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Digital marketing offers greater opportunities for businesses over the next year than more traditional channels, according to a new report. When asked to identify which three marketing channels offer the greatest opportunities, half of brands (50%) mentioned social media followed by email (43%) and websites (35%).In fact the top 10 most cited channels are all online, with the most popular offline channel being direct mail at 8%....
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When it comes to marketing trends, social rules according to a research study that looked at what marketers will be doing in the next year.. 
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The catch phrase of 2013 seems to be “Big Data” – the concept of how massive amounts of strategic data collection (can you say “google”), analysis and targeting can generate huge ROI for businesses. I’ve written how I believe technology for marketers has finally caught up (technology-wise and cost-effectiveness) to where “lazy marketing” is no longer a valid excuse.
Do you know which of your marketing channels are bringing in the most customers? In today’s multi-channel world, it can be tough to tell. Generating engaging content marketing media is already tough enough – we need tools and processes to know what’s working and what’s not in order to maximize ROI. Savvy marketers know and use closed-loop analytics tools to measure, analyze, and act on the performance of all the elements of their marketing, from blogs to social media, landing pages to leads, and calls-to-action to email marketing and more.
Take a look at the infographic/study below, conducted by the gurus at SEOmoz. The standout takeaway: “….lastly, it turns out that 60.2% of marketers are looking for analysis options, as well as other analytics options, in their social media management tools”. This comes as no surprise. When savvy social media marketers are communicating their messages online, they want to know exactly how those efforts are benefiting them by analyzing whether each social strategy is connecting to their end goal: revenue….” …and how do your social media channels stack up against your blogs, videos email touches and landing pages?...
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How do you measure up in your social marketing? Useful tips and tactics.
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Investing time and money on social media is necessary for all types of businesses nowadays. Here are nine examples of small businesses using social media for branding. Social media is the new way for the word to spread: from product recommendations to advice on what to do, where to go, and what to do. From little conversations that mean nothing to meaningful revelations that could change lives, from stupid pictures to inspiring profiles – social media has it all. Customers have the final word now. News gets out faster. Other users and buyers are now the trusted sources. Social conversations are now the holy grail of business reputation management. Social media is social proof that materializes quickly. Small businesses are indeed tapping into the power of social media....
Jeff Domansky's comment,
April 23, 2013 2:46 PM
Nine superb lessons from small businesses who get "social."
Victoria Clark's curator insight,
September 15, 2013 11:44 PM
This article provides information that proves that all the various types of brands and companies use social media and networking, such as Facebook and Twitter, to promote their cause or business. It also shows that the successful businesses and brands, particularly the smaller ones, use imagery that is both effective and enticing to the consumer as well as ensuring that they are consistently updating their social media sites to ensure they both obtain and retain their consumers attention. Updating regularly and using enticing and effective imagery has proven to be effective as the small businesses mentioned in this article are quite popular on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter; thus they have marketed their brand well within their consumers.
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We've all read that social-media ROI is weaker than other traditional marketing channels. Recently, social media came under fire again in an articles in which Unilever aired their concerns in Marketing Magazine.
Unilever marketing teams are questioning the logic of shifting big budgets to social media, when the equivalent spent on in-store promotions can deliver an ROI up to 50% higher. This statement suggests a lot about the mindset of some marketers who work for big companies.
Social media has been developing for about a decade, but these marketers still miss the point. Consumers are no longer passive targets that you can simply feed with coupons and vouchers. People want their purchases to be inspired by stories that matter. And they're even ready to trust brands to tell their stories, if brands are sincere. They want to know how a brand is trying to change the world. Naive? Maybe. But, maybe not....
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Good insight into social media ROI...
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...Today a new entrant into that ecosystem is creating a lot of buzz with what may be the greatest launch strategy since Gmail. The Mailbox App has been featured in media for the past several weeks and its launch teaser video has already been viewed more than 2 million times in less than two months (see below). What makes their launch strategy so good? The product looks great, but like Gmail – it is the decisions they have made about HOW to launch the product that are helping fuel so much excitement.
Here are a few of their smart choices that you might be able to learn from...
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Rohit Bhargava looks at a well-designed marketing launch by Mailbox App. Good lessons.
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The web has made media a complicated, jargon-filled world. Marketers need a way to simplify it....
... In the past short while, we have seen a rise in new ways for advertisers to connect with consumers like never before. We're also seeing an increasing amount of media budgets shifting from traditional channels to digital advertising. You can't throw a marketer down a flight of stairs these days without hearing terms like real-time bidding, big data, retargeting and native advertising tumbling off of his tongue. It's beginning to make social media, mobile marketing and plain-old digital advertising seem somewhat antiquated.
So, where do you, the business leader, place those ad dollars? Do you spend them with the latest and greatest shiny object? Do you stick to your traditional guns? Do you sprinkle them around in the hopes of hitting the jackpot on the advertising table of roulette? What we need is a framework that helps us transcend the many different ways that consumers are connecting with brands and lets us see the bigger picture....
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Although social media has been around for a few years, plenty of businesses and entrepreneurs still get it wrong. When planning your social marketing strategy and being active on social channels, avoid these 5 common content mistakes....
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Sometimes you come across really useful case studies. Here are four that you can use for inspiration in your own social marketing.
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Video apps: Discover 5 video apps to boost your online engagement and market your business....
Do you want to use videos to market your business? Are you wondering if there are simple mobile apps to make this possible? In this article I’ll review five mobile video apps and share how they can boost your online engagement.
Why Mobile Video? Vine, Twitter’s mobile video app, has business and marketing professionals considering the numerous ways video apps can be used to increase engagement.
Ekaterina Walter, social innovator at Intel and author of Think Like Zuck, recently predicted that “2013 will be the year of visual marketing”. Walter based this prediction, in part, on the fact that “…visuals and video done right are highly effective in cutting through the noise.”
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There's no question business needs to look at ways to use video in its social marketing programs. Engagement is higher, leading to better return on investment.
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Modern marketing success requires more than great commercials. Outside of live televised events, advertising is easy to avoid. People can skip ads, and 46% of American homes are now equipped with DVRs. The on-demand life is only becoming more on-demand.
Dish Network's Hopper with Sling DVR lets you skip ads entirely, and technically won Best in Show at CES this year. Netflix just released David Fincher's new original series, "House of Cards," to much fanfare, and instead of following the traditional release model, made all thirteen episodes available at once: when, where, how you want it, and ad-free.
As Mary Meeker pointed out in her presentation on the state of the internet, digital is disrupting virtually every aspect of life — from photography to entertainment to education to transportation to shopping to publishing to the very concept of ownership. You name it. Advertisers have to imagine more and more scenarios in which traditional ads just don't have a place anymore. We need to invent new models and find new ways to connect with consumers around the content they love....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
This is a thoughtful post and a good read for marketing, advertising and PR pros.
Craig Slepsky's comment,
February 26, 2013 10:16 AM
New ideas in advertising is needed. America's media is ready for the 'next big thing'.
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It would be interesting to gather data at the end of 2014 to see how closely the prediction matched reality....
Is the socialization of life enforcing herd instinct ?
Digitial Marketing simply cannot be ignore any longer!