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Encourage your consumers to converse about new products or services that you offer (or don’t offer). Post product/service demos, event previews or highlights and how-to tutorials. And always remember content is king, but it is how you deliver the message that counts.
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There are many more highlights from Pubcon, but I think my biggest take-away from the conference was that this industry continues to grow rapidly. It’s like saving money; the earlier companies adopt new trends, the better they will fare in the future.
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The most important thing marketers can do is keep content relevant. Send the right message at the right place and time and use the right platform. Don’t just jump on the social media bandwagon because everyone else is. Strategies still need a content marketing blueprint.
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As for now Facebook’s facelift seems permanent. Whether botched or not, that’s up to users to decide. The goal of email marketing should be to become a conversation medium like Facebook, but if marketers want to optimize their content strategies, do the opposite of Facebook and reduce the content clutter and confusion.
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Social media provides the opportunity for market researchers to listen to and mine consumer insights, but this is not the only opportunity presented. Social media allows consumers to directly respond to the changing marketing conditions.
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Evolve or become the next fossil in the wake of social media and brand management. The days of sitting in the ivory tower on a pile of cash are over, you’ve got to be with the masses in the muck to get any kind of footing in the new business of curating the attention of [...]
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Two dimensional QR codes have been alive and abroad for several years and yet, the U.S. hasn’t quite taken to them. Customers and users still aren’t sure what to do with them or why they’re on packages and posters. The early adopters didn’t spread as quickly as other technologies that were more tangible.
Marketers must educate [...]
We all know them, the mascots of large corporations — the creepy King of Burger King (since retired), Flo with her bump-it of Progressive Insurance, Mayhem (a personal favorite) of All State Insurance and now “Peggy” of Discover Credit-Cards in his Coogi sweater (tapping into call-center nightmares and a touch of xenophobia).
The latter two fall [...]
A huge SNAFU happened a few weeks ago with two large companies, Chrysler and AFLAC, all thanks to two individual Twitter accounts.
An employee at New Media Strategies let slip an f-bomb and slammed Detroit drivers in what they thought was a personal account and turned out to be the @ChryslerAutos account. Regardless of which account [...]
Myth #1 about social media: Don’t call yourself a guru.
Never would I ever presume to be a guru but my Twitter does label me as “The Official Twitter of …”. This was first point made by HubSpot Social Media Scientist, Dan Zarrella in his webinar, “The Science of Timing“: identify yourself authoritatively so people will [...]
