Here’s How 5G Will Transform Digital Marketing

The world for over 600 million smartphone users in India can potentially run at 500Mbps! Umm, what? And why is a digital marketing agency in Ahmedabad talking about it?

Well understand it this way, with an internet speed of 500 Megabytes transferring every next second you can stream a 4k movie on over 20 separate devices at once or can conduct over 300 Zoom calls together. That is just a glimpse of what the fifth generation of wireless networks can do. It is within this evolving potential of the 5G network that is transforming the digital marketing territory, like more immersive e-commerce experiences and improved consumer interaction for website development companies.

This has got the attention of all the top digital marketing agencies in the world. But what exactly is 5G and how is it remaking digital marketing services? Let’s break down this smorgasbord into digestible chunks, but one byte at a time.

WHAT IS 5G: THE BRILLIANCE OF WIRELESS NETWORKS?

The genius of 5G lies in the later element: the ‘G’ that stands for ‘Generation’. To unravel it one has to begin with 1980 when the world was introduced to 1G. With a speed of 2.4Kbps, the first generation of wireless networks then only allowed analog for voice calls.

Then in 1991 came in 2G with digital text message support at 50Kbps, this for a digital marketing solutions company would equate to 0.05 Mbps today, not enough to even upload a post! With the advent of 3G and 4G networks came video calls and HD streaming as the internet speed reached around 100 Mbps.

Now with the rise of the 5G networks consumers now get high speed, low buffering or delay, large data capacity, higher connection density and improved overall mobile experience.

As a top provider of digital marketing services and a website developer, Flora Fountain has listed out the potential ways 5G is changing digital marketing strategies and its approach to users.

IMPACT OF 5G ON THE DIGITAL MARKETING IN INDIA

5G knocks with enormous opportunities, especially for brands that are willing to leverage more anchored marketing strategies and provide an immersive consumer experience by curating newer mediums and custom-made messaging.

This can be seen in the following waves of changes:

1. 5G DIGITAL MARKETING: THE PARADOX OF PERSONALISATION

With higher speed and a wide range of connectivity, it is no surprise that the number of internet users will increase greatly. This will also come as an inflow of a new and more dynamic audience base from remote locations.

As a result collecting data under the 5G network will improve massively. This hyper-localisation will give more insights into consumer patterns and behaviour, hence adding a cover of a new segmentation of the target audience.

All this will boil down to the hyper-personalisation of messages and other extensions of communication like media, user interactions, experience creation and an ever-evolving data bank that is always available at the fingertips of a digital marketing agency in Ahmedabad, Amsterdam or Alexandria.

2. AR & VR WILL BECOME DIGITAL MARKETING REALITY

Currently, 500mbps is more than the average network speed of all the nations across the globe, and with the introduction of 5G to daily life digital space will become more efficient with AR and VR as tools for digital marketing.

Even presently Instagram, Snapchat, Apple and many video games have experimented with AR and VR, but once 5G enters the arena with a much larger user base every digital marketing agency will jump for VR ads and special campaigns.

Apart from this, AR and virtual reality will prove to be a more immersive experience for the consumer as they can in real-time interact with virtually crafted elements and engage more efficiently.

For instance, giving a VR test drive to the consumer at the launch of a new car or website developers can now provide a near-life experience with the products on an e-commerce website. All this will impact the consumers’ purchasing decisions and their journey with the product.

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5 Simple Steps to Master Customer Relations on Social Media.

“You are in queue, please wait.”

“Aap qatar mein hain, kripya pratiksha kijiye.”

If this makes you feel angry and helpless all at once, then congratulations, you too have experienced the good ol’ customer service of the 80s and 90s. An era when customer service was king and all the customer could do was wait and wait and then wait some more to finally be heard and sometimes maybe served.

Contrast this with 2022.

Airline lost your luggage? Tweet at them.

Your favourite tea brand did not live up to your expectations? Slide into their DMs.

Had a great customer experience at your local coffee shop? Make a reel on Instagram with your favourite barista as collaborator doing his moves to the latest Harry Styles song and tag the coffee shop so they can reshare it too.

