We’ve been drawing on Byron Sharp’s work at the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute to help explain how brands can grow to become market leaders. Let's break down the difference between differentiation and distinctiveness, and which of the two unlocks the potential for true brand innovation.
How do brands really grow? How do brands grow in a radically disrupted internet economy? We explore brand growth in today’s digital world, with perspectives from Nicholas Lovell, Lionel Benbassat of Eurostar, and the Arena strategy team.
A Planner's Playbook - Everything I learned about planning at Miami Ad School...Sytse Kooistra
After being in advertising for 4 years, I needed some new guidance and inspiration as a strategist. And that is exactly what I found: I spent the summer of 2013 with 17 other (soon to be) planners from all over the world attending the Account Planning Bootcamp at Miami Ad School New York.
Thanks to the 38 industry heroes and instructors that shared their knowledge and coached us in those 3 months, I learned more than I ever could imagine about planning.
'A Planner's Playbook' is my attempt to summarize all that wisdom in 30 short nuggets (or plays, to stick with the metaphor of a playbook) and share it with you. I left out all the difficult frameworks and models and kept in simple by just stating, in my opinion (and in that of my instructors), what a planner should be and do.
Enjoy reading.
Workshop for Brand Leaders to help define your brand positioning statement, brand concept and organizing big idea.
https://beloved-brands.com/brand-positioning/
How do brands really grow? How do brands grow in a radically disrupted internet economy? We explore brand growth in today’s digital world, with perspectives from Nicholas Lovell, Lionel Benbassat of Eurostar, and the Arena strategy team.
A Planner's Playbook - Everything I learned about planning at Miami Ad School...Sytse Kooistra
After being in advertising for 4 years, I needed some new guidance and inspiration as a strategist. And that is exactly what I found: I spent the summer of 2013 with 17 other (soon to be) planners from all over the world attending the Account Planning Bootcamp at Miami Ad School New York.
Thanks to the 38 industry heroes and instructors that shared their knowledge and coached us in those 3 months, I learned more than I ever could imagine about planning.
'A Planner's Playbook' is my attempt to summarize all that wisdom in 30 short nuggets (or plays, to stick with the metaphor of a playbook) and share it with you. I left out all the difficult frameworks and models and kept in simple by just stating, in my opinion (and in that of my instructors), what a planner should be and do.
Enjoy reading.
Workshop for Brand Leaders to help define your brand positioning statement, brand concept and organizing big idea.
https://beloved-brands.com/brand-positioning/
60 Minute Brand Strategist: Extended and updated hard cover NOW available.Idris Mootee
This book includes the very latest thinking on branding and brand strategy. It has been published in different many languages and use by top global brands to train their brand managers. New updated hard cover version is not available from Amazon May 2013
Pls view in full screen mode. Published in more than 5 languages.
This is the presentation that I gave to the Young Planners at Cannes 2014. The data herein is taken from survey distributed through @cheiluk, @yellif and @cr
Lovemarks Presentation - Brand Pioneers April 9 2013Panelteam
Lovemarks
Arjan Kapteijns – CEO Saatchi & Saatchi
Saatchi & Saatchi is the Lovemarks company. Arjan looked closely at the question: What makes some brands inspirational, while others struggle? With inspiring case studies he will explain what Lovemarks are and how they deliver beyond their expectations of great performance.
The Creative Brief frames the strategy and positioning so your Agency can creatively express the brand promise through communication.
1, Marketing Execution must impact the brand’s consumers in a way that puts your brand in a stronger business position. The Creative Brief is the bridge between the brand strategy and the execution.
2. Through our Brand Positioning workshop, you will have all the homework on the brand needed to set up the transformation into a succinct 1-page Creative Brief that will focus, inspire and challenge a creative team to make great work.
3. The hands-on Creative Brief workshop explores best in class methods for writing the brief’s objective, target market, consumer insights, main message stimulus and the desired consumer response.
4. Brand Leaders walk away from the session with a ready-to-execute Creative Brief.
Jonathan Lee, Managing Director, Brand Strategy, and Ken Allard, Managing Director, Business Strategy at HUGE, gave this presentation at "Ambidexterity 2," the VCU Brandcenter's Executive Education program for account planning on June 24th at the VCU Brandcenter in Richmond, VA.
This is a presentation that I gave to a USF Masters of Business Administration class on Brand Planning for Clients. My hope was to share some thoughts with the future generation of clients on planning, positioning, relevance and new product development.
