Chapter 3 Build a Modern Marketing Team

The battle for top talent is brewing.

A TALENT WAR HAS BEGUN

A marketing talent war has begun for tech-savvy, hybrid marketers who are capable of building, managing, and executing fully integrated campaigns that produce measurable results. Businesses that have been slow to evolve do not know it yet, but the battle for top talent is brewing among forward-thinking agencies, publishers, corporations, and media companies.

These prototype marketers are able to deliver services across multiple marketing disciplines, including analytics, content, email, mobile, search, social, PR, and web. They are agile, adept at advanced marketing technologies, and experts at inbound strategy. Here is a peek at what hybrids are capable of doing to drive performance:

  • inline Activate marketing automation tools, fully integrated with sales and CRM systems, to deliver maximum value at every consumer touchpoint.
  • inline Analyze marketing data to turn information into intelligence and intelligence into action.
  • inline Connect actions to outcomes.
  • inline Create advanced buyer-persona profiles ...

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