With technology fast-evolving and consumer habits ever-changing, marketers must keep moving forward too. But are you keeping your thinking fresh? Here, we explore why the pressure to learn is also a huge opportunity.
User experience (UX) is not just the domain of the design team. Creative marketers need to understand it too. Don’t worry, reading this article will help! In fact, the success of your work may depend on it…
Consumers are asking more questions online than ever before. But how do you provide the right answers? Jon Buss, Managing Director at Yext, explores the world of natural language processing and how it can be used to attract visitors to your website – and keep them there.
With cookies on the brink of extinction, how else can B2B marketers make sense of customer behaviours? The answer may lie in “intent data”. Jon Clarke, Founder & CPO at Cyance examines the end of cookies and the rise of a new “intent-driven ecosystem”.
Discover Google’s new competitor, tread the path to awe-inspiring marketing and find out why ol’ fashioned marketing has made a comeback. And much more!
With disruption continuing in all areas of marketing, transparency is the key driver of this change – the industry must reinvent the advertising model around ethically driven business practices, says Ben Humphry. The problem is twofold: marketers question visability and viewability and complain they are in the dark about ad buying results (were they great or were they faked?); meanwhile consumers fear they are being commoditised via their data . . . so resort to ad-blocking. Trust is eroding on both sides. Thus, adtech ethics must shift from concern to action – here’s how.
Research by Acquia has exposed a huge gap between digital strategies and their execution, with senior marketers in large organisations being blindly optimistic and setting unrealistic expectations for their company’s digital ability. But Sylvia Jensen believes it’s not just a lack of skills or budget holding large organisations back, it’s also not having the right technology in place. She says brands need to be embedding digital within the culture of the business, rather than viewing it simply as a ‘tool’.
Organisations are aiming to futureproof and broaden their own technology landscape– but they should avoid focusing on innovation for innovation’s sake, says Tomas Salfischberger. When it comes to marketing technology, make the most of what you’ve got – deploy digital optimisation instead of re-engineering the entire process. Focus on software that can be integrated into mission critical systems to make sure you are getting the most out of your data; streamlining the customer journey and delivering truly personalised experiences. Here’s how:
Company ethos is holding back an effective digital strategy, new research from Acquia has shown. Half of the heads of digital polled claim they lack support from team members and those in other departments and 37% say even their own boards are adding to this digital marketing barrier. So how can they move on from the ‘old way of doing things’ to drive their businesses more effectively? Certainly, they need to jump on modern trends like personalisation and multi-channel marketing by learning about their website visitors – and they should keep content up to date so they can generate more engagement and thus more revenue. Sylvia Jensen has more detailed advice:
MINT 2018 brought together marketing practitioners and experts from around the world to discuss the latest big issues of our industry – including the looming GDPR, innovation and disruption and the data economy. Here’s a snapshot of what they had to say.