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When STOCK Restaurant opened in early 2012, they set up basic Facebook and Twitter profiles looking to establish a strong online presence. But with no clear social strategy or framework to analyze the success of their social efforts, STOCK’s social media presence had minimal activity and growth.
STOCK wanted to drive new customers through the doors of their brand new restaurant and recognized they needed help in building a strong and effective social presence. They turned to Tent Social for their expertise on social media and marketing....
The 70:20:10 ruleTo borrow another popular concept, I would suggest thinking 70:20:10 makes sense. 70% of your marketing is the planned ‘marketing as usual’ activity. 20% of your marketing should be programmatic.I described this in more depth in a previous article but it is marketing that is more rules-driven and automated in response to various stimuli; so it is not planned, but it is responsive, and, typically, machine-driven and executed.10% of your marketing is purely responsive Oreo-style. For this you typically need people resource available....
Even if you’ve spent countless hours and dedicated resources to developing a thorough social media marketing strategy, you may find that you have overlooked some small, yet critical elements that could end up handicapping your efforts. For this reason, it’s always a good idea to get a second set of eyes to look over your internet marketing strategy, particularly a social media agency (heck, even having a friend look over it may dig up some missing elements).Mashable recently shared some of the most common elements missing from a social media marketing strategy. Check out some of these oversights below to see if your strategy needs some tweaking:...
The success of mobile as an advertising medium depends on shifting people’s perceptions about what advertising looks like....
According to new research, the performance of the Mobile Rising Stars is the strongest evidence that creative ad formats far outshine traditional banner advertising.
The study compared the same advertising creative from cookie manufacturer OREO, displayed in both traditional banner and the six new Mobile Rising Stars formats such as the “Slider” and the “Film Strip”,The study compared the ad interaction and brand uplift of static banners with Mobile Rising Star formats, which provide a mix of in-content, expandable, pushdown and overlay advertising, all incorporating rich media functions.
The standout finding from the research, for me, concerned brand recall: almost every user (98%) who viewed a Mobile Rising Star ad recalled the name of the brand advertised – almost a fifth more than those who viewed the standard mobile banner ad.Furthermore, those who interacted with a Rising Star ad were 23% more likely to recall the brand messaging than those who viewed a traditional static banner. This is powerful evidence that consumers want to be able to control whether or not they initiate and interact with ads....
We have always maintained that digital marketing does not exist in isolation. It is part of the bigger whole that is marketing. But digital has undeniably brought new aspects to that whole. So what if we were to reconstitute marketing as it is today with digital and classic fully fused? What would that look like?
Here follows our Modern Marketing Manifesto with its suggested twelve constituents. Its aim is to outline why we believe marketing is increasingly valuable and to define what it is to be a modern marketer....
‘We beat internet prices’ – good or bad marketing slogan? According to Forrester analyst Adam Silverman, such claims are ‘antiquated and add little value to customers’. “Instead of simply stating you beat your competitor’s prices, employing strategic pricing and customer engagement initiatives creates real distinct value to your customer,” he said.
So what are the numbers? After just two years the numbers are in and they are compelling, but not many people are aware of the penetration and popularity of Google plus. - 602 million registered users - 359 million monthly active users - according to a GlobalWebIndex study Its active users base grew by 33% from June 2012 through to March 2013.
Marketing is always about fishing where the fish are and Google+ has a lot of fish
8 reasons to consider marketing with Google+
With most marketers comfortable with using Facebook for their primary social media marketing tactics they quite often don’t see the other opportunities. Here are some compelling reasons to register a Google+ plus page to complement your Facebook page, your social media and digital marketing activities....
Social media has a problem and it needs to be addressed now. The truth is that a majority of social media strategies employed by some of the best brands out there aren't linking activity to business ROI...
What are the 7 Success Factors? There's a difference between a social media and social business strategy. Social media are the channels where information and people are connected via two-way platforms. Social media strategy defines programs specific to networks and the corresponding activity within and around each. Altimeter's definition of a successful Social Business Strategy (SBS) is one that aligns with the strategic business goals and has alignment and support throughout the organization.
You don't need to get the book to learn what the most advanced companies learned to prioritize. Following are the 7 aspects each shared to successfully champion and scale social media through the organization and earn executive support along the way...
Developing a deep knowledge of your ideal customer, a concept known in the marketing realm as buyer persona profiling, is critical to increasing the relevance of your efforts.
