Modern Business Magazine January 2016 | Page 28

MODERN MARKETING Digital Marketing Trends for 2016 S everal years ago I wrote an article about the Death of Digital Marketing. How true this has become. What I hear you say, digital marketing is not dead! Oh, yes it’s well and truly dead, but marketing in the digital age isn’t. And with marketing in the digital age evolving at the speed of light, it’s never been more important to keep up with the trends that will shape our future. What started as a disruption to the way we sell has quickly spread to all areas of business. Sales quickly adapted by evolving into solutions selling, while marketing pretty much just relabelled the old tried and tired mass marketing techniques and failed to evolve. This has led to some significant disconnects between the two most important business drivers sales & marketing. Be