Seo vs PPC Advertising
Every business success revolves around revenue generation, which means that sales should be there, which in turn revolves around lead generation. This brings a business face to face with the most important question i.e. visibility.
Visibility, when it comes to online has loaded meaning. Visibility to anyone or everyone can be easily achieved via Google ads, Meta ads or SEO but having visibility can be a proper and reliable lead if it has reached the right audience.
Generating leads – is a complex task. A call is not necessarily a lead if it is not from the right audience, i.e. age group, area, socio economic group, etc. Lead generation is also to be considered from the perspective of cost per lead generation metric.
The options – Google ads, Meta ads or seo are the platforms that can generate leads. For a beginner or start-up the best strategy will be to Invest in ads on different platforms because organic SEO will take time to be effective and start delivering results.
In Short term – Success in Google ads and Meta ads needs Immaculate planning. Technical part is not sufficient, understanding the product is vital to success. You cannot target all the keywords you want, Google controls where you can put an ad in and creates artificial competition to push prices up.
Goods and bads of seo – In long term SEO is important, it gives you peace of mind, it is visible 24*7 and a larger number of keywords can be targeted. Less competitive keywords deliver better results because of low competition. Being visible for more keywords creates brand via increased visibility, trust increases leading to better returns.
According to SEO MADE EASY Company, SEO needs investment for at least 3 months before you start seeing financial returns – which may be difficult for a new business with not so much capital to spare. This makes it important to have a plan before you start SEO. It is a sustained process, if you stop midway for a few months to start again later you lose a substantial portion of work, if not all. It has to be a sustained activity by all means and reaching that breakeven is important, once you achieve that there is no looking back.
Goods and bads of google ads and meta ads – google ads and meta ads can generate instant revenue if run by an expert which can be at least a multiple of 3 rising upto 10. It is not easy to find the right expert with an affordable fees for a new business to achieve the above targets. Risk is the same as is in the case of SEO.
These ads may time and effort larger than your expectation which may at times take a couple of months before getting fully optimised, which for a new business may be unbearable. Sometimes competition may be higher making things more difficult.
The safe strategy – All the above discussion leads us to the difficult question how to plan to create a winning strategy & be able to generate investable revenue. Expert planning is important to create a successful strategy and create a breakeven within the available resources – we have listed out the important points that can guide a start up.
- · Understand resources available,
- · Have a clear understanding of competition,
- · Think about cash flow difficulties that can arise
- · Keep at least 30% resources spare in case you may need and
- · Finally selecting the right team that has experience
