About Dave Chaffey
Books
Online advice and consulting
www.smartinsights.com
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About Dave Chaffey
A professional trainer in E-marketing since 1997
Author of 5 bestselling marketing books now in their
4th and 5th edition
Manages SmartInsights.com a marketing advice site
with paid members in over 50 countries
Insights Director at agency ClickThrough Marketing
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Share your ideas on innovation
in marketing to win!
http://bit.ly/smarttrends
#marketingtrends2014
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22 Trends and recommendations structured around RACE Planning
http://bit.ly/smartgraphics
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PLAN
Trend 1: Defining Future vision of “Modern” or Integrated Marketing
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2011
1. Digital marketing is Marketing
2. You need a strategy
3. Measurement and optimisation
to improve commercial results
are the foundation
4. Joined-up customer-centred
marketing is essential
5. Keep communications human
6. Be agile
7. Inbound marketing trumps
outbound marketing
8. Engagement is the real challenge
9. Think Global, Act Local
10. Markets are conversations
PLAN
2013
1. Strategy
2. Commercial
3. Customer Experience
4. Integration
5. Brand
6. Data
7. Personalisation
8. Technology
9. Content
10. Social
11. Character
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PLAN
Recommendation:
Create a
Success Map
for Digital Marketing
Define what is core
to your Vision
Example of Ishikawa or Fishbone diagram
Growth Hacking post
Trend 2: Managing performance drivers through growth hacking
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PLAN
Audience use of
digital and social
media > Personas
Commercial goals >
Customer
engagement
> OVP
> Marketing Mix
Branded
Content Marketing
Strategy
Integrated
Marketing
Communications
Strategy
Integrated
Digital platform
tactics and tools
OVP = Online Value Proposition
= Brand Adding Value to Audience
Help me do my job / live my life
Help me develop / learn
Help Make me look good
Help Entertain Me!
Help me Select and Use Products
Trend 4: Investment in Brand OVP/YouTility
http://bit.ly/smartovp
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Improving Reach
Key Trends
Increased micro-targeting options
Mobile targeting
Engagement through Visual Apps
Quality SEO signals
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Jeff Bezos on
Shiny Objects
"There are always shiny
things.
A company shouldn’t get
addicted to being shiny,
because shiny doesn’t
last.
You really want something
that’s much deeperkeeled. You want your
customers to value your
service.
Wired Interview
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Trends
Briefing
SEO Trends?
1. Content – requires depth
and detail “Epic/Nuclear”
2. Different types of content
give traction
3. Author authority and social
signals matters
4. Links remain critical, but
bar for quality keeps going
up.
5. Diverse anchor text
needed after Penguin
6. Great design matters
7. Guest posting comes
under increased scrutiny
8. Social continues to exert
a powerful influence
9. Mobile performance and
compatibility matter
10. SEO is less
tactics, more strategy
Source: Search Engine Journal, MoZ ranking factors
Trend 9. SEO Signals = Content, author and outreach quality
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Trends
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The Content marketing /
engagement challenge
Slideshare: Doug Kessler - Crap. The Content Marketing Deluge.
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Criteria?
Rev/visit
Demand+
lead gen
Amplify
Brand fit
SEO
Longevity
Trend 10. Evaluation of content and
social media marketing investments
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Increasing Conversion
Key trends
Evolutionary site design / growth hacking
Mobile CRO
Improvements to Universal Analytics
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Source: Chris Goward - WiderFunnel
Trend 14: Evolutionary site design
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Example: 90 Day planning across RACE
Q2. Mid-funnel page tests using
Google content experiments
Source: Strategy into Action
Q3. Home page enhancement and
Pippity pop-up lead generation
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Trends
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Recommendation: Review leads, sales from different device, resolution Advanced Segments
Trend 15: Mobile CRO
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% Email Opens across desktop and mobile
Location:
Published / Surveyed:
Sample:
Source:
Worldwide
July 2013
Collected from 250 million
email opens
Litmus
Feb 2012-June 2013
Original source: Litmus blog
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Source: Philips presenting on PlantoEngage.com
Trend 21: Email testing increases in sophistication
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Using event-triggered emails –
Marketing Automation / Re-marketing example
1. Generic branded follow-up
email :
+10% conversion rate.
