HOW TO WRITE THE BEST DIGITAL MARKETING PLAN IN 2025

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HOW TO WRITE THE BEST DIGITAL MARKETING PLAN IN 2025

You are now ready to start to learn the techniques I have used for 18+ years to craft successful digital marketing plans for my clients.

Through this process, I discovered that most of the core principles for writing successful digital marketing plans remain the same regardless of changes in the way brands connect with consumers, different company sizes and types of industries.

However, one fact emerged:

✔️ You should always map out your digital marketing goals, strategies and tactics in a professional and well-written digital marketing plan.

It is in this format that you can only develop a great understanding of what digital marketing campaigns and activities are driving the best results for your business.

Whether you are using the 4 p’s of the marketing mix model or another marketing strategy framework, a well-executed digital marketing plan should always help a business either increase sales, profits and/or brand equity as these are the main goals of any business.

That’s exactly what I do too.

When I start a new business venture, I write a digital marketing plan; plus it is a powerful tool that will serve you for the rest of your business and/or marketing career.

And when I do my job correctly, the best digital marketing strategies and tactics will reach, convert and nurture the most profitable customer segments for my business and  – as a consequence – increase profit and brand equity.

In this article, I will take you through the step-by-step process of writing a successful Digital Marketing Plan.

I think you will be surprised at how easy it is to craft this plan once you read the important steps involved and learn about the strategic marketing thinking process you have to develop.

What you are about to read will take the complexity out of the process while it will show you how you can write a winning digital marketing plan even if you have never written one before.

The most popular comment I get about this article is:

“I now realise how easy is to write a successful digital marketing plan“

Several business owners and marketers have paid me to show them the below steps you are about to learn.

Before you get ready, please sit on a comfy chair or sofa, lock the door and let me guide you through the below steps as you quickly learn how to write your digital marketing plan.

WHAT IS A DIGITAL MARKETING PLAN?

A digital marketing plan is simply a professional document used to map out, record and communicate all your digital marketing goals, strategies and tactical executions.

Even marketing gurus, write “Digital Marketing plans” to sell marketing books.

Do not be surprised to see some of the world’s best marketers’ greatest work started by mapping out a great digital marketing plan.

WHY YOU SHOULD HAVE A WINNING DIGITAL MARKETING PLAN

• Increase your leads and sales. This is the most important reason you should craft a digital marketing plan. Ultimately, your boss has paid you to increase leads and sales. Full point. Your boss would not care more about any other results.
• Strategic planning. A digital marketing plan will help you to easily define and record your goals, strategies, tactics and customer segments. A successful plan will help you map out all the digital marketing activities to support the customer purchase journey.
• Focus. A well-structured digital marketing plan will force you to laser focus on your most valuable customer segments. Anything else will be just a distraction.
• Clarity. A well-written digital marketing plan will ensure expectations from all parties and stakeholders are clear and reduce any misinterpretations of what digital marketing is supposed to achieve for the business.
• Track progress. Having the plan on Google Sheets, you will be able to easily follow the progress of your plan in real-time. This will help with managing teams, allocating responsibilities, budget planning and project management.
• Stakeholder engagement. A well-crafted plan will help you get “buy-in” from key stakeholders in your company while making it easier to brief agencies and contractors.
• Raise your salary. Obtaining great results from your plan will “wow” your boss and you will be able to make a case for a salary increase (more money for you).
• Optimal budget & resource allocation. Do not let the horse go wild. (Agencies would not like you to do this) but tracking your budget against every single digital marketing activity is key. That’s why we have added a budget section to this premium template you are about to get.

Before writing a Digital Marketing Plan

Tips before you start writing a Digital Marketing Plan:

• Do not start from scratch and get a copy of this premium digital marketing plan template (Complete payment on PayPal) bought by top professional marketers and start crafting your digital marketing plan today!
• Do not worry about the first draft. Keep polishing your digital marketing plan every quarter and I will guarantee your plan will improve each year.
• Ensure you follow the sequence I am about to teach you below for the best results.
• Digital executions must be part of your overall marketing strategy and need to sync with your offline, event and other marketing media and customer engagement activities. It should not be a stand-alone plan.
• Gather insights from all stakeholders who deal with customers including sales and customer service/support teams.
• Make sure your digital marketing plan is of easy access by the teams involved with the execution of the plan.
• If a set of meetings are required to define your digital marketing plan with different stakeholders; ensure you have a structured agenda and expected outcomes so the plan gets approved with no delays.

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I didn’t have a clue about writing a Digital Marketing Plan. This is a great and thorough template and I feel now far more confident presenting my plan to the team. The instructions are easy to follow. Most marketers invest their time activating campaigns but do not take the time to think about their strategy. This template forced us to exactly do that: craft our digital marketing strategy. 

