Top 5 Digital Marketing Mistakes to Avoid in 2021

Mayur Nathani
3 min readJul 28, 2021

Digital Marketing is the powerful tool that comes as the cheapest yet effective in reaching out to the target audience and helps in selling out your products or services efficiently.

Yet if you desire the best result, you must be aware of things to use digital marketing in the right way as a successful digital marketer.

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Knowing what not to do as a Digital marketer is as essential as knowing what to do.

So here are the top 5 Digital Marketing mistakes to avoid in 2021 -

1. Not Aware of Target Audience -

The success of digital marketing hides in the buyer’s persona, which is known to be the target audience.

When you market your product or services, you keep the buyer’s persona in your mind.

Moreover, your end goals and marketing strategy should go hand in hand about your target audience.

After 2020 that was a very tough year; you need to be aware of your target audience’s problems.

As when you are aware of the problem, then only you can help them with the solutions.

You must have set goals to see the positive results with the help of Digital Marketing.

2. Neglecting Social Media -

Social media platforms have been used by every customer worldwide, and every day they use them to interact with each other.

Now, when you are aware that the customers are using the social media platforms — you can’t skip the chance of getting the customers through social media.

You must have a regular check on your social media accounts.

As it is the way you can promote your brand as well as products and services.

You can use the below strategies which are –

You must create a content calendar in advance for your social media accounts.

A personalized touch is essential for social media.

You must be transparent with your customers over social media channels.

Use of online marketing tactics for higher engagement.

3. Ignorance of Email Marketing -

Email Marketing still works and is one of the best and effective ways of marketing your business.

You can do most things with email marketing, like promoting your products and services, launching a new event, upgrading a product, or anything that will boost your conversions.

The best thing about email marketing is that you get the chance of interacting with your leads on a one-on-one basis.

And thus, you can convert your leads.

Email marketing is known to be a powerful tool for marketers if one can use it in the right way.

You can personalize your emails and make them more effective by segmenting your target audience email list.

4. Neglecting of Blog on your Website -

The fact that never be denied is that the Content is the King. Yet, many people overlook the importance of content marketing in today’s competitive market.

Content has the power to attract relevant traffic to the website and convert them to customers.

Make sure that your blog should provide some information and valuable content to your audience.

As in-depth content will only provide positive results.

Know your target audience

Do a keyword research around your blog

Proofreading of the blog before publishing the content.

Personalizing your blog content as much as you can.

Must share links of your blog on social media platforms

Moreover, try to include graphs, data, and graphics for a better content response.

The above pointers will help you in strategizing your marketing campaigns for your content promotion.

5. Avoiding ROI -

ROI (Return on Investment) is avoided by many marketers during their marketing campaigns.

But ROI is known as the essential aspect to measure the success of a marketing campaign.

If you measure the ROI, you could know whether your strategies are effective or require changes in your strategy.

When you are measuring ROI, you need to figure out what you want to measure.

It could be any conversion goal or traffic, click through rates, and sales.

By measuring your end goal, you will know your earning.

Conclusion -

Digital Marketing takes time, and don’t expect results immediately.

Being consistent is the key here!

If you take note of the above mistakes and utilize them this year, you can use digital marketing at its ultimate level.

Let us know in the comments which digital marketing mistake you had made?

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Mayur Nathani

Web3 Writer| Personal Brand Strategist | Co-Author of 2 Anthologies | International Guest Speaker. Connect - https://www.linkedin.com/in/learningwithmayur/