The CMO.com 2020 marketing trends outlined in December of last year no longer apply. Or do they?
Persado President Jason Heller and Adobe Vice President of Marketing and Customer Insights John Copeland collaborated to deliver a virtual and updated Adobe Summit session that adapted the five marketing trends they predicted for 2020 to the current business environment, including one new trend companies can’t ignore.
Revisiting the top five 2020 marketing trends through the lens of the current environment — and our subsequent journey to a new normal — provides a strategic, and important counterbalance to day-to-day crisis management.
Entire industries are struggling for survival while other sectors are trying to reinvent themselves. A brand’s purpose can be the guide. Reconsider your value proposition and find ways you can offer more to your customers for less. Great examples include:
Short-term measures like these will build customer loyalty and position your company for success in the future.
Breaking data out of individual silos and integrating it together still holds incredible value. 2020 showed potential for companies to realize the promise of a single view of each customer by implementing Customer Data Platforms (CDPs).
What’s changed and what to do about it:
Many of the biggest brands already use AI to augment their content. AI works with human creators to build better, more personalized content at scale. In the current environment that increasingly means using AI to balance empathy-centered messages that also meet performance criteria.
What’s changed and what to do about it:
In the current environment that increasingly means using AI to balance empathy-centered messages that also meet performance criteria.
2020 held promise for brands to fully embrace digital customer experience management (CXM). We’ve seen a trend toward the creation of Chief Customer Officer roles, or the integration of these responsibilities into existing leadership roles.
What’s changed and what to do about it:
Agile marketing enables companies to unlock potential by giving cross-functional teams the autonomy to drive rapid testing of new ideas. Early adopters of agile were poised to scale in 2020.
What’s changed and what to do about it:
Business automation and the digitization of operations dominated early investments in transformation, but marketing is poised to lead a new wave of commercial digital transformation to change the front lines of customer engagement and generate billions of dollars in new enterprise value.
What’s changed and what to do about it:
Leaders must navigate the path from crisis communications to preparing for the “new normal,” even though the future remains uncertain. The language you use to engage your customers, the operating models used to execute plans, and the integrated data that serves as the backbone of marketing success are even more critical today.