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Marketing Trends in 2023 to Help You Grow Your Business

By on Nov 30, 2022

Today, marketing changes rapidly on many fronts.  It takes a lot of time and attention to keep up with today’s marketing trends.

A recent and extensive Hubspot survey reports that “nearly 80% of marketers say their industry changed more in the past three years than in the last 50.”

Here are some of the key marketing trends in 2023 you should expect to see.

Video

Video is the biggest trend today in content marketing. If you aren’t marketing heavily with video, you need to change your ways.

Short Form Video

Short form video has become wildly popular, so expect to see more of it in 2023. If you are not sure what short form video looks like, think of TikTok and Instagram Reels as great examples.

It’s almost impossible to lose with it. 90% of marketers either increase or maintain their ROI with short form video.

One reason short form videos can be so effective is because people are busy.  Your company and its offerings probably are not at the top of their priority. list Expecting someone to watch a half hour video is asking a lot. That’s why short form videos may often reach more people and get your message across better that longer, more detailed videos.

Live Video

If pre-recorded video is hot, live video is even hotter. Studies show that people watch live videos three times longer!

Social Commerce

Selling on social media isn’t new, but it’s become much more widespread. This is a trend that can only grow. It usually takes awhile for the majority of marketers to fully grasp how to use new channels. But now we have a contingent of marketers who understand the social media intricacies of advertising, organic posting,  influencer marketing and integrating the nuts and bolts of ecommerce on social media.

Social media platforms themselves have now built easy to use platforms for both selling and connecting to influencers.

It’s no surprise that the alue of social commerce sales worldwide is expected to increase from $992 billion in 2022 to $1,298 billion in 2023 and to $2,900 billion in 2025.

Influencer Marketing

Influencer marketing long predates social media. No doubt businesses sent their wares to Ava Gardner in the 1940’s and Lillian Gish in the 1910’s and even Lillian Gish hoping they would be seen about town wearing their jewelry or makeup brand.

But social media has driven influencer marketing to an entirely new level. It increased more than ever in 2022 and will likely continue to do so in 2023. A new Hubspot survey tells us that “Over 1 in 4 marketers currently leverage influencer marketing and it offers the second highest ROI of any trend. “

You don’t  have to break the bank. Most businesses can well afford to work with social media micro-influencers. They may not be as well known to the public at large, but they  still have tens or even hundreds of thousands of actively engaged followers.

User-Generated Content

Remember word of mouth marketing? Well today, word is spread through user-generated content. Think about what you can do to get your social media followers to produce content about your brand. After all, people are much more likely to trust other consumers than a company, because those consumers have nothing to gain by singing the praises of a product or service. Consumers are 240% more likely to find user-generated content more trustworthy than that created by a company.

So, hold those contests, spread that hashtag, encourage social media reviews. Do what you can to encourage your following to spread the word.

Ubiquitous Customer Service

There was a time when “customer service” was considered quite separate from marketing. Marketing was focused on the sale and didn’t pay a lot of attention to the customer journey after that.

But today, smart marketers understand that they must market at every touchpoint from the website to conversations with a customer service reps. Every time a customer interacts with your brand in any capacity, it influences their opinion of you.

It’s therefore no surprise that using social media for customer service will grow in 2023.  Companies have not been using social media for customer service for very long, but it’s becoming more popular all the time, so much so that over 25% of marketers direct message customers who need customer support. Some companies even use social media platforms such as Twitter as their primary channel for customer support.

Why is this increasing now? One reason is that customer support on social media goes hand in hand with increased social media selling, another one of our trends.

AI Chatbots and Conversational Marketing

Customer Expectations

Immediate response: As customers become more demanding, it is incumbent upon businesses to better serve their needs in order to stay competitive. How demanding are they? Almost ⅔ of your customers expect you to respond within 10 minutes of their inquiries.  This applies not only to customer service but also sales and marketing.

Transfer of information: When your customers speak with your reps, they become easily frustrated if they have to explain their problems to one person, then be transferred to someone else and have to explain it all over again. It’s already annoying enough to be transferred, but you can drive customers right up the wall if all the information they just painstakingly outlined is not transferred along with the call. And often it isn’t.

Help when they need it: Customers want help when they want help. But many companies offer customer service help only during limited hours, often the hours their customers are working, commuting or eating dinner. For most organizations, it’s not feasible to have human customer service reps available 24/7.

Inquiries are not limited to customer service. If a customer has a questions about a product before they buy, getting an immediate answer may be the key factor in making a sale.

AI Chatbots Help Solve These Issues

AI chatbots can chat with customers in a conversational manner. And they can do it anytime of the day or night. They can provide answers to common questions. And best of all, machine learning enables them to continue to improve.

All conversations are tracked, so if there is something that must be handled by a human rep when they start work in the morning, they have a full record before reaching out to the customer.

When a customer is chatting with an AI chatbot, they feel like they are getting one on one attention, even though the AI chatbot may be serving many customers at the same time. Whether your calls are many or few, AI chatbots stand ready.

Finally, you can sell directly in AI Chatbot chats. They have been shown to greatly increase conversions. You can double or quadruple your conversions… or more!

Need Help with Your 2023 Marketing Strategies?

Even if you do a lot of your marketing inhouse, an Umbrella Local Expert can help you analyze what would help your company in the coming year and create a plan. From strategy through implementation, Umbrella does it all.

Contact us here or call us at 1(866) 760-2638 to discuss marketing trends in 2023 and how they will affect your company.

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