Break Through Digital Marketing Plateaus
This article was published on December 12, 2025
Categorized in: Digital Marketing
Results or lack of within digital marketing plateaus are frustrating, but they could happen to any marketing team out there. Digital marketing campaigns that once delivered steady results start to level off or stagnate. Audience growth slows. Messaging feels stale and ineffective. The marketing team may still be working pretty hard, but the results just aren’t there.
One thing that is important for organizations to understand is that plateaus don’t represent failure. They’re a sign that marketing teams’ current capacity has reached its limit. What’s needed now is to find ways that are within budget to refresh the marketing team so they can make the needed tweaks. Breaking through doesn’t need a major shakeup. Refreshing the teams’ skills and altering the way they think can make a huge difference.
Skill Gaps Are Real Especially in Changing Markets
What worked in marketing a few years ago may not work now. Best practices often change, and unless the marketing team keeps their education up to date, the results will stagnate. These skill gaps can be frustrating but they are also easily fixed. Find ways to educate the marketing team and the results will start to speak for themselves.
The truth is, plateaus often appear much sooner than the data reflects. Many teams work on marketing strategies that were created several years ago, and this is a sign that one of the causes of the plateau is a skills gap. Marketing teams often educate themselves on best practices when creating or tweaking their existing strategy. Then, their time and resources are spent putting the strategy into practice. What happens when the market changes? The strategy will become outdated quickly.
Plateaus Can’t Be Fixed By Strategy Alone
Once the plateau is identified, the impulse might be to change the strategy and then think it will all work out. While this is part of the cure, it doesn’t show the whole picture. Anything related to creating a new strategy, such as testing new methods, changing the budget, and making strategic changes to the process, often help in the short term, but they aren’t enough to create long term breakthroughs.
A strategy is only as strong as the team itself. Highly current and educated teams, for example, have a greater likelihood of making strategic adjustments that are needed to keep the organization on track with its financial goals. If the team has skill gaps, making changes is a lot more difficult and won’t have the desired effect. This is what is needed to help the team perform at a higher level.
How to Know if Digital Marketing is Breaking Through
Once you make the strategic changes, such as updating the marketing teams’ skills and altering the marketing strategy to reflect current best practices, the goal is to determine if the changes are on track to start working before too much time has passed. While you can’t expect to have dramatic data shifts after just a month or two, you should start to see positive signs that the shift has worked.
Most importantly, the whole organization will notice once marketing breaks out of the plateau because the results will speak for themselves!
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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.
