No company will achieve success without the implementation of a great
digital marketing campaign. Unfortunately, too many marketers do not
understand exactly what pitfalls to avoid. Thus they end up building an
under-performing campaign.
Think back to the last time you were asked to build a
“viral” campaign. I’m sure you wanted to just run and hide under a rock.
But you went along with it and did your best but nothing phenomenal
happened.
Do you remember how it felt when the results were disappointing?
Believe me…it happens to the best of us.
There’s no need to feel bad about it. What’s important is to learn
from our mistakes and use them as a compass to not fall into them again.
Because let’s face it; the Internet is full of rabbit holes promising
higher search engine results, greater reach with an email newsletter
and hordes of random consumers appearing on your company’s website with
their wallets open. Much of this information is out of context and does
not help marketers achieve their main goal…business growth.
I’m sure you’re a savvy online marketer and I want you to succeed.
That’s why I want you to learn the mistakes to avoid when planning and
building your next campaign. So let’s answer this nagging question…
What Are the Five Major Mistakes Marketers Make When Planning their Digital Marketing Campaign?
1. Failure to Establish a Specific Campaign’s Goals
If your answer to the goal question is something like, “Um… More
money?” your digital marketing strategy is in trouble even before you
start.
Why?
Because there are so many different marketing methods available
online, such as SEO, mobile marketing and PPC, and you need to know
which to pick based on what you want to get out of.
Since each marketing medium is different you have to form clear and
concise business goals before any marketing campaigns begin. This step
in the process also requires setting a budget and vowing to stick to it.
I invite you to learn more about how to set-up marketing objectives and
goals by reading this article on SEMrush where you’ll learn how to
build a web analytics Framework to improve your marketing.
2. Skipping the Process Required to Defining the Ideal Customer
Some beginner-level marketers believe that if you market to everyone,
you have a greater chance of getting people interested in your product
or service. In truth, this doesn’t work. If you don’t know who would be
the ideal consumer of what you have to offer, you have no idea where to
focus your advertising efforts (and thus, your budget).
Your marketing strategy must be targeted to people who are
slightly-aware, aware and interested in what you have to offer.
Specifically if you want people to notice you and people to stick around
to see your offers, you have to make sure that your solutions match
their needs and intents.
I encourage you to read more about creating perfect personas to boost your content marketing efforts, an article by Clare Hopping on SEMrush Blog.
3. Creating a Bland, Content-Poor and Non-Converting Landing Page
This is what I consider as bad as not having a web presence at all.
Here is the hard truth, even if you are able to get targeted visitors
to your site, a boring landing page will set your bounce rate near 100%
and conversion to zero (sorry!). This means people will click on and click off again right away.
Just remember that giving your traffic something to care about or
something to spark their interest the moment they land on your page is
essential for wooing them.
And not only should the landing page be eye-catching, but it should
also give a generous amount of search engine optimized content that is
relevant, informative and entertaining to your targeted customer. Simply
put: Give them what you promised them in your ads or SERPs’ description
and Title.
4. Clinging to Out-dated Internet Marketing Methods and Ignoring Bite-sized Mobile Accessible Attractors
Even if you build a digital marketing strategy that works from older
methods, ignoring the latest options will limit your chances of success.
While reports, white pages and long articles can still attract both
search engines and site visitors on desktop, an ever increasing number
of people are accessing the Internet mostly from their smart phones or
tablets.
This means having a functioning and responsive page design is
essential. Also, because of the small screens, bite-sized bits of
content on social media pages have become a powerful tool in any digital
marketing campaign. So take advantage of that by creating mobile
optimized landing pages and use social media pages as promotional
mediums.
5. Not Caring About Tracking and Measurement
If you do not track your promotional methods, measure them against
each other and determine which work and which don’t, you might as well
abandon your business altogether. But not so fast…you can fix that!
No matter what marketing strategy you decide implementing; every ad
you place, link you share and offer you extend must be tracked,
measured, analyzed, and documented.
How else will you know if the link in your newsletter, for example, got more conversions than the ad on your blog?
So make sure you track your digital marketing campaigns, analyze the
results, stay flexible and you’ll increase your campaign’s profit and
revenue.
Source: http://www.semrush.com/blog/5-digital-marketing-campaign-mistakes-to-avoid/
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