owned by Facebook, they have the same retargeting abilities when it comes to ads. Facebook enables businesses to target both Facebook and Instagram ads to people who have visited your site and performed a specific action in the past. Even more valuable, you can retarget those who have abandoned their shopping cart without completing their purchase, making it easier to boost your sales funnel performance and trigger more action at the bottom of it. 

Final Thoughts

Instagram can be a powerful tool to add to your marketing mix, especially when it’s used to its fullest potential. 

Looking for an agency to increase Instagram engagement and turn your Instagram business into a customer converting machine? Reach out to us here!

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5 Types of High-Performing Video Content to Enhance Your Marketing Strategy

Video continues to be the king of content types as we work our way into 2021. All brands should be utilizing video, but certain types of videos appeal to some marketing objectives better than others. So, how can you know what type of video is right for your company? 

Here are 5 top performing types of marketing videos that almost any brand can take and customize to fit into their strategy. 

1. Explainer Videos 

This type of video is extremely simple. As the name suggests, they’re short and concise videos explaining a brand, product or service. These are best used at the awareness stage in the sales funnel and perform best on websites, social media, YouTube and in ads. 

They often involve animations to make the explanation easily digestible with voice overs to increase message retention. Some things to watch out for are making these videos too long, braggy, too salesy or get too technical. Be sure to tell a compelling story, have a simple message and include a clear CTA. 

2. Product Demo Videos 

Product demo videos aim to show the value of a product and how it can solve pain points. These videos are most beneficial at the decision stage of the sales funnel and perform best through email and on websites. The ideal length is generally around 2-3 minutes. You want to give clear insight into product usage, but you don’t want to make it so long that viewers lose interest. 

3. Testimonial Videos 

Testimonial or customer review videos show a real user of the product or service telling how it helped them solve a problem. These are also most beneficial at the decision stage of the sales funnel and perform best on websites and social media. 

A positive review from customers gives potential customers more confidence in trusting a business, making it easier to make an informed decision. In fact, customer reviews create a 74% increase in product conversion and 90% of consumers look at online reviews prior to trusting and visiting a business. 

When creating this type of video you want to make sure it’s authentic. You don’t want to ask customers to memorize a script, it should look as natural as possible. 

4. Behind-the-Scene Videos 

Behind-the-scene videos show potential customers how a brand produces its products and adds a more personal touch to its image. These can be good to use at both the awareness and decision stage of the sales funnel. They also perform best on websites, YouTube and when shared on social media. 

Behind-the-scene videos are important because they let potential customers understand what all goes into your business. It gives a “peak behind the curtain” and can make them feel more connected to your brand. You want to keep these videos casual, let your brand personality shine through and seem authentic as possible. 

5. Company Culture Videos 

The last type is company culture video. These are a short highlight reel from the perspective of an employee and show what it’s like to work at your company. These are most beneficial at the interest or action stages of the sales funnel and perform best on websites, social media, YouTube and through email. 

Company culture videos communicate brand purpose, values and insights from current employees. This can help customers get excited about doing business and starting a relationship with you. 

With these videos you want to make sure to show passionate employees, find ways to project your values and show off a good day at the office. Avoid relying heavily on a script, coming off too braggy or focusing too much on employee opinion. Again, these videos are best when they’re completely authentic and organic as possible. 

Final Thoughts 

If possible, it’s best to mix and match different styles and types of videos to find something that’s unique to your brand and helps you stand out among the competition. You should also utilize the videos you create on all relevant platforms. Even if they perform better on one than another, you still want to reach the biggest audience possible. 

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The Clubhouse App: What Marketers Need to Know

Clubhouse has been steadily gaining traction since it first launched in 2020. This app has an entirely different concept than any other social media platform, creating a brand new opportunity for marketers. Here’s what businesses need to know about Clubhouse and some ways it may be relevant for you and your customers. 

What is Clubhouse? 

