How Constant Change is Affecting Today's Marketers

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At a recent RBA marketing leaders gathering, The Marketing Quarterly, Kara Wallace, Director of Strategic Marketing for M. A. Mortenson Company, talked about the constant change felt by modern marketers. In her presentation, she discusses managing change and shares both challenges and strategies that marketing leaders are using to navigate change today. The Marketing Quarterly is a gathering of Minnesota Marketing Leaders facilitated by RBA. (rbaconsulting.com; @rbaconsulting)

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% of Marketing Conferences

last year where someone

quoted Darwin

95%

@KaraLWallace

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

- Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)

Now taken as a given:

Amount

Speed

Constancy

of Change taking place

in marketing

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Measure soc ia l

media l ike PR

– no one

expects a sale

f rom an ar t ic le ,

but you might

be able to star t

a new

re lat ionship /

thought

leadership

METRICS:

TWITTER

CYCLE

You Win…a New Job Description!

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You’re a Publisher!

@KaraLWallace Article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/christacarone/2013/07/25/content-marketing-a-playbook/

You’re a Tech Expert!

(that would be 2017)

@KaraLWallace

17 ATK Public

Stereotypical Culture Clash

Left Brain

Risk Averse

Thoughtfully Thorough

Right Brain

Risk Welcoming

Need for Speed

IT Marketing

Source: Metis Strategy Research

Presentation by Jeff Kubacki, CIO

You’re a Change Manager!

Instead of IT, should HR be marketing’s

new BFF?

@KaraLWallace © 2014 Kara L. Wallace

Marketers need to build a content and messaging strategy… to demonstrate that despite all of their learning on their own, they have missed something materially important to the performance of their business.

-Brent Adamson, The Challenger Sale

Pick Your Challenge!

Photo: The Price is Right www.cbs.com @KaraLWallace

How are you…

A) Determining the right roles?

B) Securing funding for new resources

needed?

> Writing job descriptions?

> What stays In-House vs. Outsourced?

How easy/difficult have you found selling all of

this to C-Suite?

@KaraLWallace © 2014 Kara L. Wallace