8 Social Media Trends to Watch for the Rest of 2019Arik Hanson
In this short presentation, Arik discusses 8 social media trends to watch for the rest of 2019 backed up with stats and case studies, and ideas on how to best take advantage of these trends in your day-to-day work.
Growth hacking is a marketing technique used by startups that focuses on creativity, data analysis, and social metrics to gain customers and exposure. It involves rapidly testing ideas through prototypes and measuring results to iterate quickly. Some key aspects of growth hacking include having an awesome product, thinking creatively, understanding viral growth loops, seeking major changes not just improvements, and being prepared to fail many times. Successful growth hacking examples include LinkedIn allowing public profiles to boost search engine results, YouTube making it easy to embed videos, and Airbnb contacting people with listings on Craigslist. Qualities of a good growth hacker include problem-solving skills, ambition, understanding users, discipline, coding ability, and bravery in testing bold ideas.
Growth Hacking / Marketing 101: It's about processRuben Hamilius
Growth hacking is a marketing technique used by startups that focuses on low-cost and innovative alternatives to traditional marketing. It involves using creativity, analytics, and social metrics to sell products and gain exposure through techniques like SEO, website analytics, content marketing, and A/B testing. Growth hackers prioritize growth over budgets by analyzing the customer acquisition funnel to identify opportunities to improve conversion rates at each stage - acquisition, activation, retention, revenue, and referrals. The goal is to brainstorm experiments, prioritize ideas, develop hypotheses, test changes, and systematize optimized processes into a repeatable "growth machine" approach focused on continuous improvement.
Taking your Tourism Social Content Strategy to the Next LevelArik Hanson
In this short presentation Arik Hanson gave at the Explore MN Tourism Conference on Feb. 6, 2019, he talks about tips and strategies tourism organizations can take to move their content game to the next level.
Growth hacking is a set of tactics and best practices used to optimize user growth and movement through the user lifecycle stages of acquisition, activation, retention, referral, and revenue. The document outlines Hotmail's viral growth strategy of adding "PS: I love you" messages to emails, discusses mapping the user journey and measuring conversions at each stage, and provides examples of growth hacking tactics like incentivizing referrals and optimizing landing pages through A/B testing.
This document discusses growth hacking strategies used by early internet companies like Hotmail to achieve rapid growth. It defines growth hacking as a set of tactics and best practices for acquiring, activating, and retaining users. Some key tactics discussed include viral growth, A/B testing landing pages, optimizing the user lifecycle funnel, and identifying bottlenecks. The document provides examples of notable growth hacks from companies like Dropbox, Path, and Eventbrite.
8 Social Media Trends to Watch for the Rest of 2019Arik Hanson
In this short presentation, Arik discusses 8 social media trends to watch for the rest of 2019 backed up with stats and case studies, and ideas on how to best take advantage of these trends in your day-to-day work.
Growth hacking is a marketing technique used by startups that focuses on creativity, data analysis, and social metrics to gain customers and exposure. It involves rapidly testing ideas through prototypes and measuring results to iterate quickly. Some key aspects of growth hacking include having an awesome product, thinking creatively, understanding viral growth loops, seeking major changes not just improvements, and being prepared to fail many times. Successful growth hacking examples include LinkedIn allowing public profiles to boost search engine results, YouTube making it easy to embed videos, and Airbnb contacting people with listings on Craigslist. Qualities of a good growth hacker include problem-solving skills, ambition, understanding users, discipline, coding ability, and bravery in testing bold ideas.
Growth Hacking / Marketing 101: It's about processRuben Hamilius
Growth hacking is a marketing technique used by startups that focuses on low-cost and innovative alternatives to traditional marketing. It involves using creativity, analytics, and social metrics to sell products and gain exposure through techniques like SEO, website analytics, content marketing, and A/B testing. Growth hackers prioritize growth over budgets by analyzing the customer acquisition funnel to identify opportunities to improve conversion rates at each stage - acquisition, activation, retention, revenue, and referrals. The goal is to brainstorm experiments, prioritize ideas, develop hypotheses, test changes, and systematize optimized processes into a repeatable "growth machine" approach focused on continuous improvement.
