The document summarizes an ambient advertising campaign launched by Swisscom and Samsung in Switzerland to promote the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone. The campaign involved interactive installations in public places that captured people's reactions without their voices, which were then uploaded to YouTube and went viral with over 4 million views. The campaign was highly successful in raising awareness of the new phone and its features, with over 1 in 3 Swiss people estimated to have seen the campaign.
Are you a Challenger Brand? Check out what DirectionGroup's Geraint Holliman has to say about what a Challenger Brand truly means today. Content is based on the best selling book Eating the Big Fish: How Challenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand Leaders by Adam Morgan.
Let us know what you think.
Strategic thinkers see questions before they see answers. Train yourself to ask the best questions and the answers will come easier.
As you’re looking at your brand strategy, you need to look at the brand from all sides. Here are four questions to be asking that force you to choose four possible solutions to each.
1. What is your current share position in the market?
2. What is the core strength that your brand can win on?
3. How tightly connected is your consumer to your brand?
4. What is the current business situation that your brand faces?
Are you a Challenger Brand? Check out what DirectionGroup's Geraint Holliman has to say about what a Challenger Brand truly means today. Content is based on the best selling book Eating the Big Fish: How Challenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand Leaders by Adam Morgan.
Let us know what you think.
Strategic thinkers see questions before they see answers. Train yourself to ask the best questions and the answers will come easier.
As you’re looking at your brand strategy, you need to look at the brand from all sides. Here are four questions to be asking that force you to choose four possible solutions to each.
1. What is your current share position in the market?
2. What is the core strength that your brand can win on?
3. How tightly connected is your consumer to your brand?
4. What is the current business situation that your brand faces?
This is a mini case study review of NIVEA uploaded as an assignment for the marketing internship under Prof.Sameer Mathur.
Do check it out and please review.
HOW BRAND PR BROUGHT SHARE A COKE TO LIFE FOR COKE FANSThe Wilbert Group
The campaign was bolstered by customized VIP kits, consumer-generated original online content, a satellite media tour with Danica Patrick from the Coke Zero 400, the campaign’s eCommerce site, and a Twitter emoticon.
Read our story on how to write a brand plan:
https://beloved-brands.com/2012/06/24/brand-plan/
Help for the Brand Manager with tips on how to write a brand plan, including vision, mission, strategies, tactics, execution, and the overall writing and flow of the plan.
Case Study, using fictional “Gray’s Cookies” brand to complete a business review, which is the first stage of our overall Beloved Brands planning process.
International Business Strategy_AVON_PresentHungyu Lai
International Business Strategy
An international business strategy analysis report based on the assumption of the Avon company case
Researched and Presented in UCI IBOM class
Marketplaces are one of the main online shopping destinations for consumers. Now present in all regions of the world, marketplaces have fundamentally changed the commerce landscape, the way we shop, and how businesses go to market with their products and services. And although marketplaces are based on the same concept of first- and third-party selling, they are vastly different from each other. But how do brands accelerate growth? And what are the requirements for success
This is a mini case study review of NIVEA uploaded as an assignment for the marketing internship under Prof.Sameer Mathur.
Do check it out and please review.
HOW BRAND PR BROUGHT SHARE A COKE TO LIFE FOR COKE FANSThe Wilbert Group
The campaign was bolstered by customized VIP kits, consumer-generated original online content, a satellite media tour with Danica Patrick from the Coke Zero 400, the campaign’s eCommerce site, and a Twitter emoticon.
Read our story on how to write a brand plan:
https://beloved-brands.com/2012/06/24/brand-plan/
Help for the Brand Manager with tips on how to write a brand plan, including vision, mission, strategies, tactics, execution, and the overall writing and flow of the plan.
Case Study, using fictional “Gray’s Cookies” brand to complete a business review, which is the first stage of our overall Beloved Brands planning process.
International Business Strategy_AVON_PresentHungyu Lai
International Business Strategy
An international business strategy analysis report based on the assumption of the Avon company case
Researched and Presented in UCI IBOM class
Marketplaces are one of the main online shopping destinations for consumers. Now present in all regions of the world, marketplaces have fundamentally changed the commerce landscape, the way we shop, and how businesses go to market with their products and services. And although marketplaces are based on the same concept of first- and third-party selling, they are vastly different from each other. But how do brands accelerate growth? And what are the requirements for success
We specialize in blending creativity and technological possibilities to add value to our clients’ businesses.
Reach out for techno-creative solutions and consulting on your business needs and pain points.
