Vancouver Digital Marketing

What is Digital Marketing for Vancouver, BC Businesses?

It's pretty basic: Vancouver internet marketing is all about advertising products or services through online channels like websites, search engines, social media, email, and mobile apps.

For most Vancouver business owners, online marketing is a fancy way of saying search engine optimization or PPC advertising. Those two services are both used in website advertising, but neither fully explains what a modern Vancouver digital marketing program entails.

Today's digital advertising services often include dozens of internet advertising tactics, all working in tandem to help you build visibility and conversions throughout Vancouver, British Columbia or nationwide.

For example, the best website marketing plans in Vancouver will include plans to:

• Drive traffic to your digital assets (websites, apps, sales funnels, etc) through paid advertising, SEO, social media marketing, or affiliate marketing.
• Boost Vancouver small business revenue with landing pages, sales funnels, and conversion rate optimization.
• Analyze how visitors navigate your digital assets to figure out improvement areas, retargeting opportunities, and conversion rates.
• Show expertise, authority, and trust in Vancouver through content marketing, video production, backlink authority building, review collection, social proof, and website improvements.
• Build and nurture relationships through messaging, email, and social media.

If you live in Vancouver, you probably love the Vancouver Canucks hockey team. Go Vancouver Canucks! In addition to marketing Vancouver-area websites, our digital advertising firm also offers Surrey, Burnaby, Abbotsford, Kelowna, Nanaimo, Victoria, and Chilliwack small businesses and large corporations a proficient online marketing service.

Our Online Advertising Services for Vancouver Businesses

For Vancouver small businesses, we're a team of digital marketing experts, just 3336.5 kilometers away, who bring diverse knowledge and experience to the table. Use our experience in more than 100 business industries across Vancouver, and the rest of the country, to help get traffic and increase conversions.

1.) Paid Ads Management

The act of creating and optimizing Vancouver paid advertising services is known as PPC ads management. That is an incredibly simple explanation though, so let's dive a little deeper.

To provide professional paid ads management, a paid advertising company for Vancouver often starts by getting to know your company and its business model. Since the way you approach paid advertising for a local area Vancouver small business is much different than how you would for an ecommerce brand, this information helps determine the next steps.

Service providers in Vancouver, for example, are often only looking for quality leads. This can be accomplished through PPC advertising that boosts traffic to an optimized landing page or sales funnel. Start with Google Local Service Ads or Facebook Lead Forms if those digital assets don't currently exist or need a lot of revisions.

Alternatively, ecommerce brands tend to be interested in online sales. This can be accomplished through paid ads that drives traffic to an optimized product page or category page. Google Shopping Campaigns might even make sense in some cases. Our sales funnels have also helped us to sell subscriptions, products, and services.

Understanding the metrics that will be used to optimize and scale Vancouver paid ads is the next step. For paid advertising to be effective, most Vancouver paid ad agencies will implement email collection tactics, such as squeeze pages or lead magnets. For ad budgets over $1,000/mo, it often makes sense to integrate with Wicked Reports, Triple Whale, or Northbeam to better understand ad attribution and reporting.

To be successful with paid advertising, your Vancouver business should utilize multiple advertising tactics and marketing tools. For example, the best Vancouver paid ads services will include tactics to:

• Get traffic from search engines, social media networks, and third-party websites to your digital assets (websites, sales funnels, etc).
• Make money online or through qualified leads for your Vancouver business.
• Better understand ad attribution through the integration of third-party attribution software.
• Present social proof through case studies, white papers, and video testimonials.
• Engage users in story creation, email collection, and user generated content.
• Test ad creatives across various ad placements and between different media formats.

2.) Social Ads

With social media ads, Vancouver website marketing plans use LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, or LinkedIn to run paid advertising. With these social channels, you can target your target audience based on their interests, behaviors, and demographics. A downside to PPC advertising is they can be expensive to set up, to create landing pages, to create sales funnels, and to perform conversion rate optimization to ensure your Vancouver small business drives quality leads or cost-effective sales.

By leveraging the data sources of social media platforms, advertisers can hyper-target their audiences to deliver personalized content based on demographics, behaviors, interests, and other factors. While this is an enormous opportunity for most established Vancouver small businesses, it can be an expensive method for businesses that aren't ready to take full advantage of social media advertising.