Taking your Tourism Social Content Strategy to the Next LevelArik Hanson
In this short presentation Arik Hanson gave at the Explore MN Tourism Conference on Feb. 6, 2019, he talks about tips and strategies tourism organizations can take to move their content game to the next level.
Growth hacking is a set of tactics and best practices used to optimize user growth and movement through the user lifecycle stages of acquisition, activation, retention, referral, and revenue. The document outlines Hotmail's viral growth strategy of adding "PS: I love you" messages to emails, discusses mapping the user journey and measuring conversions at each stage, and provides examples of growth hacking tactics like incentivizing referrals and optimizing landing pages through A/B testing.
This document discusses growth hacking strategies used by early internet companies like Hotmail to achieve rapid growth. It defines growth hacking as a set of tactics and best practices for acquiring, activating, and retaining users. Some key tactics discussed include viral growth, A/B testing landing pages, optimizing the user lifecycle funnel, and identifying bottlenecks. The document provides examples of notable growth hacks from companies like Dropbox, Path, and Eventbrite.
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Digital Marketers - Tops Tips for 2015!Digital Annexe
Seven top tips on how to improve your digital marketing for 2015.
First presented at DA University conference in November 2014 by Sean Singleton of Digital Annexe.
How to spend your first $10K in paid marketing for startupsAndrew Artz
Find out how to use custom audiences of Facebook to drive 10x improvements in your customer acquisition strategy. This deck goes into depth on how you can setup Facebook's custom audiences product for your audience and use page post engagement ads to sow the seeds of a novel strategy. This deck was prepared by Andy Artz, Partner at Social Capital. See www.socialcapital.com for more about us.
34 Essential Content Marketing Statistics to Guide You to Success in 2017Maria Milenkova
This document presented statistics from various sources about the use and effectiveness of content marketing among B2B businesses. It showed that most B2B marketers use content marketing and find it effective for generating leads and traffic. Specific findings included that businesses that blog get 67% more leads, content marketing improves conversion rates by nearly 6 times, and the use of visuals increases willingness to read by 80%.
This document discusses how to leverage data from event mobile apps and technologies like beacons and NFC to drive event marketing decisions. It explains how collecting online and offline data through these technologies can help increase targeted conversions, educate attendees more effectively, and create more engaging communities. Specific metrics that can be measured include session attendance, interactions with partners, social media engagement, and tracking of an attendee's journey to identify influencers.
Inbound Marketing Works: Spend 60% Less on Lead Gen - HubSpot, Kirsten KnippOnline Marketing Summit
Inbound Marketing Works: Spend 60% Less on Lead Gen
Thousands of companies have proven that you can generate leads and drive sales at a 60% lower cost using inbound marketing to attract and convert customers. Hear success stories and learn specific tips on using blogs, social media, SEO, lead nurturing and analytics together as an inbound marketing strategy for radically improved marketing.
* Kirsten Knipp, Director of Product Evangelism, HubSpot (@kirstenpetra)
How to Grow Your Startup With a $0 Marketing Budget #startconSujan Patel
This document provides tips for growing a startup with a $0 marketing budget. It recommends focusing on the top 3 growth channels and understanding your customer funnel and weaknesses. The agenda outlines prelaunch marketing tactics like creating a landing page and building an audience. Launch marketing tips include launching on Product Hunt and retargeting customers. Grown up marketing involves thanking customers, asking for feedback and referrals, and remembering the 5 scalable growth channels.
While some aspects of influencer marketing like campaign tracking and reporting can be automated, automation will not solve fundamental inefficiencies in how an influencer strategy is developed and executed. Any automation must be built on top of efficient processes and should aim to enhance and amplify efforts, not replace crucial human judgment, evaluation and relationships.
Paragraph 1: Bill Gates cautioned that automation applied to an inefficient operation will only magnify its problems. Before looking to platforms and tools, companies must critically examine how they identify influencers, create campaigns, measure success and learn from failures. Automation cannot fix a faulty strategy
Customer 2.0 - Inbound Marketing with InsideView and Customer ThinkHubSpot
Inbound Marketing:Helping Customers to Find You discusses how inbound marketing is a better strategy than outbound marketing. It summarizes that inbound marketing involves creating useful content and optimizing websites to attract organic visitors from search engines and social media, rather than interrupting potential customers with ads. The document recommends businesses publish blogs, videos, photos and other content to build their authority online and attract links from other websites to improve search engine rankings. It also stresses the importance of calls to action and designing websites to easily guide visitors through the customer journey from initial interest to conversion.
