5 Ways to Shake Up Your Marketing Campaign for the Better

Marketing campaigns can be more art than science. They should always have a specific goal and focus entirely on your customers, but different marketing methods can be used in any combination. Different approaches work best for each individual business, but some general pieces of advice are universal.

1. Try Something New

The best way to shake up your marketing campaign is to introduce new elements to it. For example, you could try promotion through different websites, expand into billboard advertisements, begin to leverage location-based advertising, start an e-mail newsletter and much more. Focus on strategies and channels most used by your target audience for best results.

2. Target More

It is a serious mistake to not target your marketing campaign to desired customer groups. Otherwise, you are wasting time and resources trying to sell something to large numbers of people who have no interest in it. You can improve your marketing campaign overnight by tweaking it to appeal more to your target demographic using different language, targeted online advertising and promoting through different channels. If you don't have a target demographic, you need to narrow it down and decide on one quickly.

3. Start Tracking Results

If you don't have a good strategy in place for tracking the results of your marketing campaign, you need one. Otherwise, you have no way of knowing what aspects and techniques used in your marketing plan are proving effective. Pay particular attention to creating a way to track and monitor the return on investment (ROI) of any marketing campaign. Other metrics you can pay attention to include site visits, downloads, how often a post is shared, how many leads are generated and how many sales are made.

4. Throw Out What Isn't Working

By tracking your campaign, you can more easily determine what marketing methods are working and which ones are not. Start cutting out what isn't working in favor of approaches that have proven successful or new approaches. This prevents the use of valuable resources towards ineffective marketing strategies so they can instead be used on more useful techniques.

5. Focus On Content

If your marketing strategy has largely relied on paid advertising up until this point, you should turn a large part of your focus towards content marketing. Content marketing not only includes blog posts but also social media posts, e-mail newsletters, videos and other types of content that display your professional expertise and are useful to customers. Be sure to use good SEO practices as well as post updates on a regular schedule for the best results.

Companies should always be fine-tuning their marketing campaigns until they find a combination of techniques that work well for their business. This takes trial and error and you shouldn't be afraid to shake things up. A new approach may turn a marginally effective marketing campaign into an overwhelmingly successful one.

Tom James,