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Why Digital Marketing is a Driving Force to Small Business in Nigeria

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<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"Vq6e9CJn" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Harun Muhammad<&sol;p><div class&equals;"hy0G640A" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Our world&comma; today&comma; is electronically connected&period; From China to Australia&comma; Africa to the US&comma; Europe to Russia&comma; we are connected through the power of the internet web&period; This brings the ease of doing business and favours a significant increase in business profitability&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Why digital marketing&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Organizational goals and business models become achievable through digital technologies and social media platforms&period; Digital marketing is a form of marketing that solely drives market forces to market products on digital media platforms using digital technologies&period; These digital technologies are the Organization’s website&comma; Mobile Applications&comma; Pages of a company on social media&comma; search engines&comma; digital advertising platforms&comma; emails&comma; etc&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"V6vWIkrw" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;" &NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"6550225277"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>According to a report by the Nigerian Finder in 2020&comma; Nigeria’s digital marketing is worth &dollar;2B&period; Looking at the huge increase of digital subscribers in Nigeria we can boldly say the figures are way bigger than this now&period; In Nigeria of today&comma; at the comfort of your house&comma; you could place an order of anything you want and be delivered to your doorstep&period; To the west and south&comma; logistics companies are becoming one kind of big thing&period; Thanks to digital marketing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Small Businesses and Digital Marketing in Nigeria<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nigeria’s business landscape is unarguably lucrative&period; We can talk about the unfavourable business environment later&comma; but many businesses in Nigeria fight through ups and downs&comma; ins and outs&comma; ons and offs&comma; to raise a formidable brand&period; Some of these brands are locally and internationally recognized&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For every nation’s economic prosperity&comma; you will have a small business behind that silent success story&period; Is it in the US&quest; In China or Germany&quest; Mention any country that doesn’t passionately invest in digital legislation to uplift the status of its small businesses&period; In India&comma; according to a report from the ministry of commerce&comma; the micro&comma; small and medium enterprises are the largest employers after the Agriculture industry&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>But then&comma; small businesses owners are being faced with the overwhelming issue of digital-know-how to integrate the art of digital marketing in their business&period; Every so often&comma; when business kicks off&comma; business owners make sins of relying on conventional ways of marketing like print ads&comma; big signs on Billboards or even flooding their social media timelines with&comma; sometimes&comma; countless pictures of products&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While this marketing strategy is spontaneously tasking&comma; how about me telling you there is a simpler and more stress-free way to marketing your business&quest; That is adopting the concept of digital marketing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nigeriantracker&period;com&sol;2021&sol;03&sol;15&sol;u-n-lauds-dangote-women-harps-on-gender-roles-for-global-economic-recovery&sol;">U&period;N Lauds Dangote Women&comma; Harps on Gender Roles for Global Economic Recovery<&sol;a><br &sol;>&NewLine;Believe me&comma; small businesses can thrive exponentially by employing digital technologies to drive the marketing modules and target your potential customers before you Jack Robinson&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In March 2020&comma; Nigerian Communication Commissions released statistics of 128&period;3 mobile network subscribers using the internet&period; This presents a huge opportunity for small businesses to reach out to potential customers online&period; No business&comma; big or small&comma; should neglect the monumental impact of digital marketing and locating customers using digital technologies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The battalions of would-be customers that can be located on digital platforms are pretty much bigger than the type of customers you will identify locally and physically&period; Through the effective use of digital marketing&comma; the probability of your business reaching a large number of people is measurably high&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Amongst other importance of digital marketing are&colon; customer service&comma; reaching out to a vast global marketplace&comma; locating your potential customers most sufficiently&comma; less cost when compared to conventional marketing methods&comma; getting the right feedback to improve your business modules&comma; etc&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Many business owners in Nigeria have this way imaginary thinking of they don’t enough resources to lunch a digital marketing campaign&period; Many of them prefer to hold onto the traditional means of marketing and believe that as time goes by customers will find them since they have a small number of customers&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;While this is true&comma; it is not the best market strategy to reach out to an enormous audience&period; Today&comma; to give your brand&sol;business a professional stand&comma; you need an online presence&period; If your customers can’t find you online&comma; then there is a possibility of them avoiding your business like a plague&period; This what people do&colon; They first use Search Engines or Social Media Platforms for a product and if they find what they are looking for&comma; that is the end – one-click and boom&comma; they become your customers&period; Plus&comma; they may even refer customers to you&period; That’s easy&comma; you know&excl;<br &sol;>&NewLine;If you live in Nigeria and have been avoiding digital marketing&comma; you may have a rethink because that is where the money is – where you can drive your business goals to reach out to customers&period; And remember&comma; competition is increasing rapidly&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>You make a choice&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Harun Inuwa<br &sol;>&NewLine;Content Strategists<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER -->&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad5" id&equals;"quads-ad5" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; 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