The Gift that Keeps on Giving: How Can You Turn Mobile Holiday Shoppers into ...Branch
The 31 days encompassing last year’s holiday season delivered over 20% of the total $4.8 trillion 2016 U.S. retail spend. And, mobile users accounted for 65% of visits and 30% of sales over 2017’s Thanksgiving & Black Friday.
So what can be done to harness the juggernaut of mobile shopping in the last two weeks before Christmas? Is it too late to make a strategic plan?
The National Retail Federation reports that up to 40% of the holiday spend happens in the 10 days before Christmas. So no, it’s definitely not too late to take action for 2017 - nor is it too early to start thinking about a strategic plan for 2018.
By understanding the latest mobile shopping trends and your customer journey, you can not only spur holiday sales with user engagement, but also use sales to boost user acquisition and retention throughout the next year.
In this webinar presented by Branch and RetailMeNot, you’ll learn:
-How holidays impact consumer behaviors online, and what that means for your mobile acquisition, retention, and re-engagement strategy
-How to leverage the holidays to fuel all-year growth
-How to improve your customer experience to retain those holiday shoppers in 2018 and beyond
-How to make the most of the last 2 weeks before Christmas
Branchout 2017 - Day 1 Session - Amanda GoetzBranch
Driving Agile Mobile Innovations Across Departments - The Role of Product Marketing
By Amanda Goetz, Head of Consumer & Product Marketing at The Knot
Product Marketing is a critical, strategic role but still wildly misunderstood and underutilized across but everything you need to know about working with Product Marketing you learned in Preschool. Join XO Group's (flagship brand - The Knot) Head of Product Marketing to learn 5 proven strategies to work effectively with your Product Marketer to benefit your mobile-minded organization and increase user acquisition, retention and grow brand equity.
Achieving Measurable Results with Advanced Business BloggingHubSpot
This document summarizes a presentation about achieving measurable results with advanced business blogging. Some key points include:
- Inbound marketing is more effective than outbound marketing and leads generated through inbound methods cost 60% less.
- Blogging is an important part of an inbound marketing strategy to drive SEO through content creation and link building. Proper blogging best practices, promotion on social media, and conversion of traffic to leads are discussed.
- Metrics for measuring blog success include conversions from traffic to leads/sales, subscriptions, pageviews, comments, and inbound links. Both the blog and larger marketing funnel should be measured.
The document discusses Avinash Kaushik's recommendation that applause rate, conversation rate, and amplification rate are the best social media metrics for measuring engagement. It defines each metric and explains that TrueSocialMetrics, a social media analytics tool, was inspired by and tracks these metrics across various social media platforms to help users measure real active engagement with their content and identify influential users.
You can make your site work better for your business TODAY. Read on to learn why you should rethink your redesign strategy and get started with web content management first.
This document provides an overview of a digital marketing bootcamp presented by Ceci Dadisman. The bootcamp covers optimizing an organization's digital marketing ecosystem, including websites, social media, and email. It provides tips on creating customer personas and optimizing a website's navigation, typography, and content. For email marketing, the bootcamp discusses design, subject lines, and the difference between newsletters and eblasts. Finally, it addresses best practices for content and advertising on social media. The bootcamp includes examples, data, and recommendations for tools to use.
7 Tactics to Boost Your Digital Marketing Conversion RatesAnne Marie Dono
The document provides 7 tactics for boosting digital conversions: 1) Listen to clients and prospects, 2) Use clear call-to-action buttons, 3) Simplify content ruthlessly, 4) Personalize experiences for individual users, 5) Reduce choices to avoid overwhelming users, 6) Ensure pages load fast, and 7) Create immersive digital experiences that mimic real-world interactions. It encourages testing tactics using A/B testing and emphasizes prioritizing tests and running them long enough to achieve statistical significance.
