Digital marketplace analysis and mapping

Digital marketplace analysis is a recommended activity during situation analysis to create a digital marketing strategy.

It involves reviewing customer journeys for different B2B or B2C personas as they go through the buying process of developing a consideration set of businesses or brands they may be interested in buying from. Detailed marketplace analysis including competitor analysis is particularly useful for developing a search marketing strategy.

This video explainer explains the approach.

You can see more examples of digital marketplace analysis here.

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