Marketing in 2014 discusses several trends that will impact marketing, including:
1. Marketers will need to become more agile and adaptable as the pace of change accelerates and customers shift platforms more quickly.
2. Marketers will take on more anthropological roles, exploring what motivates customers and following their behaviors across channels.
3. Thoughtful, values-driven campaigns and content will continue to resonate more strongly with audiences over campaigns focused solely on products. Marketers will need to focus on creating experiences worth having.
How to Turn Knowledge into Data: Customer ReviewsValeria Maltoni
What's in a Review? Drawing marketing insights from your consumer generated content. Learning to see, going beyond the starts, how to find feedback, creating value for customers while getting business value.
Top 10 Digital Transformation Trends for 2017Daniel Newman
Digital transformation reshapes every aspect of a business. As digital technology continues to evolve, I believe that successful digital transformation will require careful collaboration, thoughtful planning, and the inclusion of every department.
During recent years, we’ve seen shifts in how traditional leadership roles operate, as silos break down and the scopes of various roles widen and change. Digital transformation has morphed from a trend to a central component of modern business strategy.
The latest statistics from WeChat place its monthly active users (MAU) at 700million, with audiences visiting the application upwards of 30 times per day.
While follower numbers for most brands continue to grow, the honeymoon appears to be over. Signs are starting to emerge that follower growth rates for brand accounts are slowing.
At the same time, the government has started to apply pressure to regulate H5 apps built onto WeChat. And Tencent itself is applying greater control over brand activities.
Brands will have to employ more effective content strategies on WeChat moving forward. In this presentation we share our tips to help brands continue to grow by attracting/retaining audiences on WeChat.
Conversational Commerce 2.0: When AI and Chatbots Meet Experience DesignBrian Solis
Conversational commerce, chatbots, AI, represent the next frontier for automated customer engagement. For meaningful conversational commerce, designers must employ experience architecture to balance human-centered design with thoughtful CX, UX and UI. Leading digital analyst and anthropologist Brian Solis shares his vision for next generation conversational commerce...the experience when automation meets design.
In September 2013, Steven Van Belleghem and Peter Hinssen organized an inspiration journey to the West Coast of the US. Together with 20 top executives, we visted a large group of companies. In this paper, we wrote down our conclusions of this very inspiring tour.
We learned the power of combining a customer first mentality with a networked organization and a purpose driven culture. Check out our paper to understand all details.
Don’t get us wrong—we're not saying that editorial calendars are all bad.
But using one poorly can lead to obscure social media posts, videos and white papers that do nothing to achieve your business goals, and other time- and budget-wasters that have little to no real ROI.
89% of content marketers are focused on creating more engaging, higher quality content now or within the next 12 months. If you’re one of them, maybe it’s time to ditch the calendar (or at least use it better).
Our latest Jack POV, Why editorial calendars make your content suck, was presented by our VP, Strategy Director, Ben Grossman at this year’s SXSW Interactive, and we’re making the insights from Austin available to you.
Big data has given marketers an unprecedented view into the attitudes and behaviors of larger audiences than ever before. But as we become increasingly reliant on big-data analytics, we’re also basing our insights on the same data pool—and arriving at very similar ideas. It’s a race to the middle that can dilute brand perceptions and value.
For brands to stand out, big data isn’t enough. That’s where small data comes in.
In our latest white paper, we show how using small data—the tiny clues that can uncover consumers’ drivers and desires—can uncover consumer insights that can't be found through big data alone.
Read the white paper, and find out how small data can lead to breakthrough ideas that transform brands and brand experience.
How to Turn Knowledge into Data: Customer ReviewsValeria Maltoni
What's in a Review? Drawing marketing insights from your consumer generated content. Learning to see, going beyond the starts, how to find feedback, creating value for customers while getting business value.
Top 10 Digital Transformation Trends for 2017Daniel Newman
Digital transformation reshapes every aspect of a business. As digital technology continues to evolve, I believe that successful digital transformation will require careful collaboration, thoughtful planning, and the inclusion of every department.
During recent years, we’ve seen shifts in how traditional leadership roles operate, as silos break down and the scopes of various roles widen and change. Digital transformation has morphed from a trend to a central component of modern business strategy.
The latest statistics from WeChat place its monthly active users (MAU) at 700million, with audiences visiting the application upwards of 30 times per day.
While follower numbers for most brands continue to grow, the honeymoon appears to be over. Signs are starting to emerge that follower growth rates for brand accounts are slowing.
At the same time, the government has started to apply pressure to regulate H5 apps built onto WeChat. And Tencent itself is applying greater control over brand activities.
Brands will have to employ more effective content strategies on WeChat moving forward. In this presentation we share our tips to help brands continue to grow by attracting/retaining audiences on WeChat.
Conversational Commerce 2.0: When AI and Chatbots Meet Experience DesignBrian Solis
Conversational commerce, chatbots, AI, represent the next frontier for automated customer engagement. For meaningful conversational commerce, designers must employ experience architecture to balance human-centered design with thoughtful CX, UX and UI. Leading digital analyst and anthropologist Brian Solis shares his vision for next generation conversational commerce...the experience when automation meets design.
In September 2013, Steven Van Belleghem and Peter Hinssen organized an inspiration journey to the West Coast of the US. Together with 20 top executives, we visted a large group of companies. In this paper, we wrote down our conclusions of this very inspiring tour.
We learned the power of combining a customer first mentality with a networked organization and a purpose driven culture. Check out our paper to understand all details.
Don’t get us wrong—we're not saying that editorial calendars are all bad.
But using one poorly can lead to obscure social media posts, videos and white papers that do nothing to achieve your business goals, and other time- and budget-wasters that have little to no real ROI.
89% of content marketers are focused on creating more engaging, higher quality content now or within the next 12 months. If you’re one of them, maybe it’s time to ditch the calendar (or at least use it better).
Our latest Jack POV, Why editorial calendars make your content suck, was presented by our VP, Strategy Director, Ben Grossman at this year’s SXSW Interactive, and we’re making the insights from Austin available to you.
Big data has given marketers an unprecedented view into the attitudes and behaviors of larger audiences than ever before. But as we become increasingly reliant on big-data analytics, we’re also basing our insights on the same data pool—and arriving at very similar ideas. It’s a race to the middle that can dilute brand perceptions and value.
For brands to stand out, big data isn’t enough. That’s where small data comes in.
In our latest white paper, we show how using small data—the tiny clues that can uncover consumers’ drivers and desires—can uncover consumer insights that can't be found through big data alone.
Read the white paper, and find out how small data can lead to breakthrough ideas that transform brands and brand experience.
In this presentation I gave at Social Media Breakfast-Minneapolis/St. Paul, I take on glut of "social media trend" posts we see each year, and instead offer up more realistic social trends you can actually ACT on in 2017.
State of influence 2.0 by Brian Solis and TraackrBrian Solis
A groundbreaking report on the state and future of influencer marketing by Brian Solis and Traackr. What if influencer marketing was more than marketing? What if it was about the end-to-end customer or employee experience?
Welcome to a new era of marketing; an era where brands are shaped by the people who experience them. In a world where most consumers are connected, the experiences that they have and share online collectively shape their perceptions, impressions and actions. To a certain extent, all connected consumers are becoming influential in their own ways.
Influence has never been more import- ant. Every year, global communica- tions marketing firm Edelman pub- lishes its “Trust Barometer” report that captures the sentiment of trust in a variety of industries and scenarios. In its 2017 edition1, Edelman learned that the credibility of CEOs was at its lowest level ever. At the same time, the report found that trust in peers, or “a person like yourself,” is as cred- ible a source of information about a company as a technical or academic expert. Without trust, brand market- ing may fall upon skeptical, distrusting or altogether inattentive audiences.
By partnering with the right influenc- ers, or people who tell the right stories in the right context by delivering value at each step, brands can reach people through those they trust while earning trust in the process.
What Is the Future of Data Sharing? - Consumer Mindsets and the Power of BrandsDavid Rogers
READ an OVERVIEW: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-research-what-future-data-sharing-david-rogers
This research study was produced by Columbia Business School’s Center on Global Brand Leadership, in conjunction with the Aimia Institute.
As data becomes an increasingly important asset for any business, access to accurate data from customers—about their interests, behaviors, and identity—is vital to successful, durable relationships. Our research explores how businesses can make data sharing a “win-win” for both companies and the customers they serve.
Co-authors David Rogers and Matthew Quint surveyed attitudes towards sharing data with business in six different industries, talking with 8,000 consumers from the US, UK, Canada, France, and India.
Our surprising findings show that even consumers who are actively protective of their data are often happy to share it for relevant offers and value. The study revealed four distinct “mindsets” that consumers have towards sharing data. And we uncovered clear opportunities for business to use data to add more value to their relationships with consumers.
