Did Your Business Outgrow Its Marketing?
This article was published on December 18, 2025
Categorized in: Digital Marketing
There is a point where businesses might notice that growth slows. There could be a lot of reasons for this, but one of those is that the business could have outgrown its marketing strategy. Companies tend to evolve over time. At the same time, marketing best practices change and morph. Not only that, but the audience and customer base doesn’t stay static, they evolve too. In other words, if growth slows, it could very well be because it has outgrown its marketing strategy.
This is a fairly common problem, and there are some signs that this could be the case. It’s just that many don’t realize that the marketing strategy needed to be tweaked until it becomes necessary to make drastic changes. It’s so much better to read the early signs and adjust accordingly. Here’s more information about this.
Messaging Isn’t Landing
How is your messaging resonating with your audience? This is often the first thing to become outdated when it comes to your marketing strategy. It’s also one of the last places we tend to look if we think something has stagnated! It should be the first place to look, though, because messaging is one of those foundational items that impact all of the marketing campaigns.
Do your prospects seem to understand who you are, the nature of your products, who they serve, and why you’re different? If there seems to be confusion across these points when sales is interacting with them, the messaging needs to be tweaked.
High Activity – Low Momentum
Is your marketing department always busy? If they are consistently working the existing strategy without missing a beat, yet results have stagnated, this is another sign that the marketing strategy needs to be tweaked. This is often referred to as “motion without momentum”. If there’s no momentum, marketing’s actions are simply busy work.
The fix here is to examine the strategy, make some changes, and implement these changes in the day-t0-day process. If marketing is engaged in constant busywork, this is not a good use of resources.
Sales Explains the Brand
If the sales team finds that they need to constantly explain things about the company and products, this could be a sign that the marketing strategy isn’t working as well as it should. When sales needs to explain the brand, this means that the marketing department hasn’t done a great job at creating a solid brand. There could be many reasons for it, including industry changes, if the branding has changed over the years, and if the branding was never established in the first place.
Branding is one of the first items a marketing team looks at and solidifies. However, it is all too easy to let too much time pass before assessing if any branding-related tweaks need to be made. This is the time to do it.
These three main signs are true signals that marketing has stagnated. At the point where these are noticed, it’s time to review the marketing strategy to find areas for improvement. Marketing should get the word out about the products, services, and the company. If the sales or digital marketing results are stagnant, changes need to be made.
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About the Author: Brick Marketing President, Nick Stamoulis
Nick Stamoulis is President of Brick Marketing and has over 25 of years digital marketing experience. He specializes in solving complex digital marketing challenges through SEO, content marketing, social media, PPC, email marketing, SEO for AI (GEO) and conversion optimization.
