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Carri Bugbee

'You Need Editors, Not Brand Managers': Marketing Legend Seth Godin on the Future of Branded Content | The Content Strategist, by Contently - 0 views

  • But then there’s the whole obsession now with tying content to revenues—in other words, tracking whether people who are consuming your content will eventually buy something from you, and putting a hard number on each piece of content you create. Do you think that’s misguided? Oh, I think there’s no question it’s misguided. It’s been shown over and over again to be misguided—that in a world of zero marginal cost, being trusted is the single most urgent way to build a business. You don’t get trusted if you’re constantly measuring and tweaking and manipulating so that someone will buy from you.
  • I don’t have any problem with measurements, per se; I’m just saying that most of the time when organizations start to measure stuff, they then seek to industrialize it, to poke it into a piece of software, to hire ever cheaper people to do it.
  • There are constantly trends and fads on the Internet, and people make a good living amplifying them. But I think that industrialized content marketing is one of those fads, and it will end up where they all do: petered out because human beings are too smart to fall for its appeal.
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  • I think that it’s human, it’s personal, it’s relevant, it isn’t greedy, and it doesn’t trick people. If the recipient knew what the sender knows, would she still be happy? If the answer to that question is yes, then it’s likely it’s going to build trust.
  • See, you are absolutely right here. When I think about how much money someone like Gillette spends, the question is: Why doesn’t Gillette just build the most important online magazine for men, one that’s more important and more read than GQ or Esquire? Because in a zero-marginal-cost world, it’s cheaper than ever for them to do that.
  • I think part of the challenge is that we have to redefine what business we’re in. I think that most big companies come from the business of either knowing how to use TV advertising to build a mass-market product, or knowing how to build factories to build average stuff for average people. I think we have to shift to a different way of thinking.
  • My new book, What to Do When It’s Your Turn, is all about the fact that what we get paid to do for a living is to expose ourselves to fear. That’s our job. If the people we work for aren’t up to that, then maybe we should go work somewhere else.
  • There’s sort of a parallel there with the debate over the ethics and merits of native advertising. How do you feel about sponsored content? There are two kinds of native content: There’s content I want to read and content I don’t. If you’re putting content I don’t [want to read] in front of me, it doesn’t really matter how much you got paid for it—I’m probably not happy.
Carri Bugbee

Are Brands Taking Emojis Too Far? - 0 views

  • it seems like brands are using emojis just for the sake of using emojis. But there are brands tapping emojis not for show, but for utility.
  • World Wide Fund for Nature, for example, worked the symbols into a Twitter fundraising campaign that encouraged consumers who routinely use emojis of endangered animals to donate to its conservation efforts. A user could sign up with WWF, and when the organization sent them a report of how many animal emojis that person used per month, they could opt to give to the campaign.
Carri Bugbee

Just Like Facebook, Twitter's New Impression Stats Suggest Few Followers See What's Tweeted - 0 views

  • Twitter shows you everything posted by those you follow: news, thoughts from friends, pictures and more. You dip in and out as you like. But similar to live TV, when you turn it off — when you’re not actively watching Twitter — then you’re missing everything. Those 10 or 100 or 1,000 accounts you follow? Even though Twitter shows you everything from them, unlike Facebook, you’ll largely miss whatever they do if you’re not watching Twitter constantly.
  • That 5% engagement rate sounds pretty good, but it’s based only on the 7,195 people who actually saw my tweet. What’s the engagement rate for my overall audience of 390,000? That’s 0.1%, rounded up from 0.0923%.
  • Tweet & Tweet Again To Reach 30% Of Your Audience Twitter’s own post suggests that high visibility isn’t common. Consider this from it wrote today: We saw that brands that tweet two to three times per day can typically reach an audience size that’s equal to 30% of their follower base during a given week. This indicates that Tweet consistency is a key factor when it comes to maximizing your organic reach on Twitter.
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  • When it comes to Facebook, our reach for the same period was about 900,000. So our Facebook posts were seen by about 1/5th the number of people on Twitter, which could make one assume that Twitter is the better social platform. In reality, the answer is more complicated. Like many publishers, we share far less on Facebook than on Twitter. Increasing our share rate might increase our overall reach. More important, however, is that one of our key hopes with social sharing is to drive traffic back to our site. According to Twitter’s stats, those 4.4 million impressions generated 7,300 clicks to our content. But Facebook, with far less impressions, generated 10 times that number of clicks to our content, about 70,000 over the past month.
Carri Bugbee

