The Rise of the New Marketer: The Economist’s Findings on Key Trends
- 1. The Rise of the New Marketer:
The Economist’s Findings on Key Trends
Jeff Pundyk
GVP, Content Solutions
The Economist Group
Sanjay Dholakia
CMO
Marketo
- 6. 29% say the need for change is urgent.
More than 80% of marketing executives
worldwide say they need to restructure
marketing.
- 8. Be bold.
Marketers point to six areasof dramatic change.
1. From cost center
to source of revenue
Four out of five companies
will classify marketing as a
revenue driver in 3-5 years.
- 9. Marketing expenditures
now total $1 trillion globally
*Source: McKinsey & Co.
Three out of four CEOs agree:
marketers “are always asking for more
money, but can rarely explain how
much incremental business
this money will generate.*”
- 10. 2. Lead the customer experience
75%of marketers say they will be responsible
for the customer experience in 3-5 years.
- 11. 3. A shift in customer engagement
78% relate engagement to sales
22% related engagement to brand
- 12. EBAY E-TRADE
READINESS INDEX
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4. Marketers need to retool first
Top skills in demand:
• Digital engagement
• Marketing operations &
technology
• Strategy and planning
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5. Digital anddata dominate investment
75% of investments focused on reaching
customers through social, mobile and e-mail.
25% focused on analytics to knit together data
from different channels.
- 14. Remember to be human
And a sixth
Don’t forget to be human.
And I’ll throw in a sixth