Digital marketing is no more a luxury; it is the need of the hour. As we have seen in recent years, digital marketing has been a necessity and sought-after service. This will surely continue in the coming years for businesses. There is no room for marketers to make errors. Knowing what not to do is as imperative as knowing what to do. Here are seven digital marketing mistakes that you should avoid.
1. Starting Without a Clear Strategy
You may have a digital marketing strategy for your business. But nothing is worse than having an unclear strategy for online marketing. You need to set clearly defined goals, match your project to those goals, choose the right platforms, and assign metrics by which you will measure your social media marketing success.
Engage a professional to keep your messaging on brand, interact with your audience regularly, and post with purpose and consistency. Further, it is also important to document your digital marketing strategy for easy understanding and response.
2. Not understanding your audience
You can never succeed in digital marketing without understanding the target audience. According to Kudakwashe Mazise (Head of Digital Advertising at Nerx Digital Agency), he emphasizes that as a business, “You should always be aware of what problem you are solving for your target customer”. The markets are changing post-covid-19, and there is a requirement for active tracking of customers’ persona.
As high as 70% of the business leads are never ready for sales. This is indicative that you have failed to understand your customer’s requirements and are bombing him with irrelevant content.
3. Not having a website and a blog
One cannot deny the fact that content is the king of marketing. But often, people tend to overlook this fact and the importance of text marketing. Many small business owners believe they are doing just fine without a website and a blog yet the importance of a website for marketing extends to every aspect of your digital marketing strategy.
A website is the backbone of your online presence, every type of communication, piece of content, or advertisement that you put online will drive the consumer back to your website. Your website serves as that “home base” where you can send customers when they want to make a purchase or learn more about a particular product or service you offer.
If you are using targeted email marketing to reach and engage your customers, then you need somewhere to send them to convert. Your website is the perfect place to guide your email subscribers to when you want them to learn more about a product or even make a purchase.
4. Not calling customers back to action
According to Kudakwashe Mazise, a Call Back to Action occurs when you’ve almost made a sale, but a customer has left an empty shopping cart unfulfilled. Call back to action’ is as important as ‘call to action. You need to have a call back to action strategy to trigger your customers to come back to your site and complete the buying process.
You can do this by sending an email reminding them that you are waiting for them. Bringing customers back to the scene will pull the triggers, and they will make the purchase. Following up directly impacts sales. With a regular follow-up, your sales are most likely to increase.
