Restaurant Promotional Campaigns Throughout the Pandemic
Although plenty of restaurants had a difficult time navigating the pandemic, plenty of others managed to see a lot of success by partnering with various food bloggers or food influencers across a number of social media platforms. The relationship between restaurants and food influencers is relatively complex, but most of the time it’s a simple business relationship. While restaurants manage to reach audiences that are difficult to reach only through ads, with the help of the influencer, the influencer gets content as well as free food for their platform. And one of the most popular collaborations throughout the pandemic was restaurants partnering with food influencers on TikTok. While restaurants were closing down at record numbers or letting go of their…
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Mastering TikTok as a Company
One of the fastest-growing social media platforms, TikTok, has quickly become the social media platform of the young generation. However, plenty of companies have also decided that they need to have a presence on the platform. While they might be uncertain about how to proceed in this new environment, TikTok already provides plenty of opportunities for different brands and corporations, as well as a lot of potential for brand awareness. Although plenty of brands and corporations are still unsure whether the platform is relevant to their market, it’s still an exciting opportunity to reach a large number of young people. Most young people these days are quite cynical about traditional advertising efforts, to the point where they have stopped watching…
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Advertising Campaigns and Amazon
Last year, when the pandemic started, marketers decided to cut ad spending, yet while people ended up shopping more from their homes, e-commerce advertising has increased in popularity. The leader in e-commerce advertising, as well as online shopping, has been Amazon this entire time. According to research, in the US, Amazon has claimed over 10% of the entire ad market. Additionally, those numbers are expected to rise in the next few years. This type of growth is what has also attracted other corporations and retailers such as Instacart, Walmart, as well as Walgreens, to join Amazon in digital advertising and online shopping. One of the biggest revenue contributors for Amazon is its Amazon Web Services, the cloud side of the…
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Marketing Strategies from Rick De La Croix
Living and working in the watch capital of the world, Pieric “Rick” Joel Vaucher De La Croix has been working in international luxury brand management for over two decades. He mainly works with luxury watchmakers at entrepreneurial as well as corporate levels, and believes that luxury watches have precision and beauty and a watch represents a person wearing it. Right after his graduation, De La Croix started working for the watchmaker Tag Heuer, then worked for The Dixie Group, Zodiac, and then Corum, which gave him the experience and understanding of the industry that he has today. He decided to establish his own distribution company and start directly working with other luxury watchmakers. He started to work closely with Hublot…
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Authenticity and Consistency in Marketing
Customers expect transparency and authenticity from the companies with which they do business. A business or a brand is expected to be open, honest, and straightforward. For a brand to be authentic, it has to be perceived as reliable and real. According to Geoff Beattie, Cohn Global Practice Leader of Corporate Affairs, authentic companies for people mean, ‘A brand that has values and morals and stands by them no matter what while honestly divulging its practices (flaws and all). In fact, the thing people most wanted was open and honest communications about products and services. And that finding was consistent around the world.’ Companies which customers perceive as authentic tend to be more profitable. Transparency is a key component of…
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Attracting New Consumers via Social Media Platforms
For plenty of businesses, the task of creating a long client list can seem overwhelming, however, there are certain ways to achieve this goal easily. Business owners are well aware that the lifeblood of any company is the client base, and that having a consistent stream of new consumers allows businesses to grow. There is a certain guaranteed approach that is quite successful in attracting new clients and fulfilling a company’s vision. Ideal Consumers It’s a lot easier to find new consumers if a business knows the types of consumers it’s looking for in the first place. Without an idea for the target consumer, businesses don’t know where to start looking for them. That’s why it’s important for companies to…
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Adding Sustainability To a Brand
Plenty of companies around the world are aware that they are no longer able to ignore the need for sustainable operations and practices, especially when they take into consideration that consumers are now more interested in sustainable brands. Even a number of governments in different countries have started recognizing how important responsible business practices are, and how they can impact the environment. Although some brands and corporations only see sustainability and environmental care as another marketing opportunity aimed at younger generations of the target audience, there are a number of others that have skyrocketed in popularity because of their actual sustainability features. This is one of the most important things to younger consumers who aren’t looking to get the best…
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Social Media Marketing and Younger Generations
According to research from marketers, about two-thirds of all Instagram users visit the app every single day. That means not only are those users going through a lot of content on the platform, but they’re also engaging with other users as well as companies. To make the connection between brands and consumers even better, the platform introduced a new feature for companies, allowing them to showcase their products on the app itself, and allowing the users to make purchases directly on the platform. That in-app shopping feature made it easier for companies to create original content that will drive revenue from their followers’ newsfeeds. With it, whenever someone sees a product or a service they like in an Instagram post,…
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Overcoming Branding Problems
A brand has to engage with customers in engaging, intelligent, and fresh ways in order to be popular. The tone and manner of a brand across commercials cannot be disjointed, and all its elements need to be meticulously engineered so that it is consistent, and so that it can connect successfully with the consumers. Given below are some strategies which, when adopted , will add value to a brand.
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TikTok vs Instagram Social Media Marketing Strategies
The fact that the social media app TikTok has had a big impact on the landscape of social media platforms has been undeniable, especially throughout the last year. Formerly known as Musical.ly, the video-sharing app has over 2 billion users that share different visual-based content in video form. On the other hand, Instagram with over 1 billion active users, is known for its photo, as well as video-sharing capabilities, where its users can share visual content with the followers there.
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