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Digital Essay: Why some digital marketers will remain single by Fadi Khater & Michael Maksoudian

This article is inspired by true events. Some of the characters, names, incidents and events have been fictionalised for dramatic effect. Any resemblance to the writer, or the writers’ heirs or successors, pets or a cloud formation, irrespective of whether this came to them during a vision quest, a spiritual awakening or an ayahuasca trip, is purely coincidental and unintentional.

by Fadi Khater, founder and managing partner and Michael Maksoudian, managing partner, Netizency.Recently a potential client drove all the way across the country to give us a brief, and when we asked about their objectives for their digital campaign, they said: “Impressions, reach, clicks, likes, comments, shares, and lead generation.” This is a typical example of how marketers lust after digital, without thinking about how to use it as a tool that can help serve their marketing objectives.

There are many reasons for the above, including inadequate knowledge, the egos of non-digital practitioners, and the industry trend of throwing around irrelevant metrics; however, identifying the ca


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