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Posts from the ‘Marketing Strategy’ Category

4
Oct

The Impact of AI on Marketing Jobs

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Marketing organization haven’t changed much in the last 40 years or so. But that’s about to change.

We live in a world of exponential change. As we have moved from the industrial age, to the information age, to the mobile age, we now are entering the age of artificial intelligence and automation.

Advancements in computing is making computers to reach human brain capacity by 2025. By 2050 the projected power of computing will reach the capacity of all humans on earth. Already today it is projected that soon, algorithms, automation and robots, will impact 1 billion human jobs in 2020.

It is safe to say that marketing organization are affected too.

But what will be the impact, and how can we prepare? That’s exactly the subjects of this blog post. In this blog post, I want to try to answer the following questions that relate to modern digital marketing organizations:

  • What mega-trends are forcing modern digital marketing organizations to change?
  • What will become the new reality for CMO’s?
  • What is the impact of this on the tasks of people within a modern digital marketing organization?
  • What should you do as a marketer to embrace this change?

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10
Jul

(Slideshare) The Future of Marketing – What will marketing look like in 2021?

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What is the future of marketing? Not far away, but only 5 years from now. Not the future according to futurists and dreamers, but realistic: what can we expect with great likelihood?

And what is the impact on marketing organizations, the job of marketers and the skills we need within 5 years?

I have been researching this subject for a while now, and it’s impressive to see how marketing will change in just 5 years. Everyone in marketing should prepare and “buckle-up” as things are going to go fast !

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26
Apr

How to build Successful Personalized Marketing Experiences?

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As marketing becomes more and more advanced, personalized marketing is critical.

Personalization in marketing is real, needed and possible. It re-enforces your brand, and can mean the difference between being competitive or disappearing into oblivion.

But how do you that ?

 

In this blog post I want to discuss a methodology and a personalization model that helps you to:

  • segment your audience, beyond demographics and geographic
  • link your business objectives with 1-1 personalization campaigns
  • understand how personalization actually works

 

Let’s get started!

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30
Mar

How to Keep Up with Rapid Change in Marketing?

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Marketing is changing rapidly. Do you also have the feeling that marketing has changed more in the past 2 years than the past 50 years?

Marketing is changing faster, I agree. Even stronger, most marketers today feel overwhelmed with the speed of change happening in the job we are passionate about.

On top of that, marketers do not have a clear consensus on what areas to focus on in the future. And when they want to introduce new marketing innovations into the organization, they hit resistance to change, lack of budget and lack of skills.

In this blog post I want to cover the following:

  • The entire history of marketing and technology through time: how fast are things going?
  • Why you need to go faster when introducing change,
  • How you can speed up the introduction of these changes into your organization.

Okay, let’s get started… Read more »

27
Feb

Embracing the Fourth Digital Transformation

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We are now at the dawn of the Fourth Digital Transformation. The disruption brought by digital is impacting existing business models like never before. And it is not likely to stabilize any time soon. The next wave of digital transformation is just around the corner…

In this blog post I want to cover the following subjects:

  • the fading of classic interfaces and the rise of new customer touchpoints
  • the new-middle-man platforms, introducing new middle-man functions
  • how to build a platform strategy that embraces this change.

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12
Jan

Non-obvious Digital Trends for 2017


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Predicting digital trends is something many bloggers turn to as we move from an eventful 2016 into the new year.

When this type of content hits my inbox, I’m interested, but also often disappointed. The digital trends usually are a repeat of the obvious trends like “mobile is still hot”, or declaring the year 2017 as the “year of virtual reality”. Or they hit me at the other side of the spectrum: the predictions are way too futuristic or advanced for any brand to adopt and monetize in a single year, or a couple of years from now.

Most trend predictions are useless, because they aren’t really objective. They are often self-serving, meaning the vast majority of them has some type of product or strategy to cash in on this hot trend.

Coincidentally, I recently discovered a book written by Rohit Bhargava, that has some strong foundations that build against the idea of these obvious trends.

It covers a methodology to uncover trends, which makes an interesting read. In this blog post I want to cover that methodology, and link that to modern marketing and content marketing strategy building. Read more »

30
Nov

How to Create and Execute a Content Hub Strategy?

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Online competition is intense. Soon, great content is only going to make it to page 3 of Google. Bigger competitors have more content and better content. And bigger budgets to promote that content.

To compete, you need to focus on a topic, and keep focussing on that topic to create a compounding effect. A content hub, along with a content hub strategy, helps you to focus on a topic, by publishing focused content on a central place.

This blog post covers some fundamental questions that need to be answered to build your content hub strategy:

  • What decisions you need to make before starting a content hub.
  • The concept of a content hub, and the different types of content hubs (branded and native),
  • a special case: e-commerce and content hubs.
  • and how to run a content hub operation.

Let’s get started! Read more »

31
Oct

CMO’s and CIO’s: Marketing needs Partnerships with IT

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In most organizations, digital marketing grew up in a silo, separate from the rest of the marketing department. That’s because initially digital touch-points like websites, email and online advertising were not seen as the heart of the business.

But today the world has changed.

Digital channels, content and technology are influencing people’s buying decisions in all markets, at every stage of the customer life-cycle.

In this blog post I want to share you my thinking on how IT and marketing should forge a partnership to keep up with the challenges of the modern organization, doing business in an evermore digitalizing world. Read more »

30
Sep

How to build a mobile (marketing) strategy? 3 Steps, 3 Templates

 

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“Our website is not mobile yet.” Or “We do not have a mobile app yet, but we’re working on it.” Many think that a mobile marketing strategy is about having an app or a website that works well on a smartphone or tablet.

What fewer people see is that current and future mobile technology definitely has or will have a much greater impact. Mobile is having a drastic impact in the way consumers and businesses make decisions and make purchases.

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4
Sep

Digital Marketing Transformation – 3 Strategic Pillars of Change

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Marketing in the eyes of CMO’s is becoming increasingly complex. Embracing this complexity is not easy, as it requires changes in your organization, skill-set and technology. Embracing this change requires a digital marketing transformation.

But it’s a necessary change: the technology revolution and the increasing power of large dominant internet players are forcing modern CMO’s to rethink their strategy.

The action required required boils down to 3 strategic pillars of change:

  1. building a customer centric organization
  2. Introducing a broad new skillsets
  3. Investing in backbone marketing technology

 

Let’s take a deep dive in each of these strategic pillars of change…

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