The rate of change in the world of marketing is staggering. From CRM to DMPs, what are the key skills needed to future proof your career? Learn about what’s keeping CMOs up at night and where they need a trusted partner.
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Paid & Earned Channels Owned Media
• Media Mix Planning
• Paid Search Targets
• Campaign Performance
• Look-Alike Modeling
DATA
• SEO Planning
• Personalization Strategy
• High Value Behaviors
• Mobile Device Support
With TZ, pretty early, even early for working in SF
Who has a job related to building web sites?
Question asked yearly, debated in the news, is the web dead?
Been going on for a while. 2010
WIRED Magazine
The Next Web, later that year,
Piling on about the rise of Apps
Few years later, 2014, QUARTZ Different Take
WSJ doesn’t buy it, still predicting web’s death
So why are we still building web sites?
To quote Mark Twain, maybe there’s been some exaggeration
AEM isnt going anywhere
But is there something to this chatter?
Underlying message to listen for not
the franchise player it used to be
Happening for some time
The shift started about 10 years ago.
Who remembers the summer of 2006
Most of the old timers here fondly remember the 4.1 release of Day CQ
But behind the scenes 10 years,
A refresh of the corporate web site was a board level topic
Now it doesn’t even register. Why?
The CMO’s job – and the skills needed to successful in digital marketing
Have expanded violently
The marketing strategy was simple,
Evolved slightly with the site was the main online vehicle
Then, Marketing supported business plans
Now, Marketing supports customer needs
And it’s a lot more complicated
Companies that are killing it today, planned for this long ago
Take Amazon.
One of my favorite summarizations of AMZNs strategy
Brilliantly Simple.
Leading CPG companies shifted as well.
Going from selling products, to meeting customer needs
Led to change in expectations of the role
…what a marketer has to deliver on day in day out
It’s a simple formula
Lean back and watch sales grow
If you can pull that off…
That’s a pretty good day
That’s no longer the world any of us live in
The expectations of a marketer go far beyond brand and advertising
They need to be an expert on culture and the conversations around the brand
No matter how strange and bizarre it may seem
Expert on all forms of digital
…what a marketer has to deliver on day in day out
Look at list and how it’s evolved. It’s crazy
Shows the CMO need a partner, can’t possibly hire fast enough to meet needs
Since so much is connected to the site, great place to think about other skills to develop
And if there’s one area I’d focus on, it’s becoming fluent in data
Two reasons why
First, this is where the investment is shifting
Over time…less on media, more on data
2md: Areas to apply right now to bring intelligence to the room
Beyond pageviews and bounce rates
We build creative briefs based on observed data, much of it 3rd party to drive insights
This is the part of data that really excited me
Also learning more about data out of sheer fear
more after reading a book a colleague sent
The future belongs to 2 people
Those that understand and build AI
The attorneys that write policy and handle AI litigation
Even Elon Musk is concerned,
recently gave one billion dollars for preventing AI from destroying earth
Which leaves me fearful for our dystopian future
One either run by the robots
Or it’s run by this guy
Good news is that….
AI and the robots aren’t running the world yet
But the world is running on algorithms
And algorithms need lots of data
Not everyone will be the person who invents the algorithm,
but we can all understand how to apply the data
And that’s one key to future proofing your career right now