Using an analogy from astrophysics, Fishkin illustrated that the greatest challenge faced by digital marketers within an information inundated environment, is becoming “signal rather than noise.” Rand’s presentation provided a number of simple, practical ways to achieve this objective by reaching the right audience, crafting messages to perfection and harnessing the power of early adoption.

Fishkin said, “While people's brains are working hard to filter out the hundreds of thousands of unwanted messages, the marketer’s job is to overcome that galactic scale of information overload and become a signal. The channels, tools and opportunities that are available to marketers for tracking, measuring and improving have advanced massively. But our challenge – to break through the noise – has scaled even faster.”

Fishkin’s presentation includes valuable insights for digital marketers across the board. The video, produced by World Wide Creative, can be viewed here.

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