This session for the WACVB Tech Summit 2014 event focussed on effective email marketing strategies and tactics for CVBs, DMOs, and the larger travel vertical. It includes information related to email trends, research, strategy, planning, execution, integration (content, social, offline). It also dives into specific examples of email branding, acquisition, loyalty, and retention strategies, covering best practices as well as advanced tactics.
The Top 8 Digital Trends for 2015 - Digiday Digital Love 15Mike Corak
With a new year comes new trends and tactics that can help drive your digital marketing efforts. But are they all really worth the hype and, more importantly, your time?
Join Jay Baer, The New York Times best-selling author and President of Convince & Convert, and Mike Corak, Ethology’s Executive Vice President of Strategy, as they break down this year’s latest and greatest digital marketing trends to see if you should love ‘em or leave ‘em.
In this webinar, you’ll learn how to:
Determine which of the top 2015 trends are right for your digital marketing mix
Incorporate user-centered design principles for a better brand experience
Evolve your content strategy and content marketing tactics
Make use of new organic search developments
Enhance internal organizational efforts to make your digital marketing more effective
Visualizing Visual Content - Digital Summit Phoenix 2014Mike Corak
It doesn't take a research study to show that demand for engaging visual content is growing, both from consumers and marketers. Where consumer demand is high, brands are quick to follow as marketers adopt visually reliant communication platforms like YouTube, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, Vine and more. Truth be told, for most brands, current libraries unfortunately lack the kinds of assets consumers are responding to, and marketers are challenged to meet quality expectations with quality content. The need to create is strong, but run-of-the-mill visual content and promotion is no longer enough. These higher expectations represent an opportunity for brands that are ready to take the challenge on. Learn in this session why visual content is worth investing in and get tips on how brands can strategically plan for and deploy exceptional experiences specifically designed to maximize value.
Gut Checking Your 2015 Integrated Digital Marketing PlanMike Corak
Progressive brands are analyzing and prioritizing digital integration in their 2015 plans. Speakers shared a few key considerations throughout the planning process. They will discuss research and strategy, integrated tactics v. programs, and full-funnel analytics as we move into 2015.
Attendees of the webcast will take away the following:
Planning: What inputs and analysis are used to understand where tactical and integrated opportunities exist?
Execution: Where do “program” opportunities exist to improve cross-channel efficiencies and results?
What tactics will help your team successfully plan and execute winning digital campaigns?
Full-Funnel Analytics: What plans should be made to measure and capitalize upon results throughout the funnel, online and offline?
11 Content Marketing Planning Tips for 2015Mike Corak
This presentation, given by Jay Baer and Mike Corak, covers the top 11 +1 bonus content marketing tips for use in company's content marketing planning processes. Entering the new year it is critical to understand Tactically where the discipline is headed, Strategically how to create and what to consider in your plan, and Operationally how to pull of your your planned activity with processes and resources alike.
“Topics, not Keywords: How to Make Content Work for Brands with Google Hummingbird”
The presentation provides valuable insight as search engines move away from keywords and into semantics to find the best answer for a users’ inquiry.
The gist is that search evolution toward the semantic web is good news for content marketers in that the need for keyword-focused content is being replaced by thematic relevance and authority. Google is essentially catching up to what user-focused content should have always been.
The punch line is that future success in content marketing will be more dependent on system building than line-level content production and output. Create a centralized content strategy and integrated delivery systems to guide your content marketing efforts now.
Per the theme of the conference, one way content marketing creates value for customers is when its output is usable for both businesses and users. Unfortunately, what’s sometimes created is not usable content—it’s often a blog post developed to plug a missing SEO ranking for a keyword.
But what does result in something usable is when content is developed around a theme a brand is authentically authoritative on—coming from a true point of understanding user intent—and that the brand is proactively anticipating and creating content to be as useful and evergreen as possible.
All you have to do is ask yourself what kind of content would BEST fulfill users’ needs?
Digital Marketing Program Evaluation, Maturation and Evolution - A Digital Ma...Mike Corak
Is Your Marketing Mature Enough? Ways to Evolve Your Digital Marketing
Today’s digital marketing world is evolving quickly. Keeping up to date with the latest developments in social media, mobile marketing and search is crucial to staying ahead of your competitors.
Join Jeffrey Rohrs, author of the book “Audience: Marketing in the Age of Subscribers, Fans and Followers,” with panelist: Mike Corak a digital agency veteran as they share their experience in the rapidly evolving world of digital marketing. They’ll expose common digital marketing weaknesses and demonstrate how to turn those into game-changing opportunities.
Attendees will learn:
How to identify common mistakes in digital marketing
How to pinpoint opportunities where none seem to exist
What tactics will help your team successfully plan and execute winning digital campaigns
Where to uncover unique opportunities to jump ahead of competitors.
Jeffrey Rohrs is VP of Marketing for Exact Target and author of the book Audience: Marketing in the Age of Subscribers, Fans and Followers. Mike Corak has developed and implemented winning digital and integrated strategies for hundreds of companies over his 17-year career, including Bank of America, Coca-Cola, ConAgra Foods, FedEx, Farmers Insurance, Nike, Office Depot, and Walt Disney.
ethology, a full service digital agency audits over 100 brands' digital marketing programs annually. Their team stays at the forefront of industry trends, conducts website analyses and audits, and reviews site architecture. It's been noted through these audits that Challenger brands - those competing with industry leaders - have a great opportunity to achieve competitive advantage through thoughtful digital expansion.