Interactive retailing ways to appeal to your customer base via social mediaAvinash Chandra
Interactive retailing is gaining popularity, and you should get on with the times. You can build up your brand story and cement your reputation if you can give your customers unique in-store experiences. Interactive retailing helps you reach out to and sell across multiple platforms. It also leads to improved revenue generation. Social media can play an important part in your interactive retailing strategy. However, you need to understand what solutions will work for you. You must have a sustainable plan in place that works seamlessly. You must find a good advisor or expert who can help you design unique experiences, innovate your offerings, better your services and harness your resources effectively.
Slides: Stories, Numbers & Conversations: Nokia's social media marketing prin...Antony Mayfield
Slides from the webinar presentation about Brililant Noise's paper "Stories, Numbers & Conversations: Nokia's principles for social media marketing".
A video of the presentation by Antony Mayfield, Founding Partner at Brilliant Noise and Craig Hepburn, Director Digital and Social at Nokia can be seen at http://vimeo.com/brilliantnoise/nokiapaper
The paper outlines Nokia's global strategy for social media. It was developed with Brilliant Noise, a digital strategy agency. It includes Nokia's six guiding principles for social media marketing, along with supporting case studies.
Download the paper at htpp://brilliantnoise.com/nokiapaper
short presentation about the latest SoMe developments, stats but also o view on how to integrate SoMe within Customer Lifecycles en customer experiences
Maddy Wood at Brilliant Noise offered insights of the Nokia global social media strategy: working principles to spread best practice in social media marketing among thousands of Nokia employees around the world.
Short video marketing has sweeped the nation and is the fastest way to build an online brand on social media in 2024. In this session you will learn:- What is short video marketing- Which platforms work best for your business- Content strategies that are on brand for your business- How to sell organically without paying for ads.
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.
Unleash the power of UK SEO with Brand Highlighters! Our guide delves into the unique search landscape of Britain, equipping you with targeted strategies to dominate UK search engine results. Discover local SEO tactics, keyword magic for UK audiences, and mobile optimization secrets. Get your website seen by the right people and propel your brand to the top of UK searches.
To learn more: https://brandhighlighters.co.uk/blog/top-seo-agencies-uk/
Come learn how YOU can Animate and Illuminate the World with Generative AI's Explosive Power. Come sit in the driver's seat and learn to harness this great technology.
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.
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
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
A.I. (artificial intelligence) platforms are popping up all the time, and many of them can and should be used to help grow your brand, increase your sales and decrease your marketing costs.In this presentation:We will review some of the best AI platforms that are available for you to use.We will interact with some of the platforms in real-time, so attendees can see how they work.We will also look at some current brands that are using AI to help them create marketing messages, saving them time and money in the process. Lastly, we will discuss the pros and cons of using AI in marketing & branding and have a lively conversation that includes comments from the audience.
Key Takeaways:
Attendees will learn about LLM platforms, like ChatGPT, and how they work, with preset examples and real time interactions with the platform. Attendees will learn about other AI platforms that are creating graphic design elements at the push of a button...pre-set examples and real-time interactions.Attendees will discuss the pros & cons of AI in marketing + branding and share their perspectives with one another. Attendees will learn about the cost savings and the time savings associated with using AI, should they choose to.
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.
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
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.
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
Monthly Social Media News Update May 2024Andy Lambert
TL;DR. These are the three themes that stood out to us over the course of last month.
1️⃣ Social media is becoming increasingly significant for brand discovery. Marketers are now understanding the impact of social and budgets are shifting accordingly.
2️⃣ Instagram’s new algorithm and latest guidance will help us maintain organic growth. Instagram continues to evolve, but Reels remains the most crucial tool for growth.
3️⃣ Collaboration will help us unlock growth. Who we work with will define how fast we grow. Meta continues to evolve their Creator Marketplace and now TikTok are beginning to push ‘collabs’ more too.
2. In 2013, Swisscom and Samsung joined forces to launch the
Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone
in Switzerland.
The task was to create a buzz around the new
device and leverage earned media to reach
the masses…
5. The brief
• Brand/Product: “Galaxy S4”
• Background/Overview: Founded in 1969, in South Korea. Category leader
in mobile
• Target audience: People aged between 20 to 50 years old.
• Message: Show that the new product is not only superior in its technology
features but is also a unique and diverting tool.
Makes life more enjoyable
• Tone & Style: New and original, raises attention and curiosity, entertain the
people.
• Marketing Purpose:
- To inform of Galaxy S4 new features.
- Stay top of mind
- Making the buzz.
• Media: Banners, microsite and especially YouTube reaching millions of
view.
• Legal & Mandatories: Almost no speaking and only using the participants’
reactions.
7. Key numbers
• 4,1 million views, 19,582 likes and 136,180 shares on YouTube
• 151 000 interactions on the microsite
• 1,5 million views of the event live stream
• Over 12 Million AdImpressions in Switzerland
• 1 in every 3 Swiss people reached.
• Ranked #5 on the Global Viral Video Chart 2013 (cw 23)