Feel free to download. Brands need to stand out to win. Marketers face limited resources that they apply to an unlimited choices. The role of the Brand Positioning Statement is to take everything you know about your brand and begin making focused decisions on who you will serve, what you will say that is unique, own-able and motivating to get consumers to think, feel and act differently to create a bond that is stronger than what the product alone could do. A good positioning statement should balance the rational and emotional benefits for the consumer. Your positioning has to reflect your internal brand soul and help shape your external brand reputation.
This is a fantastic presentation from Marty Neumeier from his book Zag. If you are short of time skip to slides 63 - 68 to see the evolution from marketing to branding. Love it.
THE BRAND GAP is the first book to present a unified theory of brand-building. Whereas most books on branding are weighted toward either a strategic or creative approach, this book shows how both ways of thinking can unite to produce a “charismatic brand”—a brand that customers feel is essential to their lives. In an entertaining two-hour read you’ll learn:
• the new definition of brand
• the five essential disciplines of brand-building
• how branding is changing the dynamics of competition
• the three most powerful questions to ask about any brand
• why collaboration is the key to brand-building
• how design determines a customer’s experience
• how to test brand concepts quickly and cheaply
• the importance of managing brands from the inside
We look at the role of the Brand Leader, how to develop marketing execution strategy, tools to make marketing decisions and how to give direction to an agency.
50 planners to watch in 2014 - The Planning SalonJulian Cole
Twitter list of the 50 Planners - https://twitter.com/emma_hines/top-50-planners/members
thanks @emma_hines and @E_for_M
50 planners to watch in 2014 was picked by The Planning Salon.The list is a mix of the top planning talent from across the globe as well as the next generation of planners. The list has diverse mix of planners from big markets like London and New York to emerging markets like Athens and Cape Town.
The Planning Salon is a platform for all planners around the world to meet and learn from our industry's greatest minds. It was started in 2013 to showcase some of the biggest stars of the industry, guests such as Gareth Kay, Rob Campbell and Heather LeFevre. Check out the interviews here; http://theplanningsalon.com/
Effectiveness is at the heart of everything we do. David Ogilvy himself wrote a series of full-page ads in the New York Times in the 1960s with headlines such as "How To Create Advertising That Sells." His most famous book, Ogilvy on Advertising, is packed with guidance on the success factors of effective campaigns.
However, the marketing landscape has changed beyond recognition in the past fifty years. We are delighted to share our latest publication, The Ogilvy & Mather guide to effectiveness. In it, Worldwide Effectiveness Director, Tim Broadbent, deals with one of the most central questions in marketing: how to increase the effectiveness of our campaigns.
As marketing budgets come under increasing pressure in response to economic uncertainty in Europe and elsewhere, effectiveness is rising higher on clients' agendas. The message is timely.
• Brands sit somewhere on the hypothetical Brand Love curve
• There are 5 connections needed to create love for your brand
• The Brand Connectivity and love generates power for your brand.
• Having Power for your brand helps generates profit in 8 ways
Different: Can Associations Escape the Competitive Herd?Mark Golden
In the digital world, is there really value differentiation between what associations offer and what is available from the abundance of content sources, and social media connections? The table stakes are high as traditional communications, networking, advocacy, and education are all being redefined in a globally mobile connected world. Are associations truly innovating or merely following the herd?
This CEO panel from the 2013 Digital Now conference examined the key principles and issues explored in Youngme Moon’s book “Different,” in exploring how marketers incrementally focus on the same opportunities as everyone else and consequently lose sight of their mandate, which is to create meaningful grooves of separation or differentiation. Is this happening in associations as well, and are their ways to escape the “competitive herd” that Moon describes? When it comes to thriving in an age of widespread uncertainty and rapid-fire innovation, the only thing more worrisome than the prospect of too much experimentation and change may be the reality of too little experimentation and change. There are too many competitors wearing non-profit or for profit hats with products and services that look too much alike.
This is the second session (Sep 8) of our Free Open Advanced Branding Masterclass at www.mootee.typepad.com. Pls rememebr no books are needed. We will forward additional reading material for all registered participants.
60 Minute Brand Strategist: Extended and updated hard cover NOW available.Idris Mootee
This book includes the very latest thinking on branding and brand strategy. It has been published in different many languages and use by top global brands to train their brand managers. New updated hard cover version is not available from Amazon May 2013
Pls view in full screen mode. Published in more than 5 languages.
