Being more human in our marketing requires work and creativity. It also begs for time and patience to achieve results, and can be difficult to scale. If that sounds like a step backwards, or counter intuitive to all the tech related capabilities that marketing offers right now, you need to be patient and consider your customer's environment. In actual fact "being more human" … [Read more...]
AI will have huge impact on marketing in 2020
Let’s face it, AI is a confusing space with lots of buzzwords. AI stands for “artificial intelligence”. At the heart of it, AI uses machine learning to make predictions about future outcomes based on historical data. Machine learning gets smarter as new data becomes available. It’s why Google can re-route you due to traffic or construction, with the objective to getting to a … [Read more...]
SEO voice and mobile strategies for 2020
In 2020 more and more people are set to make friends with their voice activated personal assistants: Google, Siri and Alexa. Three big things will happen in SEO during 2020: voice search will overtake typed search (more than 50% by end of 2020), visual search will grow significantly, and the “Featured snippet box” at the top of search will mess with Google rankings – since the … [Read more...]
Influencer Marketing Strategies for 2020
This week's content is the first in a series of "deep dives" into strategies and tactics for 5 Marketing Trends to keep an eye on in 2020, which I posted about last week. If you happened to have missed it, check the link for the post and video. Trend #1 looked at how influencer marketing would continue to grow at an accelerated rate in 2020, but also mature in how it is managed … [Read more...]
5 Marketing Trends for 2020 – plus a wild card
Each year we see incremental shifts, that taken collectively can become seismic over a decade. In 2010 some people had smart phones, but many were using flip phones. Youtube and Facebook existed, but they were primarily desktop based, and APPS were yet to become widespread. With 2020 marking a new decade, it seems hard to imagine what the next 10 years might look like for … [Read more...]
