Steve Farnsworth, CMO at The Steveology Group, shared his thoughts on the changing role of marketers in a recent video interview with Jeff Pedowitz. Jeff asked if marketing executives were changing how they organized their teams around content. Steve replied: “Not yet, unfortunately, not as much as I think will happen. When you look at small organizations doing content, while they have the flexibility and agility to do it, they don’t tend to have the skill sets, maturity or the bandwidth to pull it all together. In the big organizations they tend to fall into this thing where they have experts; they hired experts in their fields. And so the PR person tends to focus on the PR stuff, and the social media person focuses on the social media stuff and so on. Even the editor who does a lot of the content isn’t tying what they do, based on the analytics, into the revenue goals. So its not quite coming together yet and I think its a challenge. You are going to see more flat organizations, and organizations that are less siloed because everybody is being judged on the same outcome and being forced to work more in groups. We still have a long ways to go in blending the art and science of marketing.”
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