Our social media marketing company helps Vancouver companies build out the necessary sales funnels and lead generation tools to make the most of their social media advertising. In our Vancouver website advertising packages, we recommend putting in place plans for conversion optimization and retargeting, both of which will help improve the return on investment you see in your campaigns. Also, don't forget your ad creatives and the importance of keeping them fresh. When running social media advertising plans, you must be mindful of ad decay and ad fatigue to prevent your campaigns from becoming stagnant and suffering from degraded performance.

3.) Search Advertising

In internet advertising, Vancouver search engine marketing is used to place ads on search engines like Google and Bing. You will find that Google ads and Bing paid ads offer a quick and effective method for connecting your Vancouver small business to an engaged audience that is actively searching for your products or services. One downside is the cost of setting up an effective and scalable campaign, which often involves creating conversion-optimized landing pages or sales funnels.

The landing pages and sales funnels we create for businesses of all sizes help drive leads and conversions, which helps make their PPC advertising an effective Vancouver internet marketing strategy. To improve your return on investment with search engine marketing in Vancouver, make a plan for retargeting and conversion rate optimization.

4.) Lead Generation

For local service providers in Vancouver, the most important part of an inbound marketing program is lead generation. Not everything can be sold on the internet. For a lot of products and services, a phone conversation or in-person conversation is needed to close the sale. These kinds of industries need Vancouver lead generation tactics.

Our digital marketing team has tried and implemented so many different lead generation strategies in the past. The most common lead gen tactics include the creation of helpful content, retargeting past site visitors, nurturing past contacts with email marketing, engaging visitors with live chat, developing free tools for visitors to use, creating referral programs and affiliate programs, creating video content that can be shared online, setting up free webinars for visitors to attend, and offering helpful downloadable content in a lead magnet.

When lead generation is a primary goal, our team will create one or more lead generation strategies and implement them in your digital assets to see what works best for your Vancouver small business.

5.) CRO

There is almost no reason to neglect conversion rate optimization within Vancouver website advertising strategies. There's no doubt that this is a critical element of digital marketing in Vancouver, as it directly affects the ability of the marketing service to deliver value to the small business or large corporation paying for it.

Increasing conversion rates will make a big difference in your revenue. It's important to understand what CRO is, how it works, and how to evaluate it. A lot of research and testing goes into conversion rate optimization. What makes it most difficult is the CRO tactics that work for one Vancouver organization might not work for a different Vancouver business, even when both are in the same industry.

The most common CRO strategies include reducing form fields on contact forms, testing different call-to-action phrases, creating attractive headlines, implementing a sense of urgency, fixing mobile website problems, improving website speed, adding exit-intent popups, defining value for the visitor, and adding trust and social proof signals.

True conversion rate optimization for Vancouver websites can become much more complex. To really dive into CRO, we must understand your business offer, your competitors, your value proposition strengths and weaknesses, how visitors interact with your digital assets, your reputation on the web in Vancouver, and many other things.

6.) Sales Funnel Development

A sales funnel, or purchase funnel, is the visual representation of your customer's journey with your Vancouver company. Sales funnels, also called marketing funnels or revenue funnels, look like physical funnels you use to pour liquid into containers. It's always bigger at the top because it shows the huge number of potential customers that might come into contact with your Vancouver business. The funnel narrows at the bottom to represent the various exit points within the sales process. Naturally, the bottom of the funnel is the smallest part since it represents how many people converted through a lead or a sale.

The creation of a conversion funnel for your Vancouver business is more difficult than the explanation of its concepts. For example, some of the most successful sales funnels produce millions of dollars of value each day for their British Columbia small businesses. To develop a sales funnel that produces value for your Vancouver business, you must put thought into the goal of the sales funnel and the type of sales funnel you want to implement.

There are numerous types of sales funnels, including affiliate sales funnels, self-liquidating funnels, automated webinar funnels, lead magnet funnels, self-liquidating funnels, automated webinar funnels, and dozens of others to consider. When you work with one of our internet marketing specialists, you will have an experienced online marketer to bounce ideas off to help you determine the best type of revenue funnel for your company. Alternatively, if you don't have an interest in being involved in the process, we can research more about your business and industry to determine the best funnels to explore and test within your Vancouver website marketing plan.

7.) Email Marketing

You can use email marketing services within a digital strategy to get brand awareness, increase website traffic, generate sales and revenue, bring awareness to your social profiles, engage past customers, and gain valuable information about your target audience.

We help our Vancouver website marketing customers use Mail Chimp, Campaign Monitor, and Constant Contact for their email marketing campaigns. These are robust email marketing tools to create subscriber lists, segment your audience, and even develop email marketing drip campaigns.

The most important part of email marketing is developing a plan to drive your subscribers. We help Vancouver email marketing clients build and nurture their email marketing lists by implementing email collection opportunities within exit-intent popups, checkout processes, squeeze pages, referral programs, affiliate programs, lead magnets, and numerous other methods.

8.) Content Marketing

Most Vancouver small businesses use content marketing as a means of attracting, engaging, and retaining a high-interest audience by creating and sharing relevant blog articles, instructional videos, case studies, white papers, and other digital media. This digital marketing approach for Vancouver websites helps establish your company as an industry thought leader, while also helping you dominate organic search results and the attention span of your target audience.

When your target customers in and around Vancouver begin to identify your brand as the source of valuable advice or guidance you will find it is easier to guide them through your sales funnel. We help Vancouver digital marketing customers put together the right content marketing plan for their specific industry and goals.

It is important to identify your target audience before starting a content marketing plan. This will help you understand the best media format for the content, whether that be informative blog posts, detailed case studies, informal whitepapers, best-in-class listicles, or drip email campaigns. It will also help you determine the best delivery method, which can be from social media, search results, or some other medium.

We often help implement content marketing plans that involve blog content, custom graphics, infographics, podcasts, videos, email campaigns, whitepapers, case studies, surveys, webinars, checklists, listicles, and lead magnets. We particularly like using the case study method because it is a powerful tool for showing expertise as a leading Vancouver internet advertising company. These are all effective ways to market content if you implement them correctly within your Vancouver company.

9.) Online Reputation Management (ORM)

Your online reputation in Vancouver and beyond is an important trust factor search engines use to determine rank positions, and your target audience uses it to make purchasing decisions. This is true for all types of purchases and decision-making, ranging from the selection of a local service provider in Vancouver, the purchase of a product on an ecommerce store, and even the selection of a physician or attorney for a personal matter. People love reading about the positive experiences, and sometimes even more about negative experiences, that others had with your Vancouver brand.

For local service companies in Vancouver, we can help you develop a review generation program within your digital marketing to increase the rate at which past customers leave reviews for your business. This often involves collecting reviews on Google My Business, UpCity, Yellow Pages, Angi, Yelp, and other online review collection websites.

If you run an ecommerce storefront, we can help with the collection of product reviews and company reviews. For an ecommerce business, it is important to collect reviews for both the quality of your products and the customer service experience of your Vancouver storefront. Online shoppers in Vancouver want to know the product they are purchasing is of sufficient quality or utility, but they also need to know you will be there to fulfill the order and answer questions after the sale.

For the reputation of professional service providers, such as Vancouver doctors or Vancouver attorneys, we can help establish protocols within your digital advertising service for the collection of testimonials to ensure prospects always see a positive image of you. This includes review generation, reputation monitoring, online reputation repair, survey campaigns, and social growth for your Vancouver website. In some cases, even search engine optimization can be used to help curate the best possible first-page results for your online reputation in and around Vancouver.

The risk of ignoring your online reputation is the loss of long-term business, which often isn't noticed until significant damage has been accumulated. Take control of your online reputation today to ensure you always put forth a better image than your local competition.

10.) Video Marketing

As a comprehensive digital marketing agency for Vancouver, we have our own in-house video production and video marketing department. This has been extremely helpful for content marketing tactics that required original video assets. More importantly, we've used our video production department for the creation of video ads on YouTube and video marketing within Facebook Ads campaigns. There are many good applications for video production within your Vancouver online marketing plan. You can use videos to demonstrate unique products, teach new concepts, and improve visitor duration. You can also implement videos within Vancouver website marketing plans to bring life to paid campaigns.

11.) Promotional Products

We are often asked about promotional product marketing from our Canadian digital marketing clients. If you are interested in a reputable company to order custom promotional products from, consider Artik.com. They are a Toronto-based screen printing and embroidery company that has been in business since 1985. We've sent many of our digital advertising clients to them to get custom apparel, drinkware, and other items. They'll have no trouble at all getting your company's logo, monogram, or other artwork screen printed or embroidered on your promotional products!

Why You Should Invest in Internet Advertising for Your Vancouver, BC Website

You're going to have to think about marketing in Vancouver if you manage a business that sells something. There are lots of reasons to choose Vancouver online marketing packages over other marketing strategies. Here are a few reasons why your British Columbia small business should embrace website advertising:

• Digital marketing is often more affordable than other forms of marketing because it can be started at a low amount and scaled as success is measured.
• With the use of valuable reporting tools like Google Analytics, you can get better insights into how many visitors interacted with your brand, how long your marketing efforts kept their attention, and if you were able to bring them back to your website in the days, weeks, or months after their first interaction.
• Everyone in Vancouver is constantly on their phones, tablets, and desktop computers. Choose a marketing format and medium that enables you to reach your target audience anywhere they go in Vancouver or across British Columbia.
• With digital, you can update it a lot more easily than with print, billboards, television ads, or radio commercials.
• Online marketing in Vancouver provides the best capacity for user engagement. We wish you the best of luck getting people to comment, like, and share your Vancouver non-digital ads!

How to Develop Vancouver, BC Digital Marketing Plans

It's important to create a plan with measurable business goals before beginning your internet marketing campaign for your Vancouver-based small business. To avoid wasting time on things that won't make your business better, you want to make sure everyone understands what the Vancouver online advertising service is all about.

1.) Pinpoint the demographic you want to reach

Identifying a target audience is easy once you have a clear set of business objectives. It is important to understand who you are targeting in Vancouver or beyond. This helps you tailor your Vancouver website marketing efforts to platforms your audience engages in and that you use messaging that resonates with your target audience.

2.) Determine audience needs

Now that you understand your business goals and your target customer, you can make an informed decision regarding the needs and search intent of your Vancouver audience. You'll be able to focus on the right keywords for your Vancouver website advertising and align your content marketing strategy to your audience's needs.

3.) Launch slow progress marketing strategies at an earlier stage

You should make search engine optimization your first priority if you're planning on using it eventually within your Vancouver digital strategy. The slowest moving internet advertising tactic in Vancouver is search engine optimization. Improvements to your website structure, content quality, and backlinks can take weeks or months for search engines to notice and affect your rankings.

4.) Construct well-crafted landing pages or funnels to optimize performance

There's no better time to promote your Vancouver organization and its digital assets than right now. However, rather than sending paid traffic to your home page, product page, or service page, you should consider the creation of a landing page or sales funnel. Ad campaigns in Vancouver that have high bounce rates and low conversion rates often send traffic to a page that isn't optimized for converting cold traffic. A good Vancouver lead generation tactic uses splash pages and sales funnels to drive people to the goal.

5.) Set up automatic email sequences for remarketing purposes

As soon as your Vancouver website grows traffic, you should think about how to keep in touch with those visitors. Some people won't convert on the first visit to your website, landing page, or sales funnel. You should consider options to build an email marketing list, offer SMS alerts for new offers, or set up tracking pixels to retarget recent visitors to your Vancouver website.

6.) Plan for continuous testing

When these Vancouver digital marketing strategies are in place you are ready to enter the testing and optimization phase. This involves constantly measuring the success of your campaigns, looking for areas of improvement, and even trying new ideas that you read about in case studies or white papers. You should always be in a state of conversion rate optimization throughout all aspects of your Vancouver internet marketing campaign.

Why Choose WebCitz for Your Vancouver, BC Online Advertising Services

If you're a small business in Vancouver, we want to be your digital marketing partner! When researching Vancouver digital marketing companies, there are many factors to consider. We've got 19 years of experience, so you can trust the Vancouver internet marketing strategies we suggest. These are often the same Vancouver online marketing plans we use for our own lead generation and conversion rate optimization services. In fact, you are likely visiting our website from Vancouver because of the effective implementation of our own website advertising service.

Most importantly though, you should choose our digital marketing company for your Vancouver organization because you feel confident we are the right team for your Vancouver company. We are only a short drive of 1 day and 7 hours away from you in Vancouver, but that time is reduced further if you call or email!

• Our company has been around since 2004, so we have over 19 years of experience.
• Our primary source for leads and new client development in Vancouver is our own online advertising strategies.
• You probably found us in Vancouver via an online search for a service we provide.
• Our marketing team performs all of our Vancouver website advertising packages, which means we don't outsource the work.
• If you call us during normal business hours, you will likely get an answer from one of our teammates within a few rings.
• If you're searching for Vancouver digital advertising plans that include web design or web maintenance, we have extensive experience with Shopify, WordPress, and WooCommerce.
• Online retailers can reduce ad expenses and get more return on ad spend with our ecommerce marketing solutions.

We hope you keep our internet marketers in mind when it comes time for you to start searching for Vancouver digital advertising firms. Let us know if you have any follow-up questions, or if you want to start a discussion with the friendly staff at our internet advertising company.

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