Sometimes it feels like an ad has been following you all around the internet for days or months and even if you held the brand dear before, you start thinking can this please stop? On the other hand, the sole point of ads is for them to be seen by users and so many of them get completely ignored by the desired audience. So, what’s the middle ground? What’s the...
Influencer marketing is one of those topics in advertising that we never stop talking about. We keep asking the same question - does it work and how to make use of it? Studies show that customers are influenced by recommendations from trusted sources when making purchasing decisions. Two most important conditions are that you’re reaching your buyer persona and that the influencers you’re partnering with have a trustworthy relationship with...
First of all, let’s define the type of crisis we’re talking about. We want to cover all those situations that negatively affect a business’s reputation or its bottom line. As horrendous as natural disasters can get, we want to focus more on the type of crisis coming from factors more or less under company’s control, for example, a faulty product that has to be recalled, employee misconduct, conflicts with interest...
As users change their behavior, digital marketing has to adapt and follow the surviving and new trends, while abandoning practices that don’t yield results. Innovation in technology and digital channels shapes the road to consumers. Keeping an eye on future predictions and riding the wave of innovation before certain practices become over-used, not only explores the best ways to communicate with users but also positions brands as fearless leaders. As...
When it comes to purchase intent targeting strategy, pay per click advertising is the way to go. However, smaller businesses will often struggle with this model, losing dollars without remarkable results. The first step in determining the effectiveness of your campaign is to enable conversion tracking (Forbes 2018). While automatic bidding saves a lot of time, manual bidding gives you control on all levels to allocate your budget towards strategies...
As a brand selling to clients, you should never ask: what can we do to make it look like we care, you should ask: what can we do to show our clients that we care? Cue in Dove's brilliant Real Beauty Sketches that parallels how we perceive ourselves and how others perceive us. An artist drew women based on their own description and based on the description of a stranger....
As a client manager, you're likely to encounter all sorts of great people, with whom you'll get to share amazing experiences. Said no one ever. The sad truth is that the person on the other side has a million problems, and they need you to be an easy solution. If your relationship is not going too well for whatever reason, try to pinpoint the problem and act accordingly. Here are...
The sun revolves around your best performing seller. It’s true! They have a say when the day starts and when the day ends. With revenue-centric company goals, it's all about who brings in the dough. Planners don’t bring in the dough - they are too busy in the back, right by the oven baking the bread, well for a little while at least. Until the unthinkable happens, they want to be in sales....
[mkdf_list_ordered] Make sure all team members can be locked in should the urgent requests arrive Buy love: send gifts to the clients to be on their good terms. If your team needs an extension on an RFP response, then make sure to shell out big time. Buy a coffee drip (it’s essential that caffeine flows straight through your veins) Keep ad ops team in an office lockdown until Q1. Important:...
Over the course of years in the online advertising industry, I was fortunate enough to work with some amazing mentors who groomed me for success. Here are some things I learned. Sales planners are cheerful and social. Why? Because they are connecting multiple teams and coordinating between them. Their hand anatomy has evolved in a way so it handles typing over 50 words per second on average, which has proven to...