This is the presentation that I gave to the Young Planners at Cannes 2014. The data herein is taken from survey distributed through @cheiluk, @yellif and @cr
Lovemarks Presentation - Brand Pioneers April 9 2013Panelteam
Lovemarks
Arjan Kapteijns – CEO Saatchi & Saatchi
Saatchi & Saatchi is the Lovemarks company. Arjan looked closely at the question: What makes some brands inspirational, while others struggle? With inspiring case studies he will explain what Lovemarks are and how they deliver beyond their expectations of great performance.
The Creative Brief frames the strategy and positioning so your Agency can creatively express the brand promise through communication.
1, Marketing Execution must impact the brand’s consumers in a way that puts your brand in a stronger business position. The Creative Brief is the bridge between the brand strategy and the execution.
2. Through our Brand Positioning workshop, you will have all the homework on the brand needed to set up the transformation into a succinct 1-page Creative Brief that will focus, inspire and challenge a creative team to make great work.
3. The hands-on Creative Brief workshop explores best in class methods for writing the brief’s objective, target market, consumer insights, main message stimulus and the desired consumer response.
4. Brand Leaders walk away from the session with a ready-to-execute Creative Brief.
Jonathan Lee, Managing Director, Brand Strategy, and Ken Allard, Managing Director, Business Strategy at HUGE, gave this presentation at "Ambidexterity 2," the VCU Brandcenter's Executive Education program for account planning on June 24th at the VCU Brandcenter in Richmond, VA.
This is a presentation that I gave to a USF Masters of Business Administration class on Brand Planning for Clients. My hope was to share some thoughts with the future generation of clients on planning, positioning, relevance and new product development.
Feel free to download. Brands need to stand out to win. Marketers face limited resources that they apply to an unlimited choices. The role of the Brand Positioning Statement is to take everything you know about your brand and begin making focused decisions on who you will serve, what you will say that is unique, own-able and motivating to get consumers to think, feel and act differently to create a bond that is stronger than what the product alone could do. A good positioning statement should balance the rational and emotional benefits for the consumer. Your positioning has to reflect your internal brand soul and help shape your external brand reputation.
This is a fantastic presentation from Marty Neumeier from his book Zag. If you are short of time skip to slides 63 - 68 to see the evolution from marketing to branding. Love it.
THE BRAND GAP is the first book to present a unified theory of brand-building. Whereas most books on branding are weighted toward either a strategic or creative approach, this book shows how both ways of thinking can unite to produce a “charismatic brand”—a brand that customers feel is essential to their lives. In an entertaining two-hour read you’ll learn:
• the new definition of brand
• the five essential disciplines of brand-building
• how branding is changing the dynamics of competition
• the three most powerful questions to ask about any brand
• why collaboration is the key to brand-building
• how design determines a customer’s experience
• how to test brand concepts quickly and cheaply
• the importance of managing brands from the inside
We look at the role of the Brand Leader, how to develop marketing execution strategy, tools to make marketing decisions and how to give direction to an agency.
50 planners to watch in 2014 - The Planning SalonJulian Cole
Twitter list of the 50 Planners - https://twitter.com/emma_hines/top-50-planners/members
thanks @emma_hines and @E_for_M
50 planners to watch in 2014 was picked by The Planning Salon.The list is a mix of the top planning talent from across the globe as well as the next generation of planners. The list has diverse mix of planners from big markets like London and New York to emerging markets like Athens and Cape Town.
The Planning Salon is a platform for all planners around the world to meet and learn from our industry's greatest minds. It was started in 2013 to showcase some of the biggest stars of the industry, guests such as Gareth Kay, Rob Campbell and Heather LeFevre. Check out the interviews here; http://theplanningsalon.com/
Effectiveness is at the heart of everything we do. David Ogilvy himself wrote a series of full-page ads in the New York Times in the 1960s with headlines such as "How To Create Advertising That Sells." His most famous book, Ogilvy on Advertising, is packed with guidance on the success factors of effective campaigns.
However, the marketing landscape has changed beyond recognition in the past fifty years. We are delighted to share our latest publication, The Ogilvy & Mather guide to effectiveness. In it, Worldwide Effectiveness Director, Tim Broadbent, deals with one of the most central questions in marketing: how to increase the effectiveness of our campaigns.
As marketing budgets come under increasing pressure in response to economic uncertainty in Europe and elsewhere, effectiveness is rising higher on clients' agendas. The message is timely.
• Brands sit somewhere on the hypothetical Brand Love curve
• There are 5 connections needed to create love for your brand
• The Brand Connectivity and love generates power for your brand.
