Social media is a powerful way to amplify your brand and engage your target audience. To be effective you need to know which social platforms to focus on and which days and times are best to reach your market. The results of recent studies below will help you manage and plan your social media marketing:
To stay competitive brands need an integrated direct marketing program, with clear, concise messaging across all channels, to boost consumer engagement and conversion rates. This is best accomplished by looking at your media landscape as a whole - not just the individual parts, and understanding how consumers engage with your product or services. Today's consumer expects more from brands; personalization, relevance, convenience, simplicity and value. Below are a few tips that work.
1). Direct and digital integration strengthens your brand and also gives your prospects who did not respond to your direct mail, email or banner ads another chance to see your message. GRI crafted a 3-tier integrated program involving direct mail, email and telemarketing for a large IT services company. This turned out to be the most successful lead generation program the company had ever had producing a pipeline of $20 million in new business in 6 weeks!Direct mail and email marketing generated the interest, but the follow-up telemarketing was key to the explosive sales activity that followed.
When testing an integrated direct and email program, it is important to know the in-home arrival date of the direct mail package. Then you can test whether it is best to send the email before the package delivers, after or to send multiple emails.
Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) is estimated to grow 53% faster than any other type of marketing technology over the next 2 years, according to Salesforce's annual State of Marketing report. 51% of respondents expressed some level of familiarity with A.I. powered digital marketing, while a quarter planned to begin a pilot program within the next 2 years.
A.I. is expected to have a big impact for direct marketers in 2018. Some of the top benefits include:
Facebook ads can help you quickly adapt to changing consumer behavior by bringing your campaigns to the most relevant social apps where mobile users spend all their time.
Two main reasons are audience and algorithm.
What is your company's top marketing challenge? Over 60% of companies answer generating traffic and leads. The whole lead generation process is tough - especially when you rely only on traditional methods. Cold calling and sending emails can be incredibly demoralizing because, let's face it - most of those people don't really want to talk to you.
We know today that 52% of marketers plan to increase spending on email marketing and 68% believe email is core to their businesses. Before sending your next email, pause for a few minutes and ask yourself: What is the goal of my email marketing? Is it to grow my subscriber database? Generate more leads? To convert more existing leads into customers? Whatever you decide your goal is (and you can have more than one), the next thing you need to do is figure out which metrics you'll need to track in order to determine how you're progressing toward that goal.
Integrated Marketing strategy plays an important role in delivering the right brand message, to the right prospect, at the right time, via the right media channel to assist in a purchase decision or build brand awareness. This strategy requires evaluation and investment in multiple direct and digital marketing channels.
The longstanding channel of direct mail is still the foundation for marketing campaigns and it compliments digital efforts as a sales medium, building a brand, acquiring leads and strengthening existing relationships. J.C. Penney recently brought back its catalog after stopping it 5 years ago. Why? They found that online sales came from shoppers inspired by what they saw in print. While shoppers are increasingly buying clothing, home goods and automobiles online, many sales are actually from catalog shoppers using the website to place their orders.
Generating leads is the biggest challenge that BtoB marketers are facing today. These BtoB lead gen tips will help you reach more prospects, engage them more thoroughly and ultimately close more sales.
