{"id":20552,"date":"2021-03-04T05:00:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T05:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brickmarketing.com\/?p=20552"},"modified":"2021-03-03T20:41:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T20:41:42","slug":"dont-have-a-defeatist-attitude-when-it-comes-to-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brickmarketing.com\/blog\/defeatist-attitude","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Have a Defeatist Attitude When it Comes to Digital Marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-20559\" src=\"https:\/\/eqo6k4wde6o.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/trust-digital-marketing-250x167.jpg?strip=all\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eqo6k4wde6o.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/trust-digital-marketing-250x167.jpg?strip=all 250w, https:\/\/eqo6k4wde6o.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/trust-digital-marketing-700x467.jpg?strip=all 700w, https:\/\/eqo6k4wde6o.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/trust-digital-marketing-768x512.jpg?strip=all 768w, https:\/\/eqo6k4wde6o.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/trust-digital-marketing-120x80.jpg?strip=all 120w, https:\/\/eqo6k4wde6o.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/trust-digital-marketing.jpg?strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/eqo6k4wde6o.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/trust-digital-marketing.jpg?strip=all&amp;w=200 200w, https:\/\/eqo6k4wde6o.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/trust-digital-marketing.jpg?strip=all&amp;w=400 400w, https:\/\/eqo6k4wde6o.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/trust-digital-marketing.jpg?strip=all&amp;w=600 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>When it comes to digital marketing, it helps to have a positive attitude, trust the experts, and assume that the strategies will work. On the flip side, you don&#8217;t do your business any favors by assuming the strategies won&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>Having a defeatist attitude can do more harm than good because it essentially guarantees failure. To improve rate of success, you&#8217;ll want to maintain a positive attitude. Here&#8217;s more information on how you can make this concept work for you:<\/p>\n<h3>What Happens When Trying NOT to Think Of Something?<\/h3>\n<p>Have you tried\u00a0<em>not<\/em> to think of something? Let&#8217;s do an experiment right now. DON&#8217;T picture a perfectly ripened apple. Pay attention to what happens when you try not to think about an apple.<\/p>\n<p>What actually happened?<\/p>\n<p>I bet you couldn&#8217;t stop thinking about an apple. It likely popped in your head and wouldn&#8217;t go away, right?<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to the law of attraction, we tend to attract and focus on the things that we think about, even if we are &#8220;trying not to&#8221; think about it. The fact that you couldn&#8217;t help but picture an apple as you were trying really hard not to shows what happens to our brains when we fixate on something.<\/p>\n<h3>Fixating On a Strategy &#8220;Not Working&#8221; Hurts Your Campaigns<\/h3>\n<p>Every now and then, we encounter a prospect of client who is absolutely convinced that they know more about marketing than we do and therefore, they have a difficult time trusting us. They ask questions, suggest alternative strategies, and in general show that they are fixating on how our strategies might not work for them.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, we know with certainty that our strategies work for everyone, it&#8217;s just a matter of when. Every business is different and we customize our approach to match their needs. We know that the strategy will work for your business because we have a proven track record of success.<\/p>\n<p>What happens when a client obsesses over the strategies and worries they won&#8217;t work? They display a defeatist attitude that could do more harm than good. This shows a lack of trust for the instincts that we have concerning what may work.<\/p>\n<h3>You Need to Give the Strategies a Chance to Work<\/h3>\n<p>Here&#8217;s something that we&#8217;ve seen happen. We tell the client that it could take up to a year to really gain ground for the marketing strategies to work, but the client lets us go after six months out of stress that they strategies &#8220;weren&#8217;t working&#8221;. Once the client leaves, they don&#8217;t do any of the ongoing work we advised, which means that they really don&#8217;t see the results they could have.<\/p>\n<p>What happened here? The fixated so much on how the strategy couldn&#8217;t work, their actions actually caused the failure of the campaign. Had they stuck it out and executed the strategy as we advised, they would have seen the success they desired.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s true that having a defeatist attitude could derail your digital marketing. Instead, trust the process and execute the strategies exactly as advised!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When it comes to digital marketing, it helps to have a positive attitude, trust the experts, and assume that the strategies will work. 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