What are the top challenges marketers face?

Every marketer faces different challenges. Although we typically share similar goals, some marketers are stuck on lead generation, while others are having trouble converting leads into customers, and some just aren’t generating the traffic to their site they need in the first place.

1. Generating Awareness and Driving Traffic

2. Targeting Effectively

3. Using Social Media to Generate Customers and Revenue

4. Keeping Up With Marketing Trends and Strategies

5. Increasing and Proving ROI

5 Top Challenges Marketers Face

1) Generating Awareness and Driving Traffic

2) Targeting Effectively

3) Using Social Media to Generate Customers and Revenue

4) Keeping Up With Marketing Trends and Strategies

5) Increasing and Proving ROI

If we add all the answers we get the typical colleagues answer unified all fellow gave his answer on his own terms agreed with everyone

The answers have provided already by collegues here, I agreed with them. 

1. Awareness/traffic (22.5%)
2. Lead generation (16.2%)
3. Social media (6.3%)
4. Targeting (5.4%)
5. Branding/brand recognition (4.5%)
6. Converting leads to customers (3.6%)
7. Keeping up with marketing trends (3.6%)
8. Increasing/proving ROI (2.7%)
9. Content creation (1.8%)
10. Budget (1.8%)

Different marketers - different challenges. But most of them are named above of course

The challenge of not having a large enough volume of interested prospects, of not generating more awareness through the various available  channels , of not being effective in targeting, of not knowing how to convert  a presence on social media into profit, of not keeping step with marketing trends and strategies, of not increasing and proving ROI

I would say language and culture barriers should be the top challenges in marketing specially with a diverse and multicultural consumer market as your target.

Agreed with colleagues

I MAY LIST OUT FIVE:

1, New Trends in Patterns and Designs

2. New Technologies which reduces the cost of production substantially so that the investments in capital assets are becoming worthless.

3.New alternatives (Eg. Photo films are replaced by digital world)

4.Competetion from Mega corporates (PROSPECTIVE)

5.Duplication of Products with less scope for identification. 

I like to add the points shared by Mr. Divyesh Patel;-

6. Distribution Network.

7. High cost of advt media.

8. Fake products.