Content Marketing
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Social
What You Need to Know to Create an Online Content Calendar
So you’ve listened carefully online to what customers and others are saying about your brand. You’ve determined where they are congregating and what they are talking about. You’ve developed a social game plan and where it will get to work— Twitter, Facebook, blogs, microsites, YouTube—all of the above. Now it’s time to create an actionable, results oriented promotional content calendar by following these straightforward steps.
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Gap Rolls Out One-Day ‘Name Your Price’ Offer Online
Casual apparel retailer has taken another step to re-engage customers, this time with an innovative adaptation of Web couponing that lets online shoppers negotiate for the price they’re willing to pay
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Amex Launches Cardmember Deals via Foursquare Check-ins
American Express is taking a new swing at burnishing both its youth appeal and its loyalty with current cardmembers, and it’s choosing the location-based social platform Foursquare to do so
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Social
Aunt Jemima Employees Star in Viral Video: Q&A
A contest at a plant in Jackson, TN, that makes Aunt Jemima frozen waffles, pancakes and French toast, led to three employees starring in a video filmed at the plant and documenting how the products are made. The first video in the series of three was posted Feb. 17 on Facebook and had 33,000 views within 24 hours. Viewers could also download a $1 coupon. Andy Reichgut, a vice president of marketing for Pinnacle Foods, which manufacturer’s Aunt Jemima products, gives us the scoop on the program.
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Agencies
Coors Light/Bacardi: From Flash-mob to YouTube within 24 Hours
On Tuesday evening over the course of about 30 minutes a flash-mob video was produced on the Las Vegas strip for both the Miller Light and Bacardi brands. The production was edited down to 2.5 minutes and is now up on YouTube with 1,016 views and counting.
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Social
Motorcycle Retailer Rides Shared Facebook Sweeps to Sales Wins
How do you build a critical mass of followers in social media-those social-grid head counts that are a prerequisite for giving a social campaign viral lift? In the case of online cycle gear seller Motorcycle Superstore
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Social
Optimizing Facebook’s News Feed to Get More “Likes”
As brands come to use and understand Facebook more, they learn the best promotional strategies and tactics for them to best engage their audience like these promotions run by Speed TV and Miller Lite. one of the most important techniques a brand must learn is how to optimize posts to make them more “likeable,” or worthy of clicking “like.” There are many ways to do this, but the method that is by far the most mysterious to brands is the often misunderstood News Feed.
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Retailers Make Hay By Responding to Negative Comments
We all know that “listening” to conversations and comments about our brands on the social Web is very important, which is why social listening tools have become an indispensible part of marketing. But what marketers do with that information is even more important.
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ING Direct Smartphone Apps Build Loyalty, Community with Mobile Banking
A recent study by Forrester predicts that one in five U.S. adults will do some form of banking transaction over their mobile phones by 2015, up from the 12% who currently perform some of their banking over mobile handsets. That’s good news for banks, who are always looking for ways to cut down on teller interaction and thus overhead.