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Why should your business invest in online paid advertising?

Posted on January 13, 2023October 5, 2023 by Dave

Online paid advertisement is faster way to tap Google traffic and increase the visibility of your website and convert leads faster. There are umpteen benefits of paid advertisements like

1. Faster Reach on Social Media

With more than 2 billion users on social media and most of your targeted customers there, you would off course want to reach the maximum of your target customers. Organically, with efforts you can be visible to a greater section of your target customers in a long time. Compare it with paid advertisement, wherein you just set the target audience filters and reach 40-50% or even more of your prospects in a small time.

2. Much more cost effective than traditional forms of marketing

Online paid advertisements, specifically PPC ads works on a Cost Per Click metric. These are much less expensive than traditional forms of advertising as you are required to pay only when someone clicks on the ad

3. Reaching the right prospects and customers ( precise targeting of prospects)

Online paid advertisements can be precisely targeted to reach the right audience who are probable prospects of your services or products at the right time. Moreover with proper placement of ads, you can ensure that you get the brand visibility you require in a very short time. Owing to the huge prospect of reaching desired audience easily and in their desired time, online paid advertisements has seen a boom in the last few years. Around 84% of B2B marketers use online paid advertisements on Facebook, 41% of them use Google Ads and 18% of them use LinkedIn ads

4. Accurate estimation of the success of the ads

Social Media platforms offer great analytic tools which can help you accurately determine the success of any ad (clicks, impressions, click through rate, conversions and others). You can clearly analyze your ROI, modify the investment in campaigns, set new filters of geo and demographic targeting, based on conclusions of the campaign and even acquire the customer data to set further retargeting campaigns for brand recall and positioning.

Campaign tools like Google Adwords and Facebook Ad manager help you monitor the success of each campaigns with precision and help you close the loopholes in your campaigns to yield better ROI with every following advertisements

5. Allows you the opportunity to reach maximum users across different platforms

Paid advertisements provides you the opportunity to reach out to a huge number of users by simultaneously running ads on multiple channels like

- Facebook
- LinkedIn
- Twitter
- Youtube
- Quora and many more

This allows you to tap into the huge reserve of online traffic and get bulk of leads any time.
- Increases Conversion Rates

Paid advertisements has many benefits like
- Increasing visibility of start-ups in a very small time
- Generate new leads
- Increase conversion of customers etc.

Hire Dukami for generating maximum buzz of your brand and for increasing your customer list through paid advertisements.

Why should restaurants use Digital Marketing?

Posted on January 13, 2023 by Dave

Digital Marketing for Restaurants; Why it is important??

Let's start with a few facts and stats about the restaurant industry

90 per cent of people research about the restaurant before eating out there.

57 per cent of people went through restaurant sites to select where to dine

33 per cent of people read reviews of others who have eaten at a restaurant before dining out there.

More than 1 billion people visiting restaurant are influenced to select a specific restaurant through online marketing

I believe these facts are enough to suffice anyone as to why they should invest and take care of digital marketing for restaurants. Let's come to the set of digital marketing activities we need to undertake to market your restaurants properly.

Without saying it goes that your website is the biggest marketing asset

Let's put ourselves in customers' shoes and think about where should I be taking my family or beloved or friends for dinner.

Of course, a place that is spacious enough to accommodate us all.

A place where the hospitality standards are par excellence.

A place where the ambience is joyful, relaxing and worth liking.

A place that offers the best in menus and a beautiful combination of varied tastes and flavours.

Now, think, how would a customer know about all the things that your restaurant is famous for or claims to be the USPs. Well, in the first go and without a doubt, it would be your website. Your website is the online branding tool of your restaurant.

The Essentials Of Your Website

Your website must have your dining or eating menu in clear legible language, the best images or shots from the interior or the exterior of your restaurant to let the foodies know what the ambience would be like. It should have clear details of when the restaurant is open and close. It should be carrying details of the reservations, happy hours, the seating arrangements and others. It is often said that if you have created a website that feels luxurious, your foodies would be expecting the best cuisines or that which can be called the epitome of luxury. According to a survey, 60 % of people already made up their perception of what the restaurant would be like from the website.

Make your website mobile-friendly

Think you are on the go and suddenly your dear one calls you up to fix a dinner place for two. Are you going to open your laptop or another device to search for the best restaurants, nearby? Off-course No. You are going to scroll on your mobile still driving the car. More than 58%of online traffic is on mobile. So, don't forget to make your website mobile responsive.

Web Designing elements are important; Delicious Images Matters

In the case of restaurant websites, good, appealing images of delicacies and dishes on the menu matter a lot more than other websites. It incites the appetite of the customers to select your restaurant. The aim of the website should be to attach to the sensory elements of your customers. After all, a restaurant is not just a restaurant, it is the sum of the smell, taste, feelings that your foodies go through and the exquisite delight that arises from the blend of ambience and good food.

