Adaptive marketing: The key to winning in the Engagement Economy

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Marketers must be, by nature, adaptive. Our practice today looks much different from the way it did five years ago, and it will look even more different just one year from today.

For those who, like myself, have been in the field awhile, the phrase “yesterday’s marketing” refers to print ads and billboards — an era before tracking or justifying ROI (a problem that has in many ways been rectified in today’s digital world). For those who are newer to the field, “yesterday’s marketing” was “spray and pray.” Today, it has become inconceivable to blast out the same message to every consumer.

Omnichannel used to be the “adaptive” marketing strategy du jour. The intention was to help marketers reach their customers on every channel. However, that strategy is fundamentally flawed because it’s the bare minimum approach to engagement, and it certainly does not enable marketers to interact with the individual. Today, in the Engagement Economy, consumers demand personalized and authentic experiences on their preferred channels and in ways that matter to them. In other words, buyers expect brands to adapt to their needs to win their loyalty.

Marketers, and anyone involved in the customer experience, must adapt to adaptive marketing. Sounds redundant, right? But adaptive marketing is essential for success in today’s digital world. In the Engagement Economy, where everyone and everything are more connected than ever before, it shouldn’t be who your customers are that determines the messages they receive, it should be what they do.

The key to adaptive marketing in the Engagement Economy is to listen, learn and engage at scale. Here’s why.

[Read the full article on MarTech Today.]


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About The Author

As CMO, Chandar is in charge of positioning Marketo as the marketing industry’s innovation leader and best solution for high-growth and enterprise businesses. Previously as a group vice president of marketing, Chandar built Marketo’s product, solution, and corporate marketing teams. A seasoned enterprise executive, he was previously with Badgeville where he oversaw the company’s worldwide marketing efforts including product and corporate marketing and demand generation. Prior to that he served as vice president of product and channel marketing for IBM Cast Iron. Chandar also spent time at Andersen Consulting as an advisor to Fortune 500 companies in the high-tech, retail, and oil and gas industries. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from PSG College of Technology in India and a master of science in management from the University of Texas.


 

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