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As we approach the midway point of the year, marketing managers face a crucial juncture in their pursuit of achieving annual targets and maximizing performance.

The questions many marketing managers rarely differ. Key considerations that every marketing manager should bear in mind to effectively adjust their marketing strategies, optimize performance, and ensure a successful second half of the year relate to many variables, but a marketing audit is critical at this point of time each year. By examining performance metrics, adjusting the sails, and leveraging data-driven insights, marketing managers can steer their teams towards achieving remarkable results.

Being afraid for your job can be deliberating. It can create the wrong type of mindset where marketers are afraid to make the wrong choice or stop progress due to the fear of their job becoming redundant.

After interviewing more than 30 marketers over the past few months, it has become apparent that the biggest issue that marketers are facing is their ability to keep their jobs and remain secure, when in fact, the whole industry was built on risk.

Risky marketing tactics that paid dividends made entrepreneurs such as Richard Branson, Elon Musk and Steve Jobs. Nike didn’t hold back when they called out golf courses that had bans on certain ethnic groups playing on their courses with Tiger Woods advertising campaign, and again with BLM campaigns that cut through the clutter and while they may have offended a few, the marketing campaigns paid dividends.