4 Reasons Why Your Marketing Campaigns Suck

Here’s how you can make it great again

Ariel Lim
8 min readSep 16, 2020
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Digital marketing is a relatively fast-paced industry. It’s continuously changing. Strategies and tactics that have worked 3–5 years ago will most likely not work today. But there’s one thing you can do today to guarantee it will still work tomorrow — focus on your customers.

Unfortunately, that’s not what most marketers are doing.

They stick with their guns. They continue using their old-school strategies that worked ten years ago, but the rest of the industry has moved on since. Here are the top reasons why a lot of marketing campaigns aren’t effective and what you need to do instead.

Marketers Don’t Know Any Better

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Digital marketing is a relatively new field. It is growing and constantly changing. Most marketers learn from schools and by observing other organizations. But this presents two big problems.

First, the people teaching marketing in schools are used to the traditional ways of marketing. They were successful marketers back in the day, but those tactics aren’t as effective as they…

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Ariel Lim

Marketer, freelancer, husband | The Startup, Better Marketing, The Ascent, PGSG | Find out how I grew my organic traffic by 110% in 5 mo: https://bit.ly/3fpilkW