Jonathan Lee, Managing Director, Brand Strategy, and Ken Allard, Managing Director, Business Strategy at HUGE, gave this presentation at "Ambidexterity 2," the VCU Brandcenter's Executive Education program for account planning on June 24th at the VCU Brandcenter in Richmond, VA.
Each day dawns with a new digital platform, app, or data provider courting you for your scarce dollars and attention. To be successful at digital content and marketing, publishers and brands must start with a strategy that puts people at the center of their efforts, defining the kind of relationship they will — and won’t — have with their audiences. Technologies will come and go, so we will discuss the components of a modern digital marketing strategy that will have staying power beyond the next bright shiny object.
CIO’s are motivated to minimize risk, and CMOs are rewarded for big campaigns that land. These differing incentives make it difficult for a brand to bridge the gap and achieve a collaborative relationship between the two - and a good agency is responsible for mediating this relationship. Hear Isobar's co-CEO Geoff Cubitt discuss how an agency should approach the CIO/CMO relationship.
eMarketer Webinar: Key Digital Trends for 2014eMarketer
Join eMarketer for a free webinar covering a variety of topics including the challenges of marketing to the always-on, increasingly mobile-centric consumer.
For the last eight years brands have invested billions into social media programs and now many are scratching their heads… “What's the ROI of this content?”
In this webinar we break it down for you.
The essential people, processes and tools you need to deliver a great customer experience through your brand's website
DOWNLOAD THE COMPLETE REPORT AT NO COST HERE: http://www2.prophet.com/creating-a-customer-first-web-experience
I was asked to speak at the IPA Strategy Group's Modern Briefing event this morning. These are my thoughts on why participation is so important-it fundamentally disrupts business models-and how we can get better at briefing for participation:
-A business problem is a behavioural change in disguise
-Think about network insights, not consumer insights
-Move from "the single thing we want to say" to "the single thing we're going to make or do"
What's Next: Marketing Maturity & How To Achieve ItOgilvy Consulting
If you work in marketing today, you have very likely been thinking about things like rapid technology evolution, changing customer expectations and a dynamic and disruptive marketplace. Most companies we know are thinking about about Modern Marketing, but fewer are achieving the results they need.
In this webinar, we dive deeper into executing Modern Marketing at scale, and why it is crucial in an age where the stakes are raised for the CMO and the entire marketing function.
The Funnel Doesn’t Care About Customers; The Funnel Only Cares About The Fun...Brian Solis
Frictionless, integrated omnichannel is the baseline for next generation customer experiences. There are two sides to customer engagement and relationships that need your attention. There’s the experience customers have today of which they endure because it’s their only choice. There’s also the journey customers hack to work for them or worse, other companies design a path that’s more familiar, intuitive and meaningful because. Yet, either one of those two experiences represent the fate of companies that choose to invest in one or the other.
Leading digital analyst and futurist Brian Solis and Teleperformance share how to unite disparate efforts for an approach that's integrated, consistent and complementary.
10 years of BRITE: Looking Back to the Future of the Digital Business RevolutionDavid Rogers
Since its inception 10 years ago, the BRITE conference has featured the leading innovators, disruptors, and brand makers pioneering a path for business in the digital age. In this speech, BRITE’s founder, David Rogers (author, "The Digital Transformation Playbook"), looks back at the lessons we’ve learned and the predictions that we heard. And he shares five guiding principles for the future, with a vision for where digital transformation is taking business in the next 10 years.
We are entering a world of limitless: noise, marketing channels, and business competition. The systems we have used for over 100 years were built for a world of limited access to information and will not work in the limitless future. We need new systems, which take into account the changed relationships we must have with consumers. Only by shifting our foundations to new systems can we create an effective, scaleable, and sustainable marketing future.
Attention is a Currency, We Earn It and We Spend It - Here's How to Engage ItBrian Solis
Attention is a Currency: We earn it, we spend it, and sometimes we lose it. Why now is the time to invest in digital experiences that matter.
LinkedIn has teamed up with best-selling author Brian Solis and cartoonist extraordinaire Hugh Macleod of GapingVoid Culture Design Group for an exclusive eBook for marketers that takes a fun and unique approach to storytelling.
Fasten your marketing seatbelts for a story told through one-of-a-kind visuals and expert insights that will enlighten and delight while addressing one of the biggest challenges facing marketers today; how to earn and retain attention through remarkable content.
Download this new eBook to learn:
How to break through internet clutter and keep your audience from drowning in a sea of content mediocrity.
The definition of true engagement and what to do with someone’s attention once you have it.
Why every touch point matters and how to deliver value at every stage of the buyer’s journey.
How to pull this all together into a winning content marketing strategy.
In this presentation I gave at Social Media Breakfast-Minneapolis/St. Paul, I take on glut of "social media trend" posts we see each year, and instead offer up more realistic social trends you can actually ACT on in 2017.
State of influence 2.0 by Brian Solis and TraackrBrian Solis
A groundbreaking report on the state and future of influencer marketing by Brian Solis and Traackr. What if influencer marketing was more than marketing? What if it was about the end-to-end customer or employee experience?
Welcome to a new era of marketing; an era where brands are shaped by the people who experience them. In a world where most consumers are connected, the experiences that they have and share online collectively shape their perceptions, impressions and actions. To a certain extent, all connected consumers are becoming influential in their own ways.
Influence has never been more import- ant. Every year, global communica- tions marketing firm Edelman pub- lishes its “Trust Barometer” report that captures the sentiment of trust in a variety of industries and scenarios. In its 2017 edition1, Edelman learned that the credibility of CEOs was at its lowest level ever. At the same time, the report found that trust in peers, or “a person like yourself,” is as cred- ible a source of information about a company as a technical or academic expert. Without trust, brand market- ing may fall upon skeptical, distrusting or altogether inattentive audiences.
By partnering with the right influenc- ers, or people who tell the right stories in the right context by delivering value at each step, brands can reach people through those they trust while earning trust in the process.
What Is the Future of Data Sharing? - Consumer Mindsets and the Power of BrandsDavid Rogers
READ an OVERVIEW: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-research-what-future-data-sharing-david-rogers
This research study was produced by Columbia Business School’s Center on Global Brand Leadership, in conjunction with the Aimia Institute.
As data becomes an increasingly important asset for any business, access to accurate data from customers—about their interests, behaviors, and identity—is vital to successful, durable relationships. Our research explores how businesses can make data sharing a “win-win” for both companies and the customers they serve.
Co-authors David Rogers and Matthew Quint surveyed attitudes towards sharing data with business in six different industries, talking with 8,000 consumers from the US, UK, Canada, France, and India.
Our surprising findings show that even consumers who are actively protective of their data are often happy to share it for relevant offers and value. The study revealed four distinct “mindsets” that consumers have towards sharing data. And we uncovered clear opportunities for business to use data to add more value to their relationships with consumers.
Jonathan Lee, Managing Director, Brand Strategy, and Ken Allard, Managing Director, Business Strategy at HUGE, gave this presentation at "Ambidexterity 2," the VCU Brandcenter's Executive Education program for account planning on June 24th at the VCU Brandcenter in Richmond, VA.
Each day dawns with a new digital platform, app, or data provider courting you for your scarce dollars and attention. To be successful at digital content and marketing, publishers and brands must start with a strategy that puts people at the center of their efforts, defining the kind of relationship they will — and won’t — have with their audiences. Technologies will come and go, so we will discuss the components of a modern digital marketing strategy that will have staying power beyond the next bright shiny object.
CIO’s are motivated to minimize risk, and CMOs are rewarded for big campaigns that land. These differing incentives make it difficult for a brand to bridge the gap and achieve a collaborative relationship between the two - and a good agency is responsible for mediating this relationship. Hear Isobar's co-CEO Geoff Cubitt discuss how an agency should approach the CIO/CMO relationship.
eMarketer Webinar: Key Digital Trends for 2014eMarketer
Join eMarketer for a free webinar covering a variety of topics including the challenges of marketing to the always-on, increasingly mobile-centric consumer.
For the last eight years brands have invested billions into social media programs and now many are scratching their heads… “What's the ROI of this content?”
In this webinar we break it down for you.
The essential people, processes and tools you need to deliver a great customer experience through your brand's website
DOWNLOAD THE COMPLETE REPORT AT NO COST HERE: http://www2.prophet.com/creating-a-customer-first-web-experience
I was asked to speak at the IPA Strategy Group's Modern Briefing event this morning. These are my thoughts on why participation is so important-it fundamentally disrupts business models-and how we can get better at briefing for participation:
-A business problem is a behavioural change in disguise
-Think about network insights, not consumer insights
-Move from "the single thing we want to say" to "the single thing we're going to make or do"
What's Next: Marketing Maturity & How To Achieve ItOgilvy Consulting
If you work in marketing today, you have very likely been thinking about things like rapid technology evolution, changing customer expectations and a dynamic and disruptive marketplace. Most companies we know are thinking about about Modern Marketing, but fewer are achieving the results they need.