Clubhouse is a free, voice-based social media app. Users can listen in to conversations, interviews and discussion between people on various topics. It has been described as listening to a live podcast with an added layer of exclusivity. Currently, Clubhouse is invite-only. Meaning not everyone can download it off the app store. 

For those that have been invited to join, you first select topics off of interest, like tech, books, business, health, etc. The more information you give the app about your interests, the more conversation rooms and individuals the app will recommend you to follow or join. The rooms resemble a conference room where some are talking and others are just listening in. Once the conversation is over, the room closes and disappears. 

How can you use Clubhouse for your business? 

The biggest benefit from Clubhouse is the ability to connect with prominent business leaders, entrepreneurs, others in your industry and potential customers. You can also position yourself as a thought leader in your industry. As more people join the app, it can have a large payoff to have spent time positioning yourself as an expert and start gaining followers early. 

The voice-note aspect of Clubhouse also allows a new way to humanize your business to others. It can help make interactions feel more personal, allowing you to convey more emotion and have real conversations with other users. 

There is also a new development of an influencer program. This program will only be open to 40 top users on Clubhouse and will allow business to tap into those with a large number of followers. 

How can you get an invite? 

To join, an existing Clubhouse user has to send an entire from their app, giving you access to set up the account. When you’re invited you’ll get a link through a text message. Users can’t invite anyone, though. They only get two available invitations at first. 

Final Thoughts 

As Clubhouse continues to scale, the number of audio creators is growing. Their impact on the broader influencer economy is just beginning. Some members of the pilot program have begun contemplating brand deals and cross-platform promotion. Others have begun to form creator collectives, like those started by prominent users on TikTok. Overall, this could be a good future opportunity for many businesses.

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Tips for Measuring LinkedIn Campaign Success

If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. This is especially true when it comes to marketing campaigns. The extent to which we’re able to measure the impact of our campaigns determines the quality of our insights, the effectiveness of our optimization strategy and the clarity of our results. For this reason, LinkedIn offers a robust suite of measurement tools, and just released a 6-point checklist for getting the most out of these tools and our campaigns. 

1. Identify key metrics according to your marketing goal. 

To keep your campaign on track with your desired outcomes, LinkedIn’s Campaign Manager uses an objective-based framework where your ultimate goal stays on top. Then the specific metrics you measure will ladder back to your objective, no matter what it may be. 

2. Set up the Insight Tag. 

Conversion tracking is essential no matter what platform you run your campaign from. This allows you to gain a deep and comprehensive look at ad performance. When you pair this with the Insights Tag on LinkedIn, you’ll be able to see how many downloads, sign-ups, purchases or other conversions are being driven by your campaigns, even after the user clicks out of LinkedIn to your website. 

3. Set up Lead Generation Forms. 

Lead Gen Forms make everything easier from both a marketer and user perspective. These are pre-filled forms based on the user’s profile, which removes the need to complete a bunch of fields in order to access the content or register for an event. On the marketer’s side, we receive accurate and actionable lead data. We also have the ability to centrally track key lower-funnel campaign metrics such as cost per lead, lead form fill rate and the number of leads from a specific professional audience segment. 

4. Conduct weekly analytical assessments. 

It can be a mistake to measure ROI too soon in a campaign. It usually takes some time to see the full impact of a campaign, given the complexity of today’s buyer journey. That also doesn’t mean you shouldn’t begin measuring your campaign quickly and tracking results continuously. Best practices include conducting weekly analysis after the initial launch of the campaign, focusing on what can be tweaked and improved. 

5. Use Campaign Demographics to see which audiences respond best to your ads. 

The Campaign Demographics feature on LinkedIn helps marketers see exactly who is interacting with their ads, based on key professional identifiers. These include job title/function/seniority, company size, location and more. This feature is beneficial because, while it’s nice seeing your ads getting high impression numbers, it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re coming from the right people. Once you identify who is seeing your ads, you can make any necessary adjustments. 

