This is a presentation I gave at the Content Marketing Association on 4th Dec in London. We were asked to predict big trends for 2013. This belief is we will see a continued convergence of traditional marketing and digital marketing. Audiences attention has for hundreds of years been focused on flat surfaces. As story tellers and marketers our job is to make flat surfaces worthy of attention. Today with digital technology, audiences have a greater diversity of interesting flat surfaces, but that doesn't mean that non digital flat surfaces cease to get any attention! Much of this thinking was inspired by "A day made of Glass' a brilliant window into the not too distant future by an innovative glass manufacturer Corning who specialise in touch screen glass technology. If you havent already- check this movie out before reading this slide presentation. uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cf7IL_eZ38
A Convergence of Flat Surfaces- Digital Marketing predictions for 2013
1. Who am I?
Digital Marketer from the Isle of Wight
Podcast producer
Ciaran Rogers
Digital marketing manager for a well known
british beauty brand
University lecturer for digital marketing strategy
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3. How are you
monitoring your
business landscape?
Photo by Kendall Morton
Is your business a bit J.R. Hartley?
Or a bit Mystic Meg?
Do you catch enough fish?
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4. Prediction No 1 -
It’s always been about the content!
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5. Prediction No 1 -
It’s always been about the content!
• Humans remain motivated by well produced content
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6. Prediction No 1 -
It’s always been about the content!
• Humans remain motivated by well produced content
• To thrive and get noticed your business will need to be / get
good at this.
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7. Prediction No 1 -
It’s always been about the content!
• Humans remain motivated by well produced content
• To thrive and get noticed your business will need to be / get
good at this.
• Content that is easy to find and consume and adds
value for Your customer should be a key focus for you if
you want to stand out / engage / do well.
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8. Prediction No 1 -
It’s always been about the content!
• Humans remain motivated by well produced content
• To thrive and get noticed your business will need to be / get
good at this.
• Content that is easy to find and consume and adds
value for Your customer should be a key focus for you if
you want to stand out / engage / do well.
• Think multi platform - Desktop / Mobile / Tablet / and ....Non
Digital flat surfaces
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9. Prediction No 1 -
It’s always been about the content!
• Humans remain motivated by well produced content
• To thrive and get noticed your business will need to be / get
good at this.
• Content that is easy to find and consume and adds
value for Your customer should be a key focus for you if
you want to stand out / engage / do well.
• Think multi platform - Desktop / Mobile / Tablet / and ....Non
Digital flat surfaces
• Think social media engagement - Facebook -Twitter-
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10. Cast your minds back...
to a farm kitchen table sometime in 1899....
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11. Content marketing is nothing new...
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http://dustcoveredcurios.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/sunlight-year-book-1899/
12. Content marketing is nothing new...
• How to butcher a fish
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http://dustcoveredcurios.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/sunlight-year-book-1899/
13. Content marketing is nothing new...
• How to butcher a fish
• How to read someone’s palm,
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http://dustcoveredcurios.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/sunlight-year-book-1899/
14. Content marketing is nothing new...
• How to butcher a fish
• How to read someone’s palm,
• General almanac-type information about the
cycles of the moon and the tides, current postal
rates,
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15. Content marketing is nothing new...
• How to butcher a fish
• How to read someone’s palm,
• General almanac-type information about the
cycles of the moon and the tides, current postal
rates,
• Cleverly worked into the text of every article is
“how superior Sunlight Soap is, and how useful
it is in every task you could imagine.”
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http://dustcoveredcurios.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/sunlight-year-book-1899/
23. Owned Earned and Paid Media:
Traditional Media
Print / TV / Video / Radio
24. Owned Earned and Paid Media:
Digital Media
Traditional Media
Mobile / Web/ Tablet / Podcasts/
Print / TV / Video / Radio
Video
25. Owned Earned and Paid Media:
Digital Media
Traditional Media
Mobile / Web/ Tablet / Podcasts/
Print / TV / Video / Radio
Video
26. Where are the fish hanging out?
A convergence of flat surfaces?
27. Where are the fish hanging out?
Newspapers/
Books
Kitchen Mirror/Bus stop wall
Fridge door/ Cooker
A convergence of flat surfaces?
28. Where are the fish hanging out?
Newspapers/
TV
Books
Telephone / Internet/ Photos/
Kitchen Mirror/Bus stop wall
Music/ Video / Sat Nav
Fridge door/ Cooker
A convergence of flat surfaces?
29. Where are the fish hanging out?
Newspapers/
TV
Books
Telephone / Internet/ Photos/
Kitchen Mirror/Bus stop wall
Music/ Video / Sat Nav
Fridge door/ Cooker
A convergence of flat surfaces?
37. The year of the Fridge... 2013
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38. The year of the Fridge... 2013
• Think not of internet enabled refrigerators...
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39. The year of the Fridge... 2013
• Think not of internet enabled refrigerators...
• ...but imagine if you will a fridge enabled Internet!
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40. The year of the Fridge... 2013
• Think not of internet enabled refrigerators...
• ...but imagine if you will a fridge enabled Internet!
• Watch and consume all your daily professional
content, emails, work, finance, entertainment...
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41. The year of the Fridge... 2013
• Think not of internet enabled refrigerators...
• ...but imagine if you will a fridge enabled Internet!
• Watch and consume all your daily professional
content, emails, work, finance, entertainment...
• ...and a tasty satisfying snack or milk for your tea
is never more than a few inches away!
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42. Prediction No.4
• Customers will remain your most
important thing ever!
• You need a strategy to engage them...
• they are not just engaged on digital flats!
• ... but (they do all have fridges!)
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44. What do they like?
• Facebook can tell you...
• So can Google...
• So can Twitter...
• So can YouTube...
• and Amazon
• So can they...!
• ...but can you tell me?
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45. The obsession with Likes
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46. The obsession with Likes
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47. The obsession with Likes
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48. The obsession with Likes
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49. The obsession with Likes
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50. The obsession with Likes
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53. What are their key problems?
How do they like to communicate?
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54. What are their key problems?
How do they like to communicate?
How are you measuring your
engagements and outcomes?
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55. Where do they hang out?
• At Local events, bus stops on trains planes or in their car?
• Shopping sites? Social networks? In their Email?
• On mobile networks? or in apps on their smart phone?
• At conferences or trade shows ?
• On video sharing sites? ( Think internet connected TV’s)
• On your website? on your blog? In your office building?
• ...or even in front of the bathroom mirror?
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64. to find the answer...
• Common sense...
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65. to find the answer...
• Common sense...
• ASK! Everyone loves talking about themselves!
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66. to find the answer...
• Common sense...
• ASK! Everyone loves talking about themselves!
• Analytics
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67. to find the answer...
• Common sense...
• ASK! Everyone loves talking about themselves!
• Analytics
• No one social network site
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68. to find the answer...
• Common sense...
• ASK! Everyone loves talking about themselves!
• Analytics
• No one social network site
• No one dominant platform
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69. to find the answer...
• Common sense...
• ASK! Everyone loves talking about themselves!
• Analytics
• No one social network site
• No one dominant platform
• It’s not necessarily about the next hot sexy internet big thing...
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70. to find the answer...
• Common sense...
• ASK! Everyone loves talking about themselves!
• Analytics
• No one social network site
• No one dominant platform
• It’s not necessarily about the next hot sexy internet big thing...
• ...It’s still definitely about people... your customers
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71. and just maybe it’s still slightly about...
ciaran.rogers@gmail.com
@ciaraniow
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