What the Heck is a Buyer Persona? A buyer persona is a vibrant profile of your company’s ideal customer. This should capture the type of person with an incredible need for your product and a love for your company; who will remain a loyal client for years, and tell all of their friends about how remarkable you are.
More technically, they’re “an example of the real person you need to influence, crafted from specialized interviews you conduct with actual buyers,” in the words of Adele Revella, a leading expert on the topic. When correctly prepared and applied, a buyer persona can help you identify the forms of messaging which will convert the right website visitors into leads, and leads into customer...
Depending on who you ask, marketing is either very simple or incredibly complex. But marketing for a small niche that is shrinking rather than growing? That’s a tough job, plain and simple.
Consider this post a sort of case study of one such company and its marketing efforts – a stationery company, to be more specific. While the company is no Dunder Mifflin, Inc., Paper Concierge does deal primarily in a sort of endangered medium. Meanwhile, in efforts to be more eco-friendly, mobile, and tech-laden, consumers are ditching paperbacks and newspapers and paperweights – I could go on, but I won’t – for decidedly un-papered electronics.
So – how do you successfully market (on and offline) for a company that sells paper products?...
Pinterest can be an incredibly valuable asset to your company's content marketing campaign.
But how can you predict what resonates with your audience? By using PinLeague’s Pinterest Analytics suite to track the pins users are connecting with, you can curate the content your audience wants.
Curate Content Marketing with PinLeague Analytics While there might not be a way to look into a crystal ball and see the secrets of creating effective content marketing, understanding your PinLeague Analytics Suite is the next best thing. By learning what categories your audience is interested in, the boards they are engaging with, the pins that drive repins and the images from your domain that catch a users eye, you can gain a better understanding of what works – and what doesn’t work – for your brand....
... Before you start jumping into all the tactical nitty gritty of marketing, it’s really helpful to understand how people operate … which is essentially what the entire field of psychology attempts to explain. Understanding some key principles in psychology can take your content from good to amazing, all because the right audience is reading and identifying with it.
Bonus: if you understand these principles and weave them into your marketing, you’ll also convert more visitors into leads, and leads into customers.Many of these psychological concepts can be used across many aspects of your marketing, but we’re just going to give one example for each. They also aren’t universal; we all know people who are outliers, do we not? With that in mind, let’s get started!...
An anonymous startup founder has created a Tumblr blog called "My Startup has 30 Days to Live."We found the blog thanks to a tweet from Monty Munford.On the site, the startup founder says : "Through a series of unfortunate events, I took a bootstrapped (and profitable) startup onto the VC rocket ship. Now it's crashing into the ground. Hard."...
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...Data included in our new UK Search Engine Marketing Benchmark Report 2013 shows that more than half of agencies (52%) now offer a ‘full range of digital marketing services’, and increase from 45% in 2012 and 42% in 2011.In comparison just 12% of agencies specialise in SEO while 7% focused exclusively on paid search. A further 10% of agencies carry out both SEO and paid search...-
Get the low-down on SlideShare's newest infuiographic feature and a few takeaways to improve your marketing.This morning, SlideShare announced an exciting new feature: users can now include fully optimized infographics on their SlideShare accounts. Before, users could technically upload infographics as a document, but the viewing player wasn't optimized properly for the content. We're thrilled about this new feature. Finally, one of the hottest types of visual content will be easy to upload, view, embed, and share from SlideShare! The best part about this update is that there's not much new to learn, and you can get right to the good stuff: a better viewer experience whenever you upload infographics to SlideShare. It's just as easy to upload your file, embed them on your blog or website, and share them on your social networks as it is with presentations....
To be successful in reaching Millennials, businesses need to give themselves the freedom to re-think their entire marketing strategy. To achieve their business objectives businesses need to communicate effectively with the values of consumers. Brands that are becoming more socially conscious today will positively affect their bottom-line, their communities, and the world of tomorrow.
In a telephone interview with David Burstein, author of "Fast Future: How the Millennial Generation is Shaping Our World," he said Millennials are highly connected to and are extremely conscious of their values. They "see the world from a values perspective," he continued, "Reaching Millennials requires a real investment [from brands and organizations] in social responsibility."...
The 'love' button may be the most-clicked on ModCloth's platform. But with $100 M in 2012 revenue, 'checkout' is a close second....
“The ‘love’ button is the most used button on our site,” ModCloth CEO Eric Koger told me this June on a visit to the East Coast from the company’s San Francisco HQ. Tuesday’s announcement that the company he founded back in 2002 with wife Susan Gregg Korger has reached $100 million in 2012 revenue makes another thing clear: the check-out button is closing in on ‘Like’ for number one.