• Having Power for your brand helps generates profit in 8 ways
Different: Can Associations Escape the Competitive Herd?Mark Golden
In the digital world, is there really value differentiation between what associations offer and what is available from the abundance of content sources, and social media connections? The table stakes are high as traditional communications, networking, advocacy, and education are all being redefined in a globally mobile connected world. Are associations truly innovating or merely following the herd?
This CEO panel from the 2013 Digital Now conference examined the key principles and issues explored in Youngme Moon’s book “Different,” in exploring how marketers incrementally focus on the same opportunities as everyone else and consequently lose sight of their mandate, which is to create meaningful grooves of separation or differentiation. Is this happening in associations as well, and are their ways to escape the “competitive herd” that Moon describes? When it comes to thriving in an age of widespread uncertainty and rapid-fire innovation, the only thing more worrisome than the prospect of too much experimentation and change may be the reality of too little experimentation and change. There are too many competitors wearing non-profit or for profit hats with products and services that look too much alike.
This is the second session (Sep 8) of our Free Open Advanced Branding Masterclass at www.mootee.typepad.com. Pls rememebr no books are needed. We will forward additional reading material for all registered participants.
This is an outline of my branding studies, I will be summarizing all the information I learn throughout my studies and researches into small presentations hoping it will make good and easy references for people who are looking to understand and learn more about branding.
In this presentation I will talk about the Brand basics and I will cover the following:
- What is brand?
Stay tuned and engage with me on twitter on: @YazanTamimi
We believe 2010 will be the year of experience brands, because marketers are ready to bring new discipline to what they've been doing for years: orchestrating all their touchpoints to create a consistent brand experience and achieve a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
We're committed to bringing thought leadership to this dialogue-starting with a new article that defines experience brands, cites some experience brand heroes and points to ways experience brands can improve ROI.
Brand Fever Founder & CEO Vicky Jones opens Vistage All City 2013 Atlanta with a discussion on what makes brands differentiate themselves in the marketplace. The answer? Passionate brand storytelling, brand ambassadors, and the all-important human element.
This presentation was given by Brand Fever Founder and CEO Vicky Jones on August 27, 2013. The presentation discusses brand essentials, like brand storytelling, the concept of 'shared value' and the all-important emotional value funnel.
With the emergence of strong retailers, private label brands have emerged as a must game in the marketplace. Where the retailer has a particularly strong identity, this "Private Label" may be able to compete against even the strongest brand leaders, and may outperform those products that are not otherwise strongly branded.
This presentation to the Hillsboro, Oregon Chamber of Commerce covered defining your audiences first in order to build an effective brand. It provides tips to uncover what your audiences are looking for and how to use their expectations to build an effective and memorable brand. It includes examples of Creative Company's work.
Brush the Basics is a 2013 Brand Glossary that has a mix of conventional and new-age brand approaches. Hope you enjoy the read! Your feedback is welcome on sales@intelliassist.in
Moving From MySQL to Elasticsearch for AnalyticsPercolate
This presentation gives a technical overview of Percolate next generation Analytics system. It describes the first generation system, it challenges, and how Percolate uses the latest technology to build its new Analytics system.
The 50 Most Important Marketing Charts of 2016Percolate
The job of the marketer is never static: it changes in response to shifting patterns in consumer behavior, content consumption, and device usage. Every year, we compile the 50 most important trends for marketers across mobile, social, content marketing, and advertising. This year, we bring you a collection that includes newer trends that made a mark last year — including customer experience and ad blocking — and whose impact will continue to be felt.
The Secret to Brand Growth? Mental and Physical AvailabilityPercolate
This presentation covers the importance of mental and physical availability, the key to brand success. Are customers thinking of your brand and are they able to access it when they’re thinking of it? Brands largely compete not in terms of differentiation or even product offering, but in terms of mental and physical availability. When a brand is strong in those two regards, more people can more easily buy it in more situations.
Here we tackle advertising: what is the purpose of advertising? What are the different ways to advertise and which are most effective? Regardless of size or market share, all brands must advertise to achieve both short- and long-term growth. Inspired by Byron Sharp and the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute, this presentation unlocks the truth behind effective advertising and how it can help brands grow beyond belief.
Why Mass Marketing Wins Over Targeted EffortsPercolate
In the second of our five-part series debunking major marketing myths, we’ll take a closer look at other factors that need to be considered in growing a brand. Influenced by Byron Sharp’s work at the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute, we’ll explore brands’ customer bases and which—if any—buyers they should be targeting.