50+ Online SEO Tools for Links, Keywords and Rank Tracking - Marketing Technology - 0 views

  • AccuRanker – Automate the process of looking up how your keywords rank on Google and Bing search engines with up-to-the-second updates.
  • BrightEdge SEO is the first SEO platform to deliver proven ROI – enabling marketers to increase revenue from organic search in a measurable and predictable way.
  • Bing Webmaster Tools – improve your site’s performance in search. Get access to free reports, tools and resources.
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  • gShift’s SEO software system centralizes your clients’ SEO data (rank, backlinks, social signals, competitive intelligence, Google Analytics and keyword research) and provides automated, scheduled, white-labeled SEO reports leaving more time for your services team to implement the SEO tasks that will improve your clients’ web presence.
Carri Bugbee

Facebook labels African-American, Hispanic, Mexican ads as political - 0 views

  • Dozens of advertisements removed from Facebook for being political ahead of the November midterm elections did not appear to express any political view, a USA TODAY analysis showed. The Facebook ads from businesses, universities, nonprofits and other organizations did seem to have something in common: They mentioned "African-American," "Latino," "Hispanic," "Mexican," "women," "LGBT" or were written in Spanish.
Carri Bugbee

The evolution of ethics, revisited | USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism - 0 views

  • more than 90% of PR executives believe that the distribution of fake news and the purposeful distortion of truth are the biggest ethical threats we face in the future. Defense of malicious behavior and lack of corporate transparency were cited by over 80% of the respondents.
  • Today, earned media – pitching and placing stories through work with journalists and influencers — remains the dominant source (50%) of revenue for PR agencies. It’s predicted to drop to 37% over the next 5 years, with shared (23%), owned (23%) and paid media (17%) picking up the difference.
  • nearly two-thirds (64%) of PR professionals think that in five years the average person won’t be able to distinguish whether the information they consume comes from paid, earned, shared or owned sources.
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  • respondents overall predicted business will become more ethical over the next 5 years. When asked specifically about the PR industry, 9 of 10 predict the profession will be the same or more ethical. This is important because three out of four students tell us that ethics play a very or extremely important role in their choice of PR as a career.
  • Three-fourths of professionals told us their agency or department has a code of ethics. While 92% also think the PR industry needs its own generally accepted code of ethics, only 59% believe that a dedicated organization should play the role of ethics enforcer.
Carri Bugbee

Stop calling them influencers and start calling them what they really are - 0 views

  • PR campaigns have always targeted those with this nom de guerre. But we didn’t always call them influencers. And calling them influencers is a huge mistake.
  • What many people call influencers on social media are simply their own media brand. A major newspaper is an organized team of influencers, whose opinions and content carries value in certain communities. The top Instagrammers, nationally distributed magazines and the dad down the block who posts his garage projects on Pinterest, are all just media properties as well
  • The biggest shortcoming in marketing measurement is that we judge the value of the influencer by their reach and engagement, versus audience, relevance and message
Carri Bugbee

Listerine influencer marketing debacle: Who's really at fault? | Scott Guthrie - 0 views

  • Where is the Listerine crisis management?It seems that the Listerine PR team have thrown Dixon under a bus. I can’t find any support for her situation.
  • Influencer advertising not influencer marketingInfluencer marketing is not influencer advertising. Influencer advertising is a subset of influencer marketing, but the subset does not speak for the whole category.The differences between Influencer marketing and influencer advertising have their roots in the differences between transactional marketing and relationship marketing.Influencer advertising is transactional and short-lived. Work is orientated around tent-pole campaign contracts between influencer and brand.
  • The important skill sets for influencer marketing are twofold: there are hard skills and soft skills.The hard skills are data-centric skills. That is looking under the bonnet and choosing influencers based on demographics, what they've produced before, their ratio between engagement of sponsored and organic content etc.The softer skills are crucial, too - building long-term and mutually beneficial, business-growth relationships.
Carri Bugbee

Does Vertical Video Make a Difference? We Spent $6,000 on Tests to Find Out - 0 views