In this webinar, we dive deeper into executing Modern Marketing at scale, and why it is crucial in an age where the stakes are raised for the CMO and the entire marketing function.
The Funnel Doesn’t Care About Customers; The Funnel Only Cares About The Fun...Brian Solis
Frictionless, integrated omnichannel is the baseline for next generation customer experiences. There are two sides to customer engagement and relationships that need your attention. There’s the experience customers have today of which they endure because it’s their only choice. There’s also the journey customers hack to work for them or worse, other companies design a path that’s more familiar, intuitive and meaningful because. Yet, either one of those two experiences represent the fate of companies that choose to invest in one or the other.
Leading digital analyst and futurist Brian Solis and Teleperformance share how to unite disparate efforts for an approach that's integrated, consistent and complementary.
10 years of BRITE: Looking Back to the Future of the Digital Business RevolutionDavid Rogers
Since its inception 10 years ago, the BRITE conference has featured the leading innovators, disruptors, and brand makers pioneering a path for business in the digital age. In this speech, BRITE’s founder, David Rogers (author, "The Digital Transformation Playbook"), looks back at the lessons we’ve learned and the predictions that we heard. And he shares five guiding principles for the future, with a vision for where digital transformation is taking business in the next 10 years.
We are entering a world of limitless: noise, marketing channels, and business competition. The systems we have used for over 100 years were built for a world of limited access to information and will not work in the limitless future. We need new systems, which take into account the changed relationships we must have with consumers. Only by shifting our foundations to new systems can we create an effective, scaleable, and sustainable marketing future.
Attention is a Currency, We Earn It and We Spend It - Here's How to Engage ItBrian Solis
Attention is a Currency: We earn it, we spend it, and sometimes we lose it. Why now is the time to invest in digital experiences that matter.
LinkedIn has teamed up with best-selling author Brian Solis and cartoonist extraordinaire Hugh Macleod of GapingVoid Culture Design Group for an exclusive eBook for marketers that takes a fun and unique approach to storytelling.
Fasten your marketing seatbelts for a story told through one-of-a-kind visuals and expert insights that will enlighten and delight while addressing one of the biggest challenges facing marketers today; how to earn and retain attention through remarkable content.
Download this new eBook to learn:
How to break through internet clutter and keep your audience from drowning in a sea of content mediocrity.
The definition of true engagement and what to do with someone’s attention once you have it.
Why every touch point matters and how to deliver value at every stage of the buyer’s journey.
How to pull this all together into a winning content marketing strategy.
The TMI team played host to a group of customer experience professionals. The purpose was to get together to discuss key trends, share best practice and identify any emerging needs
over the next 12 months.
These factors — and the challenges they present — are fairly new or not fully understood yet, which seems to explain why they aren’t currently top-of-mind. They also garner less attention from the C-Suite because they are not easily quantifiable. Nearly all factors discussed here have deeply human and emotional traits to them, making them somewhat unique and harder to grasp. Nonetheless, we believe they are of great importance in the future of marketing and should be addressed accordingly.
Our outlook for 2014 is optimistic. As marketers, it has never been a more exciting time. The following things to watch for range from very strategic to very tactical, but all are related in one big way. For marketers, none of them will matter, and none of them will work at all if not driven by a healthy, big idea.
Here are 15 areas that I'm thinking about in my day job in marketing, public relations and social media at Ketchum, as we head towards 2015. They're not so much predictions for the coming 12-months, as work in progress. All 15 areas point to a combination of opportunity and hard work in 2015.
Contextual Marketing And The New Marketing ContractXuân Lan Nguyễn
We live in a world where phones are no longer “phones” in the way we once used them. Now, they’re electronic windows into new worlds connecting people, information, and things, and ushering in a new generation of expectations and behaviors along the way.
The New Year always brings hopes of new strategies, idea, goals and successes. But before we dive into what’s next, we thought it would be a good idea to reflect on the top 15 most important marketing and technology trends from 2015. Jen Bullett and Kalev Peekna count down 15 strategies, trends and tactics that Business-to-Business and Professional Services marketers should keep on their radar as they delve into 2016. Specifically, we cover topics including lead generation, predictive marketing, brand storytelling and cross-channel metrics.
Teradata connect is conference on the power of data-driven digital marketing. The conference had a number of inspiring keynotes from Google, Facebook, Wired and Virgin Galactic to name a few. This is an unofficial summary perspective on the conference...that from an Australian technology startup - www.localz.co.
Key takeaways:
1. Customer data is like a currency - access is earned through demonstrated value
2. Technology is re-enabling the era of personalised, contextually relevant interactions…but at mass scale
3. Data savvy businesses will win
Digital marketing success is hinged on social currency.
Everywhere you look, there seems to be a growing dissonance between brands and their digital marketing offerings.
Y&R Advertising sent some of its brightest minds to the SXSW Interactive Festival and here’s what they had to say about the trends at the intersection of technology, innovation, and advertising, and what they mean for brands today.
Having a mobile marketing strategy is no longer a luxury, but a core piece of any company or organization that wants to become more relevant and remarkable in real time. Making Sense of Mobile: 7 Insider Secrets to the Any Where, Any Time, Any Device Economy provides insights into the expanding mobile marketing landscape and what that means for businesses moving forward.
Similar to Conversation Agent presents: Marketing in 2014 (20)
SMX East Everyone is Wrong about Influence. Except Your Customers.Valeria Maltoni
What is influence? For a decade, Malcom Gladwell’s "The Tipping Point" has served as a touchstone for those who believe that influence resides in the hands of a select few. Not so, says a new generation of marketers. They believe that thanks to the democratizing power of the internet, anyone can be an Influential. Both camps are wrong. True influence flows from drawing together people with shared interests. This session focuses on the process of identifying areas of relevancy among your customers and prospects, building community, and allowing others to amplify your influence as you meet their needs.
21 quotes about business promises, vision, credibility, imagination, creativity, technology, sincerity, passion, staying true to oneself, and high resolution appreciation.
How do people naturally behave in particular contexts and how are they influenced? Ultimately, we’re humans not consumers. We don’t like to just feed the seemingly insatiable self. I think most of us also like to interact, play, enjoy, share, and importantly: relax and be content.
Everyone is wrong about influence. Except Your CustomersValeria Maltoni
What is influence? For a decade, Malcom Gladwell’s The Tipping Point has served as a touchstone for those who believe that influence resides in the hands of a select few. Not so, says a new generation of marketers. They believe that thanks to the democratizing power of the Internet, anyone can be an Influential. Both camps are wrong. True influence flows from drawing together people with shared interests. This session focuses on the process of identifying areas of relevancy among your customers and prospects, building community, and allowing others to amplify your influence as you meet their needs.
Not that long ago, it seemed like quantity was the key focus when it came to social media. It was based on the idea of using social media platforms to blast out to as many people as possible. Now, quality has become all important and, as a result, “influencers” are seen as a valuable and necessary asset. So how do you measure the online “influence” of someone? Is the focus on influencers valid? If so, what is their role and impact, and how should they be approached and embraced?
OF COURSE there are women in tech, and their agenda is precisely the same as men.
The shift will occur when instead of thinking -- and talking about -- the inherently sexist idea of women (or men) in tech, we focus instead on the co-creation aspects. Think of that as the creative spirit, which traditionally is expressed in feminine poetic terms.
THAT is what we need. Balanced humanism is what we need as active agent in increasing the options, choices, and possibilities of others. That is what technology wants.
Visual analysis of a post by Om Malik - http://gigaom.com/2011/02/10/corporate-dna/
The three main elements can be distilled down to: person to person, which frames and gain permission to talk about business to business, and a call to action at the end. Wouldn't you want to elicit the same kind of visceral response when customers read your content as you get from his post?
Social media has changed the way companies and brands are discussed and considered. This presents a challenge, but also opens a number of opportunities for companies ready to harness the power of human interaction. Human involvement is what gives brands the strongest competitive differentiation today.
Learn about the advantages of integrating social into strategy. This session covers how to develop, implement, measure, and manage a cross-functional program with goals and metrics that map to impact and track to ROI. Participants will get the inside scoop on finding/ activating brand evangelists, getting competitive intelligence, managing resources/time, while boosting conversions.
There are a couple of important reasons why social is important for brands:
* people, collectively and one on one, have all sorts of conversations, public, internal, private. Part of those conversations is the fact that they buy based on beliefs -- yours. Do they connect with theirs?
* a brand is a person's gut feeling about a product, service, or organization. It's individual, and it's based on emotions and not driven by your messages.
