Fear of failure is perhaps the biggest threat you’ll face when launching a marketing/advertising campaign.
See, promoting your product or services (marketing) is all about making mistakes. As a matter of fact, failure in marketing and advertising – to a degree – is to be EXPECTED!
Many business owners fear blogging for their business because they fear that they will “make a mistake”.
When it comes to traditional media campaigns, only after running a campaign and then going back, fixing mistakes and launching a subsequent campaign can you expect to achieve advertising and marketing success.
The same is true of business blogging. Write a post and see how it lands with your target audience. Then, try – try again.
The cycle for both marketing and blogging is simple – “TEST-LAUNCH-TEST-FIX”…. just like the cycle for washing your hair is to “lather, rinse and repeat.”
Anyone who enters into a marketing or advertising campaign expecting perfection should probably reconsider playing the game because, by it’s nature, marketing communication is ALL about improving the performance of your last campaign.
A perfect example of obsessively measuring performance of advertising messages is Nutri-System. Nutri-System carefully tracks each and every marketing message they create. They experiment with different testimonials in different media, seeing with customer story performs the best. In the hyper-competitive and lucrative market of weight loss, it’s essential that you keep improving on your latest success.
The key to overcoming fear as a factor in your marketing – whether it’s business blogging or traditional advertising – is to bite the bullet and put that marketing message it out there…. then measure the results.
Marketing your business is a JOURNEY and you have to choose to begin somewhere.
One of the most common frustrations I have with clients are the ones who insist upon tweaking and tuning their marketing messages in a vacuum. They will change the the colors of their theme – the font – and the images repeatedly – without creating a single blog post. It’s almost as if they’re afraid to actually take their message to their target audience to see whether this marketing message ‘connects” with their target audience.
Trying to create the “perfect” marketing message before you launch means you’ll tweaking and waiting forever. It’s infinitely better to post a poorly written marketing message to your business blog than to spend years crafting the perfect one in a vacuum.
