Micro-Influencers: What’s All The Buzz About?
Influencer marketing involves engaging influential people to share a brand’s story through their content. It can be executed in the form of brand spokespersons, celebrity endorsements, testimonials, and any other content that qualifies as social proof. Let’s dive into some of the benefits of micro-influencer marketing and evaluate how you can best leverage this technique.
Influencers, The Election, and How To Keep Everything Straight
Young voter turnout is expected to reach an all-time high in this 2020 election - so connecting with this group is absolutely essential. Having candidates tap into the power of brands and influencers to get their platforms noticed is a must.
The Influence of Fake News on Marketing
Fake news — intentionally misleading misinformation dressed up like legitimate news — is changing the way consumers look at brands. More importantly, it's changing how willing they are to trust them.
How Brands Promote Social Responsibility
In response to new consumer buying habits, brands can no longer stand apart from social movements and activism. Instead, they have to be the change through rebranding and intentional efforts, or they risk serious criticism.
Advertising Adaptation Through Times Of Social Change
Now, many corporations have diversity and inclusion measures in place to increase brand strength and perception. Moreover, companies face increased pressure to adapt due to a young, diverse, and high-spending generation fed up with overt racism.
Video Marketing & Conversion Rates
In the age of Instagram, optic-pleasing marketing is more valuable than ever. However, it can be difficult to navigate this new marketing territory and produce content that leads to a significant turnover.
Labor Day: Brands With Tactful Content Campaigns
Today, Labor Day is synonymous with bbqs, beach parties, and bonfires — but the historical significance of the holiday stretches far beyond a three-day party weekend.
Using Collaborations Strategically To Scale Your Business
Henry Ford once said, ‘Coming together is the beginning, staying together progress, and working together success.’ To this day, Ford’s assertion has remained true, especially when it comes to collaborative marketing.
How Rich Media Enhances Your Content Strategy
A static banner at the top of a page? We’re all too used to seeing that. Chances are, you’ve become accustomed to scrolling right past one. But what if we told you that you can add sound and touch, and allow users to shake, tap, or swipe on a screen to interact with content? Those interactive elements are what we call rich media.
Mobile Marketing: Trends for 2021
In 2019, mobile subscriptions outnumbered the global population. In 2020, users spent more time on mobile than on any other medium. And by 2021, mobile content consumption is expected to reach nearly 4 hours a day in the U.S.
The Importance Of Loyalty Programs
If you’re like most businesses, 80% of your sales come from just 20% of your customers. It’s those loyal customers who perpetuate the company and help it maintain its profits. From airlines offering frequent fliers deals to telecommunications companies lowering their fees to get more volume, companies in just about every industry use loyalty programs to some extent.
Why Photography Is An Essential Element In A Brand Marketing Strategy
Great photography is important — so important, it can be the difference between closing a sale and losing a customer. With the proliferation of online shopping, product photography is something that has become especially vital to the buyer’s journey.
The Convergence Of Marketing & The Internet Of Things (IoT)
Data is extremely valuable for knowing your customers, gauging your business success, and informing future decisions. Whether customer interactions happen online or offline, they generate digital data. It’s the Internet of Things (IoT) that puts this data to use.
How To Find Your Target Audience For Guaranteed Success
One of the first things a marketer needs to figure out is who in the world they are marketing to. And as much as you’d like to believe it, “everyone” is not a target audience — not to mention, no company can afford to market to everyone.
Perfect & Scale Your Virtual Event Marketing
The shift to digital events has made “virtual event marketing” a new buzzword. It's become so prevalent that 51% of marketing professionals think that virtual event marketing will become a norm post-pandemic. But event organizers, sponsors, and exhibitors are challenged by a unique differentiator of live events: the increased level of commitment.
Creating Brand Hype With A Teaser Marketing Campaign
True to its name, a teaser marketing campaign is designed to share just enough information to build anticipation around a product launch, future event, new feature, or recent company update. Also known as a pre-launch campaign, a teaser campaign offers up a series of clues that leaves consumers eager to learn more. It’s equivalent to a “coming soon” page on a website.
Best Practices for Creative Mobile Ads
Today’s mobile ads are far more diverse than static banner ads of earlier years. From new trends in augmented reality (AR) to more flexible design formats, mobile ads will have more influence than ever before.
If you’re a media buyer, it’s time to take advantage of the rich data points that mobile marketing can offer in terms of targeting, ROI, and a better ad experience.
The Summer of Lockdown: How Marketers Have Shifted Gears
Original budgets have been flip-flopped, and planned campaigns have been scrapped for more time-sensitive ones. What’s more, marketers are hard at work staying ahead of consumer behaviors brought on by months of quarantine and social distancing guidelines. Still, more than half of advertisers plan to ramp up ad spending for this quarter.
Fourth of July Marketing: A Look At The Most Inspired Campaigns
Nothing screams summer and fun in the sun like the greatest holiday in American history — you may know it as Independence Day, the Fourth of the July, or the largest fireworks celebration of the year.
And while your 2020 celebration may not include crowded firework shows, neighborhood pool parties, and big family BBQs, people will nonetheless take this day to celebrate our great country’s independence.
The State of CPG Brands: Getting Creative As In-Store Shopping Decreases
How do you imitate the convenience of browsing vast aisles of inventory without a physical presence? Or the experience of seeing, feeling, and smelling various products to make a purchasing decision? Due to the coronavirus pandemic, these are questions brands have had to navigate over the past couple of months.