Arik Hanson — February 7, 2020 Last fall, Popeye’s trolled Chick-Fil-A on Twitter into helping it launch its new chicken sandwich that ended up selling out and causing gun play in stores. Then, Netflix asked brands for their best x-rated sex tweet in what might be the very best Twitter thread of all time. And … Continue reading #RIPeanut Highlights Brand-to-Brand Trend Actually May Be Working on Twitter
However, loyalty may be as much a function of inertia as anything else. Greg Sterling on November 26, 2019 Last year, Yotpo found that 90% of consumers surveyed considered themselves brand loyal, in contrast to the conventional thinking that loyalty was dead. That number hasn’t changed, according to this year’s survey of 2,100 U.S. adults; … Continue reading Brand loyalty remains high at 89%, driven by product and price rather than service
Bridging Category Management Among Ethnic Brands, Chains by Patrick Harrington , Yesterday Have specialty and ethnic CPG brands reached a peak in their growth across America’s grocery stores? In my view, they are approaching maturity — for several reasons. For one, evolving shopping trends, technological innovation and the consolidation of traditional brick-and-mortar channels are changing … Continue reading Bridging Category Management Among Ethnic Brands, Chains
It is time for marketers to take advantage of the DRTV expansion to solve some of their biggest advertising pain points. Karla Crawford Kerr on September 26, 2019 Housewares and brand response television have a long and robust shared history. Over 30 years ago, the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) deregulated television air time allowing different … Continue reading Building housewares brands with brand response TV
If you are truly interested in meeting consumer expectations, you’ll not only be measuring and tracking those experiences but also consistently making updates to improve them. Ethan Hanson on July 18, 2019 Once a primary differentiator, reliable customer service has now become a mandatory commodity. With rising consumer expectations and automated technologies, experience has replaced … Continue reading 4 steps to becoming an experience brand
Customized Messages And What Brands Need To Focus On by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, Yesterday IgnitionOne, which once focused intently on search advertising and marketing, has spent the past few years analyzing data to determine its best use for brands. Now the company hopes its focus on real-time channels, from performance marketing to customer experience, will … Continue reading Customized Messages And What Brands Need To Focus On
Pauline Jakober — June 10, 2019 Follow @GrpTwentySeven — June 10, 2019 In my last article on this blog, I described how brand awareness in PPC is sometimes viewed as less important than PPC performance. Unfortunately, too many companies put all their attention on the performance of their paid search campaigns — and undervalue their … Continue reading Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Brand Awareness in PPC
When a consumer receives the right offer from the right brand at the right moment, the effect can be magical. It’s when marketers pull a clickbait and switch that trouble for a brand begins. Lewis Gersh on March 14, 2019 We all fell for it at first. We’d search for something online, and the … Continue reading Brands lose consumer trust over ad trickery
Bernadette Coleman — March 1, 2019 Follow @berniecoleman — March 1, 2019 The further we move into the 21st century, the more we evolve into a technology-dependent population. The things we do, buy and eat are all tied to an online to offline world. This dependency is expanding beyond the Millennial and Generation Z age … Continue reading It’s an Online to Offline World – Brands and Businesses Need to Catch Up
Shay Berman — March 1, 2019 Follow @shayberman — March 1, 2019 For many smaller brands, marketing gets harder each passing year — what with the marketplace in an almost constant state of disruption and oversaturation. If you own a business or find yourself in charge of a brand, chances are good that you’re trying … Continue reading 3 Marketing Strategies to Improve Brand Awareness in 2019
