explain digital strategy to your mum
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Digital Strategy TO YOUR MUM
She has a tough time explaining to her friends what I do. I’m a Digital Strategist. I asked her to describe my job, she said - “you set up Facebook ads at a dog-friendly agency”.
This is my attempt to explain Digital Strategy to her.
Meet Mum
I help to solve
business problems
with digital
things like
websites & Mobile.
So mum,
It’s pretty
straightforward
most of the time.
you actually did
it as a mum.
Set Client Goals &
Objectives
Identify your
audience
Figure out the problem
Develop a Strategy
Create some
tactics
Measure & optimize
How it’s done
Set Client Goals & Objectives Identify your audience Develop a Strategy Measure & optimize
I have some clients
Set Client Goals & Objectives Identify your audience Develop a Strategy Measure & optimize
So in your case, our family was your client.
Set Client Goals & Objectives Identify your audience Develop a Strategy Measure & optimize
goals
Clients either tell me their goals or I help to set them. Goals are the things they want to achieve in a given time.
Set Client Goals & Objectives Identify your audience Develop a Strategy Measure & optimize
Your goal was to raise me to have a good life.
Set Client Goals & Objectives Identify your audience Develop a Strategy Measure & optimize
• Specific actions taken to get to the goals.
• Change the behavior of the audience.
• They are also SMART
Specific Measurable Actionable Realistic Timely
Set Objectives
Set Client Goals & Objectives Identify your audience Develop a Strategy Measure & optimize
When she is:
Laughs & makes up her own jokes
Has her own
hobbies
Not bitching
about her
school mates
5 10 15 20
Attends a University
perhaps yours were...
Set Client Goals & Objectives Identify your audience Develop a Strategy Measure & optimize
Establish Key Performance Indicators “KPIs”
A list of things that determine whether your objectives are
met in the end.
Set Client Goals & Objectives Identify your audience Develop a Strategy Measure & optimize
KPI’s for a good life:• Healthy• Happy• Safe• Good self-esteem• Big bunch of good friends• Pursue inner talents
Set Client Goals & Objectives Identify your audience Develop a Strategy Measure & optimize
Identify Your Target
Audience
Research everything about who you’re trying to reach and piece it together in a
profile.
Everything you do from this point on should be done with this guy in mind.
Set Client Goals & Objectives Identify your audience Develop a Strategy Measure & optimize
So, that’s me!
DemographicsName | Age | Location
PsychographicsGoals | Motivations | Values
Consumption PatternsAmount | Sources | Pain Points
InfluencesWho | What | Why“Tagline”
Set Client Goals & Objectives Identify your audience Develop a Strategy Measure & optimize
Figure out the problem
The barriers that could stop you from achieving your objectives. This is about your audience’s problems rather than the client’s capabilities.
Your main barrier is rebellion in childhood & adolescence.
Set Client Goals & Objectives Identify your audience Develop a Strategy Measure & optimize
seek audience insights
This is a whole bunch of research about the motivation & behaviors of the audience that will shape your strategy. These are unique and specific to the profile of the audience you made earlier.
Set Client Goals & Objectives Identify your audience Develop a Strategy Measure & optimize
Women in the family are stubborn
as hell
Powerful girls need practice in arguing
helpful insights for your
strategy
Girls are prone to body image issues
Set Client Goals & Objectives Identify your audience Develop a Strategy Measure & optimize
develop a
strategy
This is the framework that gets you from A to B, all described in a creative idea.
Set Client Goals & Objectives Identify your audience Develop a Strategy Measure & optimize
Why? Kids cannot raise themselves
Stubborn women don’t take to being told what to do
Become the
Northern StarGuiding my path without
telling me what to do.
Your strategy
Set Client Goals & Objectives Identify your audience Develop a Strategy Measure & optimize
Create some tactics
These are all the actions you need to do in order for the
strategy to come to life.
Including where the ideas lives & what
form it’s in.
Without tactics, the strategy is just an idea, pretty spreadsheet or flow-chart.
Set Client Goals & Objectives Identify your audience Develop a Strategy Measure & optimize
some of your tactics
Feed me a healthy
diet
Take up work quickly after you
had me in order to make enough
money.
Move homes so I can go to a good school.
Organize a babysitter so I can make basketball & dance practices when you
were working.
Set Client Goals & Objectives Identify your audience Develop a Strategy Measure & optimize
Measure & Optimize
Set Client Goals & Objectives Identify your audience Develop a Strategy Measure & optimize
Once you have the tactics down, set benchmarks for how they perform
towards achieving your KPI’s & objectives. Keep measuring these and
when you notice things beginning to deviate, correct them with other
tactics.
Set Client Goals & Objectives Identify your audience Develop a Strategy Measure & optimize
Measuring my success
1. Zero complaints of being bullied
2. Maintaining a healthy body weight
3. My friends aren’t into bad things
4. A good relationship with my younger sister
5. Achieve grade scores high enough to get into university
Keeping track of
Set Client Goals & Objectives Identify your audience Develop a Strategy Measure & optimize
When my basketball coach wouldn’t let me
play a game because I was that semi-retarded at sport, you had a
word to him and I got one quarter in
the season.
optimizing your strategy
Breaking up fights with my sister and making us be nice
to each other. Even when she cleaned up juice
from the floor with my new jeans so I threw a hairbrush
in her face.
Organized a tutor when I was struggling with Psychology just before exams.
finished.
Thanks Mum for an amazing life.