Breakout digital marketing requires the strongest force on earth. Imagination.

The power of ideas has always changed the world. But now, over 5 billion people use the internet daily. There are 1.3 billion websites that 80% of your customers research before making a purchase. 33.2 million businesses in the US are competing with you to make a sale. Coupled with the disruptive political and economic turmoil in the news every morning, and the complexity of digital marketing…how can you innovate with this pressure and come up with truly bright ideas?

First, consider the best use of your valuable time. Tracking a digital ecosystem is like trying to catch the wind. It takes an enormous amount of time to understand the current state of technology and even more time to patch it all together into what we marketing people call a “tech stack.” Even then, there are hundreds of solutions: many are misleading and don’t deliver what they promise, some are outright scams, most require advanced technical expertise, and all waste your efforts and money.

It takes time to be brilliant. You can spend that time and money trying to understand the opaque world of digital marketing and putting it all together. Or, just use the best resources now without the struggle, extra personnel, excessive overhead, and demands that keep you from what you want to be doing. Our expertise is making the complex simple to put creativity back in your hands. Spend time using resources to your best advantage, not just gathering them.

The marketing landscape has changed more in the past few years than in the last fifty. We help clients develop integrated marketing communications to reach and influence individuals in their target markets with one voice across rapidly changing media and devices. Our business experience is broad, and our clients have included some of the world’s great brands.

Billions of marketing communications are auto-generated online every instant. Too bad not everyone is listening.

Digital is the heart of modern marketing strategy, but many marketers still struggle to grasp its nuances and get poor results. It is constantly evolving. Those who don’t keep up with the latest trends, technologies, and platforms are rapidly left behind.

The reason is simple. Today’s digital landscape is an incredibly complex ecosystem; what works one day may not the next. Understanding how these elements interact and influence each other is crucial. Staff, training, and software licensing fees are expensive and time-consuming — plus, nobody can be an expert in all technologies. A common estimate is that benefits alone can account for 20-40% of an employee’s total expense. In addition, all online platforms are for profit businesses, so missteps from lack of expertise amplify your costs exponentially.

While the digital arena is filled with false data and pretenders, we’re the real thing. Some of the world’s great companies have trusted us with their brand. You are experts in your business; we are experts in digital marketing. By embracing a hybrid model that integrates the strengths of your in-house and our external team, we create marketing strategies that are data-driven, creatively compelling, and have proven over time to give a higher return on investment.

We can provide an unbiased view of your digital marketing efforts, award-winning, cross-media creative, in-depth capabilities on all digital marketing channels, and leading-edge web development. Another advantage is that we can access advanced tools, software, and partnerships you can’t to enhance your marketing efforts and can pinpoint what works and what doesn’t with full attribution analytics. For less than comparable agencies or what you spend in-house.

You benefit from more time, lower overhead, discount rates — such as fully managed programmatic campaigns with no minimum spend — and cloud-based management tools you can access 24/7. We know what it takes to create a winning digital ecosystem for your company. Plus, the branding and marketing communications we are known for are all in one place.

 

There is one critical element of digital marketing AI can’t provide. Human ingenuity.

Innovation is essential in digital marketing. It’s the lifeblood of any successful digital campaign because of staggering competition — 1.1 billion websites online. Over 85 percent of consumer and business buyers conduct online research before making a purchase. The trick is getting them to find you and then converting a view into a sale. Not everybody can fit on page one; not everyone can convert views to sales.

According to the Wall Street Journal, businesses estimate that they will lose between 20% and 40% of their Google-generated organic traffic as AI search iterations of the search engine continue to roll out. Another recent study found that 82% of buyers chose a brand they were already familiar with, often discovered through search, highlighting the importance of strong brand recognition and visibility.

All surveys indicate people crave trustworthy online sources that can help them make informed purchase decisions. As technology continues to evolve, the demand for accurate and relevant information will only increase. Costs are rising. Leading edge creativity is required. This requires innovation, often not wholly available in-house. Talent, overhead, and continuous training are expensive — that’s where we come in.

We are the nexus that makes technology and humanity work together.

We use AI extensively in digital marketing to enhance critical aspects of the process. While AI can process vast amounts of data and identify patterns, it lacks the spark of human ingenuity. It can’t truly innovate. Without human input, AI is a tool that replicates existing patterns and trends rather than creating something unique and new. Ultimately, the most powerful AI systems will be those that collaborate with human creativity, and that’s our expertise.

We combine the strengths of both to unlock new possibilities and solve complex problems. By combining an in-house and an external team, we create marketing strategies that are data-driven and creatively compelling.

BLAIRCOMM provides leading-edge marketing services that enable companies to engage potential customers from generating the lead to closing the sale. Our work has driven business for some of the world’s great brands as well as small and mid-market companies. All connected in the cloud for 24/7 management. No learning curve. No additional overhead. No extra personnel. Simple. Outsmart your competition; don’t outspend them.