Blended and connected marketing

Why harnessing Web 2.0 techniques demands changing your classic marketing

Digital Insight Report - October 2007

Blended and connected marketing: Why harnessing Web 2.0 techniques demands changing your classic marketing

It’s time for a change in marketing. We’ve seen periods of change before, but never on the scale now needed. The legacy of the first digital decade includes placing the absolute control of media in the hands of the audience, the removal of frictions in the access to knowledge, the capturing of conversations, a step-change in the scale of media fragmentation, and the arrival of whole new paradigms in communication. The pace remains daunting, and yet any brand failing to adapt, is assured to fail. Many classic marketing channels continue, but a new type of blended, connected marketing is called for. The arrival of social media, online social networks and the Web 2.0 era demands marketers rethink their approach even more.

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WEB 2.0 IN MARKETING - MORE QUESTIONS?

With lots of questions coming in about what harnessing Web 2.0 techniques means for each individual firm, I've posted a few in the Web 2.0 online classroom for participants at the marketing and publishing coaching we've been doing recently. You can see some of the questions and answers there: http://www.digitaltrainingacademy.com/web2/2010/06/digital_classroom_questions_ab.html

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