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Never Waste an Opportunity: The Value of Lead Nurturingby Sookie Shuen
When new visitors arrive at your website, you have two ways to seize the opportunity and guide them toward becoming customers. Both opportunities can evaporate in the blink of an eye—if you don't have the proper systems in place.
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Follow AMEX's Example of a Successful Facebook Campaignby Kimberly Smith
Sure, Facebook promotions can get you some "Likes," but is that all there is? Learn how American Express's Israel division used Facebook to gain valuable customer insight and deepen brand engagement.
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Evolving the Customer Experience With Mobile Technologyby Nathan Pettyjohn
Retailers, marketers, and service providers are at an ideal point to capitalize on a massive opportunity to elevate the classic brick-and-mortar shopper experience by embracing emerging mobile technologies. Don't miss the opportunity to use these budding technologies to evolve the ...
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Seven Reasons Why Leading With Price Will Kill Your Advertising, Your Branded Offers—and Your Companyby Dan Hill
Leading with price in your messaging suggests your brand has nothing else to say or show for itself. And that's not good for a host of reasons.
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Strategy First When Integrating Social Media and Direct Marketingby Debra Ellis
The path to social-media success is filled with sinkholes that cost you time and relationships. Clearly defining your plan, documenting the process and details, and revising the plan as needed is the difference between profitable social-media engagement and being just ...
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How to Identify Brand Loyalists on Your Email Listby Karen Talavera
On any email list, there will be three populations: those who love you, those who like you, and those who are just hanging in there. This article focuses on by far the most appealing sector: the people who love you. ...
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Why 'Free' Text Messages Will Cement Mobile as a Critical Component of the Marketing Mixby Matt Silk
With short message service (SMS) reaching 5 billion mobile phones around the world, marketers can no longer ignore the significance of texting as a marketing channel. Some consumers, however, are hesitant to take advantage of those mobile marketing programs, in ...
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Building Loyalty and Corporate Profitability in Eight Productive Stepsby Dianne Durkin
It's no secret that loyal employees are the driving force behind solid, stable, and profitable companies, whereas unhappy, disgruntled, and disloyal employees can quickly bring any company to its knees. Companies that lack employee commitment can change their culture and ...
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The Promises and Pitfalls of Translating Marketing Content by Swamy Viswanathan
When you're marketing to global audiences, your messages must be accurate, concise, and targeted to establish consumer trust and brand loyalty. Satisfied customers often result in repeat purchases and increased return on investment (ROI). That is where translating marketing content ...
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Tap the Power of Customer Feedbackby Carolyn Hall
In 2010, there is no excuse for keeping your marketing insight languishing in a silo, away from your core business processes. Thanks to today's Web-based technologies, you have an unprecedented number of opportunities to generate real business value from such ...
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What Stonyfield, Method, and Green Mountain Roasters Know (and You Should, Too) by Ted Mininni
New vision and approaches can add significantly more value to brands over their competitors. Some brands can easily become commodities. Unless they choose otherwise.
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What Every CMO Should Know About Musicby Ruth Simmons
Sir John Hegarty, the man behind the Levi's jeans and Lynx deodorant ads, once claimed, "Music is 50% of an ad's success." Yet even today very few metrics are regularly applied within the planning and creative processes to measure the ...
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Marketing Is So Much More Than Promotion: Just Visit My Hairdresserby Barbara Bix
What can marketers learn from the smallest of small businesses, a hair salon? You might be surprised: Here is a story of an integrated-marketing and client-service approach that any business would do well to emulate.
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Brand-Building: The Limits of Engagementby Joel Rubinson
Suppose you learned that most of your brand's buyers are switchers: that only 15% of your customers are highly loyal to your brand and account for maybe half of sales. The harsh reality is that that's a typical pattern for ...
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13 Essential Social-Media 'Listening Tools'by Clay McDaniel
You're a marketer who's hip to the idea of social media: You have a blog, you know Facebook inside and out, and you can Tweet with the best of them. But the big question is, Are you listening as well ...
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Suiting Up for Customer Loyalty: Email That Fitsby Stephanie Miller
For every email marketer who has ever heard an executive say, "Email generates revenue, just send more email," this one is for you. Most email marketers care about their subscribers and want to provide a good experience. But sometimes, business ...
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Micro Branding—Macro Resultsby Martin Lindstrom
The better you are at involving your customers in the philosophy of your brand, the better they'll understand why you're special.
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Eight Steps to Creating Brand Evangelists
by Mack CollierJust as sports teams have fans, brands have evangelists. And just as each fan feels a sense of ownership in the team, a brand evangelist has that same sense of ownership in the brand. That sense of ownership gives brand ...
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Overlooked Brand Components—Every Touchpoint Counts, Especially These
by Elaine FogelAs marketers, we often spend considerable time on developing creative logos and brand identities for our companies or organizations. We may ensure our Web site is well designed and easy to navigate, and our marketing collateral is top-notch. We may ...
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Are You in the Mood? Why a Good Mood Affects Profitability
by Debbie MacInnis