Whitepaper by Frederic Martin, Sr.Associate with MCE

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Digital Marketing

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Getting your organization ready for the new world of marketing In the new millennium, a storm of combining factors challenges the marketers’ jobs and their organization.

Further, the rise of digital natives or Generation Y in society and

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in the workplace is changing standards and values in communications. Digital natives want more transparency, more interactivity, more authenticity, and they challenge brands on such values. They no longer buy pushy messages. They expect authentic and nurturing relationships; they want to participate on the basis of twoway communication. In this altered environment, marketers and their organizations face new challenges.

Today’s marketers must handle a much more complex job. They need to master a much broader skillset than in the past. That skillset begins with the technology itself. Marketers need to understand how the new Internet, social channels and mobile platforms work for them—instead of working against them. Marketers need to become technology strategists.

June 2013

The Internet and digital channels are deeply changing the relationship between brands and their audiences. Digital channels and social technologies offer marketers new opportunities to communicate and to interact with their audiences. At the same time, there is more noise, more fragmentation, and strong filtering by the recipients. Things actually get a lot more complex for marketers.


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