Small vs. Large Brands: How to Become a Market LeaderPercolate
This is the first in a five-part series meant to take an empirical approach to marketing. We challenged the most dominant marketing myths out there, using data to explain why they are wrong. In busting some of these myths, we hope to show you how you can grow your own brand.
11 Charts that Predict the Future of MarketingPercolate
These charts hold insights on mobile marketing, advertising, social media, and the Internet of Things. A must-have for every senior marketer this year.
These charts are just the beginning — there is a wealth of predictions for marketing executives to keep top of mind when outlining a multi-channel strategy. To see all 50 charts, download the full report.
We believe the only way to scale out Percolate is to distribute decision making out to the edges. That means we ask each and every person in the company to make decisions on behalf of the organization on a regular basis, without necessarily going to their manager to get advice or approval. Their guide instead must be the company’s culture. This values document is an attempt to officially record the values that we believe make Percolate great. Each value is paired with a question that anyone within Percolate could ask themselves to help them understand whether the decision they’re making is aligned with the company.
The rubric we used to write and judge these values is:
1) Enables someone actually make a decision in the moment: a question to ask yourself to know whether you’re living up to that value. An algorithm for making decisions.
2) Aimed at our constituents: employees, customers, and partners.
3) Something that someone can disagree with: generic values don’t help anyone understand anything.
4) Something that can fit in a picture frame or is tweetable: the goal is for these values to sit on a wall in every office around the world.
With that, here are the Percolate Values:
GROWING:
Startup = Growth. A startup isn’t determined by size; it’s a company fueled for growth. We must keep this spirit alive.
THOUGHTFUL BY DESIGN:
We aim for thoughtfulness in everything we do. This should be felt by colleagues, clients, and competition.
JUDGE PERCOLATE AGAINST PERCOLATE:
Know that everyone else has a lower bar than we do, never compromise.
SHIPPING > NOT SHIPPING:
Our orientation should always be towards delivery. Shipping, no matter how small, is always better than not.
OWNERSHIP:
You own this company. As we grow, it is your responsibility to ensure that we’re awesome. If it sucks, make it better.
CONSTANT QUESTIONING:
Asking ‘why?’ isn’t just for children. Being curious will make you and this company great.
FOCUSED ON SCALE, BUT WILLING TO DO THINGS THAT DON’T:
Sometimes the best way to reach scale in the long term is to do things that don’t in the short term.
LED BY PRODUCT:
Product is not just what we build, it’s the way we are. Everyone in the company should be thinking in, and building, products.
NOT JUST A JOB:
We want you to look back and feel that Percolate put your career on a new trajectory. You are proud, and you wouldn’t change a thing.
JUST:
At Percolate you are encouraged to run fast, be fearless, and work hard. If you make a mistake, let’s all learn from it.
What do you think? If you believe in our values and would like to come work with us, please get in touch.
percolate.com/jobs
7 Lessons Marketers Can Learn From MasterCard to become a Global Publishing P...Percolate
MasterCard’s payment solutions and services are trusted around the world, making it essential for the brand’s communications to be smart, fast, cost-effective and personalized for the 210 different countries it reaches. Learn how Percolate helped MasterCard’s Corporate & Digital Communications Group become a global brand publisher that engages with 800,000 influencers each year in 11 different languages.
The greatest challenge digital marketers face is to reach their audience with relevant content. How much does marketing cost, and what will it cost in the future? Our team at Percolate did the math and the answer might surprise you.
Technology Macro Trends - What Marketers Need to Know in 2014Percolate
In the last four years, we’ve seen tremendous upheavals in social channels, mobile adoption across the globe, and software that’s changed the way we live and work.
Technology has reshaped marketing.
To adapt to this new world, marketers need to first understand it. Here are some of the key technology macro trends that have redefined our industry.
Macro trends include:
- Growth of global internet users
- Venture financing of tech startups
- Photo sharing across mobile messaging platforms
- Mobile usage in China and the world
- Advertising revenue across Google, Facebook, and Twitter
- Education technology startups like Khan Academy
- YouTube stars and spectator gaming
Percolate is a marketing technology company with a mission to help brands of all sizes create great content and distribute it to the right audience. With an end-to-end suite of web-based and mobile tools, Percolate allows brands, agencies and other external partners to work within a single platform.
