Is yours a digitally born business? What? You haven’t yet embraced your brand?
In the past, digitally native businesses found their first success without a brand: In fact, many Silicon Valley companies didn’t even use the “B” word. Conventional VC wisdom, in fact, supported a model where entrepreneur would take the lowest salary possible, live on the future promise of their equity stake, put all their money into your engineers and their UX designers, code a killer...
4 ways to reach a new target audience without abandoning your old one
Four strategies to reach a new demographic without changing what current customers already love about your company. For 56 years, Häagen-Dazs had a consistent message: high-quality, old-fashioned ice cream for sale. But that’s changed: Thanks largely to millennials, the company recently refreshed its brand with a revised logo, more vibrant packaging, new flavors and a global advertising...
How to measure the success of your digital marketing: key areas to examine
Some of world’s greatest natural born leaders—from presidents and prime ministers to CEOs and industrial tycoons—spend hours writing and rehearsing speeches in order to captivate audiences and steal hearts around the world. But then something completely unforeseen happens. They reach the podium, the applause dies down, and they start delivering their address. Seconds turn into minutes, and...
Confessions of a marketing automation addict
Marketing automation is the future for digital marketers. But Mary Wallace, a columnist and marketing automation junkie, explains why in-person events and direct mail still have their place in the marketing mix. Let me get this out of the way: I’m a technology geek and a marketing aficionado. I adore working with marketing automation to drive business. The bright thrill of success bubbles over...
How digital transformation can improve customer engagement
Digital transformation has been at the forefront of many business discussions over the past several years. There is a growing need for digital innovation that can bring a company closer to an agile environment, and new technologies have the power to do so. It might seem like the move towards a world run by technology and automation would make brands more distant from the consumers it used to...
A guide to getting the most out of your content marketing
By engaging visitors, you build trust, which makes it easier to snag qualified leads and close sales. As content curators and marketers strive to keep up with this rapidly evolving industry, it is critical to produce pieces that both resonate with the audience and provide a return on investment. By engaging visitors, you build trust, which makes it easier to snag qualified leads and close...
Programmatic advertising on stronger footing
THE programmatic advertising market is gaining momentum as more marketers are buying ad space digitally with the fast-changing digital landscape. Programmatic buying is the algorithmic purchase and sale of advertising space in real time. During this process, software is used to automate the buying, placement and optimisation of media inventory via a bidding system. According to Zenith Media’s...
4 reasons why digital context matters
In a digital and programmatic world, it’s easy to lose sight of context. Contributor Peter Minnium explains why context matters and why it will lead marketers to the Holy Grail of the right ad message in the right place every time. “I’m shocked, shocked to find that my ads are running adjacent to questionable content!” Just as it defies credibility that good Captain Renault was...
Programmatic Ads and how to improve the CTR
Using software to purchase digital advertising (online display, social media advertising, mobile and video campaigns etc.) isn’t new, though many companies are still learning the nuances of how to make this advertising approach pay off. Very often, even when an audience is very precisely defined, programmatic campaigns do not always play out as advertisers expect. Properly setting expectations...