This document provides 10 observations about digital marketing trends in 2017. Mobile usage continues to dominate, with over 50% of searches and most Facebook usage occurring on mobile devices. Customer experience has become a top priority, and artificial intelligence is growing rapidly through chatbots and conversational interfaces. Personalized experiences are in demand, fueled by extensive customer data collection. Search engine optimization remains important, especially on mobile. Design thinking must solve real customer problems and work across all devices. Digital transformation and disruption are ongoing industry-wide trends, while the internet of things is connecting more devices each year. Digital services will become increasingly essential utilities.
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Digital Observations 2017
1. Why You Don’t Need to Drink
the Kool-Aid… in Digital
10 Observations in Digital (Marketing)
that You Cannot Ignore in 2017
By Marc Meyer Digital Response Marketing Group December 7th 2016
2. Here’s What I Think About-Every Day…
The Internet of Things
Artificial Intelligence
Virtual & Augmented Reality
Mobile
Social Media
Search
Design
Big Data
And how they relate to the customer…2
6. Observation #1 Mobile is the World and We’re Just Living In It
• More than 50% of
searches are on
mobile
• 91% of Facebook
usage (Daily Active
users) is on mobile
• 80% of Facebook
advertising revenue
is on mobile
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Smartphone Users growth 2005-2015
19. Observation #5 If I Had to Do One Thing……
• Focus on content that focuses on
Search
• Understand the difference
between App search vs Mobile
search vs Desktop search vs
“Voice” search
• It’s all about SEO Assets & mobile-
first indexing
• FYI, Blogs work
“Seafood in Naples”?
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20. Observation #6 Design is Front and Center
Or why the best interface may eventually be no interface
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21. Design is About Choosing the Right Problems to Solve and How it Solves Them...
o What people problem are we solving?
o How do we know it’s a real problem?
o How will we know if we’ve solved it?
Solve for This
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32. Sales = Tools + Resources
2
Manage Expectations
Manage The CX & The UX
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33. The UX Fund-$50,000. A One Year Experiment*
• The premise: Companies that focus on delivering great user experiences
will see it reflected in their stock price.
“We thought it safe to say some of those companies had strong years — at least in part — by continuing to
value design. They craft well designed products and services that solve real problems, for real people.”33
34. It’s No Longer Hype
Elliott: OK, he's a man from outer
space and we're taking him to his
spaceship.
Greg: Well, can't he just beam up?
Elliott: This is reality, Greg…
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Always ask, How do these “things” affect me as a marketer? Now and in the future?
How do they affect the consumer?
How can “You” leverage emerging tech?
Always ask “What’s next?” Follow up with, “What’s after this?”
Continuously ask, What still works?
What doesn’t work anymore?
Think about technologies that have driven newspapers, magazines, fax machines and travel agents to the point of extinction.
The hype cycle provides a graphical and conceptual presentation of the maturity of emerging technologies through five phases.
The takeaway? Your customers are now mobile first
As of the third quarter of 2016, Facebook had 1.79 billion monthly active users.
Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19 billion. Instagram for a $1 billion.
The number of people in the US who are consuming video on mobile devices is set to increase
smartphones are seeing the greatest amount of video viewing
Think about embedded videos
Content marketing, what works? Bullet points and a less is more of a tactic than the written word
Orabrush made it’s mark through organic low-cost YouTube videos
How important will the following be for your digital marketing over the next few years?
The key words? Optimizing the cx and a consistent message across all channels
Why does one choose to use Gmail over Yahoo, Medium over Wordpress — if the features are 99% the same? It’s definitely not about disrupting usability standards. It’s about that additional layer of sophistication in the little things, the most subtle animations, the most elegant transitions – not just for the sake of creating…
The best analogy is that Google was not the first search engine, it was about the 17th or so. Think about the UI for Google.
Wipro now has a whole division devoted to Design
Why is this relevant? You can automate based on typical queries and extensive customer data to resolve typical customer issues.
A recent Business Insider survey: Reasons consumers in the US and Germany want to be contacted by service providers over chat?
Speed
It used to be that we first called the 800 number, then email, then social, and then, if that didn’t work you publicly complained. But if you want to resolve things you take things private.
80% of your business will come from 20% of your customers
Google analytics-Learn to understand some of it
Dashboards-I use them for social listening
Determine what’s working and what isn’t
One size doesn’t fit all anymore. Facebook v. Twitter v. Linkedin-All different audiences and types of content
Personalization. The art of the crappy PR pitch
Take advantage of Free for data tools
Who is your customer? Get inside their head-Personas
An example of social listening-Tweetdeck
Marketers are lazy
SEO. 50/50 You must Focus on the user AND on Google.
Paid Search and paid social are the primary route to go
The importance of Google analytics
Any and all opportunities to push content out-you have to cover the spectrum of channels
#1 on Google (when talking about traditional rankings) doesn't mean the same thing now that it used to and we're having to adapt our SEO strategies and ranking software to reflect that.
Functionality must be a given
Usability is now a commodity
You may not get a second chance at a first impression
How’s your UI?
What’s the purpose of it? Awareness? Lead Gen?
How’s the CX?
I think most people know and accept that design isn’t just about what something looks like. Design is about choosing the right problems to solve and how it solves them.
It’s a given that all sites are responsive. But not all responsive sites are built with the customer in mind.
It’s Org change. Think inside out. Think culture
It’s more than just a concept
Changing the way you operate
“An astounding 78 percent of businesses believe digital start-ups will pose a threat to their organization either now or in the future, and nearly half of global companies say they don’t know what their industry will look like in three years.”-Dell Research
Digital disruption can take the form of cloud, big data, mobile, limitless computing, etc… It’s all about disrupting traditional business models and industries. Think Outside in.
According to comScore data, an average household in the United States has 10 active connected devices; households with 4 or more people even have 19 devices on average. The IoT is a vast network of smart objects which work together in collecting and analyzing data and autonomously performing actions. Think Wearables. By 2020, the amount of Internet-connected things will reach 50 billion, with $19 trillion in profits and cost savings coming from IoT over the next decade.
The wearables market is contracting. Why? Something better? Saturation?
Its all about keeping you in network
It’s a paid game
You don’t have to pick every one of them!
Where do your customers play?
Where is the low hanging fruit?
How long will “it” take?
Do you have the bandwidth?
Who do you know or what do you need to know to make it happen?
How much will it cost?
Focus on the ROI of your activities and then the ROI will follow with your customers
So I used Free
A recent Deloitte study says that a majority of CIOs say customers are now the top business priority, displacing performance from the last survey;
Analytics and customer/digital experience are top skill sets CIOs will hire for in the next two years
Focus on valuing design and delivering exceptional customer experiences