As you might know, building a successful brand is about consistency. Small steps performed regularly to bring brand reality closer to brand goals. In the digital world, these steps often involve marketing to new eyeballs on social media, such as Instagram, Facebook, Youtube etc, and search engines such as Google and Bing. But one of the most important steps to ensure that these new eyeballs and customers stay is to build and nurture a lasting relationship with them with genuine and helpful customer service.

For customers and businesses alike, social media has become an easy and effective way to connect and engage with each other. Whether it is feedback received in-the-moment of the customer’s experience, the launch of a new line of products, the brand’s stand on a social issue or even engaging with other brands. Social media has made it easier for brands to become more human. By standing out and staying connected. But you might be wondering: how does one begin treading these social media waters as a brand? How much is too much? And what tone should a brand adopt?

The digital marketing mavericks from Flora Fountain, the top social media marketing agency in Ahmedabad have come up with some simple steps for brands to follow on social media to build customer relationships that last. Let’s

SOCIAL LISTENING

It is important for a brand to have its ear to the ground on the internet to know what people are talking about it online, what trends are being followed by its potential customers. This activity of monitoring various digital platforms, topics and keywords to identify important mentions of the brand and its related topics is called Social Listening.

Brands can modify and enhance their promotional campaigns and customer communications based on this information collated through social listening. While there are many paid online tools available to assist with this actively, the top digital marketing agency in Ahmedabad Flora Fountain does it the old school way, by regularly scouring through platforms like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit, etc. through targeted keywords, phrases and topics.

This way, the social media managers are able to assist their clients in resolving their issues by offering insightful responses to their inquiries, and make better educated selections.

TAKING FEEDBACK & ACTING ON IT

Feedback helps brands understand what their customers like, what are their pain points, evaluate how their target audience perceives them. With social media making communication between customers and businesses all the more direct, the cycle of feedback has become quicker and hence brands have to be all the more quicker in responding to them.

Show the customers that their inputs are valued by putting their suggestions and requirements into visible action. From launching new products, services or any interesting and useful feature, implementation of customer feedback received through DMs, reviews and other avenues can help brands gain their trust and loyalty. It shows that you hear their concerns and needs and you’re willing to act on it for their benefit.

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Channelling the Festive Spirit with Digital Marketing

“To Market or Not To Market…Digitally?”

That is the question. With festivals knocking on the door and people cashing in on their bonus there will be an increase in spending across different market segments. But who wants to hustle in traffic, reach the market and only to find out that the desired product is out of stock…NOBODY! And why would anyone, when the same product is just a tap away? Don’t forget, 63% of ‘products purchases’ worldwide begin online. So it’s time! To invest in festive marketing, especially online.

WHAT IS FESTIVE MARKETING

But, what exactly is festive marketing and what is in there for me, you may ask. Hear it from us, the best Digital Marketing Agency in Ahmedabad. When a brand capitalises on the spirit of gifting and spending to amplify its visibility and sales then it’s referred to as festive marketing. Seasonal and event-based marketing also constitute festive marketing.

Remember Surf Excel’s #RangAccheHain advertising campaign on Holi? That campaign was grounded in the thought that a festival is always memorable and special when celebrated with family. This heartwarming campaign didn’t just create engagement for the brand but also brought smiles to the viewer’s faces and conveyed a sense of warmth and affinity with the idea of the product.

From television commercials to digital marketing, occasion-based marketing has always allowed brands to adapt and blend the mediums effectively. Cadbury, another case in point, has often put to use its heritage of being a ‘family brand’ to capitalise on the event and festive-based marketing.

With the Madbury campaign, the brand allowed the consumers to create their own customised Cadbury virtually on a website. The intent was to engage customers and explore their local and unique take on their product. The campaign observed 823 million impressions and 17 million fans were engaged.

WHY SHOULD BRANDS CARE?

