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What’s New in Marketing – February 2015

Author's avatar By Dave Chaffey 04 Feb, 2015
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The Smart Insights summary of digital marketing developments

This year we'll be continuing our summary of the 'must-know' developments in digital marketing, so they're available to our members to scan as a quick summary each month. January was a quiet month for changes on the main platforms. The main development to be aware of from January is that Facebook changed it's newsfeed to filter out 'promotional posts'. In this summary, we look at developments across the 5 key areas of managing digital marketing each month.

Strategy and planning

Digital marketing trends 2015

  • State of B2B Digital Marketing in 2015 - If your work in B2B marketing the newly released BuyerSphere report is essential reading to understand why and how business buyers select products
  • Marketing Technology 2015 - We alerted readers to Scott Brinker's latest summaries of technology services to support the marketer - his compilation has doubled in scale in a year...

Social media marketing

Search and content marketing

We summarised some of the latest insights of how businesses are integrating search, content and social media marketing in our new State of Content Marketing 2015 infographic

2015 content marketing

Conversion rate optimisation

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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