The Convergence Imperative: Why Search Requires Social Media & PR To Be Succe...Elasticity
The Convergence Imperative: Why Search Requires Social Media & PR To Be Successful. Presentation from Elasticity given by Partner Andrew Barnett at IABC Omaha in October 2013. Why search requires social media and public relations to be successful in 2014 and beyond.
Discomfort is the mother of all conversion killers.
The chief conversion officer: the copywriter.
Appealing to a desire that already exists.
You need to get your customer to agree this is the time and place to take action.
You need to get your customer into a comfort zone.
When readers don’t feel good, they’re gone.
Lack of trust Mystery Common Causes of Discomfort
The key to overcoming confusion is clarity.
Write a clear headline.
We have a disconnect Twitter ad Landing page
A clear connection Twitter ad Landing page
The key to overcoming distraction is focus.
Keep it simple. An effective web page has one job to do.
Landing page: Get the form filled
Build your case
Write what needs to be written. Don’t count characters, but make every character count.
Overcome apathy by making sure nothing begins to feel optional, less urgent. irrelevant.
Application: A selling proposition articulates how your offer applies to the reader’s needs.
Benefits: Answers the question: what’s in it for me? How to __________________ .
An example of how to (blank)
Context: Qualify and disqualify.
Difference: What can you deliver unlike anyone else?
Emotions: Tap into pleasures and pains with power words.
Context: marketers Difference: focused budgeting Emotions: love
You can’t bore people into buying. If attention is the web’s golden goose, boredom is its rotten egg.
Make it fun. • Lighten up • Tell a story • Push emotional buttons • Ask questions • Introduce characters • Speak to memories, values, dreams • Use your sense of humor • And remember who you are talking about… The reader
Your copy stops working when it feels like work.
Mystery Common Causes of Discomfort
Desire - Friction = Conversion rate Give readers what they are looking for: ease.
Introduce ease. • Shortcuts • Fast tracks • Templates • Cheat sheets • Checklists • Assure readers you’re leading them down the fast and easy path
Reduce risk. • “What if” always lingers in the reader's mind • Introduce safety nets • Address fears with reasons to be fearless
Write conversationally. • Casual • Caring • Direct • Simple • Break rules
We talk too much like marketers because we’re not listening to our customers.
Develop pathological empathy for your customer. ~ Ann Handley Empathize
Use first and second person voice.
Actual landing page: marketing jargon
My fix: voice of the customer
The source of the headline idea comes from a customer testimonial.
Actual landing page: marketing jargon
My fix: voice of the customer
The source of the headline idea comes from a customer testimonial.
Offer proof.
Give your reader ultra-clear directions.
One choice wins.
Use compelling verbs. Start… Try… Reserve… Buy… Get
If you’re not creating a landing page, you’re creating a leading page.
No beating around the bush here, just 27 kickass growth hacking tools with a complete breakdown of why we like each one and how much they cost.
I want to give you exactly the information you need, and none of the fluff you don't.
These 27 growth hacking tools are split into six sections:
Email Marketing, Social Media, Marketing Automation, Browser Plugins, Sales Funnel and Miscellaneous Favorites
We all know the balance of power has shifted and the buyer now holds all the cards. What does this really mean for marketing? How can you sell to today's buyer? What's love got to do with it? This presentation will try to change your view of marketing and your mindset of how to approach generating more revenue through inbound marketing. Read it now, for the love of marketing!
In this presentation, Arik talks about nine trends EVERYONE is talking about. Followed by 9 trends fewer people are talking about--but trends that may end up completely reshaping the PR and marketing industries.
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Digital Marketers - Tops Tips for 2015!Digital Annexe
Seven top tips on how to improve your digital marketing for 2015.
First presented at DA University conference in November 2014 by Sean Singleton of Digital Annexe.
How to spend your first $10K in paid marketing for startupsAndrew Artz
Find out how to use custom audiences of Facebook to drive 10x improvements in your customer acquisition strategy. This deck goes into depth on how you can setup Facebook's custom audiences product for your audience and use page post engagement ads to sow the seeds of a novel strategy. This deck was prepared by Andy Artz, Partner at Social Capital. See www.socialcapital.com for more about us.
