The covid crisis forced companies to accelerate the digital transformation process they had been experiencing, forcing the implementation of new business strategies that, far from disappearing when the pandemic passes, will remain and be reinforced.
Crib economy, geolocalization, digital shopping... are terms that have always existed in the language spoken by marketing, sales and business strategy experts, but in recent months, such terms have once again echoed, and with great force, in the business strategy discussions of practically all companies in the world.
In the region, it is estimated that more than 4 million people show interest in the digital environment for supermarkets, being Walmart, Pricesmart, Paiz, La Torre, La Colonia and Super Selectos, some of the chains that have better positioned in the minds of consumers.
An analysis of the interests and preferences of consumers in Central America, prepared by the Trade Intelligence Unit of CentralAmericaData, gives interesting results on the preferences and tastes of people in various products, services, store chains, brands and activities.
Does it make sense to keep doing surveys to evaluate, for example, the ranking of a brand, when all the real, honest, and unbiased information can be inferred from people's behavior on the Internet?
"... Traditionally, when teachers or business people needed data, they commissioned surveys. They obtained data in an orderly fashion, either in figures or in boxes marked on questionnaires.
With the reduction of advertising budgets, companies must invest in advertising on social networks, which must be complemented by organic traffic derived from content created on digital platforms.
The outbreak of covid-19 transformed the ways in which Central American consumers behave, as quarantines and measures of restriction and social isolation decreed by governments, generated abrupt changes in purchasing habits and product search.
Fostering innovation when selling or buying real estate is a need that real estate brokers in general have identified among their clients, which they seek to satisfy through digital sales platforms.
According to the vendors' experience, the advantage of digital platforms is that they have the ability to store large volumes of information in an orderly and detailed way, which can also be consulted by potential customers immediately.
Reality check: converting customers doesn’t just happen by accident. These days, B2B marketers need to proactively engineer the buyer’s journey.
Your ability to convert strangers into qualified leads often hinges on your ability to “light up” where you want people to go next as you nurture them from Point A to Point B.
But doing so now is easier said than done.
The first stage begins with promoting of digital media targeting 12 cities in the US, Spain and Canada in the cities of Montreal and Toronto.
From a statement issued by the Tourism Authority of Panama:
The Minister of Tourism in Panama, Gustavo Him, announced the start of an international digital media tourism campaign this week, as part of the inauguration of the Chamber of Tourism of Panama for the period 2017, held last night in a hotel.The first stage of the tourism campaign for Panama, by the international agency VLM, INCwill target 12 cities in the United States, Spain and Canada in the cities of Montreal and Toronto.
Added to the small level of influence that social networks have on consumer purchasing decisions there is also the ever latent danger posed by situations where communication can seriously damage the company's image.
According to a recent survey by Gallup Inc. published by The Wall Street Journal "... a clear majority of Americans say that social media has no effect on their purchasing decisions.
"Users of the microblogging network do not represent real-world consumers ."
Although the network has now reached 230 million users, experts are warning that they are not a fair sample of the population to which companies want to target their advertising messages.
"Twitter is a place for people addicted to their digital devices, who are terribly worried about missing out on the latest tweet by Edward Snowden and are faithful believers that the world is interested in reading all of their publications.
Today, marketing has taken on a complexity that can not be solved by the traditional 4Ps: product, price, place and promotion.
An article by Antonio Jimenez in Elfinancierocr.com shines a light on an issue which before the globalized economy and the digital revolution was solved with the concepts of product, price, place and promotion.
Jimenez reminds us that "Merchandising is the final link in a commercial process, which of course, begins with the creation of a tangible or intangible good."
Measuring results is essential in order to check whether your online communication strategy is successful and profitable.
Accurately defining goals for internet investments and then measuring and analyzing the results of the traffic that company’s web sites record is vital in ensuring the success of that investment.
Gustavo Arias Retana's article in Elfinancierocr.com explains that "within the planning that a company must do to get the most out of its web space, it is essential to define the methods used to measure results. Today, that situation is easier because there are many low cost, or no cost, tools which allow you to have control over traffic on web sites and create profiles of social networking followers."
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