3 Business Aviation Internet Marketing Tips & Trends

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1. Web Design

If you want to start marketing your aviation business online, you’ll need to build a website that not only looks great, but is strategically built to enter customers into your sales funnel.

Why?

Studies have shown that when users are researching a business online, 84% of their first impression in regards to determining whether a business is trustworthy or not is related to their website design. Building trust is an essential element of marketing. If your site is clunky, difficult to navigate, or looks like it was built 20 years ago, it will have the opposite effect and users will steer clear.

However, design is only half the battle. Your website needs to be strategic, with calls to action that entice your customer to make a purchase, use your services, or volunteer their contact information.

Once your website is up to date and strategic, the next question you ask yourself needs to be, “How are people going to find my website?”

2. SEO

SEO, short for search engine optimization, is a digital marketing strategy airlines and the aviation industry can use to improve their rankings in search engines such as Google. Businesses can target search terms, known as keywords, that are relevant to their particular niche. For example, you may want to target a search term such as “FBO in Florida” or “Private Aviation membership” in order to attract potential customers who are searching for those terms.

Today’s consumer loves doing their research online before making a purchase decision. In fact, 92% of all online experiences begin with a search engine. For businesses who rank high in search engines, this could mean a steady stream of web traffic from people who are actively searching for your products or services. However, 75% of all searches don’t go past the first page of results. This means that ranking on the first page is not only highly profitable, it is also difficult, competitive, and can take months for it to start working in full-effect.

3. Social Media

Social media marketing can be an excellent way to engage your audience regularly when they aren’t on your site or searching for your business. It’s easy to create a social media page for your business and start posting content. However, without any real strategy, how do you know if your social media is actually profitable?

A proper social media marketing strategy for the private aviation business uses professional, high-quality media along with strategic calls-to-action to generate brand awareness and foster curiosity about your brand. Using different analytical tools and insights, we are able to create optimized social media campaigns that will convert your audience at a higher rate.

4. PPC

Pay-per-click, or PPC, advertising is a model of internet marketing in which advertisers display an ad on a host site, such as Facebook or Google, and pay a fee every time their ad is clicked. In some cases, the audience your ad is shown to is determined by factors such as age, interests, and geographic location. Other platforms allow you to target an audience based on search terms the audience is looking for, allowing you to take advantage of similar opportunities offered by SEO.

1. Content is King!

Having great content on your site, social media pages, blog, and advertisements is arguably the most important aspect of your online campaigns. Without good ad copy, you’re not going to convert. Without good media, your social pages will look amateur. Thin or irrelevant content means you will never rank on search engines.

Over the past decade or so, marketing has changed more than it has in the past century. Experts estimate today’s average American is exposed to 4000 ads on a daily basis. Modern consumers living in a world that is hyper-saturated by ads have learned to tune out and ignore intrusive ads. People DVR their TV shows to fast forward through ads, unsolicited phone calls are ignored, and online technologies block annoying popup ads. The public has become adept at avoiding and ignoring traditional forms of advertising.

For marketers, this meant having to change their approach to marketing. Nowadays, you don’t directly sell to your audience, you provide them with value. You engage, educate, and entertain them. Creating content that is high-quality and shareable not only engages your audience, it also positions you as an expert within your field. Information and value build trust in your audience, making them more likely to make a purchase or use your services.

2. Set Up Analytics & KPI Goals ASAP

One of the biggest advantages internet marketing has over traditional marketing is the valuable data and real-time analytics you gain from your campaigns.

In the past, there was no way of knowing exactly how many people saw your billboard, read your listing in yellow pages, read your pamphlet, etc. With internet marketing, you can see how many people viewed your ad, their age, demographic, how many people clicked, how many people left after they clicked, where they left your site once they did click, and other valuable metrics you can use to optimize and tweak your digital marketing campaigns for maximum ROI.

This also opens the door for what is known as A/B testing. A/B testing involves changing variables in your digital campaigns, one at a time, to test their performance and effectiveness. You can A/B factors such as visual content, headlines, copy, audiences, keywords, and so on.

3. Make the Most Out of Your Current Customer Base

Digital marketing in the airline and aviation industry can maximize the profitability of a single customer by increasing the chance that they’ll become a repeat customer and increasing customer lifetime value. Here are two strategies to employ that accomplish just that:

1. Email Marketing: email marketing is the most cost-effective way to market online. Sending monthly newsletters with promotions, product announcements, and news from your company or niche is a great way to engage a user-base that is already familiar with your brand. Free software exists that allows you to send hundreds of emails a day. The challenge, however, exists in getting people to actually read your email and sending them into your funnel.
2. Remarketing: remarketing, or retargeting, is a term used for running PPC ads using people who have previously visited your site as an audience. Retargeting typically has a lower cost-per-click (CPC) than other ads and can be a quick way to recapture some of those missed conversions.

Many companies make it their goal to generate new leads and sales, but neglect to make an effort to increase their Average Order Volume (AOV) or Customer Lifetime Value (CLV). Acquiring a customer costs roughly 3 times as much as retaining an existing one, make sure you are maximizing profitability out of a single customer.