SEO Investment is important

Well, after all the efforts you have created a great website that lures every customer to visit your restaurant once they reach your website. But the problem is that your website is not found on search engines in the top ranks. So, investing in SEO is important. Well, if you have no clue about what is SEO and what are its benefits, visit our blog - SEO, Why it is important

Reviews can greatly affect your restaurant business

Let's hit some statistics before we actually
delve deeper into how to use reviews for your advantage

More than 80% of restaurant-goers refer to reviews

More than 30% would avoid eating at a restaurant with less than 4-star reviews.

Just a half-star difference of a restaurant on a Yelp review rating forum can change the business earned by that restaurant, by a huge 27% (Foodbeast).

According to (Bright Local) 84% of customers believe in online reviews as much as they would believe in personal recommendations for making dining decisions,

You need to continuously monitor review forums and create a review page on your website for your restaurant. Not only that, you need to elicit reviews from customers who have dined at your restaurant. Well, when you are with Dukami, you need not think about all this. We undertake intense customer analysis, create your review questions and questionnaires and elicit a maximum response from your customers through emails and online review forums. We continuously manage the review forums to ensure that your review ratings are good and the feedback you get from reviews serve as internal audit points of your restaurants. With reviews acting as a major signal of the trustworthiness of your website, investing in online reputation management with us is a viable option.

Social media for enhancing restaurant prospect

Social media is a major source of generating traffic for your restaurants. More than 40% of people take recommendations on social media before deciding on a restaurant of their choice. Learn all about how Social Media is important for restaurants in our blog post- Social Media for Restaurant Growth.

Well, by this time, I believe you have come to know how much you can influence the foodies and the diners by kick-starting a potent digital marketing program. With us, you can be assured that you would gain year after year growth and establish yourself as one of the most famous restaurant points in your city.

Why should you use WordPess for your business website?

Posted on March 30, 2021 by Dave

WordPress, the name sounds too familiar, right?

Yes, We are speaking about the same CMS which was launched in 2003 and now powers almost 40% of all websites in the world( link to https://kinsta.com/wordPress-market-share/). Let's have a quick peek into some real time statistics of WordPress ( Source: https://kinsta.com/blog/wordPress-statistics/#version-statistics)

WordPress has 60.8% share in the CMS Market

There are some 55,000+ plugins in WordPress Plug-in Directory

WordPress has released multiple versions with every new version carrying some new features or functionalities Well, we would never ask a business owner to blindfold itself and use WordPress for their business website without validating but from our experience we feel that WordPress is most suited for Business.
Below, the reasons for using WordPress for your Business Website has been listed.

Free Usage

If you were running a business in the late 1990s, you would be knowing how difficult it was to build a website. You had to pay hundreds of dollars to your developer and needed to search for a good developer who could render your vision of how the website should look and feel. Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little revolutionized website development by bringing in WordPress. It is free to download and use.

What does a business require?

Cost cutting without compromising on delivery.
WordPress did just that. It practically made website building a minimal cost affair but the quality of the websites and the levels of customization that this CMS offered could be matched by only a few. With WordPress, businesses could customize any website to align to their business objectives and use the website as a promotional agent.

Easy to Install and Use

WordPress can be installed on any laptop or device within minutes without any compatibility issues or harm to the system. It doesn't affect the other software downloaded on the system. Extensive knowledge of the tool is not required for installation. So, any business willing to build a website can download and install it and need not require employing software support personnel for such.

Offers One Of the Best Support

WordPress has thousands of developers developing it and millions of customers using wordPress. The WordPress community is so large that for every minor or big issue , you can have someone to resolve it. For every issue small or big that can arise, there is a proper resolution documented by WordPress Support. If, by any chance, any business faces any issue that doesn't have documentation support, they can directly visit the WordPress community groups and type in their query. Multiple resolutions would be offered within no time. So, businesses don't have to dish out a hefty amount for supporting their websites.

Effective for SEO

WordPress has multiple SEO plug-ins like All in One SEO Pack,Yoast SEO,SEM Rush SEO Writing Assistant, Rank Math and so on to address each and every aspect of the SEO of your website. Just install some cool SEO plug-ins, activate them on your website and a part of your Search Engine Optimization is done. Yep! It's that easy.

Multiple Themes and Templates

WordPress has one of the largest repository of themes in the world. So, whether you have a business of food, travel, fashion or whether you are into heavy engineering, you would find themes for every industry type. You can install the themes with a click and get an appealing website truly reflecting the essence of your business.

