9 benefits of working with an outsourced digital marketing agency

Digital marketing is a crucial component in business growth. Innovative and effective, the right digital marketing strategy and vision can propel a business to new heights of success. There are a lot of limitations to trying to achieve this in-house, especially for smaller enterprises. Which is why outsourcing your digital marketing has a lot of benefits.

1. Reduce your own staff training costs

A truly effective digital marketing team receives ongoing training and professional development to stay on top of market change and innovation. This is incredibly costly to achieve in-house and is an expenses that repeats and increases the larger the team grows.

2. The benefit of experience

A digital marketing agency will bring together people with a very wide range of experiences. This reduces the potential for errors and mistakes and ensures that your campaigns are informed by the insights of those who have successfully managed something similar before.

3. Access a much broader pool of expertise

It’s difficult to find the right combination of people to create the perfect digital marketing team for any business. This becomes even tougher when budgets are small and people have to double up on roles. Your team can quickly become overburdened and you’ll often find that you don’t have the right people for the necessary tasks, let alone to help you create new strategy to fulfill a marketing vision. Outsourcing digital marketing provides access to a whole agency of talent, from SEO specialists and experienced writers through to designers, market researchers and analysts.

4. Predictable and streamlined costs

If keeping costs under control is crucial to your digital marketing strategy this is much easier to do with an outsourced digital marketing agency. Avoid the costs of full time employees and buy digital marketing support as and when you need it.

5. Focus on what you do best

Marketing is necessary but if it’s not your core activity or competency then time spent doing it is often wasted. Outsourcing digital marketing to an agency removes this burden from you and your staff, leaving you to focus on the areas where can really add value.

6. Consistency of service

Digital marketing is an ongoing commitment and one that will suffer if interrupted by annual leave or staff sickness within an in-house team. Agencies tend to be far better staffed and can provide consistent digital marketing support no matter what’s going on at your business.

7. Simple to scale

If you need to increase digital marketing in-house then that means going through the process of hiring, which is expensive and time consuming. Working with a digital marketing agency means you can scale up the service you receive to suit the needs of the business – and scale back easily and efficiently if things change again.

8. A cutting edge service

Digital marketing agencies are specialists at the forefront of the sector and tend to be better informed when it comes to the latest techniques, tactics and technologies you can use to optimise your digital marketing campaigns.

9. A fresh perspective

It’s easy to lose broader perspective when digital marketing is handled 100% internally. Working with an outsourced digital marketing agency will bring fresh eyes and perspectives to your goals and objectives.

These are just some of the benefits of outsourcing your digital marketing to an experienced agency like Iconic. We can help you to optimise your efforts and streamline your budgets – contact us to find out more.

Author: Steve Pailthorpe – Follow us on Google+