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Get a Crappy Present? Zappos Will Trade You a $100 Gift Card and Give the Gift to Charity

Get a Crappy Present? Zappos Will Trade You a $100 Gift Card and Give the Gift to Charity | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Face it, we all end up with the occasional unwanted gift, and returning them can often be more trouble than it's worth. But Zappos is trying to fix that.


For the first 500 callers to (800) 927-7671 between 11 a.m. and 11 p.m. Eastern on Saturday, Dec. 26, the online retailer will offer a $100 Zappos gift card in exchange for any unwanted present you might have received, regardless of where it was purchased.  


If you're one of the lucky 500, Zappos will send you a pre-paid return label that you can use to mail in the gift (which still needs to be in its original packaging).... 

Jeff Domansky's insight:

This is a very innovative promotion designed to get lots of chatter online.

Julie Wright's curator insight, December 26, 2015 1:34 PM

Clever. Return an unwanted gift and get a $100 gift certificate from Zappos. 

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Six Ways to Supercharge your Contests with Social Media

Six Ways to Supercharge your Contests with Social Media | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Social media contests: Discover how Intuit QuickBooks used social media to supercharge their contest, promoting their mission and vision to their audience.


Do you want to promote your company’s mission and vision to your target audience?


Are you wondering how to get the most out of your contests with social media?


In this article you’ll discover how Intuit QuickBooks used social media to supercharge their Small Business Big Game contest, promoting their mission and vision to their target audience....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Great tips and an excellent social marketing case study.

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How Celebrities Make Money From Social When They're Not Paid to Tweet

How Celebrities Make Money From Social When They're Not Paid to Tweet | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Stars like Kim Kardashian are still routinely paid five figures for a single tweet promoting a product, but how else can they carve out a profit from millions of social-media followers?


Luigi Picarazzi is president of Digital Media Management, a 25-person shop in Los Angeles that's dedicated to helping stars answer that question. The company focuses on securing deals with brands to do content integrations on celebrity websites, deals such as Mattel getting a writeup in Felicity Huffman's WhatTheFlicka.com; Vidal Sassoon represented in a Vanessa Hudgens Tumblr post with a #selfie photo of her curls; and Kate Walsh giving tips on running a small business in a post sponsored by financial planning service Learnvest .)


The company also works with an ad-tech vendor called Bre.ad that can show a full-page ad to users upon entering or exiting a site, or from links posted to social-media accounts. (Bre.ad shares ad revenue with its celebrity and publisher clients; its CEO Alan Chan says that some clients are making as much as $20,000 a month.)...

Jeff Domansky's insight:
Really interesting look inside the business of social media and celebrity endorsements.
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Brogurt? Yogurt For Men: A Review | NPR

Brogurt? Yogurt For Men: A Review | NPR | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
A company called Powerful Yogurt is now selling what it calls "the first yogurt in the U.S. designed for a man's health and nutrition needs." The Sandwich Monday gang gives it a very manly taste test.

 

Last week on Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me, we talked about a new yogurt for men, or brogurt, from a company called Powerful Yogurt. Here's what our panelist, comedian Jessi Klein, had to say about it:

"If male yogurt marketing is anywhere near as annoying as female yogurt marketing, you are in for a treat. Every female yogurt commercial is basically like women in a wedding dress just petting a kitten and eating yogurt."

Powerful sent us a crate of the stuff this week. It arrived as all manly products do, carried by a Navy Seal who then punches it into your face....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

And in marketing news, this just in...

 

Brogurt...

 

Yogurt for men.

 

Imagine. NFL Sundays with carrot sticks and brogurt dip? Or not! Doh!

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Brands Jump the Sharknado With Whirlwind of Fishy Pun Tweets | AdWeek

Brands Jump the Sharknado With Whirlwind of Fishy Pun Tweets | AdWeek | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
Don't act surprised. You knew it was coming, and the brands knew it was coming. The bad-on-purpose Sharknado 2: The Second One premiered last night on Syfy, and people watched it.
Jeff Domansky's insight:

It's not to late for your brand to Jump the Sharknado 2 too! ;-)

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Customer experience extends far beyond customer service

Customer experience extends far beyond customer service | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

How clients interact with a brand has changed significantly. Now the customer experience extends far beyond customer service, and so it should....


If you didn’t know better you could be forgiven for thinking that the line was for an über cool nightclub. World class underground House music is pumping from the speakers and there is a doorman looking after the crowd outside. Unlike a nightclub doorman though, he is offering free gelato taste tests to help ease the decision making process once inside.


Even if you can’t make it to Surry Hills or Darlinghurst on a chilli winters night, the customer experience extends across the globe via their popular Facebook page. Messina’s Facebook audience enjoys (amongst other things) a personalized level of social media customer service that makes them feel like they are part of the brand. I guess you get the idea. Messina is nailing their customer experience.Forrester Research’s study ‘The State Of Customer Experience Management‘ suggests that over 90 percent of companies rate customer experience as a top priority moving ahead.


So what separates customer experience from customer service and what can your business do to improve your customer experience?...

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Here's a great case study and how one gelato maker takes customer experience to a business building high.

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Epic Facebook meltdown, PR fail or publicity ploy? | The PR Coach

Epic Facebook meltdown, PR fail or publicity ploy? | The PR Coach | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Owner Samy threatens diner after 90 min wait for pizza"

 

You're about to witness one of the biggest social media meltdowns and PR fails in the short recorded history of the Internet. The big question is was it all a staged publicity stunt?

 

It all happened on the season finale of chef Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares.

Jeff Domansky's insight:

It happened Monday on the Facebook page for Scottsdale, Arizona’s Amy’s Baking Company Bakery Boutique & Bistro. It's either an epic social media screw up or a very clever publicity campaign creatively managed to gain a big payback from the viral nature of social media. 

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