Who Will You Find On a Social Network?
If your brand is not maintaining a strong presence on the major social networks at a bare minimum, your brand is missing great opportunities to achieve greater success. The majority of online Americans used social media in 2012, according to the Pew Center’s Internet & American Life Project published last week. 67% of all Internet users are using at least one social media site (including 71% of women), and amongst those 18-29, 83% use. The Pew report measured social media activity on 5 social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). Certainly there’s some overlap, as there are many people Read More
Where’s the ROI in Social Media? (Part One)
The topic of ROI in social media is one that seems to be constantly on the minds of marketers in a variety of industries. If you type “social media ROI” into Google, there are approximately 24,300,000 results. There’s good reason for such a high number of results. According to a September 2011 post on the Digital Buzz Blog website… 96% are starting to look beyond sales goals and web metrics to identify the value of social marketing efforts 76% of businesses are using social networking for business objectives 64% of marketers are integrating social media into their marketing plans Since Read More
Distributed Marketing Organizations Need An Extreme Makeover
This year’s LIMRA Distribution Conference theme “Extreme Makeover” highlights the need for organizations to rethink their sales, marketing, education and recruiting strategies to adapt to the new ways local agents and consumers communicate, learn and buy today. This call from LIMRA, a financial services and insurance association, should not be limited to only the industries it serves. Just about any industry that leverages a local marketing and sales model (e.g., financial services, insurance, franchise, hospitality, healthcare, telecom, etc.) needs to heed the same call and also consider a makeover of their sales and marketing strategies and supporting technologies. Gleanster Research Read More
Local Marketing & Local Content Optimization Rank High In 2013
According to The CMO Council, over 61% of marketers surveyed ranked the need to better localize content and messaging a high priority in 2013. The shift to a more local marketing messaging tactic has certainly been heavily influenced by the social media revolution as consumers and prospects look for recommendations from trusted sources within their local communities and networks. An organizations ability to execute effective local marketing campaigns will be critical in 2013 as relevance and personalization of content are now more important than ever. Marketers face a real challenge moving to more of a local marketing mindset due to Read More
Anatomy of a Distributed Marketing Platform
Distributed marketing technologies were primarily introduced five years ago to address the challenges distributed organizations face when selling and marketing their products and services through local channels (independent agents, franchisee, resellers, etc.). However, many of the same challenges faced by distributed marketing organizations now apply to almost all organizations. Today, just about all organizations face the same challenges associated with managing, optimizing and distributing content across channels and throughout various layers of the organization (sales, partners, regional offices, etc.). (Of note, “The Rise of Distributed Marketing” is a great video that explains this in more detail). As multi-channel distributed marketing Read More
Top Distributed Marketing Articles For 2012 (1-5)
As a continuation from our last blog, we are now ready to list the top 5 distributed marketing articles of 2012. Numerous topics such as multi-channel marketing, marketing automation, social media marketing and big data certainly grabbed the lion share of marketing strategy headlines in 2012. Take those juggernaut headline topics and combine them with a rising marketing strategy such as distributed marketing and now you’ve really got everyone’s attention! Given this, it comes as no surprise to the content writers at DistributedMarketing.org that the following articles were among our top five. (Drumroll please……) The top articles of 2012 are (as calculated by Read More
Top Distributed Marketing Articles For 2012 (6-10)
We analyze and provide insights for lots of industry research at DistributedMarketing.org, and based upon everything we are reading, 2013 will be a very exciting year. Marketing budgets are expected to rise with a substantial increase in spending directed towards digital marketing and other marketing technology software investments. There certainly will be plenty to write about in the upcoming year as many marketers look to adopt new technology platforms to better connect their organizations with their customers and prospects. But before we begin looking forward and planning for next year, let’s reflect on all the great content generated and shared Read More
Distributed Marketing On Behalf Of Local Agents
Gleanster recently surveyed over 135 distributed marketing organizations and found that over 93% indicated their largest challenge was balancing the conflicting needs of local marketers and corporate marketing. Top performing companies surveyed were 7x more likely to have implemented a distributed marketing software platform to overcome this challenge and better connect corporate and local marketing initiatives. In a similar study, the Aberdeen Group found that over 22% of top performing distributed marketing organizations leveraged distributed marketing software platforms to execute “On Behalf Of Marketing” tactics. So, what is On Behalf Of Marketing and how can it benefit your organization? Tim Storer, Read More
Why A Distributed Marketing Platform Is Critical For Big Data Vision
If your like most marketers your currently being inundated with messages, publications and advertisements about Big Data and how it’s going to transform the way you do business. With the amount of data a business collects expecting to increase over 650% during the next five years the one thing that just about everyone agrees on is that there is certainly no shortage of data. Having access to data is one thing, but being able to get meaningful insight in order to put that data to use is often something entirely different. So, what is Big Data and what does your Read More
Distributed Marketing Software Platform Solves Social Media Challenges
Just about all marketers now agree that social media can no longer be ignored. In fact, over the last few months the social media statistics we recently published are already grossly outdated (in that time, Facebook went from 900 million users to now over one billion). Growth like this makes it easy to understand why over 65% of marketers are planning to integrate social media into their marketing mix in 2013. However, for organizations that leverage a distributed marketing and local sales model (e.g., financial services, insurance, franchise, hospitality, healthcare, telecom, etc.) the percentage of marketers planning to integrate social Read More
