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6 common digital marketing mistakes to avoid

Digital marketing encompasses the marketing efforts of brands and businesses to get their products and services to the target audience through online or digital channels, including social media and emails. It’s an independent field of operation that ensures one’s brand gets maximum recognition and exposure. It’s a vast field with unlimited creative opportunities, which can be both a hit and a miss, but certain fundamental mistakes can turn all efforts to dust.

Digital marketing mistakes and how to avoid them
One can make individual errors while handling digital marketing, but the main reason why a campaign may fail boils down to one of these major mistakes:

1. Targeting the wrong audience
The audience is the bloodline of a marketing campaign, and their interaction—or lack thereof—directly affects one’s results. So it’s important to spend time researching the market, competition, and the exact demography of one’s audience, down to their tastes, habits, purchasing power, age, and other aspects, so that the brand can target the people who can be its actual customers. Also, narrow the audience to a finite and recognizable group for maximum results.

2. Not having clear goals
Brands can have different marketing goals at different stages, and trying to achieve them all through a single campaign is a mistake that can tank the whole thing. Some common goals can include reaching new audiences, selling services or products, enhancing brand awareness, changing or setting a new brand image, and many others. Once this is established, have tangible objectives and set benchmarks for what one considers a success. Having a direction, a time limit, and relevant goals can make the process measurable and manageable and help understand the return on investment.

3. Ignoring mobile optimization
This is the age of smartphones, and most buyers will be browsing on their phones to find solutions or products for their problems. Brands must, therefore, make their marketing content, website design, and ads easily viewable on mobile devices. Any glitches here can come across as sloppy and deter the audience from engaging with the brand.

4. Ignoring email marketing
Email marketing is a powerful and often underutilized tool in the digital marketing space. An email list is an asset that can help nurture leads, promote products to people willing to interact with the brand, and maintain communication if the digital space ever gets disrupted. Not only that, targeted email campaigns require almost no cost and can yield significant and often instant returns. Some ways to entice people to share their emails are to provide value in return, like discount codes, newsletters, or access to exclusive content.

5. Being inconsistent with branding
Another significant mistake is too often changing the brand’s aesthetics, color scheme, logos, image, tone, or personality. This type of inconsistent branding confuses customers and makes it difficult to build long-term trust.

6. Focusing only on selling
Digital marketing is not just about selling products or services but also about building relationships, fostering brand loyalty, and providing value to customers. Trying to sell something each time a customer opens their inbox can lead to disengagement. So, balance engagement, value content, and selling to build a sustainable brand.

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