Marketing Consistency is Important
Marketing consistency is critical to successful strategies in a fast-paced, competitive business environment. Consistency helps establish a brand image, build trust with your target audience, and improve the visibility of your marketing efforts in search engines. In this post, we will explore the importance of consistency in marketing.
Why Marketing Consistency is Key
Marketing consistency establishes a strong brand image and builds trust with your audience. A consistent message and tone across your marketing channels makes it easier for people to recognize and remember your brand. Brand recognition helps your business stand out in a crowded market and gain a competitive advantage.
One of the most significant benefits of consistency in marketing is that it builds trust with your audience. People are more likely to trust your brand when you consistently deliver on promises and provide a consistent experience. Trust is crucial, given the number of choices available to customers who are increasingly skeptical of brands.
Reaching Your Target Audience with Consistency
Consistency in marketing also helps you better reach your target audience. By consistently communicating your message and targeting your efforts towards a specific group, you can more effectively reach and engage with the people who are most likely to be interested in your products or services. This not only helps you reach more people but also ensures that the people you reach are more likely to be receptive to your message and act.
This consistently targeted group is typically your most important customer or client. This customer is the one that you cannot afford to lose to competitors. When you consistently appeal to this important customer, your businesses is more likely to succeed.
Saving Time and Resources with Marketing Consistency
Consistency in marketing also helps you save time and resources. By having a consistent approach, you can develop a streamlined process that makes it easier to create and distribute marketing materials. This can help you save time and resources, as you don’t have to constantly reinvent your approach and can instead focus on refining and improving upon your existing strategy.
Measuring the Success of Your Marketing Efforts
Finally, consistency in marketing helps you measure the success of your efforts. By consistently using the same metrics and tracking the same data, you can more easily see the impact of your marketing efforts and make informed decisions about how to improve your strategy. This allows you to better allocate resources and make changes that will have the biggest impact on your results.
SEO Optimization for Consistent Marketing Efforts
To optimize your marketing efforts for better results, it is essential to incorporate SEO best practices. This includes keyword research to determine the best keywords and phrases for your business or industry, using header tags, internal linking, meta descriptions, etc. Key SEO tips include:
- Use relevant keywords and phrases in your content to help search engines understand what your content.
- Incorporate header tags to give structure to your content and make it easier for search engines to understand the main points of your post.
- Use internal linking to help search engines understand the relationships between your content.
- Include meta descriptions as brief summaries of your content to encourage users to visit your site.
In conclusion, consistency is a critical aspect of any successful marketing strategy. The result of marketing consistency is brand awareness and customer trust.
Case Study: The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office
Prior to this project, the FCSO predominantly used Facebook and YouTube accounts. The FCSO had also successfully grown a strong following of more than 25,000 on Facebook. The FCSO was also producing high quality visual content, including a weekly podcast, “Off the Cuffs with Kimbrough” and had recently launched a new website dedicated to recruitment.
Challenges
The FCSO presented several goals: (1) to develop a messaging strategy to dominate social media; (2) to build and maintain a positive relationship with stakeholders and public; and (3) to compete for influence in the ongoing public safety narrative. While working to accomplish these goals, we faced several unique challenges as a result of increased social unrest from the Covid-19 Coronavirus Pandemic, the death of George Floyd and subsequent nationwide protests, the Black Lives Matter movement (BLM), and the Defund the Police movement (Defund).
The main challenge of this project was to achieve the FCSO’s key goals while defining key metrics that would be useful for understanding pre-pandemic/pre-unrest trends, tracking current trends, and making accurate projections.
Project Methodology
For social media analytics, Twin City Web Solutions looked at follower and engagement data on Facebook across three different periods: pre-pandemic, during pandemic, and aggregate. We also used U.S. Census Bureau data and information about social media platforms from the Pew Research Center. This allowed us to define the audience and engagement trends as well as the pandemic’s influence on those trends. We then defined content categories in order to study topical trends across all three periods, revealing audience tastes and how those tastes changed due to the pandemic and the BLM and Defund movements. We were also able to determine the composition of the FCSO’s audience and identify overperforming and underperforming demographics.
Key Findings
Twin City Web Solutions discovered that the FCSO was more popular than expected among women aged 25 and older and underperformed with men overall. We also determined that the FCSO struggles to engage with anyone under age 25. These assessments were based on the fact that, as a government agency, the FCSO serves all market segments. Thus, the audience should generally reflect the population proportions of Forsyth County with some influence from the demographic proportions of Facebook itself. The data clearly demonstrated that, as a proportion of both population and Facebook users, the FCSO was greatly underperforming among men.
Twin City Web Solutions also examined the underlying digital infrastructure behind all of the FCSO’s online initiatives. We compared the FCSO’s development and activities to recommended best practices for Search Engine Optimization. Key recommendations included channel expansions, category and meta tagging, and an increase in written content (blog posts and podcast transcripts).
Final Recommendations
Achieving Dominance: We recommended enhanced real-time data analytics capabilities in order to perform useful A/B tests for underperforming demographics, such as men and adults under age 25. Enhanced capabilities would allow the FCSO to determine the topics preferred by each demographic and schedule content that appealed to several demographics.
Building Positive Relationships: Our plan for building positive relationships was simple. The Public Information Officer had already built a trustworthy and positive brand image that had successfully earned over 25,000 followers. She simply needed to expand her reach by using additional channels. We recommended Instagram and LinkedIn.
Influencing the Public Safety Narrative: recommendations for influencing the public safety narrative overlapped with the other recommendations. To be an influencer, the FCSO needed to expand its reach and engagement with other
Conclusion
Twin City Web Solutions was pleased to have an opportunity to work side by side with the FCSO in the midst of a global pandemic and racial unrest. It was an honor and a privilege to work side by side with a high performing law enforcement team as they faced these challenges with conviction and humility.
Data Sources
Facebook (2020). Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office 2019-2020. Retrieved from https://www.facebook.com/GOFCSONC.
Pew Research Center (2020). Social Media Fact Sheet. Retrieved from https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/social-media/.
SimplyAnalytics (2020). % Male Population 2018. May 2020, from SimplyAnalytics database.
SimplyAnalytics (2020). % Female Population 2018. May 2020, from SimplyAnalytics database.
SimplyAnalytics (2020). % Population Aged 0 to 5 Years 2019. May 2020, from SimplyAnalytics database.
SimplyAnalytics (2020). % Population Aged 6 to 11 Years 2019. May 2020, from SimplyAnalytics database.
SimplyAnalytics (2020). % Population Aged 12 to 17 Years 2019. May 2020, from SimplyAnalytics database.
SimplyAnalytics (2020). % Population Aged 18 to 24 Years 2019. May 2020, from SimplyAnalytics database.
SimplyAnalytics (2020). % Population Aged 25 to 34 Years 2019. May 2020, from SimplyAnalytics database.