2. Personalised remarketing
email with a promotional code
for a 5% discount time limited
to 72 hours:
+100% conversion rate.
3. Personalised remarketing
email with a promotional code
for a 5% discount time limited
to 48 hours:
+200% conversion rate.
Source: Smart Insights: Email re-marketing
http://bit.ly/smarteremail
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These trends are recommendations of key areas of investment to consider to improve performance in 2013. Focused on improving commercial performance.Sharing examples of performance data.
In 2013 we reviewed top level trends which was useful, but if we repeated the poll at this level today, for 2014 we would get similar results.
The three core areas of investment in marketing for 2014 are likely to continue to be Mobile and Content Marketing and Big Data. I would like to think that Conversion Rate Optimisation and Marketing Automation would increase in investment since these are about process and improving performance, so can potentially offer lower risk returns than other activities.
In my review of areas of increased investment in 2014 I’m going to drill down into more detail than the previous year to focus on specific customer engagement and targeting techniques that can be applied across customer lifecycle touchpoints as defined by our RACE planning frameworks.
How Digital Marketing integrates with other marketing channels is the biggest challenge of implementing digital marketing for me, more important than any specific channels. It requires leaders to define a vision of how channels will integrate and the transformation needed in people, process, tools and metrics to make the most of digital marketing. In other words, it needs a long-term strategy. In 2011, when we launched Smart Insights Expert membership we defined these 11 factors for success that we believe are important. In 2013 Econsultancy developed their Modern Marketing manifesto which I recommend as a way of thinking through different performance drivers that need to be harnessed for integration. Modern Marketing has been adopted by other vendors like Oracle/Eloqua with the “Modern Mark” persona which is a neat device, but I personally dislike “Modern Marketing” as a label since it’s a tautology – current marketing is always model. Instead I prefer to think of what’s needed for Digital Transformation to Integrated or Multichannel marketing..
When I talk to Digital Marketing and Ecommerce Managers at large organisations they have a 3 year look ahead, updated more frequently looking at these type of key issues.
Growth hacking is a concept from startup companies that is being applied more to larger organisations in 2013. Digital marketers may know it has CRO, but it’s broader than this, looking at testing different business models and refining Product offering and Pricing models too. We recommend the success factor mapping technique based on Ishikawa as a way of defining investment in platforms and activities to drive growth.
Modern Marketing naturally focuses on the customer and we’ve seen more focus on use of Customer Personas to help here. Our customer persona toolkit is one of the most popular practical resources on Smart Insights.In 2014 I expect the trend to more focus on managing the total customer experience to continue. From a focus on first touchpoint User Experience and usability to touchpoint mapping across customer journeys and through the customer lifecycle to post sales support and customer service.
As defined in my books since 2001, defining the right online value propositions for different personas has been key to online engagement, so I was interested in the examples of YouTility described by Jay Baer in his new book where content and interactive tools are developed to deliver the OVP.
The majority of trends and techniques and recommendations are in Reach since gaining attention within increase of media channels is biggest challenge.
2013 has seen a growth in targeting options in each of Facebook (e.g. Promoted Posts, Custom Audiences, FBX), LinkedIn (Sponsored Updates adding to targeted ads) and Twitter (Keyword, Interest, Device and Geographic targeting of Promoted posts), these have given many more options to target the user particularly on mobile devices where the majority of social media interactions occur today in many consumer markets.
Google’s earlier developments to bring customer touchpoint point modelling to the mainstream have been added to in 2013 by the new Attribution modeling tool and journey analysis.