34 Essential Content Marketing Statistics to Guide You to Success in 2017Maria Milenkova
This document presented statistics from various sources about the use and effectiveness of content marketing among B2B businesses. It showed that most B2B marketers use content marketing and find it effective for generating leads and traffic. Specific findings included that businesses that blog get 67% more leads, content marketing improves conversion rates by nearly 6 times, and the use of visuals increases willingness to read by 80%.
This document discusses how to leverage data from event mobile apps and technologies like beacons and NFC to drive event marketing decisions. It explains how collecting online and offline data through these technologies can help increase targeted conversions, educate attendees more effectively, and create more engaging communities. Specific metrics that can be measured include session attendance, interactions with partners, social media engagement, and tracking of an attendee's journey to identify influencers.
Inbound Marketing Works: Spend 60% Less on Lead Gen - HubSpot, Kirsten KnippOnline Marketing Summit
Inbound Marketing Works: Spend 60% Less on Lead Gen
Thousands of companies have proven that you can generate leads and drive sales at a 60% lower cost using inbound marketing to attract and convert customers. Hear success stories and learn specific tips on using blogs, social media, SEO, lead nurturing and analytics together as an inbound marketing strategy for radically improved marketing.
* Kirsten Knipp, Director of Product Evangelism, HubSpot (@kirstenpetra)
How to Grow Your Startup With a $0 Marketing Budget #startconSujan Patel
This document provides tips for growing a startup with a $0 marketing budget. It recommends focusing on the top 3 growth channels and understanding your customer funnel and weaknesses. The agenda outlines prelaunch marketing tactics like creating a landing page and building an audience. Launch marketing tips include launching on Product Hunt and retargeting customers. Grown up marketing involves thanking customers, asking for feedback and referrals, and remembering the 5 scalable growth channels.
While some aspects of influencer marketing like campaign tracking and reporting can be automated, automation will not solve fundamental inefficiencies in how an influencer strategy is developed and executed. Any automation must be built on top of efficient processes and should aim to enhance and amplify efforts, not replace crucial human judgment, evaluation and relationships.
Paragraph 1: Bill Gates cautioned that automation applied to an inefficient operation will only magnify its problems. Before looking to platforms and tools, companies must critically examine how they identify influencers, create campaigns, measure success and learn from failures. Automation cannot fix a faulty strategy
Customer 2.0 - Inbound Marketing with InsideView and Customer ThinkHubSpot
Inbound Marketing:Helping Customers to Find You discusses how inbound marketing is a better strategy than outbound marketing. It summarizes that inbound marketing involves creating useful content and optimizing websites to attract organic visitors from search engines and social media, rather than interrupting potential customers with ads. The document recommends businesses publish blogs, videos, photos and other content to build their authority online and attract links from other websites to improve search engine rankings. It also stresses the importance of calls to action and designing websites to easily guide visitors through the customer journey from initial interest to conversion.
The Gift that Keeps on Giving: How Can You Turn Mobile Holiday Shoppers into ...Branch
The 31 days encompassing last year’s holiday season delivered over 20% of the total $4.8 trillion 2016 U.S. retail spend. And, mobile users accounted for 65% of visits and 30% of sales over 2017’s Thanksgiving & Black Friday.
So what can be done to harness the juggernaut of mobile shopping in the last two weeks before Christmas? Is it too late to make a strategic plan?
The National Retail Federation reports that up to 40% of the holiday spend happens in the 10 days before Christmas. So no, it’s definitely not too late to take action for 2017 - nor is it too early to start thinking about a strategic plan for 2018.
By understanding the latest mobile shopping trends and your customer journey, you can not only spur holiday sales with user engagement, but also use sales to boost user acquisition and retention throughout the next year.
In this webinar presented by Branch and RetailMeNot, you’ll learn:
-How holidays impact consumer behaviors online, and what that means for your mobile acquisition, retention, and re-engagement strategy
-How to leverage the holidays to fuel all-year growth
-How to improve your customer experience to retain those holiday shoppers in 2018 and beyond
-How to make the most of the last 2 weeks before Christmas
Branchout 2017 - Day 1 Session - Amanda GoetzBranch
Driving Agile Mobile Innovations Across Departments - The Role of Product Marketing
By Amanda Goetz, Head of Consumer & Product Marketing at The Knot
Product Marketing is a critical, strategic role but still wildly misunderstood and underutilized across but everything you need to know about working with Product Marketing you learned in Preschool. Join XO Group's (flagship brand - The Knot) Head of Product Marketing to learn 5 proven strategies to work effectively with your Product Marketer to benefit your mobile-minded organization and increase user acquisition, retention and grow brand equity.