6. Use performance insights for recommendations to improve bigs and budget. 

Obviously, we don’t want to be spending money in the wrong places. On LinkedIn you can access campaign insights that give recommendations for how to improve bids and budgets. 

Final Thoughts 

According to recent research from LinkedIn, only 37% of digital marketers describe themselves as “very” confident in their ROI metrics. Improving your ability to measure, analyze and improve your campaigns offers a large opportunity for competitive advantage in today’s marketing space. At Onimod Global, we’re experts in both social media marketing and analytics. We make digital decisions driven by data and have advanced analytics and reporting capabilities. If you’re looking for assistance in LinkedIn marketing or on any platform, contact us today

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6 Customer Loyalty Tips To Drive Local Search Traffic

When dreaming up ways to improve search engine results, it makes sense to consider the customer loyalty factor. Why you ask? Customer loyalty plays a very crucial role in marketing for a company. Whether it may be more trusted customer reviews on your site or user-generated content produced by loyal customers, it is clear that customer loyalty is important to also driving you to the top of search page results. So how can you work to build customer loyalty online? Onimod Global specialists are here to break down 6 top tips on maintaining loyal customers.

6 Customer Loyalty Tips

The search engine optimization specialists from Onimod Global are here to offer several simple ways in which you can develop better customer loyalty within your own organization. The following 6 tips are based off of an article with Search Engine Land:

  1. Social Loyalty: Social media has grown to wield an impressive amount of influence over any given company. Facebook is a top platform that appeals to users looking for recommendations regarding any number of products or services. This feature allows other users to weigh in on the topic and recommend businesses that they find relevant to their friend’s search. This word-of-mouth by proxy through Facebook is significant because it disrupts typical search engine procedures.
  2. Narrative Control: As mentioned with the example of Amazon, online reviews carry an incredible amount of power. Make sure that you are giving customers a way to express their loyalty via online platforms such as Facebook and Yelp. You can even use this information as a testimonial to the benefits that your company offers.
  3. Forever Loyal: Truly loyal customers will seek out a preferred business no matter what the odds. Young used the example of Chick-Fil-A to represent this ideal. He noted that no matter where he goes, he can find a line out the door of Chick-Fil-A, even when other area fast food restaurants have no wait at all.
  4. Loyalty Economics: It can be difficult to track down truly loyal customers. Typically, a company’s marketing efforts toward new clients are much more expensive than if the company were to simply continue marketing toward dissatisfied customers. For this reason, it may be worth considering ways in which you can better the experience of existing customers rather than solely focusing on new customer leads.
  5. Loyalty Database: Data is an invaluable resource for any business. Data regarding repeat customers is even more essential to promoting growth and prosperity. Once you are able to gain information about current loyal customers, you will be more easily able to locate new ones, which cuts out a lot of wasted ad dollar being used in search engine marketing.
  6. Determining Improvements: Even if a company’s customer satisfaction ratings are high, there is usually significant room for improvement. This issue points back to the loyalty database and what insights it can provide to your business. By going back over the numbers you can begin to paint a much clearer picture for both current and potential customers about your business and why it is the right choice for them to purchase goods and services from.

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5 Ways to Increase Your Customers’ Online Trust of Your Products

Along with the ramping up of ecommerce in the early days of quarantine, so did fraudulent activities. According to brand protection firm, Red Points, the sale of fake cosmetics, apparel, toys, and sporting goods surged, with the number of counterfeit detections growing by 38%. This is becoming a growing concern for consumers, with 92% having concerns about making purchases from unfamiliar websites. Customers main concerns seem to be: 

  •  Getting their credit card or personal information stolen. 
  • They won’t be able to return items.
  • Not getting personalized customer support. 
  • That the product will look different once it arrives. 

Trust among your online customers is more important than ever before. Businesses are now tasked with not only providing quality products and exceptional customer service, but also with proving they’re reliable and can be trusted. 

Building that trust requires appealing to consumers’ social, psychological and economic instincts. Here are 5 ways to help improve the trustworthiness of your brand and products with online customers. 

