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Campaigns vs. continuous promotion

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campaigns versus continuous promotionA client asked today how long should their campaign run. I am more and more of the opinion that forever is the correct answer in most cases. In the old days when buying media was expensive, you had to go all out to get the desired frequency and reach.

Now, using search advertising and social media, you do not have to spend your resources all at once. Instead you’ll be constantly visible to more targeted audience. In the campaign world you get a lot of misses by reaching people who are not interested – the shot gun effect. In the campaign era you also missed the people who had interest between the campaigns. If your campaign failed, it failed big.

Check out the related post: How To Measure Social Media ROI. The number one thing about ROI is that it is measured in dollars (or in euros or any other currency you might prefer).

Today you can be

  • more precise in your targeting,
  • spend less money and
  • be visible all the time (to people who are looking).

In this approach you have to monitor your spending and results so that the ROI would be positive. If something isn’t working change it. If needed switch the products, message, channels or budget but do go on.

Build continuous improvement and testing into your marketing.

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Priit Kallas

Priit is the founder and CEO of DreamGrow Digital, an internet marketing and social media company. With his 20+ years internet marketing experience he is Helping companies to understand and use the digital marketing to reach their target audiences. He's also writing on a personal growth website FixWillPower.com. He has spoken at hundreds of seminars and conferences on different aspects of internet marketing. Priit is also the organizer of Digital Elite Camp, a leading traffic and conversion event.