PEOPLE LOOK FORWARD TO SPENDING ON SPECIAL OCCASIONS

As per a survey by LocalCircles, Indian consumers have the propensity to make big-ticket purchases during festivals. Because for people it’s a season of consuming, they look forward to spending. Whether it’s Dushhera or Diwali, Raksha Bandhan or Christmas, celebrating has always meant gifting and giving.

It’s imbibed in our culture to spend and give when we are happy, to welcome novel things home. Thus, the festive season opens an enormous amount of opportunities for brands and local companies to drive engagement and conversions. Moreover, extensive lockdowns have altered consumer habits in a significant manner. So, now your brother won’t leave his office early to look for gifts during Raksha Bandhan. He will probably go through a wide range of offers online and give you the most amazing gift you deserve.

So you might want to make the best of the festive season and will be looking for a proficient and reliable Digital Marketing Agency, if yes then Flora Fountain is at your aid. Call us!

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How to Use Pinterest in a Brand’s Digital Marketing Strategy

Just pin it! If you’ve come across this term through a friend, colleague, associate or even your mother, you know you’ve got a Pinner. This is a colloquial term used for people who use Pinterest on a regular basis and they have an evolved sense of exploring the internet.

Now, time for some facts! Around 433 million people use Pinterest every month to find ideas and inspire their next purchase. As of January 2022, Pinterest is the 14th largest social media platform in the world with over 60% of their audience being women, and have also witnessed a 30% year on year increase in Indian Pinners aged 25 to 34 years.

This is music to the ears of every top digital marketing agency in Ahmedabad or anywhere in the world. Wondering why? Read on to know how we use Pinterest in our brands’ marketing strategies.

CONVERT YOUR PINTEREST PROFILE INTO A BUSINESS PAGE

Pinterest allows its users to create two types of accounts on its platform, i.e. Personal and Business. The business profiles are professional pages and provide the user with various additional tools like Pinterest Analytics, Visual Search Tool, and Pinterest Ads.

If a user already has an account with Pinterest, they can simply create a linked Business account with a completely separate name, bio, links and pins. Another way is to create a new business page from scratch.

A Pinterest Business Profile must have the official business name, the logo, a short bio introducing the business and a website, if there is one. To verify the website, Pinterest provides the user with a code snippet that they need to place on their site, with the help of a developer or through WordPress plugins.

PLAN YOUR CONTENT, BUILD A VISUAL STORY

The end goal of any business is to sell. So it goes without saying that the content that needs to go up on Pinterest should be in line with the services they provide or the products they sell.

People use Pinterest as a Visual Search Engine, specifically when they just have a vague idea of what they want. So, if a business is a retailer or an online store, they must be taking stunning product photos and turning them into pins.

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Kamaii Ki Kahani – Marketing a Home-Cooked Food Ordering & Delivery App

Flora Fountain is not new to marketing and promoting food brands digitally. Some of our highly successful campaigns as a social media marketing company in Ahmedabad, India have been for prominent restaurant chains, cafes and hotels.

But, Kamaii is different. It was not just another food ordering and delivery app. It is a novel idea, which has come to fruition thanks to the efforts and intentions of the client and their team of home chefs, to make food accessible to the multitudes left wanting post-pandemic. However, when Flora Fountain was on-boarded as one of the best digital marketing companies in Ahmedabad, the audience was yet to see and experience the concept.

Here’s how we made it happen: Kamaii ki Kahaani.

ABOUT KAMAII – THE CLIENT

Kamaii is the brainchild of Darshan and Stuti Jani, first-generation entrepreneurs and venture capitalist couple, who wanted to bring together the talented home chefs of Ahmedabad and the food-loving Amdavadis who crave and need a delicious home-cooked meal, but somehow do not have access it.

This mobile platform allows home chefs to create a profile and put up theri homemade meals and snacks. Customers looking to enjoy homemade food for lunch, dinner or snacks, can then place their orders on the app.

Once the order is received, the Kamaii home chefs, known as Kamaii Food Partners, start preparing the food from scratch using fresh ingredients. As soon as the order is ready, a Kamaii Rider Partner picks up the order from the Kamaii Food Partner’s home and delivers it to the doorstep of customers.

