Pete Lock
Performance Marketing

How website due diligence identifies significant growth opportunities & highlights potential issues

What is digital marketing & website due diligence?

Digital due diligence covers many different areas, from digital security and compliance right through to the online performance of the ‘digital footprint’ of a company….It’s website, social media presence, online advertising, email marketing, sales and leads funnels, amongst others.

It’s this digital footprint that is the focus of our due diligence work. It’s an area that we specialise in and we have performed many in-depth website and digital marketing due diligence projects for a number of companies, investors and private equity firms. Both for their existing website’s and potential target companies. Marketing can sound subjective, so our digital tools, testing procedures and advanced reporting, add a numerical value to previously untested and costly activity.

The value of this type of digital analysis is increasing with the growth in the online presence of most companies, indeed Bain see this clearly “For diligence into a particular company, web scraping provides indicators of market share and growth momentum, such as web-traffic analysis”.

The results of the due diligence work that we conduct always identifies new opportunities for growth and highlights areas of friction that require fixing. Being armed with this powerful knowledge and implementing it has led to significant online performance improvements for our clients.