Achieving Measurable Results with Advanced Business BloggingHubSpot
This document summarizes a presentation about achieving measurable results with advanced business blogging. Some key points include:
- Inbound marketing is more effective than outbound marketing and leads generated through inbound methods cost 60% less.
- Blogging is an important part of an inbound marketing strategy to drive SEO through content creation and link building. Proper blogging best practices, promotion on social media, and conversion of traffic to leads are discussed.
- Metrics for measuring blog success include conversions from traffic to leads/sales, subscriptions, pageviews, comments, and inbound links. Both the blog and larger marketing funnel should be measured.
The document discusses Avinash Kaushik's recommendation that applause rate, conversation rate, and amplification rate are the best social media metrics for measuring engagement. It defines each metric and explains that TrueSocialMetrics, a social media analytics tool, was inspired by and tracks these metrics across various social media platforms to help users measure real active engagement with their content and identify influential users.
You can make your site work better for your business TODAY. Read on to learn why you should rethink your redesign strategy and get started with web content management first.
This document provides an overview of a digital marketing bootcamp presented by Ceci Dadisman. The bootcamp covers optimizing an organization's digital marketing ecosystem, including websites, social media, and email. It provides tips on creating customer personas and optimizing a website's navigation, typography, and content. For email marketing, the bootcamp discusses design, subject lines, and the difference between newsletters and eblasts. Finally, it addresses best practices for content and advertising on social media. The bootcamp includes examples, data, and recommendations for tools to use.
7 Tactics to Boost Your Digital Marketing Conversion RatesAnne Marie Dono
The document provides 7 tactics for boosting digital conversions: 1) Listen to clients and prospects, 2) Use clear call-to-action buttons, 3) Simplify content ruthlessly, 4) Personalize experiences for individual users, 5) Reduce choices to avoid overwhelming users, 6) Ensure pages load fast, and 7) Create immersive digital experiences that mimic real-world interactions. It encourages testing tactics using A/B testing and emphasizes prioritizing tests and running them long enough to achieve statistical significance.
The Convergence Imperative: Why Search Requires Social Media & PR To Be Succe...Elasticity
The Convergence Imperative: Why Search Requires Social Media & PR To Be Successful. Presentation from Elasticity given by Partner Andrew Barnett at IABC Omaha in October 2013. Why search requires social media and public relations to be successful in 2014 and beyond.
Discomfort is the mother of all conversion killers.
The chief conversion officer: the copywriter.
Appealing to a desire that already exists.
You need to get your customer to agree this is the time and place to take action.
You need to get your customer into a comfort zone.
When readers don’t feel good, they’re gone.
Lack of trust Mystery Common Causes of Discomfort
The key to overcoming confusion is clarity.
Write a clear headline.
We have a disconnect Twitter ad Landing page
A clear connection Twitter ad Landing page
The key to overcoming distraction is focus.
Keep it simple. An effective web page has one job to do.
Landing page: Get the form filled
Build your case
Write what needs to be written. Don’t count characters, but make every character count.
Overcome apathy by making sure nothing begins to feel optional, less urgent. irrelevant.
Application: A selling proposition articulates how your offer applies to the reader’s needs.
Benefits: Answers the question: what’s in it for me? How to __________________ .
An example of how to (blank)
Context: Qualify and disqualify.
Difference: What can you deliver unlike anyone else?
Emotions: Tap into pleasures and pains with power words.
Context: marketers Difference: focused budgeting Emotions: love
You can’t bore people into buying. If attention is the web’s golden goose, boredom is its rotten egg.
Make it fun. • Lighten up • Tell a story • Push emotional buttons • Ask questions • Introduce characters • Speak to memories, values, dreams • Use your sense of humor • And remember who you are talking about… The reader
Your copy stops working when it feels like work.
