Since people are spending more time online, businesses are generating more leads and orders from online sources like their business website, social media and online review websites. The number of leads/orders generate online depends on how easily information about the busines is available online. Hence digital marketing has become one of the most cost effective marketing methods for a large number of businesses. Since most companies do not have the trained staff and other resources for digital marketing they would like to find out how to pick a good digital marketing agency.
Customer retention
One of the best indications of the first page Australia is the competence of a digital agency is whether they are able to retain their existing customers for many years. While it is easy to attract new customers using attractive advertising and other aggressive marketing techniques, these customers will continue to give orders only if they are happy with the service. So while reviewing a digital agency it is advisable to find out how many customers are repeat customers, for how long they have used the digital agency for marketing the business online. While a new startup may not have repeat customers, most agencies should be able to provide the information.
Services & Customization
Usually most businesses are using multiple digital marketing methods to increase their online sales. If the digital agency they use is only offering one service, they may have to use multiple agencies, which can be expensive and time consuming. Hence it is better to use a digital agency which offers multiple digital marketing services like search engine optimization (SEO), Pay per click (PPC) advertising, social media marketing. Many of the digital agencies have standard packages which they sell to customers, these packages do not consider the requirement of each customer and do not give optimal results. So it is advisable to hire a agency who will customize the package based on customer requirements to give the best results.
Information and tools provided.
Some of the digital agencies do not have adequate reporting tools, so the client does not get much information about the effectiveness of the digital marketing agency he hired. However, the better digital agencies have a very comprehensive reporting platform which provided detailed information on the increase in the number of visitors, leads/orders generated, improvement in the ranking of the website for different keywords, after the digital agency was hired. Additionally they also do competitor analysis, so that the client can review the competitor information to optimize the online marketing strategy.