With the amount of information businesses can track using modern technologies, it’s amazing what can be accomplished from a marketing standpoint now as opposed to just a few years ago. The miracle of Big Data makes it possible for marketers to know so much more about so many areas of their business now. But just how can you use that information in the most beneficial way for your business? To help you out, here are three ways learning about Big Data and using that information can help with a business’s digital marketing efforts.
The Big Three
Big Data can be used by companies and marketers in a number of ways. However, Larisa Bedgood, a contributor to Business2Community.com, shares that the majority of Big Data is used for one of three purposes: understanding the customers, improving supply chain issues, and bringing more power to promotional campaigns. If you feel that your current plans for creating quality customer profiles, dealing with supply chain, or having success with your marketing strategies are not to the point where they should be, consider tapping into the resources of Big Data you have from analytics to bring more clarity to how you can find greater success in these areas.
Better Social Media Interactions
Once you’re able to find data regarding your customers, you can begin using that information to your business’s advantage when interacting with customers. According to Jim Roberts, a contributor to SmartInsights.com, Big Data can give you an immense amount of insight into what your customers want with regards to social media interactions from your business. You can see where your ideal customers congregate online, what social platforms give you the most commercial success, and what type of social interactions create the most positive relationships between your brand and your visitors. If you’re struggling with connecting to your social media followers, look to your data to see where you’ve had past successes and failures.
Content Customization
By tapping into the information available through Big Data, you can have even more success with content marketing as well. According to ModernMarketingPartners.com, you can look back at what content posts, topics, or verbiage made an impression on your visitors previously and use that information to craft even more relevant and successful posts in the future, making this Big Data very valuable from a content marketing perspective. This will help to focus your future content creation and customize your efforts for the greatest possible results.
Although having access to Big Data may leave you feeling overwhelmed with the amount of analytics you have to sort through, this information can prove to be just what you need to gain greater insight into your customers and how to best give them exactly what they want. Use the tips mentioned above to get the best digital marketing strategies out of your access to Big Data today.
Originally posted on February 15, 2016 @ 9:33 am
