Earlier this month, we asked you to consider whether your 2013 marketing was a success or not, and specifically whether or not you have reached your biggest goals. We recommend that, if you didn’t, you look at different elements of your plan and see if you can find areas for improvement.
You might be wondering what those actual areas for improvement would look like. That’s going to change from one company or situation to the next, of course, but in general there are three things that are usually easiest to change in Internet marketing, and that lead to the biggest changes in results:
1. Your budget and commitment. Although you don’t have to spend a fortune on Internet marketing to make it work, you do have to make a healthy investment, in terms of your budget and schedule (at least initially). Trying to do everything with nothing is rarely a blueprint for success.
2. Your message and sales strategy. Sometimes, you can do all the right things and have them fail to work simply because you’re trying to sell the wrong things to the wrong people. In other words, if your unique selling proposition is out of line with what your customers actually want or need, you’re making things harder than they have to be.
3. The Internet marketing team you’re working with. Of course, it needs to be pointed out that, if the first two elements are in place, the issue might be with your team of advisers. Are they making helpful suggestions for the future? Are you listening to those suggestions?And finally, do you think you could get better advice and guidance elsewhere?
If you’re feeling very underwhelmed by the results you’ve gotten from business web design and Internet marketing in the past, there’s a good chance you need to change at least one of these three variables. Otherwise, you’re likely to end up repeating the same campaigns again and again… with the same disappointing results.
