Marketers need digital experience to get on
Wednesday, March 29th, 2006 at 8:58 pm
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Full mix experience in marketing used to mean knowing what you’re doing both above and below the line. Yet now, to be a full mix marketer you need to know how to manage and execute digital campaigns properly.
Proof of this comes in the shape of a report showing that online advertising is nearly as big as offline advertising, and is likely to overtake offline advertising sometime this year.
bq. Total UK online advertising expenditure in 2005 grew by 65.6 per cent to £1.4 billion to take the sector’s market share to 7.8 per cent, research by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Internet Advertising Bureau, the trade body for online advertising, showed. At £1.4 billion, online advertising expenditure is almost three quarters the size of national newspaper advertising, which was worth £1.9 billion in 2005.
This development has been well picked up by the blogosphere (in particular Open and Stuart Bruce), but what does it really mean for a marketer’s career.
Being a generalist or all-round marketer means you have to have real experience in delivering digital campaigns, yet many digital marketing roles are purely digital. Marketers without digital experience working in generalist roles will have to get digital experience to get on.
The next step for the generalist marketer who knows how to run a digital campaign is to be able to integrate a campaign offline and online, both in terms of strategy and creative.
Marketing employers will need to know what to look for on potential marketing employee’s CVs. I know what I’d look for - good solid experience of offline and online marketing, backed up by a reliable academic qualification such as CIM or IDM. Specific digital qualifications, such as the IDM Diploma in Direct and Interactive Marketing, while still relatively new will grow in value over the coming years.
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Thursday, March 30th, 2006 at 7:44 am
For PR people it is a case of being aware of how to complement every campaign or project with an online element. I think of it in terms of the stages of a campaign:
1. Research and analysis of the audience(s) - have we mapped them online?
2. Strategy and planning - what’s our approach to those online communities: watch carefully? Create content for them? Actively engage in their own communities?
3. Content creation: how can digital content enhance or amplify what the campaign is doing? Can we blog the whole thing, podcast it, create a new community around a niche issue?
4. Content distribution: what do we want to get out there online and who to? Is the best approach brandcasting direct to audiences or focussing on channels like Reuters or a key trade media site that we know (form phase 1) feeds the communities we want to reach.
Sunday, September 10th, 2006 at 7:14 am
[…] I’ve blogged before about how marketers need to understand the digital medium to be able to do their job effectively. Troy makes a strong point about tools - there are many more tools now available, but the results we achieve as marketers depends not on how many tools we have, but how we use them, and more importantly how we use them in combination. […]