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Risks of running your own digital campaign

Marketing is essential to expose your brand name and stand out. With the right practices, technique, and optimization, you can definitely make the most out of your marketing budget.

Now that a lot of marketing tools like Google ads and Facebook ads are available to anyone, you’ll probably think that running your own digital marketing campaign is a piece of cake. While it’s a good thing that you can market your own product, it also poses a lot of risks. A successful campaign can be achieved through the right practices, techniques, proper optimization, and updated market insights. Doing all these while also running the whole business can compromise the other areas in your company.

Keeping your focus clear on what you do best – which is essentially running the whole business – is important. That’s why, in reality, having a digital marketing agency just might come handy. By having someone else do the marketing for you, you’ll be disburdened by tasks that will require a lot of your time. In this manner, you can pay more attention on achieving business growth holistically without doing the groundwork and avoiding the risks that might compromise your company.

To help you out, we have listed down the risks of running your own marketing campaign:

You might miss the technicalities

A marketer’s task involves a lot of time and effort. From conceptualization, crafting the copies and graphics, up to implementation, monitoring, optimization, analysis, and reporting, this has to be carefully done step-by-step in order to achieve good results. Doing all this simultaneously with your other business management tasks can really be excruciating and might also affect the results that you want to achieve. Letting an expert from an agency do the work will save you time and effort so you can focus on more important things. After all, you can always check on the progress from time to time so you can still be updated on the project. The technicalities and complexities of running digital campaigns are mostly done by those who are seasoned and experienced, hence, it will be better to ask someone who specializes in the job.

You could be less objective

Marketing specialists are trained to foresee the perspective of a business’s target audience through market insights and estimation tools. Even though you know your product really well, it may not be true that your market sees what you see. The basic understanding of your target’s preference can be hard if you cannot be objective and separate yourself from your business. It is very crucial that you know the people to target or drive your ads into, but if you already have a lot of things on your slate, then you might have no time to do enough research for this.

You could spend more or less than the ideal budget

A major risk when running your own digital campaign is that you can easily be convinced to spend more and more to get the results that you want. Or, it can also be the other way around whereas you would think that spending less is a better option. This is when both expertise and the objectivity of an expert marketer comes into practice. Since the recommendations of agencies, like iManila, are based on historical data and premium market analysis tools, you can be assured that you can get the right estimates for your campaign with the ideal budget. This will prevent your campaign from overspending or throwing away your hard-earned marketing dollars. By also acquiring the service of an expert, you can easily track and manage your return on investments and have a detailed report on what went well and how you can improve more in terms of your marketing assets.

Need help from an expert marketer? Contact iManila and see how our digital marketing services can help your business grow! #iManila #DigitalMarketing #GooglePartner

Hire Web Developers or Use DIY Web Builders?

“Should I hire a web developer or should I just do it myself?”

The rise of DIY web builders is undeniable. In fact, some DIY web builders even claim that you can create your website in under just 5 minutes. This trend makes it tempting to go rogue on your website and just wing it instead of hiring professionals. Sure, it is your choice to make, and we have no problem with that.  But the question is…

Which is really the right path for your website? Here are a few things you can consider when starting a website:

Budget:

To be honest, hiring a web development company can be costly.  After all, these are professionals who studied and honed their skills through years of experience. You simply tell them your ideas and vision and they will craft it for you, sometimes, even suggest ideas that can make your website even better.

Design & Function

Visualize your website. Are you fine with generic themes you can find online or do you want something made custom for your brand? Using web builders give you an array of options to choose from. You can pick a theme you like and voila – you’re a step away from launching your website. However, professional web developers tailor their designs depending on how their client wants it – making it unique compared to the thousands of other websites out there! (You may also want to read: What Makes A Good Web Design!)

Another important thing to consider is the features you want to integrate into your website. Think about the features you would like your website to have. People who only want a website for their blogs often do it themselves. But, people who are starting a business or expanding their business online prefer to hire web developers as there are certain functions that are just too complicated for someone to do on their own. 

Domain & Hosting

Now here’s the more complicated stuff. When building a website, you need a domain name and a hosting account to make everything work. A domain name is your website’s address on the internet, whereas, a hosting account is where your website (including files and data) is stored. You can do it all your own through research OR find a company that can package everything for you. 

