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Now that is a whole other story. The importance of marketing is that a strong campaign can lead you to the right customers. This opens many opportunities such as getting people to talk about your product, widening the reach of your product, and even lead you to financial success. On the other end, having stale marketing can negatively affect your business in many ways, whether financially or in terms of how the public may perceive your brand.
Most marketing errors can be prevented with just careful planning. Here are 5 marketing mistakes to help you see those red flags before it’s too late.
Trying to be everywhere
While it may sound good to target as much people as possible in order to bring in more customers, trying to be in too many places can mean disaster. Spreading yourself too thin can lead you to fail to connect more meaningfully with your customers.
Brand positioning is important in making room where your company can grow and stand out from the sea of competitors. By trying to cater to as many people as possible, it renders your product more generic as compared to competition that is better positioned in a smaller or even niche market. Many companies market single products without thinking about how people perceive their brand as whole, which is a common marketing error.
Use positioning strategies to help influence your customers to pick you over your competitors. Is your product luxury or budget friendly? Are your products seasonal? Are they customized or come in various types? Figuring these out can also aid your customer in perceiving your brand where you stand amongst the crowd.
Not tracking and measuring results
For many businesses, it is often revenue that is looked at to evaluate the success of a marketing campaign. While from a financial perspective it’s fine, for a marketing perspective it can be quite problematic as it becomes hard to tell which channel or strategy is working effectively.
Most of marketing relies on key performance indicators (KPIs ) which vary for each tactic and allow you to see their effectiveness. The good thing here is that these KPIs can be tweaked in order to measure results more specifically. KPIs are often done in increments such as changing the time you post online and tracking to see if there are changes in your post engagements.
Lack of focus on the customer’s needs
How well do you know your customers? Is it just reliant on demographics such as gender, age, location? Or is it more specific that you have created a customer persona with certain traits and behaviors?
Effective marketing is knowing your customers well and their problems you wish to solve. Not everyone takes the time to figure this out to find where their business can come in. Knowing what needs you can fill is one, while fulfilling that need better than your competitors is another. Marketing needs to make use of both to really catch the attention of your potential customers.
The right research and testing comes very crucial here. Market research is an invaluable tool that can save you both time and money by gauging the behaviors of your potential customers will be and their response to your campaign, your products, and even your overall brand. Once you have that need part figured out is when you can make a Unique Selling Proposition (USP) that sets you apart from the other competitors in the market. These will give you a solid grasp about your customers and make it easy for you to perform other marketing activities.
Creating dull content
Many businesses have started utilizing online channels in order to reach and connect with more customers. If you are part of them, have you ever thought of how your customers feel when looking through your content? Are you creating content because you really want to excite your customers and keep them engaged or is it just because everyone else is doing it?
It’s not hard to see that if you’re part of the latter half feeling peer pressured to put out content just because your competitors are doing it, then chances are you are not doing it for the right reasons, making your content feel and look dull. Do these posts capture the spirit of what I’m trying to sell to the customers?
Changing that mindset can make a difference in the content that you produce and maybe can even lead you to thinking of unique ideas to get your message across.
Failing to work with the right partner
Often been hailed as being part science and part artform, marketing is a skill that needs much practice and experience. Business owners may not have the ample time to do all the nitty gritty work of marketing to really help their brand get the right exposure. Working with a trusted partner agency could be the key you need to really advance your business forward. Connecting with your customers should never be a bother and with iRepublic, we can help give your business that extra push! Let your customers get to know your brand online!
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