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Digital Marketing 101: Creating Your Digital Marketing Calendar

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Everything we’ve discussed so far in this Digital Marketing 101 series has focused on what to do and a bit about how to do it. But in marketing, timing is everything, and the two parts of timing in marketing are frequency and consistency. So here we’re going to move past what and how and look into when. The most valuable tool in your digital marketing arsenal will help you know when to do something, help you maintain your frequency, and, more importantly, your consistency. That tool is your digital marketing calendar.

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Digital Marketing 101: Measuring Your Digital Marketing Efforts

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“You can manage only what you measure.” There are many different versions of that mantra, and all of them hold true. Just as in fitness and weight loss, if you don’t start with a baseline, take regular measurements, and see what’s working, you can’t make data-driven decisions.

In this second post of six in the series “Digital Marketing 101,” we’re offering up highly practical tasks for you to determine how best to grow your digital presence using data backed by marketing analytics.

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Digital Marketing 101: Social and Search Paid Advertising

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This post is the fifth in a series of six posts we’re calling “Digital Marketing 101,” in which we have broken up the General Assembly Digital Marketing class into six bite-sized chunks for those who are considering entering the digital marketing space, or who need a primer on the basic building blocks of digital marketing. The first four posts covered:

  1. Developing a Brand Strategy
  2. Measuring & Metrics
  3. The Digital Marketing Funnel
  4. Owned Content Marketing

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Digital Marketing 101: Owned Content Marketing

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In the first three parts of this DGM 101 series, we established that your marketing must start with your brand, and your brand is “everything you do.” Then you set up your web property and marketing plans so that you can measure everything and keep a close eye on your KPIs while you determine your budgetary needs by doing the math to get through the marketing funnel.

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Digital Marketing 101: Developing Your Brand Strategy

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Before you start planning and executing a digital marketing strategy, you must first establish your brand strategy. Branding makes perfect sense to very experienced advertising and marketing professionals, but to the startup or small business owner, the term “branding” can be hard to nail down.

In this first post of six in the series “Digital Marketing 101”, we’re going to give you solid steps that you can use to create and execute your brand strategy.

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