Ecommerce is (still) the next frontier for influencer marketing
The pandemic has disrupted the influencer marketing industry—but don’t throw out the rulebook just yet. Most of the changes are accelerations of pre-existing trends, rather than transformative shifts in the market. Sensitivities around the topic of the coronavirus have heightened the importance of brand- and relationship-building. Demand for sales-oriented influencer marketing, too, has...
Influencer marketing: 6 tips for working with opinion leaders
When running your business online, working with opinion leaders is a crucial part of your success. Due to the popularity and significance of social media platforms, the people that have created a following for themselves can also play a significant role in marketing your brand. Social media influencers can help you reach your target audience and promote your products and services a lot more...
How to become a leadership influencer
Executive brands are evolving through the power of expertise, authority and trust. You’re probably sick of hearing about influencers these days and how all it takes to become one is amassing a relevant social following, whether that’s at a micro-level of a few thousand social followers or fans in the millions. However, marketing yourself to simply gather a large number of followers actually...
The 3 types of freedom affluent shoppers are craving
By tapping into a rich person’s need to give up some control in order to eliminate stress, you can make your target market happy and improve sales. Find out how. There are, I think, three kinds of liberty: day-to-day liberty, lifestyle liberty and mental or emotional liberty. I’d like you to consider each one as something you may be able to deliver through your products, services or...
Going out of style? Revamp your brand with this marketing strategy.
You can use these three tactics to revitalize your brand’s relevancy through experiential marketing. Your brand is your company’s identity, and it’s built upon perceptions. Through visual representation, storytelling and statements of purpose, you elevate your brand to something more than a product or service. But when a brand starts to stagnate, bold stakeholders and partners need to...
The fundamentals of influencer marketing
Influencer marketing is the opportunity to have an influencer, someone with authority, market you. The influencer promotes your brand, increases your exposure to their audience, and ultimately helps you sell more products (or gain new customers). The promotion by an influencer is created either entirely by them or with your help, and the content can be in the form of a: Social media post Blog...
Six ways to improve convenience store advertising campaigns
Whether you’re a manager at a large national chain of convenience stores or heading up a local family business, it’s important that your advertising budget is wisely spent. A badly run advertising campaign will not only be a waste of carefully guarded company funds, but may also damage your company’s reputation. Here are six ways you can improve your current, and future, convenience store...
4 better ways to showcase testimonials for your business
Make your existing customers your company’s best salespeople. Case studies and client testimonials can provide a huge boost to your conversion of new customers and your bottom line. They often prove essential for establishing credibility and a sense of stability. A couple years ago, VWO and WikiJob performed a basic A/B test to gauge the effectiveness of client testimonials. They found...
Influencer marketing for B2B: 4 examples that prove it can work
While it might seem like influencer marketing works harder for B2C brands, the opportunities for B2B brands certainly exist — you just need to know where to look. Influencer marketing has been a growing trend in digital marketing over the past few years, and it’s only gaining momentum in 2017. B2C brands have historically been the most eager adopters of influencer marketing, and many B2B...