Mystery Common Causes of Discomfort
Desire - Friction = Conversion rate Give readers what they are looking for: ease.
Introduce ease. • Shortcuts • Fast tracks • Templates • Cheat sheets • Checklists • Assure readers you’re leading them down the fast and easy path
Reduce risk. • “What if” always lingers in the reader's mind • Introduce safety nets • Address fears with reasons to be fearless
Write conversationally. • Casual • Caring • Direct • Simple • Break rules
We talk too much like marketers because we’re not listening to our customers.
Develop pathological empathy for your customer. ~ Ann Handley Empathize
Use first and second person voice.
Actual landing page: marketing jargon
My fix: voice of the customer
The source of the headline idea comes from a customer testimonial.
Actual landing page: marketing jargon
My fix: voice of the customer
The source of the headline idea comes from a customer testimonial.
Offer proof.
Give your reader ultra-clear directions.
One choice wins.
Use compelling verbs. Start… Try… Reserve… Buy… Get
If you’re not creating a landing page, you’re creating a leading page.
No beating around the bush here, just 27 kickass growth hacking tools with a complete breakdown of why we like each one and how much they cost.
I want to give you exactly the information you need, and none of the fluff you don't.
These 27 growth hacking tools are split into six sections:
Email Marketing, Social Media, Marketing Automation, Browser Plugins, Sales Funnel and Miscellaneous Favorites
We all know the balance of power has shifted and the buyer now holds all the cards. What does this really mean for marketing? How can you sell to today's buyer? What's love got to do with it? This presentation will try to change your view of marketing and your mindset of how to approach generating more revenue through inbound marketing. Read it now, for the love of marketing!
In this presentation, Arik talks about nine trends EVERYONE is talking about. Followed by 9 trends fewer people are talking about--but trends that may end up completely reshaping the PR and marketing industries.
How to Build and Nurture an Effective Employer BrandArik Hanson
In this presentation Arik gave at Social Media Breakfast-Minneapolis/St Paul, he talks about how to build and maintain a strong Employer Brand using case studies as examples, including work Arik has done directly with Sleep Number over the last five years to build their Employer Brand through social media channels and content.
In this presentation I gave at Social Media Breakfast-Minneapolis/St. Paul, I take on glut of "social media trend" posts we see each year, and instead offer up more realistic social trends you can actually ACT on in 2017.
8 social media trends for government communicators in 2019Arik Hanson
1) The document discusses 8 social media trends to watch in 2019, including Instagram becoming the new social home for brands over Facebook, the rise of Instagram stories, increased scrutiny over video metrics, the impact of private social networking, a focus on niche sites like Reddit and Nextdoor, leaders driving more engagement than brand channels, the increasing use of emojis and gifs over text, and questions around whether organic reach is truly dead.
2) It provides statistics and examples to support each trend, along with recommendations for actions brands can take in 2019 in response to the trends.
This document provides guidance for social media marketing planning in 2017. It begins with an introduction and overview of the guide's contents. It then looks back at trends from 2016, such as advertising dollars moving to Google and Facebook, growing ad blocker usage, social media emerging as the new television, and the impact of Instagram stories. The document advises marketers to leverage trends like the decline of traditional television by using social media for creative, experimental content to engage audiences. It also suggests that while user-generated content on Instagram showed only slightly higher engagement, soliciting such content can help create more compelling branded content.
Boutique advertising agency delivers results (600+%) with fresh creative branding, marketing, advertising & website design. Well kept secret in San Francisco Bay Area.
This document provides an overview of social media best practices and strategies. It discusses 12 key principles for social media and focuses on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. For each platform, it covers engagement tactics, content planning, advertising and analytics. Additional topics include storytelling, influencer marketing, online tools and the importance of a consistent omnichannel strategy across all social networks and a brand's website. The goal is to generate leads, build the brand, drive awareness and traffic through social media.
Starbucks - What B2B companies can learn from their digital strategy Intendance
A look at the top online brand: Starbucks. Insight into high Starbucks use social media as a form of engagement with there customers and how it is built into their culture.
