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Home  /  Online Marketing  /  Top Reasons behind Failure of Digital Marketing

Top Reasons behind Failure of Digital Marketing

Vineet Gupta November 06, 2018 2 Comments
Top Reasons behind Failure of Digital Marketing
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Digital marketing acts as an umbrella for all online marketing efforts. Businesses leverage digital channels such as search engines, social media, email, personal websites, and online advertisements to carry out the marketing motives of their brand, product awareness, user engagement, social connect, and many more. In reality, digital marketing strategies are routes to fulfill digital marketing goals.

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Marketers usually confuse tactics with strategies which is one of the primary reasons responsible for the failure of digital marketing. Also, marketers try to accomplish everything at once.

However, they must realize similar to offline strategies; online marketing strategies also require a call to action, tactics, and measurable results. To put light on this, below are the top reasons behind the breakdown of digital marketing:

No Goal or Many Goals

While forming a digital marketing strategy for your business, it is crucial for you to keep a single goal in mind which you desire to fulfill for your company. Also, there does not exist a unique digital marketing strategy to increase the reach and sales at the same time.

Similarly, a plan without a set goal will reap varied and non-measurable results. Also, it will be a waste of resources and time. Therefore, marketers must think about what each tactic compel users to do, and accordingly, plan a user journey or you can contact St Petersburg SEO for digital marketing services.

Excessive Push Efforts

Some overly obsessed marketers forget the importance of pull effort in the communication. Whereas, you can easily distinguish Push and Pull communication efforts. The marketers’ design Pull discussion in a manner so that the consumers willingly fulfill the marketing goals of the marketers; whereas, in the Push communication, marketers insist customers accomplish their goals.

As it is not always wrong to use a push communication and not always right to use pull efforts, but you must balance things according to the type and marketing needs of your product.

No Synergy

All offline-online and online-online marketing efforts must be in synergy, and you must focus on a single goal because contradicting efforts will result in a different brand image and positioning in the mind of the customers.

Also, do not intermix tactics and strategy. As tactics are a part of the policy and when you start associating tactics with an approach, then it becomes hard for a digital marketing strategy to succeed.

Lack of Research

Every marketing strategy focuses on customers. So, it is vital for your company to know about the wants, needs, and luxury of your audience because if your clients are unsatisfied, then you have to bear a significant loss.

Also, thoroughly research various digital marketing strategies because these strategies give the users what they want. For instance, Content marketing and search engine marketing focus more on the keywords and content; whereas, social media marketing and email marketing focus more on user trends and engagement.

Rigidity

The digital business environment is more dynamic than the usual business environment because rigid strategies with fixed tactics, usually do not work in the digital environment.

Therefore, once you set the goals, you need to modify policies and tactics from time to time based on user trends, search engine trends, and other digital factors.

Unable to Predict the Time-frame

Some marketers accept a premature defeat because of wrong predicted time-frame for results from the digital marketing efforts. Therefore, make sure you keep in mind similar to other marketing efforts, digital marketing efforts take time to reap the desired results.

Also, digital marketing goal setting and execution is different from the usual marketing goals which need reading and understanding of actual analytics to proceed.

Less Focus on Customers

When you focus more on your product and less on consumers and consumer psyche, then you may land up in a mess similar to MCD which launched a digital marketing campaign named ‘name your own burger’ to support ‘create your taste’ campaign; however, ended up getting funny and offending names. Therefore, the company pulled off the drive soon after it went live. So, focus more on your customers.

When You Do Not Follow the Trend

Trend rules the digital world. If you know the art of using a pattern for your benefit, then you can be the king of the digital world. However, while implementing the efforts, many marketers fail to realize the importance of direction failing in digital marketing strategies.

Conclusion

To conclude, the above are the top reasons responsible for the failing of digital marketing strategies. However, if you take care of these reasons, then you can save your campaign and business.

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Vineet Gupta is an internet marketing professional. He loves to research and learn about the latest developments Google does in their search algorithms. For 8 years he has been helping businesses in brand building and improving sales and revenue. In his free time, he likes to play with his Dog, watch Cricket and listen to Luis Fonsi. You can connect with him on Instagram.

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2 Comments

  1. Rich Degen Reply
    January 11, 2019 at 3:13 pm

    Thanks to sharing this blog about failures of online marketing. Yes, these can be the major reasons.

  2. Pingback: 9 Rules to Follow When Focusing on Online Business Growth

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