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The influence of Performance Marketing on the landscape of Direct-to-Consumer brands 

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August 18, 2022
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Amitek Sinha, COO, ET Medialabs
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We are living in an era where online marketing is evolving at a breakneck pace. Brands are adopting performance marketing to scale their business and reach a new clientele base. However, with the changing landscape, performance marketing is providing benefits such as enhanced brand awareness, trackable performance, and minimal cost risks. In this case, direct-to-customer brands use performance marketing to change the way they provide services to customers.

A direct-to-customer (D2C) brand is a sales model and refers to the manufacturing business that manufactures products and services as well as distributes them directly to consumers. During the selling process, the goods are always supplied straight to the consumer, with no third parties involved. D2C brand products are currently sold on digital channel platforms such as social networks, marketplaces, and enterprise e-commerce sites. As a result, it is becoming increasingly vital to have a marketing plan that is creative, flexible, and appealing in order to break the glass ceiling. In addition to consumer acquisition, this strategy encourages virality, word-of-mouth, and organic growth. Performance marketing is a distinct and powerful method for establishing a loyal user base by scaling up the D2C brand with the changing landscape in the digital-driven era.

Performance Marketing: An Essential Tool for Brands

Rather than paying the marketing company when a specific product is sold, the merchant pays them for the achieved or intended results, such as a successful lead, subscription, or sale. It gives marketers all the tools they need to improve and streamline their marketing operations. 

Unlike effective marketing, which requires advertisers to pay advertising providers upfront in the hopes of provoking a reaction, advertisers only pay when a specified condition is met, such as a product purchase. In the ever-increasing march toward a global digital marketplace, the desire for D2C firms to use the resources at their disposal has grown alongside the demand for them to employ every one of the tools at their disposal, such as performance marketing.

Performance marketing’s advantages for D2C businesses

Adopting performance-based promotional tools can assist the firm in scaling advertising activities to suit the needs of the company without spending a lot of money. Collecting important data is a unique and effective technique to broaden a brand’s audience and reach. When the company fully leverages the powers of performance marketing to assist the market, it will be easier than ever to expand the company at the fastest rate possible.

Some of the benefits of adopting performance marketing in the changing landscape include: 

Diminish the pitfalls 

There is less risk for brands when they use performance marketing methods that are directly tied to cost. Because you only pay when a certain action is achieved, you are not spending a full quarter or year’s worth of marketing on an endeavor that may or may not succeed. Performance marketing enables you to spend money only on effective advertisements and to change your expenditure and budget in real-time. This enables D2C organizations to lower the risk associated with each campaign, which is critical for all D2C enterprises, regardless of their goals, size, or industry.

Formerly, a business would prepay its advertising and marketing expenses without knowing whether the campaign would be effective. All you have to do is purchase the billboard, provide the creative, and have the affiliate install it. You pay an affiliate to host your marketing campaign and cross your fingers that it succeeds. These costs are adjustable and reasonable in performance marketing because they are based on outcomes.

Agility and adaptability

Performance marketing is a flexible strategy. Because of the real-time data and management of performance marketing, you may change any aspect of your advertising efforts at any time. Videos can be reordered to improve performance, a call to action (CTA) can be added to encourage click-throughs, unsuccessful campaigns can be terminated before they deplete your budget, and your most successful campaigns can be boosted once they have been proven to be statistically significant winners.

Productivity

The most obvious and crucial reason for D2C brands to change to performance marketing is its cost-effective method of selling the business. Performance marketing reduces expenses, targets more precise and relevant potential customers, produces high-quality leads, gives the business more real-time control over your advertising, and offers significant, quantifiable result that impact the final result.

Performance marketing helps in optimizing the marketing budget in ways that a basic approach cannot. A performance marketing plan allows you to promote in a more adaptable, cost-effective, and risk-free manner.

The best bet for the D2C brand 

The lockdown benefited the direct-to-consumer sector by increasing internet demand. It was only possible because there was enough technology to support this structural transformation. As a result, regardless of how far we progress, technology will always play an important and smooth role in the development of the direct-to-consumer (D2C) market.

Your direct-to-consumer marketing must be successful, or your competitors will quickly seize the opportunities you’ve missed. Given the shifting business environment, there is only one choice for D2C enterprises looking to expand in 2022 when comparing performance marketing to traditional advertising: performance marketing.

Article is authored by Amitek Sinha, COO, ET Medialabs.

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