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52% of agencies now offer a 'full range of digital marketing services'

52% of agencies now offer a 'full range of digital marketing services' | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

To be successful in the new multichannel and digital age businesses have to adopt an integrated approach to marketing.


And as companies seek to join up what have often been siloed activities, agencies are moving towards a fuller service offering to cater for the increased demand.


Data included in our new UK Search Engine Marketing Benchmark Report 2013 shows that more than half of agencies (52%) now offer a ‘full range of digital marketing services’, an increase from 45% in 2012 and 42% in 2011.


In comparison just 12% of agencies specialise in SEO while 7% focused exclusively on paid search. A further 10% of agencies carry out both SEO and paid search....

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What's hardest to comprehend is what the other 42% of agencies are doing to survive?

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Clay Christensen: First media gets disrupted, then the education industry | GigaOm

Clay Christensen: First media gets disrupted, then the education industry | GigaOm | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Clay Christensen literally wrote the book on disruption, so it’s worth paying attention to him when he talks about where the disruption fueled by the web is going to strike next. The Harvard business professor and author of The Innovator’s Dilemma spoke to Jeff Howe — the Wired writer who coined the term “crowdsourcing” — and had some interesting things to say about where disruption is occurring now and where it is likely to strike next.

 

At one point, Howe asks Christensen to name some industries that are “either in a state of disruptive crisis or will be soon,” and the professor says:

“Journalism, certainly, and publishing broadly. Anything supported by advertising. That all of this is being disrupted is now beyond question. And then I think higher education is just on the edge of the crevasse. Generally, universities are doing very well financially, so they don’t feel from the data that their world is going to collapse. But I think even five years from now these enterprises are going to be in real trouble.”...

Jeff Domansky's insight:

This is a fascinating look at the disruption coming for education, now that media, journalism, marketing, advertising and PR have been disrupted. Recommended reading! 

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Marketing Is Dead

Marketing Is Dead | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

In our social media-infused world, traditional marketing logic just doesn't work.Traditional marketing — including advertising, public relations, branding and corporate communications — is dead. Many people in traditional marketing roles and organizations may not realize they're operating within a dead paradigm. But they are. The evidence is clear.


First, buyers are no longer paying much attention. Several studies have confirmed that in the "buyer's decision journey," traditional marketing communications just aren't relevant. Buyers are checking out product and service information in their own way, often through the Internet, and often from sources outside the firm such as word-of-mouth or customer reviews.Second, CEOs have lost all patience.


In a devastating 2011 study of 600 CEOs and decision makers by the London-based Fournaise Marketing Group, 73% of them said that CMOs lack business credibility and the ability to generate sufficient business growth, 72% are tired of being asked for money without explaining how it will generate increased business, and 77% have had it with all the talk about brand equity that can't be linked to actual firm equity or any other recognized financial metric...

Jeff Domansky's insight:

The dead paradigms are everywhere. What to do? A must-read for anyone disrupted, including advertising, marketing, PR.

Priscilla Hema's curator insight, September 27, 2013 1:28 AM

Though i presumed; due to the vocabulary used and matter of writing, that this scoop was right and all information gatehred were relevant and RIGHT. But after reading comments regarding this article im left abt unsure of what to believ one states that Marketing tries to create cues which will increase the propensity of a customer purchasing them. The weak theory of advertising reinforces the brand into the consumers mind whether they consciously view or hear about the product a consumers subconscious will actually create cues in to the consumers mind. These cues will increase salience and will increase the chance of being purchased. The measurement of marketing is difficult so a CEO who gets fed up with their CMO need to research that for a business to grow they actually need to attract light buyers. A CEO should rather evaluate why they aren't selling products and not blame markets solely. The economy, distribution, competitors and consumers tastes are all key players in a growth of a business. and another states Traditional marketing — including advertising, public relations, branding and corporate communications — is dead. Many people in traditional marketing roles and organizations may not realize they’re operating within a dead paradigm. But they are. The evidence is clear. I beleive something of tradition can never be dead, just modified; improved then properly applied. This was the first article that challenged my patience to read through all made comments. Nice