The variety of food options on the app include Gujarati meals, Punjabi thalis, Rajasthani cuisine, freshly baked goodies, popular local snacks & even desserts.

This app is available for both Android and iOS users and can be downloaded from the Google Play Store and App Store.

OBJECTIVES OF THE BRAND

A lot of homes lost their source of earning post-pandemic. One of the main objectives of the brand Kamaii is to provide a platform for home chefs to use their cooking skills and to earn extra income or “Kamaii” for their family. The other fallout of the pandemic was that a lot of people, such as students, senior citizens and even office and factory-workers were left without access to a fresh, home-cooked meal, which is a basic necessity. Through Kamaii, the brand also tries to solve this problem of accessibility to healthy and fresh home cooked meals..

According to the client, Kamaii brings people together for the joy of enjoying fresh homemade meals that are prepared with passion!

CHALLENGES WITH THE BRAND/OBSERVATIONS BY FLORA FOUNTAIN

Brand name connect. The end-user had to understand the idea behind the name itself. Kamaii, in Hindi and Gujarati, means ‘Earning’. While the app is actually a food ordering app. So, we had to decipher and break down the connection for the user.

Brand name searchability. There was an additional ‘i’ at the end of the name, which was something not many knew about, and made it difficult for people to find it on the various app stores.

Inconsistency in brand messaging. Every platform had a different description for the app and the brand. This could be misleading for potential customers, partners and clients.

Communicating to different audiences. Kamaii had two audiences it needed to target. One needed to target home chefs so they could be made aware of the platform, its earning potential and on-boarded, second was the end-user who had to be made aware about the app usage, download and USPs such fresh made-to-order home-cooked food. There is also a third smaller TG and app connecting delivery partners. The messaging to each of these groups was being done the same way, without speaking to any of them.

Strong brand voice/identity missing. Because of the undefined target audience, improper language use and inconsistency in messaging, the brand lacked a uniform and distinctive voice. Right from the messaging on social media to the app bios and descriptions on multiple platforms, to the videos uploaded on YouTube.

Digital Branding Solutions provided by Flora Fountain as the best social media marketing company in Ahmedabad, India

• Brand Positioning
  We redefined the way the brand is being positioned in the market. Since people were confused by the unique name and the similarity in the services offered to that of other food delivery apps, we focused instead on the human touch, clearly demarcating the mission, vision and services of the brand across various digital platforms.
  
  
• Social Media Marketing
  Social media was one of the first places where we swung into action, which gave the brand a fresh look and feel through upgraded and consistent designs and simple but well-written content.
  We reintroduced the brand, showcasing the people behind Kamaii, the home chefs, and the various Indian homemade delicacies they prepare every day and even for special occasions.
  
  
  
  One of the more popular campaigns we ran recently was the De Thaali campaign, centered around one of their most ordered products on the app, the lunch thaali, by running a quirky yet relatable series of posts around it, highlighting the low price point, the various types of thaali and the various offering available in a thaali.
  
  
• Content clean up, improvement and creation
  One of the most important parts of this exercise was the clean-up and improvement of the content put out for the brand, across platforms. Right from the bio on Instagram, to the messaging that goes out on the app through notifications, we rewrote and restructured the entire brand communication strategy for Kamaii.
  
  The reason was simple, our research revealed that people who use the app aren’t looking to read lengthy prose, they simply want information about the product, and easy to understand messaging.

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Tap Into Your Loyal Customer Base & Boost Sales with Remarketing In Digital Marketing

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No, we haven’t pivoted into selling coffee from being a creative advertising agency in Ahmedabad or digital agency! But, we’re sure that the above text did remind you of having something familiar, either as a text message, email or a push notification on the phone. This is an example of a brand trying to lure back its existing customers to keep shopping with them regularly. This is the brand remarketing itself to stay relevant, maintain a loyal customer base and keep the sales going. The example here is of a prominent Indian coffee brand pitching one of its popular summer brews as soon as the weather started getting hotter.

