The marketing landscape is changing at a rapid pace and with it are the components and strategies that create the formula for marketing success. Shifts in marketing needs have created an evolution across marketing teams and in the marketing services industry. Many orgs require assistance in understanding and implementing these strategies in a way that will ensure business growth and prosperity.
“At a time when brands are also navigating many digital marketing challenges, they cannot afford to sacrifice on revenue because of internal knowledge gaps or team time constraints,” says Henry Rowe, President and Chief Strategy Officer, Theorem. “Simply put, the future can no longer afford to be siloed.”
Agile marketing team and services orgs have pivoted to a model that allows them to understand how all of these marketing elements stand alone and feed into one another. In addition, these groups are enabling the creation and implementation of marketing strategies that meet the needs of ever–changing customer demand, while ensuring successful longevity. But what are the main factors that create overall modern marketing success?
Key Factors that Make Up the Perfect Marketing Recipe for Success:
Strategy
While many focus on technology and platforms as the heart of their marketing success, it is actually strategy that takes center stage. The most important part of ensuring modern marketing success and scalability is building a marketing strategy around your current and future business needs.
Creating a well rounded strategy involves the inclusion of many parts of your organization to perform an in-depth look at your current business needs and goals as well as the aspirational needs and goals of the business. Doing so will allow teams to fully understand what the strategy must entail for short–term and long–term marketing success.
“Many brands have their strategy sorted; what they want and appreciate is flexible expertise that is as deep as it is effective, taking existing business strategies and turning them into actionable digital campaigns.”
-Jay Kulkarni, Founder & CEO, Theorem
Technology
Data & Insights
More than ever before, data and insights are the key to a successful marketing strategy. Understanding and targeting audiences is the key to any winning marketing campaign and the only way to do either is to utilize audience to get there.
Operational Efficiency
An organization’s operational efficiency ties back to the success of its strategy, MarTech, and data utilization processes, all of which need to be created, integrated and utilized by numerous teams in order to achieve success and ensure long term scalability.
The Future is Flexible
Continual shifts in marketing demand have created evolution in the marketing landscape. At the end of the day modern marketing success hinges on agility of internal marketing teams and or the marketing service orgs they partner with.
Organizations with the ability to create flexible strategies, blueprint and implement agile MarTech, dynamically collect and utilize data and continually optimize organizational efficiency are sure to continually succeed when it comes to their digital marketing endeavors.