Online digital marketing has come to stay in Nigeria and meant to help organizations and businesses to reach their online communications goals, and in case of businesses achieve internet marketing aims. Problem or questions in the lips of many organizations are: when is it the right time to run online digital marketing? Further questions asked in this regard are: should we run online campaign because competitors or oppositions are running one? Should we run online campaign in Nigeria because we have the budget, is it necessary at all to embark on online digital marketing among other questions? In this article today we will try to answer the question when to run online digital marketing. Let’s us first establish the fact that online digital marketing is not meant for businesses only who have products/services to sell in Nigeria or for profits orientated companies alone. No, digital marketing goes beyond that to include non profit organizations such as churches, NGO, schools(selling education), government agencies for public enlightenment among others. Let’s further establish this, according to marketing discipline, we were told in the marketing school that there’re marketing mix which consist of elememts of marketing. There’re: place, product, promotion, process, physical evidence, price and people. Each of these elements is further divided to include their elements, for example elements of promotion are: public relation, advertising, personal selling, word of mouth, direct marketing and so on.What to deduce from this explanation is that marketing is beyond selling and using by profit orientated enterprise alone.However, for the sake of simplicity, this post today will be focused on promotion aspect of marketing mix, in our situation digital marketing, i.e marketing using digital space.Below are some of the reasons or when to run online digital marketing campaign. To launch a new products or services: When your organization wants to launch a new products or services in Nigeria, as launching of product means to let target consumers or potential buyers know about your new products. This involves informing the Nigeria’s customers and potential clients through online advertising by way of online publicity and educating them. To build and repair public opinion: You can run a digital marketing campaign in Nigeria when your organization or you want to build and repair public opinion via digital space. You can employ online public relation tools such as press release, interviews etc targeted at specific audience to correct wrong impression about products/services, encourage the Nigeria’s general public to embrace particular ideas as regard to societal issues etc. To change position of well established product: Every product has a life cycle such as introduction stage, growth stage, maturity stage and decline stage. When a product gets to its maturity stage it might be a time to change its position and consumer perception through innovation and strategic repositioning. This is to avoid the product entering into decline stage which could make it hard to continue making profits for the company. When all the innovation and positioning is done, consumers need to be communicated regard to all the new developments. To carry out this, online digital advertising campaigns need to be embarked on. To take advantage of a seasonal sales peak: Taking advantage of seasonal peak is one of reasons to run a digital marketing campaigns in Nigeria in order to promote your product and service during its best selling period. Many products and services in Nigeria’s market have time they’re mostly consumed or bought e.g fashion and event services during festive period. Because other companies and organizations are likely to be competing for the same buyers/subscribers, online digital marketing will be embarked on to market to customers and potential buyers in the market to stimulate demand and possibly win buyers attention away from the competitors. Extra use of products: To encourage extra use of products and services by the end users. In marketing there is what is called market penetration and one of strategies of market penetration is encouraging extra use of products to stimulate more demand from the current consumers. For example toothpaste seller running adverts showing importance of brushing teeth three times a day, unlike one-time a day many homes are custom to. Thus, the advert is meant to change consumers’ behaviors to consume the product more, therefore leading to extra use of the product. To achieve fast rate of trials and sampling: Is you business having services with trials offers or products with samples? You’re sure that you have excellent products and render exceptional services yet you’re not getting enough potential consumers and buyers to trial the product or to give sample to test its quality? Then this is time to run online digital marketing campaigns to promote the trials and sampling to millions of Nigerian consumers and potential buyers through meticulous digital marketing campaigns. To engage general public: Are you a public figure such as politician, public office holder or activist who needs to influence Nigerian masses, attract supporters and Nigerian masses to believe in your movements or issue important to you? Then this is time to run online digital marketing campaigns to engage millions of Nigerians. Good news is that AdHang being first internet public enlightenment agency in West Africa is here to help you run massive online awareness campaigns. Also, are you a government agency in need to reach millions of Nigeria with any issue important for the government of the day? Then you need to carry out public awareness campaign via digital space. Up coming event: Are you planning an event be it carnival, rally, concert or summit. This is time to run online advertising for the event. This is to enable you attract participants to the event and also educate them about the up coming event in areas such as event’s features, benefits; whether it’s free or paid, locations among others. All these will be made possible through informative and persuasive online event digital advertising campaign. These are some of the situations when to run digital marketing campaigns. If your target audiences, consumers and potential buyers are in Nigeria, any country of Africa or entire continent of Africa. Consider hiring AdHang to help you plan, design messages and appeals and run your online digital campaigns.