Digital Marketing

Now, more than ever, you need to have a strong and effective presence on the internet.

Just having a website is not enough in the way of visibility of your online business, you need to get found.

Customers are now searching for more solutions on the internet, it doesn’t really matter what you sell or the services you provide, the web will be their first stop when looking for a product or service to buy.

So What is Digital Marketing?

Digital marketing refers to any means of advertising and selling online; you have social media platforms, PPC advertising with things like Google Adwords, online blogging, eCommerce, email marketing and more.

Some of these are free and cost you time and energy, and some of these are paid for as well as require time and effort.

In order to make sure you are utilising them in the best way possible, we would recommend you create a digital marketing strategy in order to establish what outlets would suit your business and what you will be doing for each of them.

Our team has vast experience in digital marketing, and we can help you develop this strategy and advise you on its robustness, making changes to benefit you more.

Creating Marketing Strategies

The first thing you need to do is figure out who your customers are, this might sound silly, but unless you can identify who your target audience is, you cannot work out how to utilise digital marketing to your advantage.

There are too many possible platforms to target them all effectively, many are costly and require too much time and effort to achieve a reasonable return.

So, where does your client hang out and how do they operate? For example, Snapchat tends to be a young, teen-based platform, so home improvement companies are not likely to find their customers here.

Using email marketing is massively successful for some sectors of the market but dead for others. The more you know about the people who are going to be your future clients the easier it is to find them.

Effective Digital Marketing Channels

Here are the most effective channels we operate for our clients to ensure the best return on investment.

Google Adwords

A way of paying to get your website results in front of your desired audience when they use Google to search for something.

Bing Adwords

Similar to Google Adwords, this though uses the power of Bing, Microsoft´s own search engine that has over 900 million searches every day.

Web Design

With many years of experience in web design and development in Lancashire, we create stylish mobile-friendly websites to help take your business to the next level.

PPC Advertising

PPC stands is a model of internet marketing and stands for pay-per-click, this is when advertisers pay each time someone clicks on their ads.

SEO

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimisation. This is the process of improving your site to garner better visibility and higher rankings for search engine searches.

Google Business Tools

Google offers a whole range of marketing tools that help boost your website presence. These include Google Business Page, Webmaster Tools, Google Analytics AND Google Console.

Frequently Asked Questions

We work with all kinds of businesses, from small to large and in a wide variety of industries.

DTC has more than 25 years of experience working in the digital marketing sector and continues to work with a large number of local and national clients.

GPPC stands for Pay-Per-Click, this is the most popular form of internet advertising. Simply, this is where you only pay a fee each time when someone clicks on your ad.

This will depend on a number of factors including your marketing budget and goals, the industry you work in and the competition for keywords.

Google allows you to target your ads toward the customers you are trying to attract as well as filter out those you don’t.

In short, how long is a piece of string, sometimes it´s not easy to pull a figure out of the bag when it comes to an advertising budget. There is a general rule of thumb that you should look to budget between 2-5% of your annual sales revenue on marketing.

This question is often asked as business owners are often worried about who will actually get to see their ads. In short it is our objective to ensure that your ads are seen by your target audience, this way there is a much better chance that prospective customers will click a link to your website, an offer, shop product or another type of landing page.

Yes we provide full transparency backed up by sound data to ensure your advertising budget is earning the best ROI possible.

Unless otherwise agreed you can stop your PPC campaigns at any time by informing us at least one month in advance and settling any outstanding costs for adverts that are running or have been previously agreed to run.

Although the most popular PPC ads are via Google we also offer PPC advertising on other platforms such as BING and Social Media.

In short, no, we do not guarantee results and we would be very wary of any company that does.

What we can guarantee is that we will work our hardest in implementing our vast experience, time and effort in delivering to you the best possible results for your marketing budget.

our clients

what Our Customers Are Saying

Mak Security

Manchester

“ DTC has transformed our digital footprint which means more business for me. They are very hardworking which makes my hard-earned money go further. Many Thanks .”

Harry Carter

Carters BC

“ We want to say special thanks to DTC who have put up with our particular requirements. They have produced exactly what we wanted and provided a fantastic end product.”

Paul Walsh

Freedom Search

“ Ben from DTC came into my business a while ago, and I am very pleased he did. It’s refreshing the transparency and honesty he has shown – I can’t recommend his services enough! “