In the Headlights, December 2, 2020: Your 2021 Marketing Challenges, Viewthrough Conversions, Dashboards - Trust Insights Marketing Analytics Consulting

Your 2021 Marketing Challenges, Viewthrough Conversions, Dashboards

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It’s that time of year again, the time when we all start looking ahead and making prognostications about what’s to come. We’ve had our own perspectives on what’s likely to happen in 2021 but let’s be real: forecasting the future is a fool’s errand in the current environment.

What is real are the challenges we face, and that’s the subject of this quarter’s 1-question survey. What are you looking at going into 2021? What’s keeping you up at night that’s work-related?

Let us know! We’ll publish an anonymized, de-identified list of what’s on your mind in our Slack group down the road, and we’ll use your feedback to create more content that specifically addresses the challenges you’re facing.

Take the survey now – it’s literally 1 question long!

In this week’s In-Ear Insights, we discuss the difference between viewthrough and clickthrough conversions and why viewthrough conversions are a dangerous metric for marketers to rely on.

Watch/listen to the most recent episode of In-Ear Insights here

Because there was no So What? episode last week due to the Thanksgiving holiday, we’re featuring the show YOU liked most: getting started with dashboards in Google Data Studio.

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This week, we’re going to look at how to conduct a UX audit using popular, free tools like Hotjar and Microsoft Clarity.

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In this week’s Rear View mirror, we’re taking a look at the marketing jobs environment. We’ve been tracking and posting jobs in our newsletter every week since the beginning of the pandemic; what have we seen for more senior marketing jobs in the United States?

What we see since April is more or less what we predicted; led by major ecommerce companies like Amazon, more senior marketing hiring jumped in the summer and then right around the start of the fourth quarter, hiring dropped by half. This mirrors the overall economy well; in the US Federal Reserve Bank’s dataset on hiring, we see a similar pattern.

The fourth quarter continues to show weakness in hiring, with declines continuing.

What should we take away from this data? For marketers who are seeking jobs, expect things to get more competitive. Fewer postings naturally means more seekers applying per posting, so step up your efforts as best as you can.

For marketers currently employed, weakness in hiring tends to mirror weakness in demand, especially for B2B marketers. When companies need fewer senior people, it generally means belt tightening. To the extent you can, incentivize deals in the pipeline to close sooner rather than later, getting ink on paper as quickly as you can.

Methodology: Trust Insights used the Indeed.com API to track 638,770 open marketing positions with manager, director, VP, president, and CMO in the job title and the jobs located in the United States. The timeframe of the data is April 15, 2020 – December 1, 2020. The date of study is December 2, 2020. Trust Insights is the sole sponsor of the study and neither gave nor received compensation for data used, beyond applicable service fees to software vendors, and declares no competing interests.

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Get Back To Work

We’ve changed things up in Get Back To Work, and we’re looking at the top 310 metro areas in the United States by population. This will give you a much better sense of what the overall market looks like, and will cover companies hiring in multiple locations. Want the entire, raw list? Join our Slack group!

What do you do with this information?

By looking at this data, you’ll see what the most popular titles are; use any of the major job/career sites to ensure your resume/CV/LinkedIn profile matches keywords and phrases for those titles. For companies, search job sites for those companies specifically to see all the open positions and apply for them.

You can also hit up LinkedIn and see who you know at companies listed, and see if your connections have any inside tips on hiring.

Top Marketing Positions by Count, Manager and Above

Marketing Manager : 327 open positions
Digital Marketing Manager : 215 open positions
Social Media Manager : 120 open positions
Account Manager : 106 open positions
Director of Marketing : 100 open positions
Marketing Director : 75 open positions
Demand Generation Manager : 66 open positions
Product Marketing Manager : 55 open positions
Project Manager : 55 open positions
Product Manager : 49 open positions

Top Marketing Hiring Companies by Count, Manager and Above

Pearson : 129 open positions
Amazon.com Services LLC : 105 open positions
Google : 89 open positions
Deloitte : 73 open positions
Thermo Fisher Scientific : 45 open positions
Symphonic Digital, LLC : 36 open positions
Facebook : 34 open positions
New Relic : 33 open positions
Microsoft : 32 open positions
Cozymeal : 31 open positions

Top Locations of Hiring Companies by Count, Manager and Above

New York, NY : 480 open positions
San Francisco, CA : 296 open positions
Austin, TX : 285 open positions
Seattle, WA : 278 open positions
Chicago, IL : 237 open positions
Remote, NA : 232 open positions
Boston, MA : 210 open positions
Atlanta, GA : 199 open positions
Los Angeles, CA : 173 open positions
Nashville, TN : 143 open positions

Methodology: Trust Insights uses the Indeed.com API to extract open positions from a geographic area focused on marketing analytics, marketing, social media, data science, machine learning, advertising, and public relations, with a filter to screen out the most junior positions.

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Agorapulse Twitter Summit, November 2020, virtual
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