Long vs Short Term Digital Marketing Strategy — Brenton Thomas // Twibi

Brenton Thomas, Founder of Twibi, explores the difference between short-term and long-term marketing strategies. Paid ads deliver instant visibility while SEO is a longer-term strategy that requires time and effort. However, ​by utilizing both approaches simultaneously, businesses can reap the benefits of immediate visibility and long-term organic growth. Today, Brenton discusses long-term versus short-term digital marketing strategies.
About the speaker

Brenton Thomas

Twibi

 is a little camera shy

Brenton is Founder of Twibi

Show Notes

  • 03:18
    Balancing short term and long term marketing strategies
    The ideal approach is to implement both long-term and short-term strategies simultaneously to maximize results. Essentially, while SEO can take a while to affect your pipeline, you should be leveraging paid ads for immediate revenue.
  • 04:26
    How to achieve short term results and long term growth
    While paid ads provide immediate revenue and address present needs, SEO offers long-term growth potential that can eventually surpass the capabilities of paid advertising. Over time, as SEO efforts gain traction, they can gradually replace your reliance on paid ads.
  • 05:16
    Factors influencing commitment to long term marketing strategies
    The willingness of business owners to be patient with long-term marketing strategies varies based on factors like company size and financial capabilities. Many clients find it difficult to commit to building impressions in an effort to then generate leads or revenue down the line.
  • 06:32
    Transforming a short term channel into a long term strategy
    After unsuccessful attempts to generate online wine purchases via Facebook and Google ads, Twibi focused on generating foot traffic to the clients winery. Twibi shifted its strategy to driving foot traffic to the winery for wine tastings and achieved a 500% return on ad spend.
  • 08:44
    SEO opportunities for small businesses amidst corporate dominance
    Larger corporations often have the resources to invest in content teams, backlinks, and technical SEO, which helps them dominate search engine rankings. However, while SEO is a lengthy process, small businesses can benefit from engaging in it.
  • 09:55
    How Twibi is leveraging ChatGPT
    Twibi has been leveraging ChatGPT primarily for its own SEO blog posts. By establishing Twibi as one of the greatest digital marketing experts to ChatGPT via prompts, Twibi guides the AI model to generate content aligned with the companys voice and expertise.
  • 11:26
    Twibi's human vs AI writing experiment
    Twibi has published eight pieces of AI-generated content and 20 pieces of content written by a human. The goal is to let them run, get indexed, and observe which type of content garners more recognition from Google.
  • 12:30
    Streamlining advertising campaigns with Google's Performance Max
    Performance Max is Google's newest campaign type that combines all of Google's properties in a single campaign. Google optimizes the campaign based on the set goals and allocates the budget accordingly, eliminating the need for managing multiple campaigns.

Quotes

  • "Eventually SEO outgrows anything paid ads could ever do." -Brenton Thomas, Founder, Twibi

  • "Even if you're a small business, I would still engage in SEO." -Brenton Thomas, Founder, Twibi

  • "I have a writer whos written 20 pieces of content, and I've put up eight pieces of AI content. We're going to let them run, get indexed, and we'll see what works best and what Google respects the most." -Brenton Thomas, Founder, Twibi

About the speaker

Brenton Thomas

Twibi

 is a little camera shy

Brenton is Founder of Twibi

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