1. Social Proof 

Social proof can be anything from your social media following, endorsements from trusted experts or influencers, evidence of demand or certifications. But the most effective form of social proof is word-of-mouth and positive online reviews and testimonials. According to research conducted by the Spiegel Research Center, nearly 95% of shoppers read reviews before making a purchase. It’s not as simple as just getting reviews, though. There needs to be a substantial amount and they must be authentic. It’s also important that you don’t delete negative reviews, either. Instead, you should take the time to respond to them. This shows that you read your reviews and actually care about your customers, increasing brand trust. 

2. Personalize Your “About Us” Page 

Users that have never heard of a company and are making a purchase for the first time will likely navigate over to the “about” page to learn more. Your “about” page isn’t the time to use sale pitches, jargon or company lines. It’s an opportunity to tell your story and create a genuine connection with your customers. Introduce yourself, your business and tell what makes your products unique. This is how you best translate real authenticity and start a relationship with your customers. 

3. Prioritize Social Media 

There are many ecommerce counterfeiters that will utilize social media to hit their targets. This is why it’s essential to ensure your own social media channels convey authenticity and the genuine nature of your brand. It’s important to share content regularly, ensure consistent messaging across all platforms and interact with your followers. When pages aren’t updated consistently or only show low quality images and content, it can leave users questioning the legitimacy of your business as well. If you don’t have the capacity to consistently update all your social channels and create quality content, it may be worth outsourcing.

4. Create Clear and Detailed Product Descriptions with High-Quality Photos 

Normally when it comes to copywriting, less is more, but not when it comes to product descriptions. The best way to differentiate yourself from scammers is by including as much information as possible. Your product descriptions should have: 

  • Measurements 
  • Materials 
  • Colors 
  • How it’s packaged 
  • How it’s shipped

You should also include as many high-quality photos as you possibly can.

5. Be Available for Questions and Customer Support 

It can be unsettling to consumers if they’re trying to reach a company but aren’t able to easily find contact information. Along with an email address, be sure to also include a physical address. Customers should also receive prompt responses from your company. If customer service fails, all other efforts are meaningless. When emails or direct messages are left unanswered, consumers immediately have doubts. This can also lead to more negative reviews and word-of-mouth. 

Final Thoughts 

Establishing your brand authenticity and trust among your customers isn’t difficult. It just takes sharing your products, why you love what you sell, investing time and resources into original content creation and clearing communication with customers. 

At Onimod Global we’re experts in the ecommerce and social space. We’re always looking to the future and helping your business reach your full digital potential. Interested in growing your digital presence for your company? Reach out to us here!

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How to Maximize Lead Generation via Facebook Posts and Ads

With billions of people using Facebook each month, the opportunity for lead generation is endless. Facebook recently shared tips on how to maximize lead generation via Facebook posts and ads to help businesses boost the performance of their Facebook marketing efforts. These tips cover the four critical elements of effective lead generation, intending to help marketers formulate a better strategy for reaching and connecting with potential customers. 

1. Lead Capture

According to Facebook, one of the keys to capturing leads is ensuring that your audience clearly understands what they’re signing up for. They should also clearly understand what makes your product or service worthy of giving their personal email address or other information. Being upfront and having clear communication from the get-go helps ensure that those that are converting are a part of your target audience. 

2. Lead Magnets 

Facebook’s second tip is that brands should adopt the “give before asking” mentality by offering users something in return for their information. This could be a one-sheeter, eBook, discount code, free trial, newsletter, webinar, etc. By providing value upfront you establish trust and a connection with your audience, leading to a better relationship and more brand-loyalty in the future.

3. Landing Page 

Landing pages are a critical element to ads. It’s important that once you get a user to click through your post or ad, that your landing page matches what you’ve explained. It’s also important that it has a quality design and effectively collects the information you need. Facebook advises brands to test different versions of landing pages to see which have the high click-through and conversion rates. They also suggest that you should consider setting up a custom audience to then retarget those who have clicked through, but not yet converted. 