Learn more at: http://percolate.com
IPG Media Lab's Jack Pollock presents employees as signals at Percolate's #SP...Percolate
Building an internal community within your own company can be difficult, yet it relies on bringing together technology, content, and audience and avoiding the challenge of diversification. IPG Media Labs consists of 60 thought-leaders across five continents vetting potential media technologies for use at scale.
5 big bets to drive growth in 2024 without one additional marketing dollar AND how to adapt to the biggest shifting eCommerce trend- AI.
1) Romance Your Customers - Retention
2) ‘Alternative’ Lead Gen - Advocacy
3) The Beautiful Basics - Conversion Rate Optimization
4) Land that Bottom Line - Profitability
5) Roll the Dice - New Business Models
The What, Why & How of 3D and AR in Digital CommercePushON Ltd
Vladimir Mulhem has over 20 years of experience in commercialising cutting edge creative technology across construction, marketing and retail.
Previously the founder and Tech and Innovation Director of Creative Content Works working with the likes of Next, John Lewis and JD Sport, he now helps retailers, brands and agencies solve challenges of applying the emerging technologies 3D, AR, VR and Gen AI to real-world problems.
In this webinar, Vladimir will be covering the following topics:
Applications of 3D and AR in Digital Commerce,
Benefits of 3D and AR,
Tools to create, manage and publish 3D and AR in Digital Commerce.
In this presentation, Danny Leibrandt explains the impact of AI on SEO and what Google has been doing about it. Learn how to take your SEO game to the next level and win over Google with his new strategy anyone can use. Get actionable steps to rank your name, your business, and your clients on Google - the right way.
Key Takeaways:
1. Real content is king
2. Find ways to show EEAT
3. Repurpose across all platforms
In this presentation, Danny Leibrandt explains the impact of AI on SEO and what Google has been doing about it. Learn how to take your SEO game to the next level and win over Google with his new strategy anyone can use. Get actionable steps to rank your name, your business, and your clients on Google - the right way.
Key Takeaways:
1. Real content is king
2. Find ways to show EEAT
3. Repurpose across all platforms
SEO as the Backbone of Digital MarketingFelipe Bazon
In this talk Felipe Bazon will share how him and his team at Hedgehog Digital share our journey of making C-Levels alike, specially CMOS realize that SEO is the backbone of digital marketing by showing how SEO can contribute to brand awareness, reputation and authority and above all how to use SEO to create more robust global marketing strategies.
Search Engine Marketing - Competitor and Keyword researchETMARK ACADEMY
Over 2 Trillion searches are made per day in Google search, which means there are more than 2 Trillion visits happening across the websites of the world wide web.
People search various questions, phrases or words. But some words and phrases are searched
more often than others.
For example, the words, ‘running shoes’ are searched more often than ‘best road running
shoes for men’
These words or phrases which people use to search on Google are called Keywords.
Some keywords are searched more often than others. Number of times a keyword is searched
for in a month is called keyword volume.
Some keywords have more relevant results than others. For the phrase “running shoes” we
get more than 80M relevant results, whereas for “best road running shoes for men” we get
only 8.
The former keyword ‘running shoes’ has way more competition from popular websites to
new and small blogs, whereas the latter keyword doesn’t have that much competition. This
search competition for a keyword is called search difficulty of a keyword or keyword
difficulty.
In other words, if the keyword difficulty is ‘low’ or ‘easy’, there won’t be any competition
and if you target such keywords on your site, you can easily rank on the front page of Google.
Some keywords are searched for, just to know or to learn some information about something,
that’s their search intention. For example, “What shoe size should I choose?” or “How to pick
the right shoe size?”
These keywords which are searched just to know about stuff are called informational
keywords. Typically people who are searching this type of keywords are top of a Conversion
funnel.
Conversion funnel is the journey that search visitors go through on their way to an email
subscription or a premium subscription to the services you offer or a purchase of products
you sell or recommend using your referral link.
For some buyers, research is the most important part when they have to buy a product.
Depending on that, their journey either widens or narrows down. These types of buyers are
Researchers and they spend more time with informational keywords.
Conversion is the action you want from your search visitors. Number of conversions that you
get for every 100 search visitors is called Conversion rate.
People who are at different stages of a conversion funnel use different types of keywords.
The digital marketing industry is changing faster than ever and those who don’t adapt with the times are losing market share. Where should marketers be focusing their efforts? What strategies are the experts seeing get the best results? Get up-to-speed with the latest industry insights, trends and predictions for the future in this panel discussion with some leading digital marketing experts.
