Traditional Marketing Vs Inbound Marketing for B2B organisations
The study conducted by researchers at the
University of California-San Diego, under Roger Bon, according to the British Telegraph, demonstrates that people are
every day bombarded with the equivalent amount of 34 gigabytes of information.
This amount of information would overload the capacity of a laptop within a
week. On top of this, digital marketing makes it easier for businesses to provide as much as information about
their products and services throughout the use of social media. Therefore,
businesses need to differentiate between traditional marketing and inbound marketing to maximise the use of B2B marketing
techniques.
What is traditional marketing?
Traditional marketing is typically defined as
the use of ads to deliver the information to target customers. These methods
usually include business cards, brochures, flyers, and commercials for television,
radio and billboards. This strategy is often more suitable for start-up
businesses which just got their foot in the door. There are lots of benefits
when using this strategy including high chance of reaching your potential
customers, and making your business easy to remember for them. However, there
are some disadvantages to be considered such as little interaction between the
medium used and the customers, high cost of mass printing, and untraceable measurements of your
results.
What is inbound marketing?
In contrast, inbound marketing includes a
variety of methods including content and email marketing, and marketing automation.
Content marketing is a strategic B2B marketing
approach which focuses on creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and
consistent content to attract and retain your businesses audience — and,
eventually, to drive profitable customer action. To increase your digital
marketing strategy, your social media content needs to be relevant, fresh, and
inviting for customers to take further actions.
To have an effective email marketing campaign,
organisations need to customise their inbound marketing technique by doing the
following:
·
personalise it to the reader
and filled with interesting graphics;
·
to be designed for all devices
on which users can read their emails - desktop, tablet, and smartphone;
·
must contain a meaningful
call-to-action for customers
Marketing automation makes digital marketing so
easy for marketers streamline their lead generation, segmentation, customer
lifecycle marketing, cross-selling abilities and customer retention. There are
lots of different marketing automation products out there for companies to
choose from depending on their needs and budget, so it helps to do your
research.
Now, you have a better understand of what the
differences between traditional and inbound marketing strategy are. It is vital
for organisations to develop a better digital marketing strategy by gathering
all related stakeholders to provide insights of what customers want and how
they want to receive information.

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