Top 7 Marketing Tips to Help Your Business Make a Strong Comeback

We hope all our WSI friends, clients and business contacts are staying healthy, complying with the social distancing policy and coping with the Coronavirus situation that our country and the world find ourselves in and are able to keep a positive frame of mind.

Our Montreal Digital marketing team has put together a list of valuable marketing tips that will not only keep you keep you busy during this quiet time but will improve your Web presence and social media properties and allow you to rebound faster on the other side of this work stoppage.

How to Make the Most of this Downtime

Social Media Announcements

The quickest way to reach your audience is via social media. Make a post and let everyone know exactly what your business is doing. Include working hours, remote work, and any changes to your service and the easiest way to communicate with you and your team. During a time when people have less physical access to your business, you can stay connected on social media and share positive messages.

Post Notices on Your Website

Consider adding a popup to attract website visitors’ attention or add a note on the homepage that’s easily visible. Include helpful information about what your business is currently doing. Remember to update your hours, contact info, location, availability, etc.

Take This Time to Update Your Website

Since our government has paused business activity for the next few weeks for the sake of our country’s health, why not take this opportunity to make the revisions to your Web presence that you have been putting aside for the past few months.

Create New Content

In Google’s eyes, content is king. Our Montreal SEO team are big advocates of fresh new content that prospects or clients would find valuable and informative.  Consider writing some FAQs that would be of value for Google’s voice search. Create a Case Study demonstrating how you helped a client solve a unique situation.  By creating new content, it may help increase your search ranking results, so it will pay off in the longer term.

Proactively Work on your Online Reputation

People have plenty of time on their hands over the next few weeks. Take this opportunity to contact clients and ask for reviews and testimonials in Google My Business, Facebook or LinkedIn.  Reviews are important credibility boosters and these user-generated content pieces can be shared on your social media channels in the future.

Create a New Social Media Channel

You have been meaning to create that new social media channel and there is no time like the present. Read a few articles about getting started and go for it. Research some of your competitors for ideas about what to post. Set up your profile with all the relevant info about your business and come up with a plan of the type of info to post and then write a few posts, choose your visuals and then just start. You will learn along the way. If you do not have the time, our WSI marketing team can help you with your social media on an ongoing basis.

Update Your Online Listings

Google My Business, Yelp, Bing Local, etc. These are often the first things people see when searching for your business. Make sure they are updated with your hours and service info.

Send an Email

Yes, we all received numerous emails from businesses about COVID-19 but it’s still important for your business to reach out. Customers (especially those with current purchases, appointments, reservations) should know what’s going and what to expect from you.

Our WSI Team is Here to Help and we are Fully Operational

Here at WSI Digital Marketing, we continue to work remotely, serving our clients. We have launched a number of new websites in the past couple of weeks and have started a number of new projects that our clients decided to initiate, while things are quieter than normal to be better prepared to attract new customers when people get back to work. Our focus is on helping our clients stay relevant during this time, so they can rebound quickly.

Our Message of Hope

It’s such an uncertain time but our hearts are filled with hope. People all over the world are taking action, communities are supporting each other both offline and online. We will get through this and we will better ourselves because of it. Our team is fortunate enough to have the ability to work from home. We are 100% available for our clients and community and are here to provide guidance, discuss new initiatives and are here to support you and your business.

We wish everyone to stay healthy, safe, and hopeful.