7 Reasons why all companies fail to gain enough customers.
Written by Todd Bailey August 2020
Marketing is only as effective as its executed properly and managed. Here are a few common marketing mistakes to avoid so you give the best served.
Poor research
You must have a plan. Don't go launching a marketing campaign without one. You need to understand your customers. Regardless of your campaign’s purpose it must consider the audience to be compelling. Put aside a portion of your marketing spend for research. Use these dollars to test different channels so you can see how they perform. Then increase your effort and budget into a profitable channel. It’s commonly called A/B testing. Once you've found a successful campaign, you can scale it to reap the benefits. But do not stop there. Marketing is an ongoing effort.
Broad targeting
Different platforms allow for highly targeted campaigns. Your advertising shouldn’t take a “bazooka” approach. Fortunately, identifying the core audience for your business is easier now than it has ever been. With the wealth of data and information available on social media, businesses can get a clear, comprehensive picture of their core audience. This gives you an idea of what gender, age group and geographical area are most likely to interact with your business, and targeting can even be narrowed down to the particular social media platform and best time of day to promote to your audience. Pairing the insights from research with data-backed targeting is a winning combination.
Lack of USP
Your unique selling proposition, or USP, tells why you believe customers should buy from you and not someone else. This is what sets your products or services apart from those of your competitors. Your USP should be the central theme of all your marketing efforts, regardless of what you're intending to achieve with a particular campaign.
Many businesses think they're accomplishing a USP by saying things like “better,” “top-rated,” “most valuable” and other unsubstantiated claims about the superiority of the product or service. These types of vague phrases don't help your customer understand how your product or service will benefit them, so they do nothing to separate your brand from the competitors.
Failing to earn repeat customers
Generally, in business, 80% of sales and profits come from existing customers, while the other 20% comes from new customers buying for the first time. If you fail to retarget your current customer base to get them to buy again, it could put a significant dent in your profits.
Selling to a new customer is five times more expensive than selling to an existing customer, so don't forget to designate a few of your marketing campaigns toward your existing customer base to get the repeat sale. By doing this, you'll not only attract a wider audience of potential buyers, you'll also make sure that you're devoting enough of your efforts to the core of your customer base.
Unwilling to invest
It’s a common hurdle for small businesses: they have the budget, but they don’t invest it in marketing. In fact, recent studies show that at every life stage, business owners wish they invested more in marketing. From their first year in business to their 20th year (or more) businesses on average allocated 10% of their budget to marketing when they wished they had invested 25% or more.
Not tracking performance
Modern technology has made it easier than ever to keep track of your customers' behavior and use it to your advantage. Unfortunately, many businesses use this data to craft marketing campaigns they believe will perform well, but then they fail to track the performance to identify areas for improvement.
With all this technology, you can track every aspect of your marketing campaigns, so there's no reason you shouldn't know where you have succeeded and where you can improve. Before launching a campaign, be sure to set clearly defined performance goals at the start so that you always have an idea of how your campaign is performing. Otherwise, you'll just be throwing money at campaigns that could be better spent elsewhere.
Being unwilling to adapt
Just like people, businesses need to grow and evolve if they want to succeed. Businesses unwilling to include new technology, try out new platforms or experiment with new audiences are unlikely to stay profitable in the ever-changing business world.
The most successful companies do whatever they can to tailor their marketing strategies to accommodate different trends and reach new prospects. 

Todd Bailey

Todd Bailey helps businesses get 20-50 NEW patients per month. He is an expert at helping businesses get customers using online methods and making things super simple to understand.
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