Digital capability audit

‘How do we compare?’ or ‘What does good look like?’ are common questions we hear when talking to businesses about their digital marketing maturity.

It’s a great starting point to achieving excellence by identifying where you need to improve. Because digital marketing involves so many options and it changes so fast, it can be difficult to know how you are doing and where you need to improve.

Benchmarking your maturity is a useful approach, particularly for larger businesses, because it will enable you to see the gap with where you need to be and explain the need for change to others, particularly budget holders.

Reviewing an organizations digital capabilities involves reviewing they are deploying relevant customer communications and using the right processes and marketing technology to use digital marketing to achieve their marketing goals.

Download the free digital maturity benchmarking templates from Smart Insights to identify improvements to your marketing.

 

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Welcome to my personal site where I blog about the latest developments in digital business to help students, professionals or lecturers using my books in their studies or careers.

I also write about assistive technology to help others teaching the visually impaired as part of my volunteering work for charity AbilityNet.

My latest books

Full details on Amazon:

Digital Marketing: Strategy, Implementation and Practice, 9th Edition, published 2025.

With Fiona Ellis-Chadwick and Majd AbedRabbo.

Used by: Undergraduate and post-graduate degree marketing students. Senior marketing professionals, e.g. marketing managers and directors.

Digital Marketing Excellence
6th edition

About Smart Insights

Dave Chaffey is lead author of several bestselling digital marketing books including Digital Marketing: Strategy Implementation and Practice, Digital Business Management and Digital Marketing Excellence. These are based on my 3 decades experience on digital marketing consulting and training work includin

This site is my personal blog which has ideas to help students, professionals or lecturers using my textbooks in their studies or careers. I recommend taking a look at the Digital Marketing Book Support pages on this site