In this digital age, digital media is an easy way to connect with your customers, adapt to their changing preferences, and build long-lasting relationships. Leveraging digital media will help your Financial Services company gain brand awareness, reach a wider audience, and be more competitive in an increasingly difficult market. Digital media is beneficial for public relations as it allows companies to quickly share their news and updates with a broad audience. It also allows companies to control their messaging and reputation effectively. We’re going to walk you through a few ways you can leverage digital media and how it ties into a successful PR strategy.
Using Content Marketing for Customer Education
Build out valuable content that addresses your customers, needs, concerns, and interests. This can be done through blogs, YouTube videos, webinars, and more. By distributing high-quality and relevant content your business can develop thought leadership and help establish yourself as a leader in the Financial Services field. Content marketing is especially helpful for Financial Services companies that want to explain complex financial products and build trust with clients who might be weary. Don’t be afraid to reuse the educational content that you produce! For example, take a blog topic and then produce a podcast episode discussing the same topic.
Using Social Media for Increased Engagement
Social media allows you to engage with your audience more interactively and gather valuable feedback from them. Social media can also help build awareness and drive traffic to your website. Social media is also a great place to share the educational content we discussed to help humanize your brand and build a connection with your audience. It’s always a good idea to use your social media platform to amplify the work that your PR team is doing (articles, broadcast hits, awards, speaking spots at events, etc.). For example, if you were recently mentioned in an article, make sure to post it to social media with some key takeaways and thank the author.
Using SEO for Increased Website Visibility
Your business should use SEO techniques for increased visibility, this includes optimizing your web pages with relevant keywords and creating high-quality content. Earning high-quality backlinks will also help increase your domain authority, as well as fixing any technical issues such as website loading speed, and mobile responsiveness. Your SEO and PR techniques should speak to each other. When your company is mentioned in an article make sure to reach out to the author to get a high-quality back link to your site.
Using Email for Personalized Communications
Use email marketing for personalized communication by tailoring content to specific customers, sending targeted offers and recommendations, and using the automated feature to deliver timely and relevant messages. Public Relations can be used to help augment your email personalization. What is some of the biggest news affecting your industry right now? Make sure to mention it in your email communications to demonstrate to your clients that you know what’s on their minds. Relevant topics can also help build out targeted offers and recommendations. For example, if fraud is becoming an increasing problem and you have a security feature that helps solve this problem provide a quick cybersecurity consult.
Using Data Analytics for Your Marketing Campaigns
Data analytics can be used to track key performance metrics and to identify trends and patterns in your customer’s behavior. For example, you can monitor traffic to your blogs and see which are performing the best. If you see that your customers are gravitating to certain topics, develop additional content around those same topics. You can also see where the traffic is coming from email communications, websites, social media, or other places. This will help you gauge where your customers are – and what sort of content they are interacting with. The more important thing is testing out your marketing campaigns to see what works best. Making data-driven decisions will help maximize your ROI and produce more efficient and effective marketing efforts.
In this digital age, leveraging digital media strategies such as content marketing, social media, SEO, email marketing and data analytics is essential to keep relevant. Digital media and PR strategies are helpful together because they can help your Financial Services business connect with new audiences, address their needs, and build lasting connections.
