Join Us for a Webinar on Personalization in Local Marketing
Personalization remains an elusive challenge for marketers in 2014. Join us for a webinar on August 5th with Ian Michiels from Gleanster Research to learn more.
Choosing Tactics for Your Content Marketing
In our last post, we explored what it takes to become effective at content marketing. Now that your mind is filled with amazing content ideas that reflect your brand and will no doubt engage your audience, a new question arises… How will I package and deliver this content to my audience?
Becoming an Effective Content Marketer
What makes an effective content marketer? It’s not all about the writing, that’s for sure…
NFL Season Kickoff: How Social Media Marketing Has Changed NFL TV Advertising
The NFL season may be kicking off now, but brand advertisers are already deep in the planning for the end of the season: Super Bowl Sunday. However, TV advertising during the Super Bowl isn’t the same as it was 10 years ago. Social media has left its mark on Super Bowl advertising, and if a brand isn’t taking advantage of the social media channel as part of their Super Bowl advertising strategy, they are missing a tremendous opportunity. The Super Bowl advertising strategy serves as great proof of the contemporary, multi-channel marketing approach.
The One Key Skill Great Marketers Have
Marketers come from a wide variety of backgrounds. But there’s one common unifying skill that separates the best marketers from the rest of the pack. Ultimately, geat marketers see the trends and adjust their efforts accordingly while maintaining an approach rooted in fundamental marketing theory.
Do Marketers & Salespeople Ruin Everything?
During last week’s LIMRA-LOMA Social Media Conference, one of the key points that keynote speaker Gary Vaynerchuk made was that marketers & salespeople ruin everything. By everything, Vaynerchuk is referring to the dynamics of a marketing channel, and that channels lose their cool factor once they are discovered by marketers & salespeople. Does history support his viewpoint?
Gary Vaynerchuk’s LIMRA/LOMA Social Media Conference Speech Broken Down
Gary Vaynerchuk’s speech at this week Social Media Conference packed in a lot of value about the current state of marketing. He believes that all companies are media companies and that plumbing is a central idea to present day marketing. Find out more about these ideas.
Millennials Represent Opportunity For Insurance & Financial Services Companies
Life Health Pro recently featured an article that stated that nearly 70% of Millennials have no retirement plan. For as long as I can remember, I have seen advice articles about the importance in starting young in saving for retirement. Millennials (often considered the children born in the 1980s and first half of the 1990s) haven’t been perceiving the importance through their own behaviors. It’s not entirely the fault of the Millennials though. The age cohort has been disproportionately affected by the economic environment of the past 5-6 years at a key time in their careers. Statistics and anecdotes of Read More
How Relevant is Customer Engagement?
Customer engagement is a hot button topic for a lot of brands. Most marketing managers desire their brands to be on the forefront of the minds of their target consumers. New data from Korn/Ferry International indicates that customer engagement keeps the majority of marketing executives (52 percent) awake at night. The characterization of “awake at night” could have been phrased in the way that it was for sensationalistic impact, but the fact of the matter is that marketing executives concern themselves with the concept of engagement and metrics that measure it. In fact, 30% of Korn/Ferry survey respondents cited Read More
Why Online Customer Reviews Are So Powerful
Marketing Charts cited data published by BrightLocal.com indicating that 8 in 10 say that they trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations. While this statistic alone has meaning, I would rather see a statistic that demonstrates a behavior based on online reviews. Nevertheless, having positive online reviews is something that companies should desire. Looking at the other side of the equation, avoiding negative reviews should be an objective that is taken seriously. The Internet has sped up the word of mouth process, which has been a fundamental part of marketing communication for as long as the discipline has existed. Read More
