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8 Major Limitations of Internet Marketing

Marketing Updated: February 15, 2022 by Nishitha

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It is rightly said that the only thing constant in this world is change, no matter how powerful or effective the impact of a thing or a person is, time changes the situation.

Mobile replaced a lot of things like a pager, calendar, codeless, and many such things. Typewriters were replaced by computers and in the same manner, internet marketing is overtaking the market and getting popular along with conventional marketing.

But, there is one other saying as well, that every coin has two sides and so does this coin too. Internet Marketing is undoubtedly the future of Marketing as on a daily basis people are getting more and more obsessed with virtual life. But still, there are a lot of potholes on this road of the future.

Yes, internet marketing is tremendously helpful but there are some limitations that still people and marketers need to overcome. Few of the factors are such that has still kept conventional marketing more preferable and in demand.

Below are such 8 critical limitations of using internet marketing as your source of medium.

1. Online Marketing

Online Marketing as people allegedly say does not happen to be free of cost, there are a lot of things that add to the cost of internet marketing and they are not at all cheap. Some of the major expenses are the cost of hardware, software, website designing, online content, and product distribution costs, maintenance of the site as well as server, web hosting of the website and the costliest thing is time, all of these must be considered while planning for Internet Marketing budget and strategies.

2. Conventional Marketing

Where conventional marketing helps in spreading awareness as well as selling, the internet is considered as a medium to gain information to most of the customers. There are still many industries and areas where internet marketing is incapable of generating trust and sales of the product or the service. There are still lots of fields where people prefer to live interaction when they buy.

3. Access to Internet

Still, 50% of the world does not have access to the internet and there are many such areas where people are not even literate enough to access the internet. This is a major limitation of internet marketing in the current scenario.

4. Cyber Crimes

Cyber Crimes are increasing day by day as well as scams. The rules of cybersecurity are still not that secure and that leaves fear in the mind of the people and leaves internet marketing vulnerable.

5. Internet Marketing

Internet marketing faces a major current as well as the future issue of “infollution” – the issue of distracting and old data on the internet. There are lots of websites that are decades old and no information is updated on them for a long time.

If a customer relies on it and makes a decision, there is a high chance that it can lead to some trouble. This thing is not an issue in conventional marketing as people timely update things in the real world. Whereas there is no such filter available in the virtual world.

6. Secure your Website

One major issue and an important question are that “is your website safe?” In internet marketing it is very easy for competitors to attack your website and put in some hack in it, there are a lot of such examples where competitors tried and also succeeded in damaging the brand image via some online hack or negative attacks.

7. Internet Marketing

One of the major reasons why conventional marketing is not affected that much by Internet Marketing is good old-fashioned customer service. The majority of online marketers fail to deliver ideal response programs as well as customer service. There are thousands of website live which has no customer care service and still are running.

But, the word travels really fast in this virtual world and if a website fails to deliver desired customer service to even a single customer, there is a high possibility that the customers will spread out a negative word in the industry and news no matter genuine or fake, travels faster in the virtual world.

8. Marketing Strategy

One major benefit of Conventional marketing is that it is not that easy to imitate a conventional marketing move. It takes time to do that and in the meanwhile, the initiative taker gets the benefit of risk.

But, if we talk about internet marketing, there are a lot of instances where one successful strategy will be copied in less than 24 hours by your competitors. Thus, you fail to get the desired benefit.

Thus, the only motive of this article is that no matter how fond marketers are of internet marketing, if they have not taken proper precautions and some help of an expert, there is a high possibility of getting a backlash or a complete failure and resulting in a waste of time as well as money.

Article By: Deval Darji is an industry expert and also a full-time Online Marketing Consultant at a Digital Marketing Agency- Nesterzweb. He has done some deep research in the field of Online Marketing. To get more tips, visit the website linked to Nesterzweb.

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I am done with my Physiotherapy Graduation. And I always try to share Health and technology tips with people. Apart from Physiotherapy and being a tech savvy, I do explore more on Technology side and I keep sharing my findings with wider audience.

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