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Digital Marketing Agency

What to expect from your Digital Marketing Agency

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A brief overview of what the customers of Digital Marketing Agencies should expect, including staged website design, website development, user interface design.

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Page 1: What to expect from your Digital Marketing Agency

Digital Marketing Agency

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Digital Marketing Agency

• If you believe the search engines, then people looking for a “digital marketing agency” want a website whereas an “online marketing agency” is more focused on SEO, PPC and other promotional activities. B2B marketing agencies are more about business and marketing

B2B MA

Online MADigital MA

WebsiteDesign

Tracking & Analytics

ConversionOptimisation

SEO, PPCWebsiteDesign & Build

WebsiteDesign

Video M

SocialMedia M’g

UserInterface

Design

Content M

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SO, IF SEARCH ENGINES ARE RIGHT…

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Digital Marketing Agency

• Digital Marketing Agencies design and build websites• And often will do internet promotion services, if required by

their customer

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Website Development

• Developing Websites in stages– Helps the Project Sponsor to state clearly what he wants– Helps the Designer to formalise the Requirement– Helps the Designer create design options (in peace)– Allows the Developer to select the right technology to satisfy the

Requirement and Design Brief– Means that the website is launched to the world in working order– Reduces risk– Allows the project to be stopped if it’s going bad, before more money

is wasted

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Website Development

Website Development Stages

Information Gathering Project Planning Design

Listening to and learning about the customer and his needs

Purpose Goals Audience Content Competition Planning Brief

Defining site requirements, timescales and business case Pages Page Structure Purpose of each page Estimates Site Map

Translating Requirements into a Specification User Interface Design Branding / look and feel Extra functions Website Spec’f’n

Development Testing & Go Live Maintenance

Implementing specification in chosen platform Choice of Website platform Security Building on a development domain Development website

Test delivered website against requirements and transfer to live domain Functional testing Mobile testing Legal checks Standards compliance Live Website

Keeping the website working well and securely Backups Software updates Performance optimisation Comment Spam

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Potential Gaps

• Website Designers (or Digital MAs) build websites• Someone else will need to make the join between your

business strategy, your marketing strategy and your website requirements

• Often DMAs prefer not to do website maintenance

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For more information, contact SMEsOnline

James [email protected]

+44 7855 406652