As recently as a few years ago, influencer marketing was still considered an edgy tactic for many brands. Fast-forward to today, and the practice of partnering with social media creators has basically become commonplace — and a proven method of boosting brand awareness and driving sales among consumers.
It’s no secret that online reviews are the go-to knowledge base for consumers. No one is more qualified to inform a potential customer about a product than another customer. Because of the widespread success of these systems, quite a lot of companies have considered investing in an online review system that will inform and educate users based on past customers’ experiences.
Most commercial enterprises consider October the official start of the holiday season. Both Halloween and Christmas offer great opportunities for businesses to start the wheels of industry turning on their marketing endeavors.
In addition to finally getting to visit Brooklyn’s hot new Industry City complex, the Youth Marketing Summit was a chance to hear from some of the industry’s top experts on what Gen Z was up to and how best to market to them, something that is of particular interest to a changing television industry.
There’s no other way to say it: If you’re doing influencer marketing in 2019, there’s a decent chance it sucks. And it’s time for an honest conversation.
Many traditional marketers see search engine optimization (SEO) and social media as trying to do the same thing, but approaching it in different ways. The crucial point to remember is that they both have the same goal in mind — marketing the business to the consumer. Search engines have already started indexing public social media posts, meaning that SEO could very well apply on social media as well.
What makes a successful business-to-business (B2B) content marketing strategy different from marketing directly to consumers? At its core, every content marketing strategy includes the same elements of defining goals and establishing key performance indicators (KPIs), but a B2B strategy comes with its own unique set of challenges.
If you have happy customers and a good product, you might think that’s enough to have an effective marketing campaign. However, in order to be truly effective, you also need to have customers reviewing and recommending your products or services.
The early 2000s brought about the beginning of the “mommy blogging” trend, a time when online conversation between new mothers provided much-needed support and advice. Before I founded my agency, I had my own blog, as did the women who eventually went on to become my business partners. We relied on this relatively new platform to share our daily ups and downs and forge important relationships that, in many cases, have lasted to this day.
If there’s a topic that attracts nearly as much buzz as influencer marketing, it’s user-generated content (UGC). Wikipedia defines UGC as “any form of content, such as images, videos, text and audio, that have been posted by users on online platforms.” But when we’re viewing this topic through a marketing lens, we can think of UGC as any content related to a brand that is voluntarily produced by its customers.
According to a recent study by Hubspot, when it comes to getting information from and about the companies they’re interested in, consumers prefer videos over every other type of content. In addition to its popularity with consumers, video offers flexibility: Companies can choose scripted videos or livestreaming, can post to multiple channels, and can repurpose video content depending on the venue or target audience.
A study has shown that significantly more than half of consumers will patronize—or avoid—businesses that share their social and political viewpoints. In addition to wanting to attract “values-based” consumers, many business leaders want to join the conversations around causes they believe in.