Today, the landscape of B2B market is in constant state of flux, making it crucial to keep track on the significant shifts of trends every day. But merely identifying these trends isn’t enough; marketers should identify which will give opportunity or threat to the business. And eventually find ways to maximize the opportunities and neutralize the threats.
We’re about to enter the 4th quarter of 2014, and 2015 is under way. Marketers should already start drafting their marketing plan that can adopt to 2015’s marketing matrix. In laying the foundation for their 2015 marketing strategy here are the trends to be considered.
Micro targeting
Marketers should focus on designing marketing strategies for small but are comparatively profitable subsets of the market. They should divide the target market into smaller segments with different needs and preferences. The marketing messages should be designed based on every segment’s attributes to emphasize the benefits of the product. Rather than the one-fits-all marketing, this approach is a lot more efficient because it allows marketers to deliver the right product with the right features to a certain segment that needs it.
Mobile Dominance
Global Smartphone use will reach 2 billion by 2015. This is the challenge to B2B marketers, to give a different digital experience to its target businesses. Of course inside every business are individuals who, outside their work, are consumers hoping for an improved digital experience. Marketers should start focusing on the mobile-optimization of their resources, especially websites.
Automated marketing
Then, we rely on manual calculation using historical data to project marketing direction. Now, we have integrated traditional marketing activities like customer management, email marketing, content management, SEO, lead generation into holistic tools to intensify marketing efforts. B2B industry has lead to the usage of marketing automation tools. Such advancement increased lead conversion rates by more than 50%.
Quality Content
Marketers will become writers and publishers. More than their purpose of selling their product, they should also focus on the quality of their published contents. Aside from the grammatical value of the content, marketers should also focus on how compelling the content is to the reader.
More marketing trends will hit the mainstream culture of 2015, from marketing technology trends, evolving business structures, changing customer behavior, and a lot more aspects of B2B marketing. The market will keep on reshaping based on these ever-shifting trends. Marketers should use logical approaches partnered with innovative ideas to predict future movements of trends.
Source: Rock Content
