The 5 Most Powerful Marketing Trends In 2023
Marketing is booming in all ways and 2023 is guaranteed to be one of the most prosperous years in the development of the marketing field. No doubt 2022 has been challenging for some businesses and brands. However, knowing the newest trends in marketing can be a great way to let your business blossom this year.
Read on to know more about the most powerful marketing trends in 2023 and how you can make the best use of them to maximize your sales and increase your brand awareness.
Knowing how much consumers’ behaviors have shifted and changed and how technology has developed in recent times, you need to stay on top of it or else you will lose it all!
Here you go with the best trends for this year:
Live Streaming & Video-based Content
According to research, the live streaming industry is expected to climb from
$70 billion in 2021 to almost $224 billion in 2028! Also, did you know that nearly 63% of people ages 18–34 watch live streaming content on a regular basis according to Statista?
Video content is crucial for your marketing and social media in particular whether it is live or not, it is a must have! From TikToks to Instagram reels, short videos are trending and proven to have an incredible effect on engagement and brand awareness especially amongst millennials and Gen Z. Moreover, if video content is paired with influencer marketing that can have crazy results on your business sales.
2.User Generated Content
User generated content (UGC) is any form of content created and shared by the consumers based on their experiences, opinions, ideas, or feedback. User-generated content include but are not limited to customer
reviews, testimonials, social media posts, blog posts and others. UGC is the new word-of-mouth marketing. This content is original and can have a great influence on your business whether it is saying something positive or negative about your brand. You need to keep an open eye on your customers’ conversations and feedback on social media.
This can boost trust, authenticity and of course sales. People trust what other people say so you have to try to keep your people saying positive things about your brand.
3.User experience across devices
Well, slow websites or hard applications interfaces can be a real deal breaker with your customers!
So, yes, user experience, or UX is crucial. With everything in the world happening at great speed and ease, customers are waiting for a super easy experience and fast solutions for their problems. If you are not serving this, you will definitely be behind. Good website and app designs can encourage potential and existing customers to be loyal ones!
Remember this, your website (and/or app) is your most valuable marketing asset.
What you need to do is keep your layout simple and your landing page uncomplicated, and have an easy-to-use navigation. Use your brand colors, use appealing visuals and video content.
Most importantly, make sure your web/app design is responsive, meaning it is mobile-friendly. Everyone is checking things now on their phone.
4.Voice Search Optimization
Some years ago, it was purely science fiction to talk to robot assistants daily. Now you can ask Siri or Alexa whatever and they answer instantly. Moreover, voice search is now a very important search engine optimization (SEO) tool. It is a set of SEO techniques that can help you get your content to appear in voice search results. It is all about answering common verbal queries in your content so that you can get your page to appear to users in the voice search results. This can help ease your users experience and can help you promote a good image for your brand and it surely gives you an edge on your competitors.
5.Interactive Content
Some fun can never go wrong! Because who doesn’t love to have fun anyways?
This is surely a great way of getting way more attention and letting people have an emotional connection with your brand. Interactive content is all about a dynamic, two-way experience. Get your customers involved with your brand, let them have fun, let them laugh, engage them, don’t always let them feel like you are trying to sell something for them. Instead offer them events, games, quizzes, interactive videos and more. You can even provide information about your brand through memes!
This will surely lead to a higher engagement rate, and it can help you gather more data about your consumers which can be super beneficial for you later on. Also, this can improve your brand loyalty by spreading a good word-of-mouth.
Following these trends can help you stay ahead of your competition in the market by having your customers happy and satisfied. Also, you’ve got to keep in mind that the marketing field is changing drastically and you have to always be
up-to-date. Listen to what your customers are saying on all social media and keep an eye for what you can amend to provide better services and products.
Remark is here to let you know the newest trends and help you get the best results from your marketing activities.