AI-Powered Personalization: Principles, Use Cases, and Its Impact on CROVWO
In today’s era of AI, personalization is more than just a trend—it’s a fundamental strategy that unlocks numerous opportunities.
When done effectively, personalization builds trust, loyalty, and satisfaction among your users—key factors for business success. However, relying solely on AI capabilities isn’t enough. You need to anchor your approach in solid principles, understand your users’ context, and master the art of persuasion.
Join us as Sarjak Patel and Naitry Saggu from 3rd Eye Consulting unveil a transformative framework. This approach seamlessly integrates your unique context, consumer insights, and conversion goals, paving the way for unparalleled success in personalization.
It's another new era of digital and marketers are faced with making big bets on their digital strategy. If you are looking at modernizing your tech stack to support your digital evolution, there are a few can't miss (often overlooked) areas that should be part of every conversation. We'll cover setting your vision, avoiding siloes, adding a democratized approach to data strategy, localization, creating critical governance requirements and more. Attendees will walk away with actions they can take into initiatives they are running today and consider for the future.
Videos are more engaging, more memorable, and more popular than any other type of content out there. That’s why it’s estimated that 82% of consumer traffic will come from videos by 2025.
And with videos evolving from landscape to portrait and experts promoting shorter clips, one thing remains constant – our brains LOVE videos.
So is there science behind what makes people absolutely irresistible on camera?
The answer: definitely yes.
In this jam-packed session with Stephanie Garcia, you’ll get your hands on a steal-worthy guide that uncovers the art and science to being irresistible on camera. From body language to words that convert, she’ll show you how to captivate on command so that viewers are excited and ready to take action.
Mastering Multi-Touchpoint Content Strategy: Navigate Fragmented User JourneysSearch Engine Journal
Digital platforms are constantly multiplying, and with that, user engagement is becoming more intricate and fragmented.
So how do you effectively navigate distributing and tailoring your content across these various touchpoints?
Watch this webinar as we dive into the evolving landscape of content strategy tailored for today's fragmented user journeys. Understanding how to deliver your content to your users is more crucial than ever, and we’ll provide actionable tips for navigating these intricate challenges.
You’ll learn:
- How today’s users engage with content across various channels and devices.
- The latest methodologies for identifying and addressing content gaps to keep your content strategy proactive and relevant.
- What digital shelf space is and how your content strategy needs to pivot.
With Wayne Cichanski, we’ll explore innovative strategies to map out and meet the diverse needs of your audience, ensuring every piece of content resonates and connects, regardless of where or how it is consumed.
Financial curveballs sent many American families reeling in 2023. Household budgets were squeezed by rising interest rates, surging prices on everyday goods, and a stagnating housing market. Consumers were feeling strapped. That sentiment, however, appears to be waning. The question is, to what extent?
To take the pulse of consumers’ feelings about their financial well-being ahead of a highly anticipated election, ThinkNow conducted a nationally representative quantitative survey. The survey highlights consumers’ hopes and anxieties as we move into 2024. Let's unpack the key findings to gain insights about where we stand.
Most small businesses struggle to see marketing results. In this session, we will eliminate any confusion about what to do next, solving your marketing problems so your business can thrive. You’ll learn how to create a foundational marketing OS (operating system) based on neuroscience and backed by real-world results. You’ll be taught how to develop deep customer connections, and how to have your CRM dynamically segment and sell at any stage in the customer’s journey. By the end of the session, you’ll remove confusion and chaos and replace it with clarity and confidence for long-term marketing success.
Key Takeaways:
• Uncover the power of a foundational marketing system that dynamically communicates with prospects and customers on autopilot.
• Harness neuroscience and Tribal Alignment to transform your communication strategies, turning potential clients into fans and those fans into loyal customers.
• Discover the art of automated segmentation, pinpointing your most lucrative customers and identifying the optimal moments for successful conversions.
• Streamline your business with a content production plan that eliminates guesswork, wasted time, and money.
When most people in the industry talk about online or digital reputation management, what they're really saying is Google search and PPC. And it's usually reactive, left dealing with the aftermath of negative information published somewhere online. That's outdated. It leaves executives, organizations and other high-profile individuals at a high risk of a digital reputation attack that spans channels and tactics. But the tools needed to safeguard against an attack are more cybersecurity-oriented than most marketing and communications professionals can manage. Business leaders Leaders grasp the importance; 83% of executives place reputation in their top five areas of risk, yet only 23% are confident in their ability to address it. To succeed in 2024 and beyond, you need to turn online reputation on its axis and think like an attacker.\
Key Takeaways:
- New framework for examining and safeguarding an online reputation
- Tools and techniques to keep you a step ahead
- Practical examples that demonstrate when to act, how to act and how to recover
How to Run Landing Page Tests On and Off Paid Social PlatformsVWO
Join us for an exclusive webinar featuring Mariate, Alexandra and Nima where we will unveil a comprehensive blueprint for crafting a successful paid media strategy focused on landing page testing.With escalating costs in paid advertising, understanding how to maximize each visitor’s experience is crucial for retention and conversion.