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Digital Marketing Strategy Plan – Sections

If you already have a marketing plan, most of the below sections should have already been defined. If that’s the case, you will only need to document activities and goals that pertain specifically to your Digital Marketing activities.

1. Situation analysis

The best place to start, without a question, is your Situation Analysis.

You will define the position of your company within your industry and how to want to solve customers’ needs and desires.

An important question to ask is: Are there any digital media consumption insights and trends affecting the way your most profitable customers are interacting within your industry?

1.1. Market

What the market needs.

Key questions to ask are:

• Are there any trends?
• Are there any new products or services that are growing within the industry that our customers might be also looking to buy?

1.2. Competitive analysis

What are the top 3 competitors, their unique selling propositions and how they are using digital marketing channels to connect with customers?

What different set of unique activities you will be delivering that will provide a unique mix of value to your most profitable customer segment that no other competitor can copy-cat?

1.3. SWOT analysis

A SWOT Analysis is a popular strategic planning technique used to help an organisation identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to business competition or project planning.

If you have already a marketing plan, you are likely to have completed your SWOT analysis, If not, you should write a SWOT analysis for your digital marketing plan.

When completing your SWOT analysis, you should bring any external or internal influencers that may affect your digital marketing goals.

Examples below:

• • Social. Have consumers’ attitudes changed that might affect your sales targets?
  • Legal. Do you comply with privacy and online trading laws?
  • Environment. Will your digital activities or product development/sourcing be ethical and sustainable?
  • Political. Is there any government support you can use for your digital marketing campaigns?
  • Technology. Is there any specific technology you should review that will help you more effectively achieve your digital marketing objectives?

2. The strategy

2.1 Customer segmentation

Let’s discuss one of the most important and basic Digital Marketing sections. If you can understand and learn this single point, you will have mastered a major lesson in Digital Marketing Strategy.

If you have already been in the market for a while with some data about your most profitable customers, you will be able to identify and profile those customers that are bringing the most revenue. Some customer segments are worth more than others and may demand different/more attention.

Customer segmentation strategic decisions may include:

• • Focus on your top one or two most profitable customer segments.
  • Reach a new customer segment
  • Defend a declining customer segment
  • Reactivate a dormant customer segment
  • Relegate a customer segment that is no longer profitable.

Expert tip: you may want to use the Pareto rule. Who are your 20% of customers bringing your 80% of revenue? It is a good idea to not only identify them by demographics but also bring any psychographic data you may have about them: likes, dislikes, media consumption and more. See the illustration below.

Also, it is important to have defined the exact needs at every phase of the customer life cycle (see graph below). This way, you can brainstorm the type of content, experiences and stories to help your customers.

You can use brand sentiment surveys, research and analysis to find out what the overall sentiment is for each customer segment you are targeting. The successful execution of your professional digital marketing plan will help you change the customer segment’s sentiment towards loyalty, affinity and ultimately advocacy.

“People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic” 

Seth Godin

2.2. Digital marketing objectives

Ensure you write each objective using the SMART formula: specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely. Targeting your “most profitable” customer segment will help you focus your Digital Marketing to the people most likely to bring higher Return on Investment (ROI).

• • Short-Term Objectives This calendar year’s objectives – Your strategies and tactics will focus on these.
  • Medium-Term & Long-Term Objectives Top-level objectives to help communicate the changes needed and business transformation in the long term.

2.3. Positioning

Customers will not be able to remember all the cool things you can offer. You will need to pick one positioning and stick to it so people can remember you and differentiate you from the competition.

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2.4. Customer acquisition strategy

Define tools and optimisation methodology to ensure you are consistently reducing the gap between inquiries/visits and successful transactions. An example of a task could be optimising key landing pages on a specific time frame or using a/b or multivariable testing methodologies to optimise your path to conversion.

• • Content. What type of stories you will be sharing or activities that your prime prospect would love to participate in to create buzz? If you have assisted in my “Avoiding Content Tsunami with a Strategy” Master Class, you will recognise the importance of deciding your content pillar to prove your mettle. Especially in the “commoditised” market, you need to build and focus your content around two or max three content topics your audience would love, engage and promote on behalf of you. A great content strategy should help you build resonance with the potential and current customers you are targeting. That’s why you see for example companies like Optus (Australian telco) focused on football and nature/wildlife entertainment only. Optus wants to own that space and be one of the best in delivering that content to its audience.
  • Guest blogging/ expert article contributions.
  • Online events, webinars and/or demos.
  • Affiliate program. Choosing one of the best affiliate marketing software to bring extra sales. What commission/payment structure you will be offering? Define technicalities and challenges in tracking and monitoring.
  • SEO. Write down changes and/or additions to your website to increase rankings in Google and other search engines. Identify the “low hanging fruit” keywords you would like to optimise your website and online content for search engines. An SEO strategy should work with your content strategy.
  • SEM. What budget and optimisation strategies you should allocate to your Google Search, Display and Remarketing Ads?
  • Social media. Define which social media channels your brand will focus on and how you will use social media platforms to attract new customers and engage with existing ones.