* more and more people are online. You can discover what they do there, depending on who your customers are.
Here are some ideas of how you can think through developing, implementing, managing and measuring a social media program.
The differences between PR and propaganda. PR *does* bear some elements of propaganda. Manipulation, for example. Be honest: PR people are looking for a given outcome. That's why you were hired. So you have to look at the other elements of propaganda and avoid them - coercion, selective presentation of the facts, insistence on only ONE conclusion, broadcasting, or outright falsehood. There are probably more.
Learn how your online footprint can and does contribute to creating a searchable brand impression through interaction. What are the top 5 questions you should think about to go from word of mouse to word of mouth? How do you come across in real life? Find out how to construct your participation ecosystem and what matters in networking.
Writing Engaging Content for the Next Web and the Socializing of Information
Content-centered marketing is undergoing a transformation, one where the content is moving from:
- promotional to non-partisan - some call it thought leadership.
- highly-controlled to less-controlled - more legos than logos.
- occasional to ongoing - life stream your business.
- corporate voice to authentic, personal voice. Who should embody the voice of the company?
- one-way to conversational.The one overarching concern remains that of message consistency - and effectiveness.
How do you keep that with such a messy medium that is conversation? Learn how losing control of your content is the best thing that could happen for your business.
Social Media Ménage à Trois: Advertising-Marketing-PR - Advertising is good at creative, public relations is good at relationships and marketing is good at sales. Hear representatives from each of these three worlds discuss how working together can yield much better social media campaigns than any one can accomplish on its own.
With the help of social media, candidates can really build a portfolio of references and work. That digital imprint can be searched and discovered by companies and headhunters alike. Both are increasingly using social media and networks to recruit candidates.
It's the age of the customer. How can marketers provide a better user experience? They need to learn to see the world from their customers' point of view and become part of the community they serve.
Business Valuation Principles for EntrepreneursBen Wann
This insightful presentation is designed to equip entrepreneurs with the essential knowledge and tools needed to accurately value their businesses. Understanding business valuation is crucial for making informed decisions, whether you're seeking investment, planning to sell, or simply want to gauge your company's worth.
"𝑩𝑬𝑮𝑼𝑵 𝑾𝑰𝑻𝑯 𝑻𝑱 𝑰𝑺 𝑯𝑨𝑳𝑭 𝑫𝑶𝑵𝑬"
𝐓𝐉 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐬 (𝐓𝐉 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬) is a professional event agency that includes experts in the event-organizing market in Vietnam, Korea, and ASEAN countries. We provide unlimited types of events from Music concerts, Fan meetings, and Culture festivals to Corporate events, Internal company events, Golf tournaments, MICE events, and Exhibitions.
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problem and peel more layers of the
onion off, you can often times arrive at
some very elegant and simple solutions.
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Marketing in 2014
M a k e i t b e t t e r.
“When you first start off trying to solve a
problem, the first solutions you come up
with are very complex, and most people
stop there.
3. Foreword: The Promise Economy
by Valeria Maltoni
In 2014, themes related to the emergence of
technology from the last couple of years will
continue to impact business.
Specifically, we will continue to see examples
of the degree in which organizations have
come to rely on technology as part of the
marketing process, and customer adoption
challenges businesses and changes the skill
sets in demand on the people side of
commerce.
The pervasiveness of connected devices –
from smartphones and tablets to cars,
homes, and soon what we wear – is also
creating a clear mandate for design of service
to provide experiences worth having.
Built-in feedback loops make it necessary for
the co-mingling of interestingness with value
to make interaction sustainable and
investment worthwhile.
“Content” is a critical organizing factor in
design of experience and not just an
afterthought. Whether image-based or in the
form of copy or sound, creation and planning
should not be separate from the architecture
of the experience itself.
Knowing the type of experience a brand
wants to provide is very much part of
understanding the motivations, contextdriven intent, and tasks people want to get
done and deliver content and interactions
that map to them.
Every organization shares a strikingly similar
marketing toolkit. Sure, after years of waitand-see on designing better digital commerce
experiences, some brands are still in catch up
mode with social and mobile integration.
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4. And the use of robust analytics in measuring
what matters across channels has now
become a necessary part of doing business.
Yet standing out in this environment
continues to be the product of a thoughtful
approach to customer conversations.
Service and product experiences impact both
customer relationships and organizational
culture in an ever evolving loop, which means
they need to go beyond just working – they
need to be constructed to help the business
deliver on its promises time and time over.
I have been calling it the promise economy.
Although we are in a time of great chaos,
with incredible media fragmentation and
technology changes coming faster and
making it challenging to tell trends from fads,
higher customer expectation and stronger
pressure on margins, the answer continues to
be in closing the gap between the promises a
company and brand makes and the promises
it keeps.
As customers ourselves, we are grappling
with the ramifications of three main themes:
1. Technology is starting to fade into the
background.
Our preferences are dictated by
convenience and context: we use
smartphones, tablets, SmartTVs, and
laptops interchangeably and as appropriate
to get stuff done.
Wearable tech, connected homes, and
measurable self are not too far behind
(conceptually).
New device adoption has reached critical
mass and technology is starting to go from
novelty to necessity in people’s lives, with
plenty of choices among similar products.
Beyond getting the product right, smart
companies are making an investment in
understanding their customers and adding
a compelling service layer to the
experiences they provide.
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5. 2. The line between physical and virtual,
personal and social, private and public is a
moving one.
Our digital/social behaviors are leaving a
data trail: where relevance might delight
us, excessive targeting and automation
continue to be a big turnoff. Empowerment
creates more work for individuals even as
it delivers benefits of going direct.
It is a “both/and” proposition. If technology
is more about understanding what’s going
on that matters, the human need to feel
safe and made whole dictated by privacy
and security concerns underscores the
importance of focusing on what change is
needed.
Massive systems aggregate a greater
number of data points from transactions.
Making a tradeoff between front-end
simplicity and failing to address potential
issues on the back-end will backfire.
3. Greater attention-deficit calls for the
design of experiences worth having.
We are human, and the more choices are
in front of us, the more we feel
overwhelmed. In this environment, signal
comes from appropriate, mindful,
imaginative, caring, and bold gestures.
Value flows to those who create guideposts
to help understand what is bedrock and
what is sand.
A coherent digital transformation roadmap
dictates the set of choices an organization
is committing to making, and will help
prioritize what should be done first, then
second, third, and so on. Implementation
takes focus, discipline, and keeping an eye
on effectiveness along with costs.
Building to iterate and improve takes rigor
and agility, a less glamorous proposition
when it involves large teams used to
working in separate silos.
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6. This new environment is also rich with
contradiction and filled with a cacophony of
questions competing for attention.
We need to get back to basics, and at the
same time let what we are learning and is
possible with technology inform us (
no, Big Data should not replace thinking.)
In a 2005 interview with Forbes magazine
Steve Jobs summarized the necessary
relationship between technology and culture:
“Pixar is the most technically advanced
creative company; Apple is the most
creatively advanced technical company.”
We need both – the desire to figure out what
is possible using technology, and human
ingenuity for the ability to zoom in an out of
experiences to connect the dots in new ways.
The mandate: make the service experience
better, keep putting out great products and
let that inform a better, more responsive
organization.
ABOUT VALERIA MALTONI:
A sought after speaker within the international community,
Valeria has 20 years’ experience consulting to Fortune 500
and fast growth organizations on how to drive business
results.
Valeria has delivered digital and social brand strategies to
Anheuser-Busch InBev, Allstate, GE Appliances, and the
Project Management Institute as well as provided
integrated marketing consulting for Target and SunGard,
developed multi-channel user experience journeys for GSK,
and worked with many more of the world’s most prominent
businesses.
Since 2006, Valeria’s Conversation Agent ranks among the
top marketing blogs in the world on AdAge Power150.
Handpicked by Fast Company as Expert Blogger, Valeria is
on the Advisory Board for the International MBA, Fox
School of Business at Temple University, adviser to
SmartBrief Social Media, and co-author of The Age of
Conversation. On Twitter @ConversationAge.
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7. It’s 2014: Marketers Become Anthropologists
by Leslie Bradshow
Marketers, get out your field gear, because
the biggest trend for 2014 is actually going to
be more survivalist than theorist.
This will be the year of marketers who double
as not just cultural, but also nomadic,
anthropologists.
We must be prepared to move swiftly, camp
out, and fearlessly explore what makes our
fellow humans tick. And then we must be
willing to pack up and follow them where
they go next, not letting habit or platforminvestment hold us back.
To help guide you in your ongoing research,
I’ve shared six areas that I am watching—and
putting to work—this year.
