4 Bad Digital Marketing tactics to avoid in the year 2019

4 Bad Digital Marketing tactics to avoid in the year 2019

In spite of going with the tide, every brand has adopted some unfavorable digital marketing habits that cost them significantly.

Come 2019, make sure that your digital marketing services provider can shake off these habits and adapt to changes in a way that one can optimize great results.

The only way to succeed in this digital world is to omit all the bad habits and adopt good ones. There are so many habits that can destroy digital agencies, and most of the practices are deadly sins. However, sadly, the owners don’t realize about it, and often it gets late.

Now is the right time to say bye to these habits. If you can say good-bye to these bad habits, it will be easy for your brand to focus on good practices. Maybe we will talk about the right methods to follow in the next blog post, but for you, we are more focused on the bad habits that can destroy a brand reputation.

Here are a few bad habits that every digital marketing agency should aim to get rid this year.

Mistake 1 - Keeping the Same Obsolete Goals:

While it is good to plan, long-range planning isn't always the right way to go about things. Goals and strategies need to be flexible enough to accommodate new data that is gathered. This is to make sure that your program is still operating effectively. While planning your long-term goals also account for monthly and quarterly reviews to keep track of your performance and adjust strategies.

Keep an especially close eye on your analytics, audience engagement and paid campaigns. Identify new opportunities and actively optimize your digital marketing to acquire incremental gains all year round.

Einstein said it right. You cannot do the same things and expect a different result every time. There is no harm doing and trying new things. However, to do the same old ideas which are not working anymore are a bit stupid. There are so many mistakes to make, why focus on a few ones and stop there. You can do things which are working for you and focus on the goals which will give you a sense of which goals are worth pursuing.

Mistake 2 - Losing Sight of the Bigger Picture:

It is not uncommon for marketers to get stuck in the everyday grind of social and content marketing to lose sight of the more critical strategy that connects it all. Just like that, keeping your traditional and digital efforts separate from each other results in a disconnection in your brand, subsequently discouraging engagement with your audience.

To see things from a distance will cause the brand owner to know and learn which of the items might not work. As brand owners, people forget to plan big. The daily problems make the owners forget to take note of the big picture and do things without expecting things in the long term. Whether you’re a digital marketing agency or a small start-up willing to succeed, you must make, execute, and analyze goals. These goals will help you to reach new heights without blaming anyone else for your failures.

It is recommended that you work on developing cohesive plans that tie all your efforts together to build relationships in a way that users progress further into the sales funnel. The content used in every marketing channel should rely on a distinct voice that makes an offer that is unique to that channel without being inconsistent with the overall brand message.

Mistake 3 - Over-Reliance on Automation:

While marketing automation is becoming an increasingly popular CRM tool, one needs to understand that too much automation can damage the personal relationship that brands have invested so much in. Massive automation results in brands losing sight of their goals, opportunities and user engagement. In the coming year, it is recommended that you look for different ways to stay active and keep users engaged with rich content and consistent communication.

Sure, tools will help you to get things done fast, but if you’ve not maximized the automatic processes, it will make things difficult to control. To automate things is to maximize the result, if the effect that is being produced is not doing anything useful, it will be difficult for anyone to control the automation. It’s essential to control everything before anything goes out of the hand.

Mistake 4 - Prioritizing Desktop:

Mobile has grown to become the primary device for accessing the World Wide Web. This means that while developing content, your first thought shouldn't go to the desktop. It is time to start leveraging responsive design so that you can maintain a single website that works on all platforms. Make sure your content remained easily digestible and optimized for all kinds of devices.

More than 60% of the people are now buying products, purchasing services and doing everything on mobile. If you’re not optimized things for mobile, it will be difficult for your brand to go viral.

Other common mistakes to work on include production of stale content where digital marketers rely on repurposing content with an aim to meet up with the everyday demands of content releases. Finally, it is essential that you chose quality over quantity in the increasingly demanding online environment in the coming year.

Posted by Mohammad Ali

Mohammad Ali
Mohammad Ali is an experienced digital marketer and a search engine marketing specialist who is currently associated with Branex, as senior digital marketer and brand strategist.

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