A New Year always signals change especially if you are in the world of Internet Marketing or Digital Marketing whichever way you like to call it. Certain strategies that have so far paid rich dividends may not work anymore and in fact that may dent the prospects of your campaign. Relying solely on your Internet Marketing Company to chalk out the campaign strategy isn’t something you must adhere to. A hands-on approach is always beneficial as the company you hired to run your campaign brings in the technical skills and you put in your knowledge about your business and the industry you are in.
rnTo get back to our main discussion of the topic going forward, things that you shouldn’t do with your campaign would affect its success as much as those that need to be done. With Google refining its algorithm, these mistakes can put you behind in the race and hence you should avoid them at all costs. So here we have listed five mistakes that you along with your online marketing agency should avoid in 2019 and beyond –
1.Ignoring Your Website – Standing on the corner street and distributing leaflets and inviting people to your store with attractive discounts and offers. Once they fall for the bait and come to your store they are appalled to see its condition and immediately walk away. A bad website can do the same to your campaign. It sits in the centre of your campaign and if you don’t have a stellar website start working on it along with your online marketing agency.
2.Copying Content – You may have been copying content and rewriting them for fun. A few tweaks and even the best plagiarism checker give you the green signal. The days of such content marketing strategy is actually numbered. Google is noting the authority of the site, the people publishing content and also the value in the content while ranking webpages. Cut down on the volume and instead focus on creating quality content and earning authority status.
3.Relying on a Single Channel – If something is good you tend to rely on it. So if you are doing well with organic traffic you may want your Internet Marketing Company to focus on the same channel. The point here is you shouldn’t put all your eggs in the same basket. While your social media marketing campaign may not yield the same kind of results as SEO you shouldn’t turn a blind eye to it. It might just be reaching a point where it will start delivering results.
4.Running Campaign on Channel Distribution – Don’t run your campaign on every possible channel! This might just sound contrary to the point we have made above but you need to carefully choose the channel you market your brand. If you sell pancakes you aren’t likely to draw too much of rewards out of LinkedIn marketing but increasing efforts on Facebook may increase sales and enquiries.
5.Know What To Measure – Are you measuring the right KIPs? The problem is that there are various metrics that can be used to measure the success of your campaign and most cases people end up following metrics that isn’t relevant to them. For instance if you sell homemade wines your success has to be measured in the number of sales your campaign garners rather than people visiting the store from countries you don’t even serve.
Are you making these mistakes? If yes, you should immediately stop doing so or else you won’t derive the kind of results from your campaign as you’d expect. As we said earlier New Year always signals change and you should be a part of this change.
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Mitali Purkait Ghosh is the CEO and the Co-Founder of Digital Concepts a fast growing Internet Marketing Company. With more than a decade of experience in this industry she has been keeping close watch on its evolution. Running an Internet Marketing agency hands-on she has been writing about new ideas and trends in the industry. As an avid traveller she lives to see and experience new cultures.