Customizable features

WordPress offers one of the widest range of customizable features. You can customize blocks, images, carousels, buttons, forms, codes, header and footer template, fonts and hundreds of other elements to suit the needs of your business and drive aesthetic appeal to your website.

Managing expectations in influencer marketing

Posted on March 23, 2021 by Dave

Managing Expectations in Influencer Marketing

Influencer marketing is when organisations rope in influencers who may be a celebrity or an authority in the domain to promote the brand among its target customers.
Influencer marketing is the new mantra for business to carve a 'rags to riches' perception of their brands. But, influencer marketing as it seems is not a simple task because one needs to manage expectations at various levels.

Expectations of a business

The business expects the influencer to add their celebrity and influencer value to their products so that a greater customer base is attained. Not only that, in most cases, the aim is to brand a product as something trustworthy or eligible to be readily accepted by customers. Alongside, the business would like to tap into the large social following of the influencer.

The expectation of the influencer

The influencer on the other hand aside from the money he is making is conscious that the product/service doesn't downsize his stature or influencing value. Moreover, he/ she aims to increase his /her worth by association with the brand. Not only that, influencers may not always agree on a rigid script and may want more collaboration and agreement on what they want to get induced in the script. Not only that, influencers may also have different terms and timelines that would require management.

The Marketer's Expectation

As said before, any marketer with good rapport in the market would want somebody of the niche to influence for the company's products. Rather than a film celebrity marketing for educational products, they would expect some bigwigs from the educational field itself. So, that the brand's worth is not deflected or diluted or turned vague.

Expectations of the audience or prospects

The audience or prospects expect the product to hold good value if a top influencer promotes the product. So, an average product/service would be kind of betraying their expectations.

Cost Expectations

The influencer would try to demand as much as he perceives his influencing value to be. The organization would try to manage the influencer cost so that budgets for further promotions and advertising is present. The marketer would expect the influencer value induced in marketing to substantially increase demand for the product/service. The customer would expect the cost to be optimal, not very high, but the product/service quality to be great.

Advertiser's Expectations

The advertiser would expect more costs from the company to reserve top slots for advertisement and creative inputs as doing otherwise would negate the influencing value that can be created. Hence, with every influencer, even the advertising costs go up. They would expect maximum visibility of their ads or video or posts.

Social Media Expert's Expectations

For influencer posts or videos for Generation Z, Social Media Experts would prefer more of Instagram than Facebook or Twitter. Hence, channels of distribution would be restricted and focussed by them. Their expectation would be that the influencer truly caters to the audience segment.

So, influencer marketing is more like managing a lot of expectations, having clarity of what to expect from which section, and then moving forward. The influencer must be provided brand guidelines and the business should clarify the expectation they are having from the influencer. The Creative Unit, Advertisement agency, and social media agency should be clear as to how to position the influencer, and through what slots and social media channels, and at what costs. Proper sales and marketing metrics for analysis must be there in place to assess whether the desired business expectation is being achieved or not. The investment should be in a manner that returns are good for all the parties involved.

Should dentists use Social Media?

Posted on March 23, 2021 by Dave

If you are that complacent person who is fine with the number of patients coming to your clinic or hospital then you don't need to. But if you expect a steady rise in the list of your clients or people who consult you for all dentist needs, you must go in for social media marketing. The best part is that you need not invest a hefty amount to increase your client list. just a small investment with the right company like Dukami and every week, the number of your customers will go on increasing. You can reach your target customers in much lower price than you can reach through other traditional modes of marketing and advertising. lets analyze how social media marketing helps your business grow.

Social Media Marketing

(a) Social Media Marketing increases your visibility among your target customers
1.84 billion users visit face book every day. there are 310 active users of LinkedIn every month. Majority of your probable customers have their accounts on these social media platforms. So, if you are active in promoting your business on social media, you are reaching out to all your prospects

(b) Know more about what people think of your dentist practice
Patients can leave review, ratings and comments on your social media page which would help you to know how effective your practice is for the patients. Not only that positive reviews and ratings will increase your popularity among the social network and you are more likely to be referred when people are searching for dental service.

(c) Easy to drive traffic to your dental site
It becomes quite easy to drive referral traffic from social media platforms to your website if you engage in solid social media marketing techniques.

(d) Join Dental Groups and let your network grow
There are many dental groups on social media. You can join these groups and be known among your fraternity on social media. Not only that, these groups further serve to promote your posts and maximize the reach of your posts and network. You can create a consultation button on your profile to connect with patients and prospects.

(e) Make your business more searchable
You can include the map of your location along with the daily hours and the days of your practice. This would help your business be more searchable.

(f) Social Media establishes your credibility and authority
You can share various aspects of your dental service on social media and allow patients and prospects to know more about your dental practice. You can share your success stories which would help build your credibility and authority in the niche. Even the knowledge that you post about oral health goes into increasing your reputation in the network.

