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Aug 22, 2018 — TrackFive

Top 8 Things Only Marketers Understand

Digital marketing is not for the faint of heart. When you’re not busy busting your butt trying to promote your brands and carefully craft campaigns, you’re trying to explain to people what you actually do for a living. While it may be hard for most people to actually understand what you do, those who do understand can totally relate. So, without further ado, here are eight things only marketers understand!

8 Things Only Marketers Understand

1. The importance of content

“Oh, so you write blogs for a living?” I get asked this one all the time. My answer is usually, “Not quite.” Yes, us digital marketers do write a ton of blogs, but there’s a reason for it! We’re not just writing five blogs a week for fun. Creating fresh, engaging content is one of the most important aspects of digital marketing.

2. When said content doesn’t get engagement

So you’ve just spent three hours slaving away over a blog post. You’ve done all the keyword and topic research imaginable, and you’re confident that this could be the best blog you’ve ever written. You share the blog on your brand’s social media page and…nothing. What’s worse, the stolen meme you shared two days prior got dozens of likes and shares. It happens to the best of us. All you can really do is shake it off and get back at it.

3. When your social media campaign is a total flop

Not much is worse than spending months brainstorming, planning, and executing a social media campaign only for it to be unsuccessful. It feels like all of the hard work you did was for nothing! While this may be a total buzzkill, all marketers know that failed campaigns teach valuable lessons. In fact, they’re almost beneficial, since they allow you to analyze what went wrong so you’re better prepared for the next one!

4. You’re really good at trivia

I mean, what can you expect from someone who spends their whole day online? Whether it’s doing research for a blog post or taking a look at competitors, marketers stumble across loads of facts and bits of seemingly useless information on a daily basis. That said, we’re definitely the most valued members of any bar trivia team.

5. When Google changes their search algorithms…again

This may be oneĀ of the most frustrating things only marketers understand. It’s often difficult to stay up to date on big industry game-changers. Just when you think you’ve got your SEO plan down to a T, Google changes everything. While this may make you want to hurl a coffee mug at the wall, it’s important to stay alert! Make sure your marketing plan is flexible so you’ll have some room for change.

6. Spelling mistakes make your whole body cringe

Spelling mistakes may seem like nothing more than a minor inconvenience for some people, but not for digital marketers! Bad grammar or spelling can make leads or clients question your credibility. Are you really going to trust a company that uses the wrong form of “your” in an email marketing campaign? Probably not.

7. You’re tired of seeing the same stock images everywhere

The website Track5Media uses for stock photos has millions of images, but we still see the same ones pop up over and over again. Ah, the photo of a young nurse and her elderly patient giving the camera a “thumbs up,” we meet again.

8. Trying to understand the monster that is SEO

If you work in a marketing job, you know how crucial SEO is for a business, and there’s a lot to it. While we’d like to think that we have a good grasp on SEO, sometimes we end up ranking for keywords other than what we optimized for, or our sites receive random, unexplainable spikes of traffic. At the end of the day, as much as you can study analytics and use SEO tools, some things just don’t have an explanation.

That’s a wrap! What would you add to this list of things only marketers understand? Let us know in the comments below!

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