Your brand is the core of your business. As I have written in some of my other posts, maintaining brand consistency extremely important to customer relationship management, marketing, product development, advertising, company relationship with employees,and basically every facet of your company. This article by Ben Erickson is a perfect breakdown of why maintaining your brand … Continue reading Why Branding is so Important
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Banana Republic In Flight Fashion Show
Banana Republic is doing an amazing job of promoting their new Mad Men collection. Their newest promotional effort was spontaneous, innovative, and buzz worthy. During a Virgin America flight from New York to Los Angeles, Banana Republic held a spontaneous fashion show right in the middle of the airplane. Using the aisle as the runway, … Continue reading Banana Republic In Flight Fashion Show
Growing Offline Business Using Online Tools
Social media has several purposes: Creating Conversations Building Brand Awareness Build a Community Educate Reach New Audiences Understand Your Current Audience Create a More Personal Brand Interact Directly with Customers Display Credibility Promote Your Company The list could go on and on, on why social media is beneficial to your brand. With any marketing attempt, … Continue reading Growing Offline Business Using Online Tools
Should My Brand be on Pinterest?
Atomicdust, an agency in St. Louis, posted a great blog on how to determine if your company should be using Pinterest. As of now, Pinterest is driving more referral traffic than Google+, YouTube, and LinkedIn combined (10 million monthly visitors and growing). I really enjoyed this post because it asks three straight-to-the-point questions about Pinterest … Continue reading Should My Brand be on Pinterest?
Navigating the New Company Facebook Timeline Pages
The internet has been buzzing this week about company (fan) pages on Facebook switching to the timeline format. So, you have built your company's social media strategy based on how people find and share information using the old page format, but do you really need to change how you use Facebook just because the page … Continue reading Navigating the New Company Facebook Timeline Pages
Creating Brand Opportunity Out Of Negativity
One of the basic rules of business is “Make the customer happy.” Companies know that a negative comment from one customer can quickly turn into ten. The basic rules of business have not changed, but the power of the customers voice has grown exponentially. One negative comment can instantly turn into hundreds of shares and … Continue reading Creating Brand Opportunity Out Of Negativity
How the 10 Most-Followed Brands are Leveraging Pinterest
Pinterest is definitely catching the interest of big and influential companies, mostly fashion and media based companies. Including, one of may favorite websites, Mashable! Magazine companies have seen the advantages of the new image based social media, including Real Simple and Better Homes & Gardens. Both of these magazines benefit from Pinterest because decorating tips … Continue reading How the 10 Most-Followed Brands are Leveraging Pinterest
Maintaining Brand Consistency
Some of the first things that come to mind when thinking about brand strategy are logo design, tagline, company goals and values, messaging voice, sales platforms (physical location and/or website), and company culture. While the above-mentioned form the basis of brand strategy, many smaller items can significantly affect the success of your brand strategy. Consistency … Continue reading Maintaining Brand Consistency
How to Harness the Power of Hashtags
Twitter is a unique platform, in which you are only able to have a conversation with the world using 140 characters. So how do you make your tweets stand out from the rest, and be found by engaged followers? One word…#HASHTAGS. Hashtags are one of the most powerful tools you can use to increase the visibility of your tweets. Twitter is a real time feed that changes … Continue reading How to Harness the Power of Hashtags
Social Media Marketing By the Numbers
Via Scoop.it - Being Your Brand You can not argue with the cold hard numbers on the power of social media marketing (well you could, but it would be a losing battle). This infographic from Mashable shows the power of social media marketing in regards to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and location based services (such as FourSquare) strictly through numbers. So what can … Continue reading Social Media Marketing By the Numbers