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What’s New in Marketing? January 2013

Author's avatar By Dave Chaffey 31 Jan, 2013
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Facebook Graph Search, Vine and Google Analytics Gallery are the biggest announcements

January is the time of year when many look again at their priorities for the year ahead. To help with this, Smart Insights ran a series of 8 free webinars on January 9th. If you would like to take a look, you can still view the #MarketingPriorities2013 Webcasts and Slideshares. Continuing the theme, Expert commentator Annmarie Hanlon will be speaking in February in a webcast on how to create the Perfect Marketing Plan.

The brand new online brand of note in January was Vine. From the people who brought us 140 character tweets, so that we could say more with less, come 6 second videos. It’s based on technology Twitter purchased in 2012. It’s good to see some brands have been agile enough to trial the format, but I’m sure others will have larger, more strategic “fish to fry”. Revolution has some examples of which this caught my eye:

Of course, Facebook Graph Search which we cover in our social media section will have a much bigger impact eventually. Or will it?

Strategy and planning

  • Perhaps the biggest news in January was actually just before Christmas and may have been missed as companies wound down for the break. The news was Oracle’s $871million acquisition of Eloqua and the implications for development of a new series of marketing cloud type solutions. In this post, Paul Fennemore takes a look at the implications of marketing clouds and the main options available: The Growth in Combined Marketing Cloud Solutions
  • In January 2013 we updated our free digital marketing healthcheck. In this post, Dan Bosomworth explains how to [set priorities for 2013]((http://www.smartinsights.com/digital-marketing-healthcheck) using it and our other tools in our toolkit. We’ve updated it line with member feedback to enable you to save and review your scores and recommendations.
  • Ecommerce Trends 2013 - Jill Rob and I compiled this post of trends in Ecommerce covering the latest mobile commerce adoption figures and continued growth in Ecommerce according to the IMRG:

IMRG Ecommerce Growth

In a separate post I showed how to use Cause-and-effect or Ishikawa fishbone diagrams for Ecommerce analysis.

Ishikawa Ecommerce

Social media marketing

Expert commentators Jon Paget and Marie Page also had good practical posts on community management tools and Reviewing Social Media Effectiveness.

Search marketing

User experience, analytics and conversion optimisation

  • New Google Analytics Solutions Gallery - This is a handy new set of tools to help customise reports to a business.
  • Are you a Datavore?. A post arguing for more data-driven decisions. This infographic based on research from Nesta from their useful report, Rise of the Datavores, shows that many rely on intuition alone when making marketing decisions. I wondered how this compared to Smart Insights readers, see the poll results to find out whether our readers are more balanced.
  • Mobile use statistics - One of our most popular posts in January showing the interest in managing mobile use.

Email marketing and CRM

 

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By Dave Chaffey

Digital strategist Dr Dave Chaffey is co-founder and Content Director of online marketing training platform and publisher Smart Insights. 'Dr Dave' is known for his strategic, but practical, data-driven advice. He has trained and consulted with many business of all sizes in most sectors. These include large international B2B and B2C brands including 3M, BP, Barclaycard, Dell, Confused.com, HSBC, Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, M&G Investment, Rentokil Initial, O2, Royal Canin (Mars Group) plus many smaller businesses. Dave is editor of the templates, guides and courses in our digital marketing resource library used by our Business members to plan, manage and optimize their marketing. Free members can access our free sample templates here. Dave is also keynote speaker, trainer and consultant who is author of 5 bestselling books on digital marketing including Digital Marketing Excellence and Digital Marketing: Strategy, Implementation and Practice. In 2004 he was recognised by the Chartered Institute of Marketing as one of 50 marketing ‘gurus’ worldwide who have helped shape the future of marketing. My personal site, DaveChaffey.com, lists my latest Digital marketing and E-commerce books and support materials including a digital marketing glossary. Please connect on LinkedIn to receive updates or ask me a question.

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