The document discusses how companies can effectively use WeChat, a popular social media platform in China, to engage customers and build brand loyalty. It emphasizes that companies should first develop a strategic plan with clear business objectives and metrics for success before launching a WeChat presence. It also stresses the importance of creating compelling, shareable content that enhances relationships rather than just broadcasting company information. The article provides examples from PwC and Costa that focus on engaging audiences through personalized, emotion-based messages rather than solely product promotions.
The document discusses how to use social media to make organizations more likeable. It provides warnings about relying too heavily on Facebook and outlines 18 ways to create an engaging social media presence, including listening to customers, defining the target audience, thinking like a customer, compelling customers to become fans, engaging in dialogue, and responding to both positive and negative comments. The document concludes with action items for organizations to apply the strategies discussed.
Let's Be Social is a social media marketing agency that specializes in Facebook ads, funnel building, and content marketing for startups, entrepreneurs and local businesses. Their target audiences are startups, entrepreneurs and local business owners. They plan to run social media campaigns on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn to build brand awareness, generate leads and make sales. Their content plan includes regular posts and live videos on each channel with calls to action. They will collaborate with influencers and run paid ads to promote content and drive traffic.
Building a Social Media Strategy Beyond FacebookChris Snider
Presentation for the Iowa School Public Relations Association Conference - Oct. 12, 2018. Find out more about future presentations on my website: https://chrissniderdesign.com/
Markitors aggregates the top social media audit tools to evaluate your social media marketing performance. Here is a social media audit example. For more information and to learn what tools we use in our audits, please visit: http://markitors.com/social-media-audit/
SEO Trends to Stay Ahead and Dominate 2016Manoj Pallai
Here are trends in the search optimization landscape and why digital marketers should pay attention.Check out these simple to implement SEO tricks that will help your digital marketing efforts in 2016 by staying ahead of everybody!
The social media audit evaluated ABC Co.'s performance on key social media platforms. It found that ABC Co. shares content daily across most platforms but engagement is low. The audit recommends focusing content by reducing frequency, diversifying posting times, and creating visual content for platforms like YouTube, Instagram and Slideshare to differentiate from competitors. High priority next steps include developing a content schedule and tailoring messages to specific platforms to better engage audiences.
How to Spot & Create Effective Influencer MarketingCarusele
Influencer marketing is on an upward trajectory with brands dramatically increasing their investments. Yet not all influencer marketing is created equal.
Hear from Jory DesJardins, co-founder and former President of BlogHer and The Virago Group, along with Jim Tobin, founder of Ignite Social Media and Carusele, as they share what they've learned watching influencer marketing change over the last decade as well as sharing tips on how to make sure your 2017 influencer marketing programs are up-to-date and effective.
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#3: Instagram Zero is here.
“Across more than 400 campaigns measured globally
with Nielsen Brand Effect, ad recall from sponsored
posts on Instagram was 2.8x higher than Nielsen’s
norms for online advertising.”
“Now, as we look to build on this momentum, we’re
focused on three key areas: Expanding ad offerings
to include action-oriented formats, enabling more
targeting capabilities, and making it easier for
businesses large and small to buy ads on
Instagram.”
* Source: Instagram
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9 Social Content Trends
• Less is the new more
• Is the corporate blog still “home base?”
• Instagram Zero is here
• Live social video—brands starting to embrace
• Emojis are ubiquitous
• LinkedIn Publishing—still wildly under-used
• The Pinterest-ification of the corporate blog
• Not all brands are jumping on Snapchat…just yet
• The rise of the content librarian
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Would he have got that traction on his corp blog? And Dave Kerpen isn’t really even that big of an “influencer?” How many people have heard of him?
You saw this post last week,right? Hank Green basically destroyed FB’s video view metric in this Medium post.
2,355 recommended it
2,365 liked it
And 80 people commented on it (including a product manager from FB)
Taco Bell made its case for the taco emoji earlier this year
You can now order pizza by using emojis for crying out loud!
And of course, Chevy introduced us to the first-ever all-emoji news release earlier this year!
But, when one of the most conservative companies on the face of the earth starts using emojis, aren’t we taking it a bit too far?
Smart: Companies using CEOs to share company messages to reach employees in a different way.
Smart: Company CEOs like AmFam’s Jack Salzwedel using LinkedIn to publish and share views to reach customers and employees (few CEOs doing this)