4. Lead Scoring

Facebook’s final tip is to create a lead scoring matrix in order to better customize their outreach efforts and prioritize leads based on past engagement. For example, downloading a white paper is worth more points than unsubscribing from your email list. This can help you save time and effort by only contacting the leads that are more likely to convert first. The way you go about establishing your lead scoring table will vary, depending on your offer and goals. But the idea is that by segmenting each of your leads will allow you to better focus the outreach for each of your strategies. 

Final Thoughts 

Lead generation is key to maximizing your Facebook marketing efforts. The more insights you can gather, the better you can hone in on where the right people are for every campaign. Either by focusing on groups directly or using them for Lookalike’s to expand your research. At Onimod Global, we’re experts in digital marketing, specializing in Facebook Ads. If you need additional assistance in the Facebook ad space, or any area of digital marketing, we can help. At Onimod Global we’re experts in all areas of social media and digital marketing. Learn more about who we are and what we do, and contact us here today. 

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How to Use Instagram’s New Keyword Search to Grow Your Brand in 2021

Instagram’s recent update came with several new features. While this one may not seem like the most exciting, it’s extremely useful for brands. As marketers, we’re always working to get our content found easier online and on social platforms. Instagram’s keyword search tool now allows posts to get found, even without using specific hashtags. 

Here are three ways to utilize this new Instagram feature to help grow your profile and your brand in 2021. 

1. Customer Engagement and Profile Growth 

One of the biggest opportunities from Instagram keyword search is brands being able to identify and engage with customers. Today, frequently engaging with your audience on social media is essential for organic growth. With this new feature, you can now search for posts by using the words and phrases your ideal customers are known to use in their captions. 

You can then spark conversations with these users and build stronger relationships with them on social media. This growth method requires really getting to know your audience, their interests and pain points, in order to identify the correct keywords and phrases to search. 

The tool also helps you find brand mentions that you may have missed prior because the user didn’t tag you or use a branded hashtag. 

2. Market Research and Competitive Analysis 

Social listening is critical for social media growth, as it enables brands to conduct competitor analysis and get into the mind of their ideal customers. With Instagram’s keyword search tool, brands can now look up competitor keywords to see what their audience is saying about them. Brands can also now see if users are speaking about pain points that their products or service solve. 

These insights ultimately help with creating better content that resonates with your ideal audience, in turn, boosting your Instagram presence. 

3. Get Discovered Easier 

One of the biggest benefits of Instagram keyword search is that it makes it much easier for users to find you, ultimately enabling you to grow faster as well. Be sure to use highly trafficked and relevant keywords in the captions of all your posts.

Final Thoughts

Despite this new tool seeming like a very underwhelming update, the opportunities for brands are huge. 

Looking for an agency to increase Instagram engagement and turn your Instagram business into a customer converting machine? Reach out to us here!

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How Content and Marketing Automation Work Together to Maximize Your Marketing Efforts

A study found that 84% of people now expect brands to publish content that entertains, provides solutions and is engaging. Content really is the brand ambassador of an organization and as a marketer, you have to make sure it’s curated that way. To maximize the power of content, it’s essential to combine it with marketing automation. Here’s how.

Why We Need Content and Marketing Automation Together: 

Obviously, we want our content to be insightful, relevant and engaging so our customers continue to keep our brand in mind. Marketing automation gives content a pipeline so that it’s delivered to the right users at the right time. It also allows you to track which content works best for you. 

Content and marketing automation work together through channels such as: 

  • Social: Marketing automation can assist you in discovering insights on customer engagement across all platforms. With the ultimate goal of creating channel-specific content to better nurture leads. 
  • Email: Marketing automation ensures email messages are personalized and relevant to your recipients. 
  • Web: Web personalization collects behavioral insights on each visitor so that each time they visit, it alters content to their preferences.  
  • Mobile: With insights from marketing automation, you can determine what type of content brings higher engagement rates and channelize your efforts into it. 