But, if you have the budget and aren’t fond of the idea of doing all the work yourself or just don’t have the time to create your website, you can simply just call a web development company. A lot of companies still find it best to trust the professionals, especially when it comes to building a custom website for you or your business.

 

iManila is a web development and web hosting company that has been in the industry for more than 20 years. Staffed with talented professionals, iManila can help build your dream website. Call us now at +632 3490 0000 or drop us an email at info@imanila.ph

 

#iManila #WebDevelopment #WebDesign

 

 

Android Users, Here’s the Truth About Your Anti-Virus Apps

Are the anti-virus apps you’ve downloaded for free from unknown developers safe and legit?

This assessment is especially important for people with Android phones that are known to be no strangers to malware. How come it’s not safe? According to Virtual Private Network’s previous research, it exposed six free and potentially dangerous antivirus apps which already have 1.66 billion downloads in Google Play. VPN has placed a warning to all android users as they might be putting themselves and all their data on their phones at risk.

Here’s the shady truth about these required permissions from those shady android anti-virus apps.  The warning released by VPN is focused on these dangerous permissions from security apps you thought to be safe. Unknowingly, you are already being tracked down because of the permissions you sent such as your location, access to your camera, microphone, recording audio, and even voice calls. VPN also said that the personal information you sent during the set-up process is being sold. The worst thing is, some of these apps ask payment in the process. One day, you might just be surprised at how your private files have ended up on public viewing sites.

You can’t fault the irony here – a user is not set to know everything about these hackings and illegal accessing, they ought to just believe the idea of a security app coming from a legit source that promotes security and privacy. And with all the malware scare stories, as an initial reaction, people will download free apps immediately not knowing they were from rogue developers.

VPN has cited examples of anti-virus apps for android phones that were found guilty of these malicious activities. It may bring you surprise but these are the widely used anti-virus apps such as Virus Cleaner, Security Master and Clean Master – all still available on Google Play and amassing millions of installs per month!

Earlier this month, another 10 anti-virus apps available for download in Google Play were reported by VPN Pro to be filled with dangerous malware, spyware, and questionable permissions. These apps have whopped a total of 1.9 billion downloads in total.

We have broken down 10 of these apps that were found guilty of this security crime. If you have installed one of these, we advise you to uninstall them right away.

  • Security Master – Antivirus, VPN, AppLock, Booster | 500 million installs
  • Virus Cleaner, Antivirus, Cleaner (MAX Security) | 50 million installs
  • Antivirus Free 2019 – Scan & Remove Virus, Cleaner | 10 million installs
  • 360 Security – Free Antivirus, Booster, Cleaner | 100 million installs
  • Virus Cleaner 2019 – Antivirus, Cleaner & Booster | 50 million installs
  • Super Phone Cleaner: Virus Cleaner, Phone Cleaner | 50 million installs
  • 360 Security Lite – Booster, Cleaner, AppLock | 50 million installs
  • Super Cleaner – Antivirus, Booster, Phone Cleaner | 100 million installs
  • Clean Master – Antivirus, Applock & Cleaner | 1 billion installs
  • Super Security – Antivirus, Booster & AppLock | 10 million installs
  • Antivirus Free – Virus Cleaner | 50 million installs
  • Antivirus Free 2019 – Virus Cleaner | 1 million installs
  • Antivirus Android | 1 million installs
  • Antivirus & Virus Cleaner | 10 million installs
  • Antivirus Mobile – Cleaner, Phone Virus Scanner

While most apps listed above have been deleted from Google Play, it is still important to be vigilant in installing anti-virus apps that should come from legit sources.

Another case was last month when 42 apps from the Google Play Store were reported to have harmful adware capable of draining your battery’s life, mobile data and accessing your personal information.

All in all, these 42 apps amassed eight million downloads.

Google has made it public, announcing that they are fully aware that a swathe of dangerous apps is slipping through their current protections and making it successfully to Android user’s devices.

But one can always outsmart the other. Mountain Firm View is now in the process of creating an App Defense Alliance to curtail this spiraling issue.

Google said: “As part of this Alliance, we are integrating our Google Play Protect detection systems with each partner’s scanning engines. This will generate new app risk intelligence as apps are being queued to publish. Partners will analyze that dataset and act as another, vital set of eyes prior to an app going live on the Play Store.”

Be vigilant with the apps you download on your Android device. Don’t forget to subscribe to our newsletter to stay updated with the latest trends and news! 

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