Digital marketing is now firmly embedded in our day-to-day lives; we start our day with newsletters and check our Facebook before bed. Its influence will continue to grow in 2019, and new advertising trends built on today’s digital innovations will grow along with it. It’s your job to learn to distinguish them and adapt your marketing strategy accordingly.
Here are four digital marketing trends to watch out in 2019:
https://www.webpronews.com/4-fast-rising-digital-marketing-trends-leading-into-2019/
Customer experience is the new battleground for consumer-facing organisations (yes – retailers and shopping centres) as the industry fights for loyalty and customer needs increase.
Recently Forbes indicated 75% of companies report their top objective as improving customer experience and those companies who do it well will reap the financial benefits according to the ASX company financial results.
https://www.shoppingcentrenews.com.au/shopping-centre-news/industry-news/amplifying-cx-customer-experience-and-retail-trends/
Predicting the future is tough, so we decided to talk those who are shaping it. Dave Fish, founder of CuriosityCX and Michigan State University visiting lecturer partnered with Brian Keehner of the Michigan State master of science in marketing research program to interview more than a dozen of the sharpest technology minds from global enterprise feedback management firms to get their take on the future.
What are some of the big strategic bets the major players are making in the CX space? There was quite a bit of agreement, but also some noticeable divergence on the vision for the future. That spanned from data collection and ingestion, all the way to how to help clients take action. Here are the six key discussion points from our conversation.
https://www.ama.org/publications/MarketingNews/Pages/6-big-trends-driving-future-of-cx-technology.aspx/
In-store experiences are here to stay, and the technology being used is getting bigger, better and bolder.
With 81% of UK consumers seeing the physical store as vital to the shopping experience (according to November 2017 research from Vista Retail Support), incorporating new technology can enhance customer engagement and increase sales.
Current retail technology trends highlight the exciting new direction for in-store experiences and underline the importance of blending and balancing offline with online.
https://www.retail-week.com/retail-voice/retail-tech-trends-that-enhance-customer-engagement-/7029305.article?authent=1/
Clarabridge is a US based company and one of the prominent player in sentiment analytics market. It offers numerous analytics services. The company states that sentiment analytics has been used in text analytics form by enterprises from past several years. The company provides solutions that deliver customer insights, associated to product and service features if projected correctly. This detailed, explanatory analysis complements common high-level satisfaction measures. Sentiment analysis can be applied to enterprise feedback and social monitoring and response, sentiment technologies deliver a key voice of the customer asset. IBM Watson through its natural language understanding provides numerous API platform for text analytics that is capable of understanding and analyzing varied characteristics such as sentiment, entity, emotion, keyword, concept tagging, language, and taxonomy.
https://www.newsmaker.com.au/news/362200/sentiment-analytics-market-2017-size-segments-growth-and-trends-by-forecast-to-2023#.WkT22lWnHIU/