  • Below are the full details from our study on everything from our vertical video hypothesis to the surprising results! Here’s a quick look at what we’ll cover: The vertical video and mobile hypothesis 3 important video marketing takeaways Other key video marketing learnings Overall vertical video research conclusion What’s next for video marketing?
  • mobile phones (smartphones) alone accounted for 65% of total digital usage, up from 62% in Q1 2018:
  • In all of the experiments we conducted, we consistently found that vertical video outperformed square video within the Facebook News Feed.
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  • Since the video tests (vertical vs. square) were identical in content, theme, length, headline, caption, and more, it came as quite the surprise that vertical video outperformed square by such a significant margin (as much as 68 percent less expensive in cost per view). It’s also interesting to note that not only did vertical video outperform square in the Facebook News Feed, but Facebook outperformed Instagram in overall cost per click (CPC) within the feed
  • which format drives more engagement within the Instagram Feed? Turns out it’s vertical video!
  • In all of our tests, we found that Facebook consistently generated a lower CPC than its Instagram counterpart.
  • ith our research, we wanted to know if spending more time, resources, and money on producing polished videos actually resulted in greater results than organic DIY videos. We found that there was no statistically significant difference in the results.
Carri Bugbee

Why Journalists Love Online Newsrooms & How to Create Yours - PR Academy - Relationships - Media Pitch | Prezly - 0 views

  • 99% of journalists say it’s somewhat important (9%), important (34%), or very important (56%) for a company to provide access to news releases within their online newsroom.93% of journalists say that it is important to have news releases organized by type of news category.94% of journalists say it’s somewhat important (14%), important (28%), or very important (52%) to have access to photographs within an online newsroom.90% of journalists indicated the availability of digital product press kits would be somewhat important (25%), important (34%) or very important (30%) for their work.75% of journalists say video files are an important component of an online newsroom.
  • Archived press releases are a fantastic source of inspiration for journalists, they provide historical insight into your company, can provide industry metrics (which journalists are always seeking) and ultimately give your media contacts some ideas for stories to run with.
  • Highlighting ContactsDepending on the size of your business, locations, industries and a whole host of other factors you may have several key media spokespeople on your list who can engage with the media.
Carri Bugbee

What are the job responsibilities of marketing technology management? - Chief Marketing Technologist - 0 views

  • One of the first things that jumps out from the year-over-year data is the consistency of the top five responsibilities. From martech staff and managers up to more senior directors and VPs, these are the core functions that these roles deliver to the organization: Research and recommend new marketing technology products. Operate marketing technology products as an administrator. Train and support marketing staff on using marketing technology products. Integrate marketing technology products with each other. Monitor data quality within marketing technology products.
  • It is disappointing that, for the second year in a row, performing data privacy and compliance reviews and performing security reviews both remained at the bottom of the list of martech responsibilities — and even dropped a few percentage points.
  • enior roles are much more likely — 37% to 42% more likely — to: Pay for marketing technology products from a budget, partially or fully (71%) Negotiate business terms for purchasing marketing technology products (68%) Approve or veto purchase of marketing technology products (68%)
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  • The majority of senior martech leaders also own these responsibilities: Architect the overall marketing stack of all marketing technology products (69%) Monitor the performance and other SLAs of marketing technology products (56%) Integrate marketing technology products with non-marketing systems (58%) Perform technical reviews of marketing technology products (56%) Identify and sundown outdated or unused marketing technology products (59%) Identify and consolidate multiple instances of same or similar marketing technology products (56%)
  • Now every marketer is an app developer — even if they don’t know it. Marketers are tailoring marketing technology for their specific workflows and customer experiences, but they’re not explicitly doing “software development” with programming languages like Python or Javascript.
Carri Bugbee

You Ask, I Answer: How To Measure Traditional PR - Christopher S. Penn Marketing Blog - 0 views

  • Effective public relations has two primary outcomes: awareness and trust. We measure awareness in a variety of different ways: The gold standard is properly done, continuous market research and surveying, such as unaided brand recall, purchase intent, and recommendation intent Digital metrics include branded organic search and new user traffic but these are secondary because they don’t help explain the impact of PR as well Open-ended awareness questions on intake forms (digital and traditional) Trust is measured through market research and measurement systems like Net Promoter Scores
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