Michael Janda is an experienced agency veteran, who shares systems and strategies to help creative freelancers and agencies run their businesses with confidence and make more money.
He has written two books: The first, Burn your Portfolio all about how you can thrive as a designer in a workplace environment, and the second, The Psychology of Graphic Design Pricing on how to overcome the pricing confusion to be fairly compensated for your work.
Michael has recently left his agency to pursue his passion in business coaching and speaking, so he jumped at the chance to speak at the DMC event this August about the importance of micro-moments.
Marketing has changed over the last 8 or 9 years and we as marketers have to change as well, Michael said. He presented a construct on how to plan marketing based on micro-moments, a phrase coined by Google. Micro-moments are when people reflexively turn to their devices, usually in the smaller moments when we consume our media. These moments come in various forms, and Google puts them into 4 categories:
These are the four things people are thinking about when they pull out their phones in those reflexive micro-moments. This is a part of the buyer journey as it is now, but can also be scattered throughout what we see as the old “linear” process. How we process and consume content is changing constantly with social media and easy access to information through our smartphones.
We as marketers have to start by redefining a narrative and the brand we represent. We have to think in a different way—we can’t afford to think in a funnel. Nothing in our marketing strategy should be linear marketing anymore. It has to be adaptable content to engage with our audience. That is why it is important to have snippets of content as a part of your brand story, presented for consuming in a variety of different ways.
People don’t give you the time to consume your content. Overwhelming content gets skipped completely. In order to avoid this, you have to optimize your content in a way that gets delivered as fast as possible.
How do we market content for micro-moments? Michael outlines four steps:
In conclusion, the main points Michael wanted the DMC attendees to walk away with were: