More often than not, marketers believe that the online marketing is the only way to go and that social media campaigns, email newsletters and website ads will produce the best effect.

 

Now, that is mostly true since a large portion of the population is indeed online most of the time. However, traditional marketing still has leverage in the marketing world because not everyone is online all the time.

 

People still watch TV, listen to the radio or read newspapers. Furthermore, it’s important to remember that some products give better results if marketed online, while others produce better results if marketed offline. The trick is to use a little bit of both and truly generate the best effect from the marketing campaigns. Here are a few most effective ways to combine digital and traditional marketing.

 

Advertising both offline and online

 

The basic purpose of advertising is to promote a business or a brand to the target audience, as well as to promote products, services or features. However, the ultimate goal for every marketer is to attract and convert as many people as possible. From that perspective, focusing only on digital or traditional marketing won’t generate the best result. Instead, it will cover only a portion of the online or offline audience.

 

As a matter of fact, both traditional and digital ads share the same principle of attracting different customers; but, abandoning one for the sake of the other may be bad for business. Online ads can deliver a message quickly and efficiently to the audience on social media and networks, while offline ads such as TV ads can deliver a message to offline audiences.

 

Online tactics for offline sales

 

The most of the marketing activities are conducted online and mostly because a lot of people are engaged on either social media and networks or online communities or blogs. Let’s face it, technology didn’t really invent anything new in marketing per se, instead, it digitalized the traditional marketing.

 

However, digital marketing has introduced many different strategies and tactics, besides being much faster and more efficient than the traditional one. 

 

For instance, placing an online promotion for a newly-opened bakery or a brand-new brick-and-mortar store is a good way to increase awareness, but you can’t taste food nor try out clothes online.

 

The problem is that there are plenty more retail stores out there and just an online promotion won’t generate much attention. In that case, you’d have to resort to traditional marketing and attract people to come in and buy something.

 

Online and offline promotions

 

The fact of the matter is that brand awareness attracts attention and sale promotions bring customers. However, not everyone will follow a brand no matter how good your awareness pitch is. People may be aware of your brand, but it doesn’t mean they will become engaged with it, especially people who don’t like spending too much time online.

 

That’s why focusing sales on social media, for example, will make you miss out on some potential customers. Instead, try focusing your sales on both digital and traditional means,delivering a message to your online audience, while promoting discounts and coupons in magazines or brochures for those offline.