ModCloth’s commitment to a mobile-first, unabashedly social strategy is credited with getting them to the $100 million mark according to today’s press release. According to the founders nearly a third of their traffic is same-day repeat traffic, meaning they’ve visited the site more than once a day as a result of a roll-out of a slew of social features over the past 12 months. Among them: a virtual buyer program that allows users to vote samples into production and a style gallery of user-submitted photos that’s turned the e-commerce platform into its own internal social network. Since its launch last year more than 6,000 outfit photos have been shared through the site....
In my previous article I discussed the importance of ensuring that your data is clean and processed before attempting any form of data visualisation. Here I will share some really awesome tools that (once your data is clean and ready to use) you can have at your disposal to create mind-blowing representations of the facts and figures. Here is a list of tools, some more open and adjustable than others, that add value to your raw data and can be used as a source of inspiration and design when approaching the visualisation process....
Corporations are expanding efforts for a breakthrough innovation in social media to beat the heat on the competition mapping. Usage of social media is changing enormously as days pass and so does the marketing gimmicks. So, what’s hot on the table for the second half of 2013?
Some of the TOP social media strategies to look for the rest of 2013...
...A survey conducted by Toluna and Adroit Digital revealed that consumers are influenced by social media recommendations. In total, 40 percent admitted their decisions are swayed by the reports they read on social sites, with 7 percent saying they are highly influential.
Shared social content might spark prospects’ interest, but it’s only the first step. Marketers must assume internet users are going to research products and services before converting. The survey confirms this idea, showing that around one-third of consumers buy after visiting one website, but 22 percent go to two domains and 17 percent navigate to a third before making up their minds. Content marketing gives companies a way to ensure effective messages are present at every stop along the way....
Let’s face it – there are tons of marketing tactics that boost conversions. Whether you prefer academic or anecdotal evidence, we all know that the right marketing mix is key in order for an ecommerce site to be successful.
But with so many options, you might be wondering when and where to deploy your campaigns, and more importantly, how to make them more effective.The answer is simple: Leverage the customer buying cycle.
What’s the buying cycle, you ask? In a nutshell, it’s the process that customers go through to make a purchase....
A recent study by Oglivy suggests that social media users aren’t showing advocacy or passion for most of the brands that they follow.
What I want to do in this post is take a look at the research behind that assertion and posit an alternative explanation for the chasm between brand advocacy expression on social media and its expression in real life.
Methodology This study looked at between 6 and 7 million social media mentions of 22 major brands and eight feature films in four countries (United States, China, Brazil, and the United Kingdom). They assessed five product categories: coffee, hotels, fashion retail, movies, and skincare....
Professional networking service LinkedIn blasted through the 100-million-user mark in March, making it even more powerful for finding a job, keeping up with colleagues and promoting your resume.
LinkedIn is growing so quickly, it's adding a new member each second. As the size of its network grows, LinkedIn is steadily getting more useful. But how are people really using the fast-growing service? Researchers at Lab 42 asked 500 LinkedIn users that question and many more, and came up with a variety of answers in this infographic.
Among the fun facts they uncovered: We found it interesting the way top level executives use the service in vastly different ways from entry-level workers. Let us know in the comments how you like to use LinkedIn, or if you don't use the service, why not?...
As these social video apps mature, marketers are starting to see them as valuable tool. Results ahead?
When the world first heard of Vine, the social video service that lets users post six-second videos to the Internet, not many brands could see the potential in its app. But much to marketers’ surprise, it’s started to make a noticeable impact on their business. With consumers more savvy about evading advertising than ever before, it’s important for companies to find new ways to get their message across. Here’s how a few brands have successfully gained a new audience through these quick video snippets:
... comes pre-populated with over 200,000 news sources, blogs, and social media accounts. You can set filters, and import your own feeds, including the Twitter handles you follow (I recommend @SocialMktgFella for really good news on San Francisco tech trends), as well. All this makes for a singular place to quickly survey relevant news and content, to be editorialized and curated for distribution through your blog, email, or preferred social media channels including Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn.
The platform just got better today, as ContentGems and HootSuite announced a new integration. The new app brings powerful content curation capability to what's become the leading social media management(SMM platform. And like the way Hootsuite has a free tier service so social media novices and light users can enjoy the tool, ContentGems now offers the same....
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Excellent case study. Discover the 3 essential steps that Tent Social took to measure social media ROI with Trump's STOCK Restaurant. Note the chocolate shoes. Tasty!