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Author's avatar By Dave Chaffey 31 Jul, 2014
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What’s New in Marketing? July 2014 roundup

How to achieve Digital Transformation in businesses has been a hot topic through 2014 and this month we have focused our advice on this.

To help get focus and review current use of digital we created this roadmap so you can summarise where you are now and where you need to be in future. It’s taken from our new Digital Transformation guide for Expert members.

Strategy and planning

Our strategy and planning posts also focus on transformation:

Social media and content marketing

Search marketing

User experience, analytics and conversion optimisation

This month we have focused on recommendations to improve sales on Ecommerce sites by CRO to coincide with the launch of our new Ecommerce design patterns guide. We have also featured 3 new tools relevant to all Google Analytics users.

3 new Google Analytics tools

Email marketing and CRM

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By Dave Chaffey

Digital strategist Dr Dave Chaffey is co-founder and Content Director of online marketing training platform and publisher Smart Insights. 'Dr Dave' is known for his strategic, but practical, data-driven advice. He has trained and consulted with many business of all sizes in most sectors. These include large international B2B and B2C brands including 3M, BP, Barclaycard, Dell, Confused.com, HSBC, Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, M&G Investment, Rentokil Initial, O2, Royal Canin (Mars Group) plus many smaller businesses. Dave is editor of the templates, guides and courses in our digital marketing resource library used by our Business members to plan, manage and optimize their marketing. Free members can access our free sample templates here. Dave is also keynote speaker, trainer and consultant who is author of 5 bestselling books on digital marketing including Digital Marketing Excellence and Digital Marketing: Strategy, Implementation and Practice. In 2004 he was recognised by the Chartered Institute of Marketing as one of 50 marketing ‘gurus’ worldwide who have helped shape the future of marketing. My personal site, DaveChaffey.com, lists my latest Digital marketing and E-commerce books and support materials including a digital marketing glossary. Please connect on LinkedIn to receive updates or ask me a question.

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