Tip: your most valuable customer’s average age is an important demographic consideration when choosing your media channels as per our graph below.

• Digital Growth Strategy. (aka word of mouth – WOM Strategy): Define “growth hacking” strategies to incentivise existing customers to bring extra new customers to your business.

You will list what a “referral program” will look like and schedule activities to increase referrals from customers.  Imagine every new customer refers to an average of two customers a day. You will have here a “growth hacking” machine!

To do this, a referral strategy will be useful. In this section, you will determine when your brand will ask customers for referrals, and what reward you will be offering.

2.6. Retention strategy

This is likely to be the most important section of your whole and entire marketing plan!

Yes, most marketers spend too much time and energy trying to secure new customers versus investing in getting existing customers to buy more often, more premium products, more quantities and more new products over time.

In this section, you will note and tick off your top Retention strategies. This might include VIP programs, extra services to frequent buyers, “money can’t buy” activities, monthly e-newsletters, training, customer loyalty programs, etc.

2.7 Online assets and integrations

How many websites, what social media channels you will own and what guest contributions you will activate?

Multichannel Integration Strategy: How your different marketing channels will work together to amplify your message.

2.8. Data strategy

How you will be using data to make marketing decisions and how you will be updating and securing this customer data.

2.9. Strategic partnerships

In this section, you will write down any agreements, partnerships or joint ventures you have or you are planning to help reach new customers or better monetise existing customers.

You might find complementary brands – services or products – that could be quite lucrative to partner with as they might have an established customer base that you could tap into at affordable prices.

Think about what customers buy before, during and/or after they buy from your company. The companies who sell these products and/or services could be great partners. Document such companies in this section of your marketing plan and then reach out to try to secure them.

Complementary partnerships are key to increasing market share in new markets. Marley Spoon meal box delivery service that started in Berlin in 2014, entered the Australian market and partnered with Woolworths (June 2019) injecting 30 million for a 9% equity stake. This complementary partnership will help both businesses increase sales. By July 2019 Marley Spoon has approx 172k customers globally.

3. The plan

Campaigns you will be launching to reach your customers at specific purchase phases: awareness, comparison, preference, trial, purchase, evaluation, recommendation, education and rewards, For example for the trial or purchase phase you might want to promote a digital campaign that includes: key promotions, special deals and offers.  Timely offers will help your customer base grow quicker and incentivise past customers to buy again from you. Offers can include trials, money-back guarantees, packages (e.g., combining different products and/or services) and discount offers.

According to market research company Nielsen, businesses selling food and grocery products should use a promotional calendar across the whole year as Australia is the most promotional food and grocery market in the world.

4. Final results and key learnings

The last phase during the execution of your marketing plan is to ensure you are measuring progress, tweak your Digital Marketing template accordingly and have your success metrics ready to be compared with your initial baseline.

5. Budget

In this section, you will list all the expenses you will incur and provide an indication of what your expected results will be in terms of new customers and sales. The idea of a financial projection is to define which promotional expenses and other marketing executions you expect will give your organisation the highest return on investment (ROI). This section should also set you on the task of writing down your set of goals (e.g., your goals for your referral program) for which your company should strive.

6. Executive summary

The executive summary of your marketing plan should be done last and should be an overview of your plan to other readers. Use language that will be easy for non-digital stakeholders to understand. Remember: many C-level executives will only read your Executive Summary so make sure your most important information is added here.

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Updating your digital marketing plan

Digital Marketing plans are NOT static documents. They should be updated and adaptable to changes in your business dynamics. You will adapt and update this Digital Marketing Plan template as you bring learnings and insights from your business metrics, sales data, marketing data, employee stories, customer feedback, competitor reviews, observation and evaluation of your industry environment.

Assigning responsibilities to your Digital marketing activities

Your marketing team should be actively involved in the production and tracking of all the elements committed to your Digital Marketing Plan. Assigning responsibilities in advance will clear up any questions to make sure everyone is on the same page.

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Conclusion

This well-structured digital marketing plan template is a key tool for professional marketers looking to increase sales and brand equity, gain a competitive advantage, and effectively engage with their current and potential customers.

Using the best digital marketing plan template provides a systematic and strategic approach to planning and executing your digital marketing initiatives. It ensures alignment with your goals, thorough coverage of key areas, effective resource allocation, and a data-driven approach to digital marketing campaign optimisation and improvement.

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