This session for the WACVB Tech Summit 2014 event focussed on effective email marketing strategies and tactics for CVBs, DMOs, and the larger travel vertical. It includes information related to email trends, research, strategy, planning, execution, integration (content, social, offline). It also dives into specific examples of email branding, acquisition, loyalty, and retention strategies, covering best practices as well as advanced tactics.
The Top 8 Digital Trends for 2015 - Digiday Digital Love 15Mike Corak
With a new year comes new trends and tactics that can help drive your digital marketing efforts. But are they all really worth the hype and, more importantly, your time?
Join Jay Baer, The New York Times best-selling author and President of Convince & Convert, and Mike Corak, Ethology’s Executive Vice President of Strategy, as they break down this year’s latest and greatest digital marketing trends to see if you should love ‘em or leave ‘em.
In this webinar, you’ll learn how to:
Determine which of the top 2015 trends are right for your digital marketing mix
Incorporate user-centered design principles for a better brand experience
Evolve your content strategy and content marketing tactics
Make use of new organic search developments
Enhance internal organizational efforts to make your digital marketing more effective
Visualizing Visual Content - Digital Summit Phoenix 2014Mike Corak
It doesn't take a research study to show that demand for engaging visual content is growing, both from consumers and marketers. Where consumer demand is high, brands are quick to follow as marketers adopt visually reliant communication platforms like YouTube, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, Vine and more. Truth be told, for most brands, current libraries unfortunately lack the kinds of assets consumers are responding to, and marketers are challenged to meet quality expectations with quality content. The need to create is strong, but run-of-the-mill visual content and promotion is no longer enough. These higher expectations represent an opportunity for brands that are ready to take the challenge on. Learn in this session why visual content is worth investing in and get tips on how brands can strategically plan for and deploy exceptional experiences specifically designed to maximize value.
Gut Checking Your 2015 Integrated Digital Marketing PlanMike Corak
Progressive brands are analyzing and prioritizing digital integration in their 2015 plans. Speakers shared a few key considerations throughout the planning process. They will discuss research and strategy, integrated tactics v. programs, and full-funnel analytics as we move into 2015.
Attendees of the webcast will take away the following:
Planning: What inputs and analysis are used to understand where tactical and integrated opportunities exist?
Execution: Where do “program” opportunities exist to improve cross-channel efficiencies and results?
What tactics will help your team successfully plan and execute winning digital campaigns?
Full-Funnel Analytics: What plans should be made to measure and capitalize upon results throughout the funnel, online and offline?
11 Content Marketing Planning Tips for 2015Mike Corak
This presentation, given by Jay Baer and Mike Corak, covers the top 11 +1 bonus content marketing tips for use in company's content marketing planning processes. Entering the new year it is critical to understand Tactically where the discipline is headed, Strategically how to create and what to consider in your plan, and Operationally how to pull of your your planned activity with processes and resources alike.
“Topics, not Keywords: How to Make Content Work for Brands with Google Hummingbird”
The presentation provides valuable insight as search engines move away from keywords and into semantics to find the best answer for a users’ inquiry.
The gist is that search evolution toward the semantic web is good news for content marketers in that the need for keyword-focused content is being replaced by thematic relevance and authority. Google is essentially catching up to what user-focused content should have always been.
The punch line is that future success in content marketing will be more dependent on system building than line-level content production and output. Create a centralized content strategy and integrated delivery systems to guide your content marketing efforts now.
Per the theme of the conference, one way content marketing creates value for customers is when its output is usable for both businesses and users. Unfortunately, what’s sometimes created is not usable content—it’s often a blog post developed to plug a missing SEO ranking for a keyword.
But what does result in something usable is when content is developed around a theme a brand is authentically authoritative on—coming from a true point of understanding user intent—and that the brand is proactively anticipating and creating content to be as useful and evergreen as possible.
All you have to do is ask yourself what kind of content would BEST fulfill users’ needs?
Digital Marketing Program Evaluation, Maturation and Evolution - A Digital Ma...Mike Corak
Is Your Marketing Mature Enough? Ways to Evolve Your Digital Marketing
Today’s digital marketing world is evolving quickly. Keeping up to date with the latest developments in social media, mobile marketing and search is crucial to staying ahead of your competitors.
Join Jeffrey Rohrs, author of the book “Audience: Marketing in the Age of Subscribers, Fans and Followers,” with panelist: Mike Corak a digital agency veteran as they share their experience in the rapidly evolving world of digital marketing. They’ll expose common digital marketing weaknesses and demonstrate how to turn those into game-changing opportunities.
Attendees will learn:
How to identify common mistakes in digital marketing
How to pinpoint opportunities where none seem to exist
What tactics will help your team successfully plan and execute winning digital campaigns
Where to uncover unique opportunities to jump ahead of competitors.
Jeffrey Rohrs is VP of Marketing for Exact Target and author of the book Audience: Marketing in the Age of Subscribers, Fans and Followers. Mike Corak has developed and implemented winning digital and integrated strategies for hundreds of companies over his 17-year career, including Bank of America, Coca-Cola, ConAgra Foods, FedEx, Farmers Insurance, Nike, Office Depot, and Walt Disney.
ethology, a full service digital agency audits over 100 brands' digital marketing programs annually. Their team stays at the forefront of industry trends, conducts website analyses and audits, and reviews site architecture. It's been noted through these audits that Challenger brands - those competing with industry leaders - have a great opportunity to achieve competitive advantage through thoughtful digital expansion.