1. Thoughtfulness
The success of thoughtful campaigns over the
last year should provoke more authentic
efforts in 2014. Focused on values rather than
products, Pantene had a huge win with their
sexism-fighting commercial that mentioned
shampoo exactly zero times, and Fox allowed
promotional budget for their movie The Secret
Life of Walter Mitty to
be spent on relief efforts in the Philippines.
Small gestures that affect just
one Alaskan town or one flight during
Christmastime can also make big impact with
a larger audience. We all need to buy
shampoo, plane tickets and the occasional
taco. If the people selling them want to work
against decades of damaging messages with
powerful stories and socially responsible acts,
aren't we all better off?
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8. 2. Agility
3. Visual Storytelling
Working with a focus group in 2008, I asked
the young participants where they spent their
time online. “Facebook!” they all cheered.
When asked whether they thought they’d still
be using Facebook in several years however,
they all answered with a resounding “No!”
They intuitively knew something else would
be along by then. Rather than predict which
social network will be 2014's new breakout
star, I feel safer predicting that there'll be one
and we should all plan accordingly.
Understanding that people will shift over
time (and that marketers must shift with
them) is incredibly important.
Visual storytelling will continue to dominate
in 2014 and we can look forward to the
inclusion of more video and mobile-optimized
viewing. However, let’s get honest with
ourselves: as marketers, we've oversaturated
the market with infographics, branded
memes, and listicles of animated GIFs. The
novelty has worn off and now it is a lot of
“me too” marketing. We must find new ways
to repurpose internet phenomenons to
deliver real value, delight, entertainment, and
insight to our audiences.
To keep agile, brands need to be investing less
in specific communities and more in their
brand voice and general content that is
device and platform agnostic. Just look at the
migratory patterns of today’s youth from
Facebook to apps like Instagram and
Snapchat, and fast-risers like Selfie Club.
As my good friend Joe Chernov once put it:
"The secret to breaking through a noisy
landscape isn't more noise. It is sounding
different." Focusing on why tactics worked so
well will help breed the next generation of
visual content. Spending time on forums
where people assemble and consensus rises
to the top, such as Reddit and Imgur, can lead
to inspiration and insights to motivation.
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9. 4. Automation
5. Curation
The days of using bubblegum and chicken
wire to quickly produce usable content are
through. Automation of the content creation
process has simplified everything from
workflows to talent searching. Automated
services such as Percolate and Contently aid
curation, a plethora of apps like Over allow
marketers to produce quickie content from
their phones, Wochit and my company Guide
help create cost-effective video, and ifttt
connects all the dots to get the content out
the door.
This is not a new concept to us; ever since
Pinterest took off in 2011, we’ve got on board
with the idea that creating meaningful
collections of things. Why? Because curation
is not only something we humans do
naturally (I admit to organizing my closet by
color, do you?), but in the face of an
increasing amount of Chernovian “noise”,
curation is something we do out of necessity.
Next year will be all about making sure your
team has the right tool kit to provide quality
content, cost-effectively and at scale. As
someone who is passionate about efficiency—
and yet spent the first part of her career
creating bespoke content—I am welcoming of
these new services and approaches. Heck, I
am even helping build one.
Curation also goes hand-in-hand with finding
birds of a feather with whom to flock
together. As you take on your personas (hip
mom! busy millennial! et al.) and targeted
demographics (men 18 - 24, women 45+, et
al.), ask simply: what can we filter and curate
to make their lives better? And where are
they already going to get this done? Digital
anthropologists, go by foot and carry a
notebook.
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10. 6. Go Long
ABOUT LESLIE BRADSHOW:
Related to the idea of thoughtfulness, I am
observing an increase in our appetites for
longer, more thoughtful pieces of content. In
a world wrought with listicles and animated
gifs, I am pleasantly surprised at the success
of platforms like Medium and UpWorthy.
Their word counts and video lengths are
longer than the supposedly optimal 500
words / 90 seconds and yet we are still reading
and watching. But make no mistake, the
substance is still driving the interest and
engagement.
Leslie is a passionate entrepreneur, social scientist, and
data-driven storyteller. In addition to serving as the Chief
Operating Officer of Guide, she is a Fellow at the
US Chamber of Commerce and a regular contributor at
Forbes. Previously, Leslie spent six years building one of the
world’s top data visualization firms who counted Nike,
Google, Samsung, Intel, NASA, and C-SPAN as its clients
during her tenure. A PBK graduate of the University of
Chicago, Leslie has been recognized by Fast Company as
one of “The Most Creative People in Business” and by Inc.
Magazine as a “Top 30 Entrepreneur Under 30”. On Twitter
@LeslieBradshow.
What should your bar be? I like to use the “is
it TED-talk-worthy?” measuring stick. Are you
going to wow and educate your audience?
Then by all means, go long. Are you going to
make them want to change a habit or see the
world differently? Then fire up your keyboard
and get out your video camera.
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11. How Agile Marketing and Marketing Technologists
Will Save Us from the Crushing Pace of Change in 2014
by Scott Brinker
Marketing is on fire. Growth, innovation,
and opportunity permeate nearly every facet
of our profession these days. It's a thrilling
time to be a marketer.
Of course, that doesn't mean it's easy. The
pace of change in our work is accelerating,
and keeping up is probably the single greatest
challenge that we face. But at least it's not
dull.
speed at which marketing manages its activities.
Previously, marketing used to engage in
relatively long-term planning cycles.
In particular, we usually invested significant
effort in assembling a yearly marketing plan.
From budgeting to scheduling, we'd aim to
predict what we were going to do for the next 12
months, often in considerable detail.
Two trends that I expect we'll see in 2014 are
greater adoption agile marketing
management and the proliferation of
"marketing technologist" roles. The common
theme with both of these is that they're ways
that marketing can better manage change.
While that used to be effective in a world that
shifted less frequently, such long-term planning
is increasingly foiled by the ever more rapid
changes happening in our markets. We need to
adapt to those changes more quickly than a
traditional yearly marketing plan would typically
support.
Agile marketing, which has evolved from the
agile software development, increases the
cycle
Agile marketing solves this dilemma by
organizing management around more shortterm planning cycles.
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12. Instead of trying to map out activities a year at a
time, agile works with smaller chunks of time
called "sprints" of 1-4 weeks. Planning consists of
updating and prioritizing a backlog of tasks to
do. The team then focuses on executing those
top priorities for the rest of the sprint.
Agile teams are usually small, consisting of no
more than eight people. (Larger marketing
departments can have multiple agile teams.)
A high level of communication and crossfunctional collaboration is encouraged within
teams.
The backlog and sprints provide a structural
mechanism for quickly, but sanely, incorporating
changes — "we'll queue that up for the next
sprint" — without having to constantly engage in
ad hoc fire drills that disrupt the current work
being done.
This truly empowers team members to make
a difference. It's not lip-service: it's one of the
ways in which agile approaches thrive.
Certainly a long-term vision is still important to
guide the choices being made in sprint planning.
But the vision can evolve based on what's
actually working with prospects and customers.
Agile marketing also encourages more
responsibility and authority for marketers on the
front-line, to take the initiative to address
problems or opportunities that arise "on the
ground."
[For a more in-depth discussion of agile
marketing, you might enjoy my articles on
Agile Marketing for a World of Constant
Change and
Debunking 3 Myths of Agile Marketing.]
The second trend is the rise of the marketing
technologist. A marketing technologist is a
hybrid professional who combines both
technical and marketing skills. This might be
a technologist who has a background in IT or
software development, but has since found
their passion working in the service of
marketing.
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13. Or it might be a marketer who has deeply
embraced technology in their work, learning
how to master software in the pursuit of
their mission.
Growth hackers. Search engine optimization
experts. Web developers. Marketing
automation system administrators. Data
scientists working in marketing. These are all
examples of marketing technologists.
These roles are rising in popularity because,
increasingly, marketing is a technologypowered discipline. Software mediates
everything in digital marketing — and the
argument could be made that all marketing
is, to some degree, becoming digital.
Now, not everyone in marketing needs to be a
technical expert. But marketing teams that
have such tech-savvy individuals within their
ranks are better able to tap the power of
marketing software in their strategy and
execution.
And the choices of marketing software out
there are extraordinary. My recent
landscape of marketing technology vendors
identified 947 different companies across 43
categories, from marketing automation to
content marketing, from social media
marketing to testing and optimization. It's a
huge space.
Marketing technologists are well-suited to
continuously evaluate and reevaluate this
landscape, to make sure that their company
is taking advantage of the latest marketing
technology innovations that can give them a
competitive edge.
Note that marketing technologists are not a
replacement for your IT department. In some
organizations, they actually report to IT. But
even when they report directly into
marketing, which is the more common
scenario now, they serve as bridge between
the two departments.
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14. By natively speaking the language of both
teams, they're able to promote better and
more effective collaboration. (For a deeper
introduction to the role of marketing
technologists, I'd humbly point you to my
article
The Marketing Technologist: Neo of the
Marketing Matrix.)
