If Marketing 1.0 was mostly about print collateral, then Marketing 1.5 moved to the web brochure, and Marketing 2.0 is about the entire online experience. In Marketing 2.0, you no longer have tight control of a polished, coherent message stream.
In effect, marketing is turning into a myriad of interlocking conversations between people inside and outside the company. Blogs and online communities give individuals a loud voice in conversations about products and brands, while keyword-based marketing is changing the way corporations disseminate their messages.
In truth, the conversations were always out there, in coffee shops, book club meetings, over the garden fence, at the corner store; millions of conversations are going on about hundreds of topics relevant to your company every day. The extraordinary thing today is that you can literally watch these conversations as they unfold online.
The attitude of Marketing 2.0 is one of openness, authenticity, trust, and responsiveness. This attitude is powered by a set of manipulable dials and switches that connect an organization's conversations about its products and its brand directly to the market, and to sales. The bottom line for marketers: evolve or fail, because consumer behavior is changing.
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I did a presentation this morning on Web 2.0 (and how it involves marketing). And you're right, it's about helping to facilitate a conversation. For a long time, we marketers tried to engage people in a one way conversation. We talked to them in broadcast and print. Marketing 2.0 or Web 2.0 acknowledges that the consumer's voice is a factor. How much of a factor it is, will depend.
We all seem to know that, but only a few of us know ho to do it. And only time will tell how much of a factor the consumer's voice is, in this conversation
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