Digital Marketing: Pros and Cons
Digital marketing is a topic that you cannot avoid right now. Most businesses are getting into it since digitalization is changing many conventional things in our lives, including the way we market our products or services. But what is digital marketing?
Here is the answer!
Digital marketing is an effort to promote a particular brand using electronic devices or the internet.
But what are the pros of digital marketing that make people involve it in their businesses? And what about the cons of it?
In this article, we are going to show you a few pros and cons of digital marketing. So, here are a few of them!
Pros
Let’s start by discussing the pros first. Here are several numbers of digital marketing pros for a business.
1. Affordable
Compared to conventional marketing, the costs you have to spend to implement and maintain digital marketing are more affordable. Plus, the digital assets used for digital marketing are cheaper, easier to create and revise for reuse. That is why, for small businesses, it is a budget-friendly alternative.
2. Target A Very Specific Audience
With conventional marketing, you can target your audience. But with digital marketing, you have more opportunities to target more specific audiences based on their age, education, gender, location, interests, and more. Actually, this is one of the biggest reasons people choose to market their business on social media.
3. Fast!
Digital marketing is faster than conventional marketing!
When you advertise in conventional media such as newspapers, you need to wait a few days before knowing the result. But with digital marketing, the content on your website can help boost your business as soon as the content is uploaded. And another good thing, the result can be directly monitored.
Cons
After talking about the pros, let’s move on to talking about the cons. So, let’s start by looking at some of the cons of digital marketing below!
1. Easy to Duplicate
We know that the content for digital marketing is cheaper and easier to create. Unfortunately, it is also easier to duplicate by others. The content for campaigns on your blog can be easily copied and pasted, or the logo on your product photos can be easily traded out for another logo. Because of that, you need to find ways to minimize the risk of being duplicated by your competitors.
2. Training
You need to make sure that you or your staff who will be handling your digital marketing have the knowledge about it. Training may be required to stay up to date as the trends, tools, or even platforms change rapidly. Because of that, you have to invest your money in it.
3. Time-Consuming
We mentioned earlier that digital marketing is an affordable choice. But it is time-consuming. Many activities such as creating marketing content or optimising online advertising campaigns will take up a lot of your time.
So, those are some of the pros and cons of digital marketing. What do you think?
Hopefully, you will find the information in this article is useful to you!
Author: Conrad
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