ABOUT SCOTT BRINKER:
Scott Brinker is the co-founder and CTO of ion interactive,
which provides a SaaS marketing platform for creating and
optimizing landing pages, microsites, and marketing
campaign "apps." He is also the author of the
Chief Marketing Technologist blog, where he covers the
intersection of marketing and technology and its effect on
marketing management and culture. You can reach him on
Twitter as @chiefmartec.
These two trends — agile marketing and
marketing technologists — are intertwined.
Marketing technology gives marketers the
technical capabilities to increase their
velocity, and marketing technologists make
those capabilities accessible.
Agile marketing then gives marketing teams a
management framework for taking advantage
of those capabilities.
Together, they give marketing the ability to
turn the fast pace of change from a "bug"
into a "feature." Here's to an awesome 2014!
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15. Social Grows up
by Tara Hunt
One of my biggest frustrations with the
world of marketing over the years has been
that metrics have focused on quantity over
quality.
I’m all for measuring outcomes and making
certain that our strategies and tactics align
with our goals - but as the customer
expectations shift and the airwaves get
noisier, we need to also shift our
expectations.
The definition of a successful campaign
usually ends with enormous numbers of
views or retweets or shares, but beyond the
obvious issue with this metric, there are
several underlying problems with a focus on
virality:
1. Views, retweets and shares are fleeting.
The video, tweet or post in question may be
popular today and celebrated across the
industry as a ‘best practice’, but you are only
ever as good as your latest viral hit in this
paradigm. Your unicorn success today will be
shelved for someone else’s tomorrow.
2. Focusing on a viral hit means that your
number one competitor is…your own
potential customers! That’s right. For every
branded viral hit, there are dozens of nonbranded viral hits. Of the top 10 2013 YouTube
viral videos, 3 were branded “ads” (Evian,
Volvo & Carrie the Movie), 2 were musical
comedy groups (Lonely Island + TVNorge) and
5 were by YouTube ‘makers’ (real people who
work to build their own personal brands
online).
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16. 3. And though the end result may be a viral
runaway…brands get a leg up on their
competition by paying YouTube to boost
their videos. I did an examination of branded
viral videos about a year and a half ago that
showed that the majority of views branded
‘viral’ videos got were paid for. With the
hiding of stats in the newer versions, it's
difficult to assess the new ratios, but judging
from the signs, it hasn't changed.
4. These brands are competing with their
potential customers, but not getting the
same long-term loyalty from their efforts.
Volvo’s “Epic Split” may have over 67 million
views, but their account has 83,902 followers.
Compare this with maker, MisterEpicMann,
whose “How Animals Eat Their Food” got
more than 93 million views, but his
subscriber base is well over 3 million or
maker SteveKardynal who did the
Chatroulette version of Miley Cyrus’
“Wrecking Ball” (>95 million views) who has
over 4 million subscribers.
5. Do viral hits equal sales? Well, in some
cases, yes, but in most cases, no. For
instance, the famously viral Old Spice Guy
campaign increased sales by 107% - reviving a
lagging brand - but the follow up “viral” hits
resulted in dips in sales.
If you look at one of the viral hits of 2013, the
Telekinetic Coffee Shop Surprise promoting
the movie Carrie, the results were incredibly
disappointing. The YouTube video had over 52
million views, but the box office
underperformed.
Even Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
made more money…$247,989,258 worldwide
compared with Carrie: $82,394,288
worldwide. And one of the top box office
winners Gravity ($670,209,910 worldwide)
didn’t even come close to having viral
anything.
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17. This is NOT to say that I think brands should
ignore social media. In fact, I think they
should increase their time investment into it.
The disconnect lies in looking at new media
in the same way they looked at old media.
A broken point of view that only worked ’50%
of the time’ (though that quote is generous)
for old media is even more of a broken point
of view for new media.
In 2014 and beyond, I’d like brands to:
1. Stop focusing on short-term wins or
“viral” hits. The social web is about
relationships. Long-term relationships. People
are having them with other people, with
celebrities and with brands they care about.
Think long term. Stop planning campaigns
and start building for the future. Figure this
out. It’ll look different for everyone.
2. Invest more time and less money. If you
follow point #1, this won’t be difficult. Spend
less on boosting viral success and your
budgets will drop significantly. Then put
some of that money into paying human
beings to help scale your efforts as they grow.
Invest in the community. Invest in your
product. Invest in long-term relationships.
3. Learn as you go. There are no best
practices or rules or formulas. Your customer
will be different from the next customer and
every single one of them will throw you for a
loop if you try to predict their behavior. What
you can do is learn from your interactions
and improve your approach. This will be
noticed and people will talk. And that’s
exactly what you want to have happen.
Remember, the bar is low. The brands with
the most ‘quantity’ aren’t necessarily the
most deserving.
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18. If you are going to learn from anyone, take a
look at the makers and individuals who are
‘winning’ on the web. They’ve spent no
money and a great deal of time building a
strong, loyal audience that will follow them
anywhere.
Attend fewer corporate CMO type
conferences and more maker type
conferences. Follow the people who’ve built
an audience with no money and lots of heart.
Collaborate with them.
ABOUT TARA HUNT:
Tara Hunt was named as one of the most influential
women in technology as well as a Woman to Watch in
Entrepreneur Magazine. She wrote The Whuffie Factor/The
Power of Social Networking (published in 7 languages), is a
conference speaker and co-founded the international
coworking movement. She was also on Twitter before it had
vowels (TWTTR) and can be followed as @missrogue.
Don’t just pay them to promote your brand…
hire them and work with them on bigger
ideas. (for example: I love what Casey Neistat
did with the $25,000 20th Century Fox gave
him to promote their movie). But it would
have been even better if 20th Century Fox and
Ben Stiller worked with Casey on this.)
The future of marketing success in this
shifting world depends on marketing
professionals shifting our focus from short
term to long-term results. Let’s make 2014 the
beginning of this shift.
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19. What You Need To Watch In 2014
by Bob Knorpp
Many of the changes to the marketing
landscape in 2014 are obvious and sexy. We all
like to imagine what the benefits of the
Internet of Things or wearable technologies
will bring to us. But we may be ignoring the
implications of some of the less obvious, but
much more important changes that are on
the horizon.
Here are the things that you can’t afford to
miss in the coming year:
Generic Top-Level Domains
You may have heard that the top-level domain
expansion is about to happen. The press likes
to talk about “.walmart” or “.citi” being the
new reality for the web, but generic top-level
domains (gTLD) are where the real disruption
will happen.
The owner of “.hotel” could control an
enormous portion of search traffic for the
travel industry and the owner of “.auto”
could completely control how we find our
next car. Plus, when tied to mobile apps, a
gTLD can create a virtual walled garden
around a search category.
The land grab is on, so brands need to protect
their trademark assets now or risk losing
significant amounts of web traffic.
Also, watch for a side market in risk
management to develop as startups like
DomainSkate emerge to manage the legal and
branding liabilities faced by the enterprise
and SMB markets.
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20. Collaborative Creation
Think about mix tapes. They are easy to
create, meaningful to the people who make
and get them, and a way to both celebrate
the original artist and get kudos for yourself
as the mixer. Right now the Internet is
beginning to burst at the seams with new
technologies and platforms designed to tap
into this idea.
MixBit is a fascinating example of this. A
video platform created by the YouTube
founders, it allows you to upload your short
clips, share clips with others and then remix
them into endless permutations of a final
video product. AuthorBee is another nascent
platform designed to aggregate many
contributions of text (and soon video and
pictures), then the owner of a thread can
remix the assets into a cohesive story or news
feed.
This ramping up of collaborative creation is
just beginning, but has the potential to
redefine how crowd marketing is done, and
how media is consumed. It provides a more
palatable blending of brand control while still
including the user’s input.
End of the “Black Hat” Goldmine
It’s been threatened for years, but the time
has finally arrived. With all the browsers now
employing some form of do-not-track as a
default position, coupled with ongoing
privacy concerns, the third-party cookie will
soon be completely useless.
Google and Bing are creating their own
unique tracking systems to replace the cookie
while still protecting users, which will create
plenty of problems on its own. However, the
biggest disruptions will be among those
brands that either intentionally or ignorantly
relied too heavily on what are known as
“black hat” SEO practices.
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21. We can expect sharp traffic declines on those
sites as a result, as well as a lot of internal
questions from management.
Chuck Schumer, expect to see rapid
deployment and benefit throughout the retail
sector in the coming year.
In-Store Mobile Signal Tracking
Sharing Platforms Becoming Transactional
Platforms
Websites have always had a huge tracking
advantage over physical retail locations. On
the web, we often know with great specificity
how a person moves through a site, what
attracts their eye, where their attention is
held and what influences them to buy.
