A transformational and disruptive marketing era is fast approaching. Your prospects, customers (and former customers) are leveraging social media tools and initiating conversations about your product or service; with or without you. The energy and control are moving from the marketer to the consumer to such a degree that the consumer now self markets, making word of mouth the new currency of choice. In this complex matrix of consumer behavior, marketers must shift from campaign management to ecosystem management.
2. The big bang
Widely distributed empowering tools & services
+
Changing consumer expectations and behavior
=
Transformative and disruptive era
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3. The internet = connection engine
• The co-ordinates of this connection grow…
− All over the world
− Across all devices
− All the time
Connect to find Connect to share Connect to transact Connect to express
(Discovery) (Social Media) (Commerce) (Creativity)
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4. In a connected age…
• The end of ignorance
− I can know, find, and discover peoples
reputation, competitive product attributes
and pricing, and a lot more….(increasingly
anywhere and anytime)
• Rising individual media conglomerates
− I can create, combine and cull..
− I can publish, post, upload…
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5. In a connected age…
• New expectations
− Transparency
− Responsiveness
• New emotional truths
− Authenticity (is individual or
company real?)
− Trust (the new critical currency)
− Purpose and values (why do you
exist?)
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6. The connected age shifts
• Eight shifts as we move deeper into a connected age:
Shift ONE From telling to delivering
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7. The connected age shifts
• Eight shifts as we move deeper into a connected age:
Shift ONE From telling to delivering
Shift TWO From 2-way marketing to multi-polar marketing
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8. The connected age shifts
• Eight shifts as we move deeper into a connected age:
Shift ONE From telling to delivering
Shift TWO From 2-way marketing to multi-polar marketing
Shift THREE From users to voices
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9. The connected age shifts
• Eight shifts as we move deeper into a connected age:
Shift ONE From telling to delivering
Shift TWO From 2-way marketing to multi-polar marketing
Shift THREE From users to voices
Shift FOUR From analog communication to digital communication
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10. The connected age shifts
• Eight shifts as we move deeper into a connected age:
Shift ONE From telling to delivering
Shift TWO From 2-way marketing to multi-polar marketing
Shift THREE From users to voices
Shift FOUR From analog communication to digital communication
Shift FIVE From finding them to them finding you
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11. The connected age shifts
• Eight shifts as we move deeper into a connected age:
Shift ONE From telling to delivering
Shift TWO From 2-way marketing to multi-polar marketing
Shift THREE From users to voices
Shift FOUR From analog communication to digital communication
Shift FIVE From finding them to them finding you
Shift SIX From marketing to facilitation
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12. The connected age shifts
• Eight shifts as we move deeper into a connected age:
Shift ONE From telling to delivering
Shift TWO From 2-way marketing to multi-polar marketing
Shift THREE From users to voices
Shift FOUR From analog communication to digital communication
Shift FIVE From finding them to them finding you
Shift SIX From marketing to facilitation
Shift SEVEN From engagement to utility
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13. The connected age shifts
• Eight shifts as we move deeper into a connected age:
Shift ONE From telling to delivering
Shift TWO From 2-way marketing to multi-polar marketing
Shift THREE From users to voices
Shift FOUR From analog communication to digital communication
Shift FIVE From finding them to them finding you
Shift SIX From marketing to facilitation
Shift SEVEN From engagement to utility
Shift EIGHT From campaigns to ecosystems
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14. Shift ONE: From telling to delivering
• The proof is in the performance, the act and behavior rather
than the message, the media and the discount
• Fund product superiority, news and customer service over
messaging
− Earned media over bought media
− Positive WOM over paid spokespeople
Advertising Products
Media Utilities & services
Promotion Customer support
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15. Shift TWO: To multi-polar marketing
2-way marketing
Multi-way marketing
Independent media
Multi-media
vehicles
Multi-measures
Simple measures
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16. Shift THREE: From users to voices
• In a connected age everyone is a media conglomerate-
Word of Mouth is the currency of choice we should focus on
• Must target influencers, support advocates and address the
issues of detractors
Influencers
Heavy users,
Advocates
specific demos?
Detractors?
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18. Shift FIVE: From finding them to them
finding you
• In a connected world we move from:
Segmentation Re-aggregation
Hunting Fishing
Broadcast/publish Search/social recos
• How can consumers easily find you in:
− Search
− Distributed content
− Superior performance that people speak about
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19. Shift SIX: From marketing to facilitation
• The energy and control are moving
from the marketer to the consumer to
such a degree that the consumer now
self markets
− Finance, Pharma, Travel, Tech, Auto
• Important to support and leverage this
“self marketing”
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20. Shift SEVEN: From engagement to utility
• Measures of digital campaign success tend to focus on how
long a person spends with the brand under the banner of
‘engagement’
− Total page views, total time spent, number of interactions performed
• We need to stop elongating the game- focusing instead on
how quickly and how well we fulfill particular needs
Engagement Utility
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21. Shift EIGHT: Moving from campaigns
to ecosystems
Campaigns Ecosystems
Can be consumer initiated
Control by initiator
Efforts released then
Fixed duration monitored as digital
lasts forever
Neat model Multi-way with secondary
effects
Clear cut roles Blur between players
Discover Find Confirm/ Transact Support Feedback/Share
Validate
HP Consideration
purchase Awareness Purchase Loyalty
funnel Preference
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