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Stranger in a strange land

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Marketers have become strangers in a strange digital land. The rules of thumb the best of us mastered in an analog world have lost their completeness to understand, anticipate, and create growth in a digital world.

Most marketing organizations are not equipped for real time marketing but are structured for annual or semi-annual planning, budgeting, and executing. That tension is only going to grow. Here are eight guidelines for real time marketing.

The use of QR codes not only allows the advertiser to offer the tactile engagement of print and benefits of digital all at the same time, but it is not too late to gain marketing advantage vs. competitors.

The first keiretsu of advertisers, media, and agencies to see this new real time, hyper-addressable media world will be way ahead at achieving marketing efficiency and effectiveness while others are still marching shoulder to shoulder.

Marketing research and insights professionals must flip the switch…instead of starting with “The Project” we should start with the digital river. Now we live in a world where there is a river of information that pre-dates the marketing question and flows continuously as it is fed by digital tributaries from social media, search, navigation pathways.

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