Now startups, like Canadian company Mexia,
are bringing that level of detailed tracking to
brick and mortar retail operations using the
non-identifying signals emitted from mobile
phones. These signals can be used to monitor
traffic patterns, gauge effectiveness of instore displays and even deliver and monitor
conversion of offers. Plus, with the recent
code of ethics that this emerging field has
arrived at with privacy hawk, US Senator
We love to talk about the sharing economy,
because it decentralizes things like travel to
match availability to need. However, sharing
platforms like ride service Uber are beginning
to realize their power as transactional
platforms as well.
Over the past year, the company has staged
promotions that allow users to purchase
Christmas trees for delivery or even to buy
kittens. While primarily launched as
promotional stunts, these moves are proving
that sharing platforms can also be used to
facilitate great commerce and pose a
potential threat to existing payment
technology platforms.
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22. Look for a rapid expansion in this area over
the next 12 months as experimentation with
what’s possible here spreads and grows.
ABOUT BOB KNORPP:
Bob Knorpp is host of the award-winning Internet audio
program, The BeanCast Marketing Podcast
(www.thebeancast.com). He also created and hosted the
official podcast of Ad Age Magazine, Ad Age Outlook, and is
a regular content contributor to that publication. He has
been a featured speaker for MarketingProfs, The DMA, Blog
World and dozens of regional events.
After 20-years in marketing and running his own successful
consultancy, The Cool Beans Group, he now has embraced
full-time analysis of the branding and startup worlds as
Chief Analyst for Evol8tion, an innovation company that
connects blue-chip brands to early-stage startups. Bob is
based in New York. On Twitter @BobKnorpp.
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23. Human Marketing in 2014
by Aliza Sherman
For better or for worse, 2014 escalates the
ubiquity of connectivity. From a human
standpoint, we’ll be seeing - and experiencing
- social media overwhelm and overload and a
backlash to being hyper-connected.
Any company that has put all of their
marketing, communications and customer
service eggs in the social media basket will be
in for a rude awakening.
Too many of us have looked at “social media”
as the focus - the tools and platforms that
provide the conduit of connection to our
customers. We’ve facebooked, tweeted,
youtubed, linked in, pinned, vined,
instagrammed - maybe even latergrammed in the misguided hope of getting more fans
and followers. We’ve even…selfied. Madness.
Peel away the technical frameworks, features
and functionality and what you see
underneath is the fundamental core of
marketing and communications. Keep
peeling.
Beneath that is the intrinsic nature of human
beings. Why do we do these things? Because
human beings want to connect:
We want to be part of something.
We want to find a community where we can
belong.
We want to stave off loneliness.
We want answers to the sometimes
unanswerable.
We want to make a mark and to feel like we
matter.
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24. Some of us want distraction from our lives.
Some of us want more meaning in our lives.
Whatever our interests or motivations, they
are vast, diverse, and subject to change as we
grow, learn and experience life.
Social media - and social networks and social
networking functionality in particular - tap
into human urges to connect, belong and
matter.
Brands infiltrating online social spaces
reminds me of the 90s when companies
suddenly saw the web as the next silver bullet
of marketing and proceeded to clutter the
nascent network with commercials. Today,
companies clamor to figure out how to be in
social networks and how to use social
networks to market and sell. It’s the 90s all
over again. They throw more and more
money at trying to make a big social media
splash. In the early web days, we called it
hits, then visits, then visitors.
Now it’s gone from fans and followers to
likes, comments, shares and the distracting
and false Holy Grail of Viral.
In 2014, I think companies will find greater
long-term success in their digital marketing
efforts if they root their strategic plans and
tactics in being more human and
understanding human nature and behavior.
1. Understand that people in 2014 are ultraconnected. They carry their computer,
communications device and community
connector all within their portable, mobile,
wi-fi and cellular enabled device. The division
between online and offline is more
permeable. Knowing this fundamental shift
in human behavior leads way to providing
360-degree experiences of value for your
customers and potential customers. Bricks
and mortar companies keep trying to push
foot traffic, but when people arrive at
locations, there are few clues or cues of a
company’s online presence.
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25. Even for businesses without locations,
looking at ways to incorporate online in
offline and vice versa will create more
integrated experiences for customers and
help acquire new customers in unexpected
ways.
from the intensity of hyper-connectivity. This
may seem like a contradiction to #1, but it’s
the flipside, a yin to a yang.
Look at what is happening with wearable
technology, particularly in the fitness space
(FitBit, Jawbone Up) or geo-fencing with
Bytelight and PlaceAd. This is not your
grandparent’s version of “Integrated
Marketing.”
Anticipate the human recoil and be ready for
the impact. Bake relief valves right into your
strategy. Look at what is happening with
Camp Grounded, Reboot, and the #unplug
movement.
Social Media Marketing is not a separate
component of marketing at all. It informs and
reshapes all types of marketing, both online
and off. We have to stop calling it Social
Media Marketing. It’s Marketing, plain and
simple, yet totally transformed.
2. Understand that people in 2014 are
overwhelmed and inundated by the ubiquity
of connectivity. Look for ways to offer relief
So while you seek out ways to develop 360degree experiences for your customers, be
prepared for pushback or backlash.
Understand that putting all of your money
and efforts into online marketing misses
enormous opportunities to be present in
physical spaces. For bricks and mortar
businesses, this means re-imagining your
space. For companies without physical
locations, this means infiltrating physical
space.
Think pop-up shops; face-to-face meetings
and intimate gatherings within larger events.
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26. Don’t underestimate the value of being
“THERE,” actually being physically present
with your virtual, social fans/customers.
If I were to make one wild prediction about
marketing in 2014, it is that 2014 will be the
Year of Unplugging.
I actually encourage unplugging. For
consumers, this will happen for a myriad of
reasons - physical, mental, even spiritual. In
some cases, it will be forced on them
(repetitive stress disorders, for example). In
others, it will be self-imposed (digital detox).
For companies, this means stopping, stepping
back, and really examining what you’re doing
and why. Look closely at what is working and
what isn’t.
In our rapid social communications and
content landscape, we cannot afford to keep
doing what we’ve always done because that’s
the way we’ve always done it.
We have to be flexible and responsive. Better
yet, we have to be emotional and creative.
Formulaic will not cut it. Ever-changing
technology algorithms and evolving human
nature and habits won’t tolerate it.
ABOUT ALIZA SHERMAN:
Aliza is a Web pioneer, mobile strategist, and social media
innovator and commentator. She speaks around the world
and writes about Internet, social media, the intersections
of social and mobile, and women's technology and business
issues. Aliza specializes in making technology more
accessible to humans. Her mobile consultancy, Mediaegg,
provides strategy and app development to businesses and
nonprofits.
Named by NEWSWEEK as one of the "Top 50 People Who
Matter Most on the Internet," Aliza continues to explore
new technologies and their impacts on our work and lives.
Her latest books are
Social Media Engagement for Dummies,
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Crowdsourcing and
Mom, Incorporated. On Twitter @AlizaSherman.
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27. A Primer on Mobile App Analytics for 2014
by Adam Singer
With an explosion in mobile application
marketplaces (more than 1 million apps on
Google Play and 1 million apps on iOS at the
time of writing) and a shift in focus to mobile
(more than 80 percent of marketers are
planning to increase emphasis in mobile
initiatives, according to recent research
Google conducted with ClickZ), measuring
mobile is more important now than ever.
But even though Apps aren’t new, measuring
them is still a new area for many marketers
in 2014.
What exactly should you be measuring to
understand the success of your application
and improve results? How can you align your
app measurement to business goals? We'll
answer those questions in this story.
Apps are a different world than web, and thus
require a different methodology and set of
metrics. Regardless of the platform(s) your
app lives on or the tools you use to measure
it, it's critical to measure three key areas:
acquisition, engagement, and outcomes.
Next, we'll outline some sample metrics in
each area to help you understand them better
and become more effective at measuring your
app today.
ACQUISITION
ENGAGEMENT
OUTCOME
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28. Acquisition Metrics: Where Do Users Come
From?
Acquisition metrics show you how people are
finding your app and whether they're
continuing to use it. Similar to top-of-funnel
web metrics, your marketing team should be
analyzing acquisition metrics consistently to
ensure a healthy trend up. Some of the key
acquisition metrics to measure include:
• New and active users. Measure the
number of new and active users who
launch your app everyday. This will help
you understand if your application and
marketing are successful at a high level.
• App store traffic sources. Understand
which traffic sources account for most
new users and in-app conversions. This
data will help you refine your marketing
activities to focus on the traffic sources
that provide your highest quality users.
• App versions. Keep track of the
distribution of active users over the older
and newer versions of your app. Knowing
which versions are being used will help
you understand which versions of your app
need continued support and which are
safe to deprecate.
