Essential techniques featured:
- Urban-focused divisions beyond simple areas
- District-based targeting
- Urban vs. rural variations
- International resident zones
- Traveler areas vs. resident communities
After working with three separate international agencies that were unable to provide results, my business finally engaged a specialized digital marketing company Riyadh. The difference in outcomes was dramatic.
Recently, a business owner lamented that his platform strategy was burning through thousands of riyals with disappointing return. After reviewing his strategy, I identified numerous serious mistakes that are extremely typical among Saudi businesses.
For a luxury brand, we developed a cultural segmentation strategy that discovered five distinct cultural segments within their audience. This technique increased their promotion results by one hundred seventy-eight percent.
Helping a medical center, we restructured their material to feature entire queries that people would verbally request, such as "Where can I find a dermatologist in Riyadh?" This approach improved their audio query visibility by seventy-three percent.
After considerable time of using generic demographic segments, their new Saudi-specific segmentation methodology produced a significant improvement in promotion results and a substantial decrease in marketing expenses.
Recently, a apparel company consulted me after wasting over 150,000 SAR on platform promotion with minimal returns. After restructuring their campaign, we generated a six hundred thirty-one percent increase in ROAS.
A few weeks ago, a travel company realized that their digital platform was completely missing from voice search results. After implementing the strategies I'm about to discuss, they're now appearing in forty-seven percent of appropriate spoken questions.
For a merchant, we found that their spoken question discovery was limited because they had developed mostly for foreign language queries. After implementing customized Arabic voice search enhancement, their discovery rate improved by 217%.
I use a straightforward spreadsheet to monitor our competition's rates modifications every week. This has enabled us to:
- Identify periodic price reductions
- Detect special offer strategies
- Grasp their cost structure
I suggest categorizing competitors as:
- Primary competitors (offering very similar products/affordable web design Services)
- Secondary competitors (with partial resemblance)
- New challengers (new entrants with disruptive capabilities)
Start by mapping ALL your competitors – not just the well-known ones. In our research, we identified that our biggest rival wasn't the established brand we were watching, but a emerging business with an novel strategy.
When I launched my e-commerce business three years ago, I was certain that our unique products would stand out naturally. I dismissed market research as superfluous – a mistake that practically cost my entire business.
Two quarters into business, our sales were underwhelming. It wasn't until I accidentally a comprehensive analysis about our market sector that I realized how oblivious I'd been to the market realities around us.
I now utilize several resources that have dramatically improved our competitive research:
- Search analysis platforms to analyze competitors' SEO strategies
- Brand monitoring software to track rivals' social activity
- Site monitoring platforms to observe updates to their websites
- Communication monitoring to get their promotional messages
I spend at least two hours each Monday reviewing our competitors':
- Website organization and user experience
- Content strategy and posting schedule
- Online platforms activity
- Customer reviews and evaluations
- Search tactics and rankings
Not long ago, I witnessed as three rival companies invested heavily into developing their business on a certain social media platform. Their attempts failed spectacularly as the platform turned out to be a poor fit for our industry.