Chief Marketer Staff, Author at Chief Marketer

Texting with Grandma: 5 Facts You Should Know About Seniors 55+

The cliché of a senior not knowing how to use a cell phone is prevalent in pop culture and advertising, but is it true? Five facts you need to know.

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Evaluating MailChimp’s Mixed-Media Campaign

(The Daily Egg) It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that “marketing” is synonymous with “digital,” but companies need to remember that tangible interactions are a great way to change things up a bit, in a pleasant way. Kathryn Aragon, of The Daily Egg, offers a look into how MailChimp ran a mixed-media […]

Digital

Snickers Runs PPC Ads to Target Misspellings by Hungry Searchers

(AdAge) Snickers found a creative way to target hungry searchers with a PPC ad campaign in the U.K. that used the top 500 search terms on Google and found the most common misspellings of those words, yielding a grand total of 25,381 words to bid on. The brand and its agency also ran “Snickers Foosball,” […]

How to Write “Awesome Frickin’ Content”

(Search Engine Watch) When asked what his best SEO tip was a couple years ago, Scott Stratten, author of “UnMarketing,” simply said to write “awesome frickin’ content.” But what does that mean? Grant Simmons, director of SEO and social product for The Search Agency, explains. Among other things, the content should answer a user’s question, […]

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How Text Messaging Can Drive App Engagement and Revenues

(MarketingProfs) Text messaging is one of the most effective direct marketing channels to attract new users as well as to increase engagement with existing customers, according to a recent study by Peggy Anne Salz, editor of MobileGroove. This article lays out what you need to know from the study, a case example from the Qeep […]

Old Media, New Tricks

(Wall Street Journal) Buying ad space on the video screens inside the Clark/Lake train station in Chicago typically involves making half a dozen phone calls and exchanging several emails or faxes with the firm that owns the screens. Now, advertisers can accomplish the same task with a few clicks of a computer mouse, thanks to […]

Digital

How To Create In-House Social Media Celebrities

(PR News Online) On this video, Nicole Yelland, director of marketing and communications at Livio, spoke with Mike Bako CEO of DS Simon Productions, about how to use Twitter to personify your brand and make it more relatable to your audiences. She’s got some interesting tips that you may not be thinking of.

“Beyond: Two Souls” Promo Gets Slammed

(Wall Street Journal) Rachael Dodes This blog post takes on a promotion piece Dodes received to spark her interest in writing about “Beyond: Two Souls,” a Sony PlayStation video game starring, via motion-capture, Ellen Page and Willem Dafoe. But the promo backfired and caught the ire of Dodes for a few reasons, including sending it […]

Digital

The Story Behind Kmart’s “Ship My Pants” Video

(Creativity Online) Ann-Christine Diaz We all love to pull back the curtain and get the real dirt on how an incredibly successful campaign— in this case viral video—all came together. The viral sensation, “Ship My Pants” from DraftFCB Chicago is about to run on broadcast. The author of this article gets into the nitty gritty […]

Digital

Branded Videos Have Easier Time Reeling in Viewers

(PR News) Bill Miltenberg This mini report shares research from Adobe’s 2013 Video Benchmark Report. Of note is that while videos garner more likes, comments and shares than photos, links and text posts, companies are still slow to adopt the medium. Miltenberg shares a number of key findings that all marketers need to know. The […]