BUT, WHAT IS REMARKETING?

Remarketing is a type of marketing activity that focuses on consumers who have previously shown interest in the brand. This interest could be in the form of a visit to the brand’s website, following it on social media, or clicking on any of their ads online.

The idea behind remarketing is to reach out to the most receptive audience, the one that already has an interest in the brand. Remarketing is basically rekindling such an audience’s interest and drawing them back. The chances of conversions are always higher when remarketing to this loyal audience.

REMARKETING VS RETARGETING

Remarketing is sometimes considered as retargeting. Yes, they do sound eerily similar, but there is a slight difference.

Retargeting is usually done to serve ads across various platforms, such as social media and Google Ad Network, to potential customers based on their past interaction on digital mediums with the brand.

Remarketing is reaching out to users and website visitors through messages and mails making a sales pitch, with the help of the contact information shared by them while subscribing or making a purchase earlier.

However, over the years, remarketing has become an umbrella term, of which retargeting is a part alongside the many other marketing activities which engage existing customers and previous website visitors.

SO…HOW DOES REMARKETING WORK?

Let us understand this using an example of a remarketing activity that Flora Fountain performed in its role as creative advertising agency in Ahmedabad for one of our ecommerce clients.

Sujith visited the www.falguni.shop ecommerce website of Falguni Gruh Udhyog, a famous farsan and snack store in Ahmedabad. He purchased some delicious Gujarati snacks and chose to get them delivered to his friend living in New Delhi. Now, for the purchase to be completed, Sujith had to create a profile on the website by providing his email ID and contact number. In the next step, he had to provide his friend’s information, like her name, address, email ID and contact number for the delivery to be done.

A week later, both of them receive an email that looked something like the one below:

While Sujith ignored the email, it piqued his friend’s interest and later that day, she ended up visiting the website and ordering the Theplas and some more Gujarati snacks.

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The Longer the Better! Why Long-Form Content Is Crucial To Effective SEO

No two writers will ever agree on the same answer when it comes to long-form content. One argument we as an SEO company offering digital services in Ahmedabad constantly battle with, is that given that the attention span of netizens is getting shorter, we must write shorter, crisp content.

But, what about the readers who wish to attain complete information, in detail from us? And of course, it will hamper the SEO activity since short-form content will never be able to touch the minimum length requirements for it.

Let’s try and understand what exactly do we mean when we say long-form content, and why it still holds importance in content marketing.

WHAT IS LONG-FORM CONTENT?

There have been multiple definitions of long-form content. While some claim that any blog that crosses the threshold of 700 words is long-form, content marketing experts suggest that informative articles that are more than 1200 words are considered long-form content.

Flora Fountain’s SEO experts have always believed that any blog or article that wishes to rank higher on the search pages, must be of minimum 800 words, and should have all the relevant keywords.

And writing long-form content comes with a plethora of benefits for brands that wish to grab as much attention it wants on the internet. Here’s how…

GAIN MORE BACKLINKS

Google prefers high-quality content and link-building to rant any website on the search engine results page (SERP). And long-form content has a greater probability of earning quality backlinks.

HubSpot, in its research The Anatomy of a Shareable, Linkable & Popular Post found that articles with a word count of over 2500 words earn the most links. Short content on the other hand has 75% fewer backlinks than articles of average length (900–1200 words).

DRIVES TRAFFIC TO THE SITE

SEMrush further studied over 700,000 articles to come to a conclusion that articles with more than 3000 words generate 3 times more traffic than articles with 90-1200 words. In another study, HubSpot found that articles with 2,250 to 2,500 words earn the most organic traffic.

Here’s another fun fact that we came across. Founder of NP Digital and prominent digital marketer Neil Patel had clocked over 100,000 visitors every month in the first year itself of launching his website Neil Patel. Wondering how? Well, obviously his content is rich with data, facts and detailed knowledge about digital marketing, but apart from that, his blogs are anywhere close to 4000 words.

The point we’re making here is that when you write quality content in long-form, using the keywords strategically, search engines will definitely rank you higher and drive traffic towards your website.

