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business?</h3> <p>Many digital or ‘e-marketing’ models have emerged over the last decade. Partly in response to the introduction of the digital era, and partly as a result of new disruptive methods of marketing.</p> <p class="p1">We believe that models are powerful 'mindtools' to help marketers use a more strategic approach to improve their digital marketing when they create plans to exploit digital marketing.</p> <p class="p1">The guide lists 10 useful models the authors, Annmarie Hanlon and Dr. Dave Chaffey, use in their teaching and books. It is structured in sections for digital audits, planning and strategy. Digital marketing models are useful ways to structure your efforts and can help you tease out insights where you previously were unable to.</p> <p>As with our companion <span class="s1"><a href="https://www.smartinsights.com/guides/essential-marketing-models/" data-wpel-link="internal">Essential Marketing Models</a> guide</span>, this guide explains the fundamentals of each digital model, how it works, and gives examples of how to use each model along with best practice advice and templates to use in your business.</p> <h3>How is this guide structured?</h3> <p>This guide is broken down into 3 main sections which the 10 different marketing models fit into. These are:</p> <p><strong>Audit Models </strong></p> <ul> <li>Forrester’s 5Is</li> <li>Lauterborn’s 4Cs</li> <li>Ten Cs of Marketing</li> </ul> <p><strong>Planning models </strong></p> <ul> <li>6Cs of customer motivation</li> <li>Hofacker’s 5 stages of information processing</li> <li>RACE Planning Framework</li> <li>Technology acceptance model</li> </ul> <p><strong>Strategy models</strong></p> <ul> <li>4Cs for marketing communications</li> <li>McKinsey’s consumer decision journey</li> <li>The Honeycomb model</li> </ul> <p>For each model we explain what it is, who originated it, how to apply it and give examples of how it can be used.</p> <h3>Latest updates</h3> <p>This content is generally evergreen, but has been updated in 2024 to reflect recent digital changes and features updated examples to ease understanding.</p> <h3>Resource Details</h3> <ul> <li><b>Authors: </b>Annmarie Hanlon and Dr. Dave Chaffey</li> <li><strong>Editor:</strong> Amelia Cooper, Smart Insights</li> <li><b>Format:</b> Downloadable PDF e-book</li> <li><strong>Companion guide:</strong> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.smartinsights.com/guides/essential-marketing-models/" data-wpel-link="internal">Essential marketing models guide</a> – Discover how to use classic marketing models and planning tools to inform your marketing strategy</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h4>About the authors</h4> <p><strong>Annmarie Hanlon</strong></p> <p><img decoding="async" style="padding-right: 10px;" src="https://www.smartinsights.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/annmarie-hanlon-134px.jpg" alt="Annmarie Hanlon" width="134" height="134" align="left" /></p> <p>Annmarie Hanlon is the Smart Insights expert commentator on online and offline marketing strategies for business. Annmarie is the MD of <a href="http://www.evonomie.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external">Evonomie </a>and author of Quick Win Marketing, and co-author of <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-win-digital-marketing/id355870514?mt=8" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external">Quick Win Digital Marketing</a>. She runs social media workshops in the UK and Ireland and shares marketing tips and news in her blog, <a href="https://business2businessmarketing.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external">B2B Marketing</a>. 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