Guilty Marketers – Wasted & Wishful Multi-Channel Marketing Spend
Opening Keynote for Search Engine Strategies Conference, Chicago, November 15-17, 2011
By Mikel Chertrudi, SES Advisory Board & Senior Director of Marketing for Adobe
This will be updated and edited at a later date, but I wanted to get my notes online ASAP.
By 2020, there will be 50,000,000 connected devices.
As marketing professionals, what should we be doing better in our profession? We need to change the conversation in marketing.
Changing the Marketing Conversation
“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.” – John Wanamaker (Father of Modern Advertising)
Up to 40% of digital marketing is still wasted. We aren’t investing our marketing dollars in optimal channels, so money is still wasted. We’re leaving money on the table. If you can regain that money, you will succeed in marketing.