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Less Than Half Of Digital Marketers Say They Are Highly Proficient At Digital Marketing

In a somewhat sobering poll of 1,000 US marketers, just 48 percent of those who identified as “digital marketers” said they feel highly proficient in digital marketing. And they think even less of their cohort: only 40 percent think their team colleagues are highly proficient in digital marketing. The study, titled Digital Distress: What Keeps […]

Ginny Marvin on September 24, 2013 at 3:01 pm | Reading time: 2 minutes

adobe-logo-180pxIn a somewhat sobering poll of 1,000 US marketers, just 48 percent of those who identified as “digital marketers” said they feel highly proficient in digital marketing. And they think even less of their cohort: only 40 percent think their team colleagues are highly proficient in digital marketing.

The study, titled Digital Distress: What Keeps Marketers Up At Night was commissioned by Adobe and produced by Edelman Berland, measures marketers’ confidence in their own skills, effectiveness and ability to measure the impact of their digital efforts.

Yet, from even more depressing stats such as the fact that only 9 percent of respondents strongly agree their digital marketing is working or that only a third said their companies are highly proficient in digital marketing, come some brighter rays of hope from marketers at the companies that are out performing their competitors — online and off.

Marketers at high performing companies are more than twice as likely to rate their companies as proficient in digital marketing than those at low performing companies.

Seventy percent of high performers say they know which marketing channels are most effective, compared with just 52 percent of low performers.

High performing companies are also investing more in digital. While 60 percent of all marketers polled expect their companies will increase their investments in digital marketing technology this year, seventy one percent of high performers said their companies are investing more in digital programs this year compared to just 52 percent among low performers.

High performing companies also outpace lower performers in hiring digital staff and investing in digital marketing technology.

Higher performing companies investing more in digital marketing

The full study is available for download here [PDF].

 

 


Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily MarTech. Staff authors are listed here.


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About The Author

Ginny Marvin
Ginny Marvin was formerly Third Door Media’s Editor-in-Chief, running the day-to-day editorial operations across all publications and overseeing paid media coverage. Ginny Marvin wrote about paid digital advertising and analytics news and trends for Search Engine Land, Marketing Land and MarTech Today. With more than 15 years of marketing experience, Ginny has held both in-house and agency management positions. She can be found on Twitter as @ginnymarvin.

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