With Google’s new enhanced campaigns having a large impact on CPC (for example, Greenlight has seen a 30% increase in CPC since Enhanced campaigns) through enhancing competition working out the best way to adjust bids for mobile will be a source of attention for many consumer brands.
iOS6 accounts for 90% of iOSSearch visits
In 2013 Twitter’s 6 second Vine videos, the Instagram equivalent and Snapchat have become increasingly important with many brands trialling campaigns. This isn’t a fundamental trend that will help transform most businesses though and there is a danger in chasing these “Shiny Objects” as Jeff Bezos has them.
Search continues to be a major driver of visits, leads and sales for many businesses, so it’s important that companies, or their agencies are on top of the latest changes in the Google algorithm. I recommend the 10 factors in the Search Engine Journal summary for the best practical guidance in 10 areas, you can look at the SEOmozfactors, but this is more technical, less practical.
Learning objectives are in two areas – first related to the experience on different platforms and then the content to engage the audiencePlatforms include desktop, but also mobile and social
Sales of 1 billion
Doug Kessler – Velocity Partners
In the SEO recommendations, there is a big focus on how to achieve content quality and social signals, so attention on how to develop what Neil Patel calls “Epic” content, MichaelStelzman calls “Nuclear” content should be a strategic focus of marketing in 2014. Take a look at our Content Marketing matrix to review the options..
The development of more interactive content marketing techniques will be a trend in 2014 – take a look at this interactive dashboard from Econsultancy as an example.
Of course Content Marketing is two words and I think marketers’ efforts often focus too much on the Content rather than the Marketing – I think we’re guilty of that. More investment in resource to help with outreach and partnership will help here.
There are some really interesting examples of mobile responsive landing pages being developed - rather than traditional, static form based pages every interesting to see how these develop in 2014. Take a look at these examples from Google and Salesforce.com. They both use a model of a scrolling approach so they work across device. A bit like old-school squeeze pages, but more immersive through the styling and use of imagery and video.
Learning objectives are in two areas – first related to the experience on different platforms and then the content to engage the audiencePlatforms include desktop, but also mobile and social
When Chris Goward of Wider Funnel asked recently “when did you last update your website?” Over 50% haven’t done a major update in the last year – shocking! In the talk I describe our approach to 90 day planning and Evolutionary site design.
The increased use of mobile technology means that all structured testing and experiments need to take this into account too. It becomes more important to segment your CRO efforts and test on tablet and smartphone. I recommend this deck by Chris Coward on mobile CRO.
We are regularly advising on better use of analytics on Smart Insights. Google have released a number of improvements in 2013 to encourage this like Universal Analytics, Advanced segments and improvements to conversion attribution modelling. We hope this means they’ll that there will be deeper use of analytics in 2014.
Learning objectives are in two areas – first related to the experience on different platforms and then the content to engage the audiencePlatforms include desktop, but also mobile and social
To develop the customer best experiences you have to go beyond the hard data from analytics and get real feedback from real customers. The use of tools to help with this should increase too as companies take a more holistic approach to CRO.
While discussion of using the individual social platforms will, continue a more holistic approach looking at integrating social media with web and email touch points should continue as part of Social CRM.
Throughout this review mobile has played an important part and email marketing is no exception since the data shows the majority of email interactions are now in Mobile for consumer brands. So getting the mobile experience right through responsive design as shown in this post is where many companies will focus if they haven’t already.
I’ve been recommending the use of the event-triggered email marketing or what we now call behaviour email for many years. The increased focus on marketing automation means that more sophisticated programs will be developed.
Data on channel attribution shows that for retailers email is usually one of the top three sales drivers weather first touch for last touch. It’s also important for generating sales for many other types of business. Perhaps some of the social media and content marketing budgets should be allocated to more sophisticated testing like the examples that we look at in our email marketing course and 7 Steps Guide.
Our final trend is one of the most exciting, but also one of the most frightening, that I think will be discussed a lot in 2014 as Google Glass goes on sale. Marketing applications of Glass and its impact on search will be limited, but one Glass app, Glashion, was recently released this week where you can snap clothing and bags of footwear of other passers-by and then complete a comparison shop. Is that exciting or scrary?