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...
The marketing power of rewards programs
A rewards program can help you build customer loyalty, deepen engagement and serve as a marketing benefit you can tout to attract new customers. A rewards program can help you build customer loyalty, deepen engagement and serve as a marketing benefit you can tout to attract new customers. Need proof? Research shows consumers in the United States account for more than 3 billion memberships in...
Why email marketing has lasted five times longer than your first marriage
After four decades (and counting), email marketing is still going strong. Columnist Jason Warnock discusses how brands and marketers can make the relationship last even longer. Like a marriage, email marketing is based on a relationship between two interested parties: a brand and a consumer. But while the average first marriage only lasts about eight years, email marketing has been around for...
Medium is the solution if you want to blog without any overhead
The service helps with hosting, design and building your audience. You’re on your own for a steady stream of fresh ideas HubSpot claims that it is essential for any business to blog. One of the reasons being is that B2B marketers that use blogs receive 67 percent more leads than those that do not. If you’re considering blogging but don’t want to deal with hosting, design issues and...
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...
7 ways to increase your content marketing ROI
Every successful content marketing strategy can be boiled down to two key ingredients: content creation and content promotion. While the type of content you create can vary significantly depending on your industry, the way you promote your content doesn’t vary as much — in large part because promotion comes down to one universal goal, which is getting your content in front of as many eyes as...
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...
The 7 things successful content marketers do differently
Do you ever question whether you’re doing all you can for your content strategy? Do you get the sense that your peers are outperforming you? Entrepreneurs are usually a brand’s first marketer. On average, about 28 percent of an organization’s entire marketing budget is spent on content marketing, making it one of the most significant marketing strategies in use: In fact, most proponents...
How businesses can benefit from blogging
There are many benefits of blogging for business today. In fact, blogging is critical. However, bland, run-of-the-mill blog posts won’t cut it. These are lazy and ineffective. So what is effective? Publishing informative, well-written articles that are created with strategy and customer engagement in mind. Blogging helps to: Draw online traffic. Nurture and convert customers. Keep current...