(g) Your competitors are going great on social media
All your competitors are affording social media to grow their client list. They are being visible in front of prospects and interacting through social media day in and day out. So, it is quite a foolery to leave massive source of traffic on social media out of your business.

There are multiple other reasons why a dentist should invest in social media marketing.

How Digital Marketing can help your business grow quickly?

Posted on September 16, 2020 by Dave

Have you ever thought what was wrong with the days when only brick and mortar shop was the only way of selling?
Let me explain.
Your target customer had to physically visit your store for knowing about your services suffering the vagaries of rain, storm, weather and so on .

Customers in other areas where you were not known seldom reached your product/services
You had to invest huge on advertising billboards, media and others to create brand awareness.
You could reach out to only specific few areas or specific groups of people at a time
Brand recall was tough as you could not reach out to customers consistently owing to distance and cost involved.

Well, these are just a few of the numerous hurdles with brick and mortar shop.
Digital Marketing came as a boon for marketers , customers as it deftly solved the problem of time, reach and investment in marketing. Now , your brand could be visible to anyone, anytime in half the cost of other forms of marketing.

Lets analyse in details how digital marketing helps businesses grow rapidly in a short span of time.

Wider Reach attained without much effort

Lets know how many people make searches for buying a product or service. According to Datareportal
(a) More than half of the world uses Social Media
(b) Approximately 4.57 billion use internet globally

Almost half of the world population is logged into internet one time or other. So, the reach of internet is massive. The best part is that you can reach to any number of people you want within fraction of seconds and with few clicks. The widest reach and maximum visibility for your brand can be assured only and only through digital marketing.

Turning Strangers into Customers more quickly

You have created a damn new website, displayed your products in grandeur and have employed seo strategies to secure a top slot on the search engine. Over a small period of time your website gets indexed, you get promoted on social media platforms and then a magic happens!!. Anyone searching for a product of your portfolio lands on your website with a few clicks, knows more about you and in few online interactions finally agrees with your price and becomes your customer. So, you reach out and interact with your audience, wherever they be around the world in a few minutes and with few clicks. This would have taken many days in the nostalgic brick and mortar days.

Brand Awareness and Brand Recall Made Damn Easy

Remember the old days when for brand recall or making people remember about your brand, you had to hire an expensive advertising agency , pay for media slots on TVs and films or in Newspapers and then your brand was visible. If you had to reach out multiple times , you had to multiply your investment. Even after that, you didn't have an accurate estimate of how many of your customers viewed your show. Digital Marketing has made brand recall so easy that even a novice in the field can appear infront of their customers multiple times with specific messages of their brand. You need not invest millions, just a little amount on creating a good video, newsletter or ad campaigns and then spread through various social media platforms, online video platforms and through various portals and forums. At half of the investment cost and in half the time, you are able to reach out to twice the audience. And the best part, you are able to accurately estimate how much brand awareness and recall has happened through analytics data.

Helps in Educating Prospects and in Quicker Lead Generation

With content marketing, an essential part of digital marketing you can guide customers through the buying funnel. This helps in better lead qualification and quality leads generation in a short time. The only thing that you need to know is map out at which stage of the marketing funnel the customer is in and serve him/her content accordingly.

Can be done through multiple devices from multiple locations

Digital Marketing assures you the complete freedom to market your brand and grow your business by removing location and device constraints. Whether you have a Smartphone, tablet, laptop or desktop, you can immediately promote your product/services with a simple tweet, post, blog or ads. Now, you need not think how your brand would be visible to the customers in Bay Area, Santa Monica or Pasadena. You can customize your brand messages for multiple locations at the same time.

Various Options of Marketing

Digital Marketing is not a unitary marketing method. It helps businesses register growth through multiple ways like

(a) Search Engine Optimisation
Search Engine Optimisation refers to strategies and corresponding techniques to appear in top searches of Search Engines. So, if you are an application development company and someone types in search " application development", you would have a chance to appear on the top of that search through proper SEO strategy.
What are you gaining?
Clicks and visitors to your website who would see your service and hire you.

(b) Social media Marketing
It involves using social media platforms for promoting and marketing your products/services.
You must be thinking how you do it?
Well, create beautiful appealing posts of videos, news, information and others and regularly share it on social media platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn, twitter and others. You get chance to have brand awareness, brand recall, invite engagement with your products and services, invite discussion thereby driving personalization of your brand and a lot more.

(c) Pay- Per Click
Through pay per click, you are able to run multiple ad campaigns and have your website appear in various search results of multiple search engines like Google, Bing etc. You can register sudden surge in traffic or conversions or increase brand awareness within the shortest time with PPC.