RAISES CLICK-THROUGH RATE

Click-through-rate (CTR) is the ratio used to gauge how the keywords, advertisements and SEO listings are performing. A simpler way to explain this, is that the number of clicks an ad receives is divided by the number of times it is shown to people online. For instance, if an ad is shown to 100 people, and 5 of these people clicked on the ad, its CTR is 5%.

Search engines use this data to see if a page on a website is informative enough to the users or not. Less clicks means the page is not able to fulfill users’ query. So, they move the page down in the search rankings.

And when writing long-form content, it gives enough room to write compelling headers, description tags, and place multiple keywords on strategic locations of the write-up. These smartly written titles, headers and descriptions, peppered with keywords entice the user to click on it when shown of the SERP. And once pulled in, it can also reroute them into exploring the multiple offerings and pages on the site.

INCREASES DWELL TIME

Dwell time is the amount of time any visitor spends on a particular site. This metric shows Google if a website or any page on the website is worth spending time on or if that page is fulfilling the needs of the user. If a website has a short dwell time, Google finds it irrelevant to the search query.

Long-form, good quality content gets more eyes on the page. It increases the dwell time as people stay on the page for a longer period of time.

TIPS TO WRITE LONG-FORM CONTENT

• Avoid writing in long-drawn sentences. Break down the information into shorter sentences and then place them into a paragraph.
• Try listicles (Thank you BuzzFeed). People LOVE lists! Instead of big blocks of paragraphed content, list out the points and write shorter descriptions for them.
• Set a flow for the content. For instance, decide a specific number of words for the opening, the introduction to the topic. Number the bullet points that cover the soul of the story and again fix a specific number of words for description of each.
• Add source links to every study and research quoted in the article, helps with the back-linking.

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5 most common Digital marketing myths busted

“I have a small business; I don’t have to do digital marketing right now”

“Email marketing? Does it even work today?”

These are some of the most commonly used rebuttals by entrepreneurs when they are asked to hire a digital marketing agency for their businesses. Now, they either don’t know what digital marketing is, or have heard and believe in the various misconceptions around it.

But, what are these misconceptions about digital marketing, and how are they detrimental to businesses, if not busted? Read on to know the 8 most common digital marketing myths.

1. DIGITAL MARKETING IS ONLY FOR BIG BUSINESSES

Digital Marketing provides all businesses, big or small, with equal opportunities on the internet. With a well-researched and proven digital marketing strategy, small businesses can compete with big brands online, allowing it to reach a wider audience despite having a standard marketing budget for it. A Forrester study states that post pandemic, businesses should ideally spend around 46% of their total marketing budget on digital marketing now.

In today’s day and age, digital marketing is an indispensable strategy for every business no matter what size it is. Because whether it is a smartphone or a roll of toilet paper, people are now looking for them online first.

2. NO NEED TO INVEST IN SOCIAL MEDIA

One of the biggest mistakes a business can make in today’s time is to believe that their customers aren’t on social media. According to a study on Statista, over 3.6 billion people were using social media worldwide in the year 2020. These numbers are projected to jump to almost 4.41 billion in 2025.

Having a presence on social media gives businesses the opportunity to promote their products or services to their ideal customer base directly, interact with them more, stay on track with the trends and even sell through these platforms. The possibilities to attract potential customers and generate leads through targeted ads on social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram are endless.

3. DO IT, ONLY IF YOUR COMPETITION IS DOING IT

Now, let us make it very simple here. If your competitors are doing digital marketing, then you should do it too. But, if none of your competitors are online, be the first one to be. Grab that first mover’s advantage and make hay as the sun shines bright.

A brand should stay ahead of the curve when it comes to digital marketing, as not going digital means missing out on a whole new world of new customers a brand can reach. And digital marketing is not just promoting products and services on social media. It includes, email marketing, targeted digital ads, SEO and much more.

Here’s a sneak peek into the various activities done by Flora Fountain, a digital marketing company in Ahmedabad India.

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