As the importance of digital media in influencing and supporting purchase increases, companies face many new management challenges to integrate E-commerce and digital marketing into their marketing activities. This interview and survey-based research report assesses for a range of medium to large UK organisations:
- Common issues and challenges faced by managers responsible for digital marketing
- Different strategies and best practice approaches to meet these challenges
- Practical solutions to these challenges
- A typical stage model of development in E-commerce capability
Results:
- A 5 stage capability maturity model for E-commerce has been defined which enables organisations to benchmark their E-commerce capability with other organisations
- 20 best practice recommendations have been identified with detailed checklists of approaches to consider
Key questions answered:
- How important is E-commerce as a channel now, and in 5 years?
- What is the potential for capability improvements?
- How is E-commerce organisationally located and controlled?
- How should you structure an digital marketing team?
- How do companies plan for E-commerce?
- What are the biggest challenges facing E-commerce managers?
- How much do companies spend on E-commerce as a % of their marcomms budgets?
Author: Dave Chaffey, E-Consultancy
More information: website
Price: paid report (250 euro)