• Device overview. Analyze the top mobile
devices and OS versions that your app runs
on, and optimize the experience for each
device.
Engagement Metrics: Is Your App Sticky?
You've acquired a massive user base - now
what? Engagement metrics help you
understand how users are interacting with
your app so you can add more of what they
like and remove what they don't. You can also
identify potential reasons for attrition before
they occur, such as excessive crashing or slow
load speeds.
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29. Key engagement metrics you should keep an
eye on include:
Outcomes: How Does My App Impact the
Bottom Line?
• Screens. Determine how users move
Most importantly, identify the metrics that
show the business value your app has
created, and amplify the areas that are
showing the most value. Has it helped
increase sales? Brought in more high-quality
leads? This is shown through outcome
metrics tracked by your app analytics, and
may include such metrics as:
throughout your application by measuring
how they move from screen to screen. This
will help show how users actually engage
with your application and if they're
successfully getting to the screens you
desire.
• User behavior. Assess how loyal your users
are, how frequently they use the app, and
the engagement level of each loyalty
group. Understanding this information is
critical so you can see which users your
application resonates with.
• App crashes. Troubleshoot problems on
devices and operating systems by seeing
trends in crashes and exceptions.
Developers need to keep close tabs on app
crash metrics in order to understand and
fix problem areas.
• Goal conversions. Set up conversion
events in your app (for example, time
spent in app, or an in-app purchase, ad
click, etc.) to gauge success. Conversion
events are whatever you define as success
and should be customized based on your
business: whether that's making an ecommerce purchase or completing a lead
generation form.
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30. • In-app purchases. If selling virtual or
tangible goods purchases inside your app,
track the number of purchases and
revenue generated from them. With the
explosion in mobile purchases (ABI
Research projects total mobile app
revenue, which includes in-app purchases,
to soar to 46 billion by 2016), this is a
critical one to watch.
What’s the pillar to base your app strategy
around? Engagement. Let’s review some of
the reasons why:
Until you have loyal users, increasing
acquisition metrics doesn't make sense. Say
you launch a new application and decide to
dial up acquisition tactics. You increase your
online advertising spend. You engage a PR
firm. You start to attend conferences and
network. You put in all this hard work and
drive thousands of new, excited users to your
application.
And then 90 percent of them install your app,
launch it once, only to never open it again.
This is an all too common scenario for app
developers and marketers, especially brands
that are creating and marketing an app for
the first time. If this happens, you have a
loyalty problem, and should dive into the
"why" to discover the reasons your app isn't
as sticky as you think it is first.
Refine your app, build the right "hooks," then
when you're confident that relevant uses will
stick around (and you have the loyalty data to
prove it), make a case to increase your
marketing spend. To do so without
understanding attrition first could prove a
costly mistake.
Loyalty metrics tell you if your app usage is
becoming a "habit." The goal for mobile app
developers is really to make your application
a "habit" for users.
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31. This event can be anything, from when they
are bored waiting in line to when they're
seeking a certain utility to when they're
engaging in an activity.
I'm sure everyone reading this who is
developing mobile apps is working on ones
which, in their minds, provide a ton of utility
for users.
Engagement and more specifically loyalty
metrics such as session instances, duration,
screens, and conversion rate will tell you if in
fact your users agree that your app is a mustuse and has become a habit for them. If not,
you may need to go back to the drawing
board to ensure your app is "sticky" enough
to become a habit, or double your efforts on
the content front to educate your users on
what they're missing.
No loyalty, no or low outcomes! The business
value your app has created (sales, in-app
purchases, etc.) - are clearly important to
measure.
But if your users aren't returning, you likely
will see low or no outcomes from them. Just
like on your website, outcomes (or
conversions) may not happen on a user's first
engagement with an app.
Pending what your app does, this may take
multiple sessions. Or, if you sell something
within your app or your app generates
advertising revenue, loyal users will generate
much more revenue in the long term. Also
consider how loyal users map to new revenue
(a significant portion of word-of-mouth
referrals will come from them) and focus on
increasing this key audience.
While many app developers and marketers
think purely about new users and downloads,
think about active, loyal users and how to
make them happy. This is the path to longterm app marketing success, and app loyalty
reports can help show you the way there.
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32. ABOUT ADAM SINGER:
Adam Singer is Analytics Advocate at Google, a marketing,
media and PR industry speaker, startup adviser and blogger.
He previously was digital director for a 300+ person global
consulting team and over the course of his career has
provided online marketing strategy for B2B & B2C brands in
a variety of industries including marketing technology,
healthcare, manufacturing, advertising/subscription-based
web startups, and much in between.
Singer and his campaigns have been cited by top media
outlets such as TechCrunch, AdWeek, NY Times and more
for creative use of digital marketing and PR. Singer blogs
at The Future Buzz - an award-winning blog with more
than 25K subscribers and frequently-referenced source of
what's new in digital marketing. Connect with Adam on
Twitter and Google+.
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33. Marketing…The New Technical Position
by Nelly Yusopova
"You’re an engineer…how did you become a VP
of Marketing at OnSIP?” I asked Nicole
Hayward at the NYC Webgrrls Holiday event
when we met. It is always great to run into
another female techie but I was curious how
she ended up in Marketing.
Nicole told me “Our President has only hired
Technologists for marketing roles”, which I
think is brilliant and makes a lot of sense.
Many companies are now starting to hire
techies for marketing positions.
Digital Marketing has grown far beyond
crafting the message, sending an email, or
working with Twitter. It doesn’t yet require a
Computer Science degree but it does now
require a significant understanding of
technology.
I am a developer and a marketer. I am lucky
to have come from a technical background. I
can conceive of a campaign, wireframe it,
prototype it, and code it… and that allows me
to work pretty independently and use less
time and fewer resources. I can see how
important a good understanding of
technology is for even the simplest marketing
campaigns. Now, in addition to thinking
about what software to buy to support
marketing efforts, marketers have to think
about what software the company needs to
create to better connect with their customers
- web applications, widgets, Facebook apps,
Mobile apps.
If you want a career in marketing and want
to have security in your position, you will
have to get technical. You will not survive in a
marketing job if you lack technical
knowledge.
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34. Here are 4 things I think every marketer
should know:
And in a world where everything is happening
real time, getting custom reporting in a
timely manner is super important.
1. How to evaluate the tools that are
available
In addition to knowing how to use the tools,
you need to be able to evaluate whether or
not they will be able to integrate into your
existing tools. This integration usually
happens through something called APIs.
Do you know SQL? SQL stands for Structured
Query Language and is the most widely used
language to query data from databases. If you
are not, I would recommend that you learn
the basics. By learning simple query
commands, you can slice and dice the data
you collect in many more different ways than
what a tool might provide you.
API stands for Application Programming
Interface and gives you the ability to use
other people’s code in your application. If
you’re not familiar with API, you’ll need to
learn what they are and how they work to be
able to ask the right questions from the
vendors and make an informed decision on
whether the tools you are considering will
work for you.
2. Analyze the data that you collect
Information is power…it allows you to make
better decisions.
3. Wireframing, prototyping, and have an
understanding of the development process
A wireframe is a blueprint for what an email
or web page will visually look like.
Prototypes allow you to test product concepts
before you build them. These are two
valuable skills for marketers to have to better
communicate your ideas to developers who
will be coding the ideas and concepts you
have.
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35. Also, I would highly recommend taking the
time and understand the steps that
technology people take to develop web and
mobile applications. By knowing the process
and the terminology you will be able to speak
to developers in their language, bridge the
communication gap and get the things you
need done a lot quicker.
There are a lot of resources online that you
can learn from. I also teach a bootcamp
called TechSpeak where you can learn this
process in an intensive 2 days.
4. Learn how to code…at least a little bit.
Once you understand the development
process, I would highly recommend that you
learn to code a little. Knowing how to code
will enable you to implement some of the
easier day-to-day tasks without having to be
dependent on a developer to “find time to do
something for you". Start with HTML (the
building block of how web pages are coded).
Then learn some CSS (this is the font style
language). And if you are adventurous, you
can learn JavaScript. Here are some online
resources where you can learn how to code:
Codecademy, Code/Racer, The CodePlayer.
With so many tools and technologies coming
out on a daily basis, it is nearly impossible to
stay on top of everything. So surround
yourself with groups of people of similar
interests and goals and through sharing and
frequent information exchanges, you can
learn at a much faster rate.
ABOUT NELLY YUSUPOVA:
Nelly Yusupova is the CTO of Webgrrls International
and the Founder of Techspeak for Entrepreneurs, a 2
day intensive workshop for non-technical
entrepreneurs. For more than a decade, she has built
and maintained all the technology at Webgrrls and
developed tech strategies for many companies to help
them grow. You can follow her on Twitter at
@DigitalWoman.
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