How Does Content and Marketing Automation Actually Work Together? 

1. Content Marketing 

Today, content marketing is an essential business asset to all brands. It helps with brand awareness, lead qualification, customer engagement and retention and drives sales. 

It also helps with lead nurturing, which aims to bring prospects closer to conversion and builds a better relationship with them. Different forms of content should be used at each stage of the sales funnel. 

The top of the funnel, which is where they’re identifying their pain points, newsletters, eBooks and blog posts are the most effective forms of content. The middle of the funnel is where you want to provide more details on these pain points. Content pieces like data sheets, case studies, webinars and personalized email campaigns are best here. Lastly, at the end of the funnel, you should explain why you’re the best solution to their problem. Here you would use industry reports, product demonstrations, white papers and highly-trafficked content from your assets. 

2. Hyper-Personalization 

The modern customer does not only prefer content that’s tailored to their needs, it’s expected. That’s why hyper-personalization is so essential. Backed with AI tools and real-time data, brands get actionable insights into customer needs. 

3. CRM

These tools help you understand what your audience really wants, tracking user engagement. Content marketers should take these insights and use them to curate a variety of content tailored to each audience, maximizing their efforts. 

Final Thoughts 

With the expectation of the modern consumer, it’s evident the clear need for material to be tailored to each stage of the buyer journey. When combining the power of content and marketing automation, you can guide your customers in making those purchasing decisions more efficiently and quickly. 

At Onimod Global, we have expertise in content marketing and marketing automation. If you need assistance in any area of digital marketing, contact us today! 

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5 Ways to Boost Your Brand Awareness and Grow Your Business in 2021

Looking to increase your brand awareness and grow your small business in 2021? Utilize these 5 psychological factors and strategies to achieve just that. 

1. Social Influence

Today, around 80% of consumers’ purchasing decisions are influenced by their friends’ social media posts. On top of that, consumers are around 70% more likely to make a purchase based on a social media referral. So, being active on social media has a number of benefits for brands. It not only helps you increase your brand awareness, but also allows you to influence user perception. Consistently engaging with your target audience and positioning your brand how you want to be seen can deliver great results. 

2. Consistency and Transparency 

In the current climate, honesty is extremely important to consumers. Be transparent about your products and services and keep your promises. This means if something goes wrong, be upfront to your consumers about it. Odds are people will find out eventually, and it looks worse if you’ve attempted to hide it. Share information freely and be consistent with your branding to help build trust among your audience. 

3. Color 

Colors have a significant influence on customer perception and purchase decisions. In fact, research has shown that 90% of subconscious judgements about a product are based on color alone and 85% of shoppers consider color and the primary reason for making a purchase decision. You want to use colors that coincide with your brand personality and brand image. 

4. Customer Experience 

Almost 90% of consumers say they are willing to pay more for a great customer experience. As we discussed above, staying active on social media can increase brand awareness and also allow you to influence user perception. You can deliver value by sharing content that’s useful, builds brand authority and increases consumer trust. If a user has already had a positive experience with your brand on social, they’re much more likely to take that to their purchasing decision. 

Additionally, encourage your customers to share their experiences online. People trust people significantly more than brands themselves. If a user sees that someone else has had a great experience with you, they will remember that when it comes time to make their purchase decision. 

5. Visual Storytelling

Lastly, it’s essential to incorporate visual storytelling. Telling intriguing stories that align with personal and social identities of your target audience helps boost brand loyalty drastically. People stay loyal to brands who share the same values as they do. Not only that, but 75% of website visitors visit a site after watching a branded video. 

Final Thoughts 

There are a number of ways to boost brand awareness and grow your business, but these strategies are a good place to start. It’s important to note that both of these goals can take time organically, but can be sped up by being paired with paid ads.

If you need additional assistance in any area of digital marketing, we can help. At Onimod Global we’re experts in all areas of social media and digital marketing. Learn more about who we are and what we do, and contact us here today. 

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