This session will dive into the methodologies for executing and analyzing landing page tests within paid social channels, offering a blend of theoretical knowledge and practical insights.
The Pearmill team will guide you through the nuances of setting up and managing landing page experiments on paid social platforms. You will learn about the critical rules to follow, the structure of effective tests, optimal conversion duration and budget allocation.
The session will also cover data analysis techniques and criteria for graduating landing pages.
In the second part of the webinar, Pearmill will explore the use of A/B testing platforms. Discover common pitfalls to avoid in A/B testing and gain insights into analyzing A/B tests results effectively.
Digital Commerce Lecture for Advanced Digital & Social Media Strategy at UCLA...Valters Lauzums
E-commerce in 2024 is characterized by a dynamic blend of opportunities and significant challenges. Supply chain disruptions and inventory shortages are critical issues, leading to increased shipping delays and rising costs, which impact timely delivery and squeeze profit margins. Efficient logistics management is essential, yet it is often hampered by these external factors. Payment processing, while needing to ensure security and user convenience, grapples with preventing fraud and integrating diverse payment methods, adding another layer of complexity. Furthermore, fulfillment operations require a streamlined approach to handle volume spikes and maintain accuracy in order picking, packing, and shipping, all while meeting customers' heightened expectations for faster delivery times.
Amid these operational challenges, customer data has emerged as an important strategy. By focusing on personalization and enhancing customer experience from historical behavior, businesses can deliver improved website and brand experienced, better product recommendations, optimal promotions, and content to meet individual preferences. Better data analytics can also help in effectively creating marketing campaigns, improving customer retention, and driving product development and inventory management.
Innovative formats such as social commerce and live shopping are beginning to impact the digital commerce landscape, offering new ways to engage with customers and drive sales, and may provide opportunity for brands that have been priced out or seen a downturn with post-pandemic shopping behavior. Social commerce integrates shopping experiences directly into social media platforms, tapping into the massive user bases of these networks to increase reach and engagement. Live shopping, on the other hand, combines entertainment and real-time interaction, providing a dynamic platform for showcasing products and encouraging immediate purchases. These innovations not only enhance customer engagement but also provide valuable data for businesses to refine their strategies and deliver superior shopping experiences.
The e-commerce sector is evolving rapidly, and businesses that effectively manage operational challenges and implement innovative strategies are best positioned for long-term success.
8. a brand’s ability to stand out so that buyers can easily identify it
(a brand looking like itself)
DIFFERENTIATION DISTINCTIVENESS
Whatisbranddifferentiationandbranddistinctiveness?
there is a different perceived meaning behind every brand
(the “reason to buy” for the consumer)
15. Brands shouldn’t pour
money into appearing
different, or creating a
category apart from their
competitors, as customers
don’t need to see
differentiation to buy into
a brand.
23. the majority of customers link your
brand to your brand element
UNIQUENESS PREVALENCE
Inestablishingbrandelements,brandsshouldaimfor:
customers don’t associate a brand’s assets
with those of a competitor
24. Moreon
uniqueness
If a brand element is unique to
your brand, every time a customer
sees it, they can strengthen the
memory structure linking that
element to your brand, increasing
likelihood of buying in the future.
Uniqueness simply makes your
brand more identifiable.
26. Moreon
prevalence
Prevalence can’t be built
overnight, or with one single
instance. The element-to-brand
link, which signals a brand to a
consumer, is built through
consistency over time.
32. Whathavewelearned?
1. Brands should aim to be distinctive, rather than different
Brands must establish distinct brand elements in order to win in the marketplace.
33. Whathavewelearned?
1. Brands should aim to be distinctive, rather than different
Brands must establish distinct brand elements in order to win in the marketplace.
2. Uniqueness and prevalence help establish distinctiveness
Brands must consistently and relentlessly uphold those brand elements over time,
in order to create a retrievable impression in consumer’s memory.
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Kat Gebert
Kat Gebert is on the Product Marketing team
at Percolate.