Seldom has a food item conquered the world like #tacos. Most food makes it around the world due to the efforts of marketers, emigrants, multinationals, specific products, and more than often it is altered gravely. The meatballs in Azerbaijan are different from Swedish ones which taste differently than American meatballs or Chinese lion heads. SushiContinue reading “Tacos everywhere”
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Changing Habits
Our eating habits are all different. From country to country, region to region, city to city, but also person to person and from decade to decade it seems. Much of the advice and recipes given on the internet are unsuitable for a large portion of readers. Many ingredients are only available in certain places. YoungContinue reading “Changing Habits”
Micro-Influencer Marketing: The Ins and Outs
Influencer marketing is big these days, but not everyone can afford to pay celebrities and online megastars with millions of followers. For some brands, micro influencers will be much more realistic and even powerful than big names. The key to influencer marketing is authenticity. I covered this here: Word-of-Mouth Marketing: The Land that Strategy Forgot This isContinue reading “Micro-Influencer Marketing: The Ins and Outs”
SEO or SMM? What Drives More Traffic?
We all know that “once you build it they will come” is a myth. Too many websites are rotting away in cyberspace because companies don’t know how to drive traffic. Yet even among those in the know, there is an ongoing debate which is more important: optimizing your site for search engines (SEO) or yourContinue reading “SEO or SMM? What Drives More Traffic?”
Curiosity Marketing: The Ideal Solution for Digital Natives
We are drowning in a flood of information, on our desktops, our mobile devices, our televisions; from product videos to long-form written content, from Instagram images to LinkedIn posts. Every avenue of marketing has been deployed, from aggressive advertising, email, to inbound strategies, podcasts, and webinars. And yet, marketers continue to come up with newContinue reading “Curiosity Marketing: The Ideal Solution for Digital Natives”
The Bounce Rate: When It Matters, and When it Doesn’t
Bounce rate (sometimes confused with exit rate) is an Internet marketing term used in web traffic analysis. It represents the percentage of visitors who enter the site and then leave (“bounce“) rather than continuing on to view other pages within the same site. Whether you are using ads or inbound marketing strategies, the bounce rate tells you aContinue reading “The Bounce Rate: When It Matters, and When it Doesn’t”
How to Influence the Customer Journey
Branding and marketing experts are increasingly talking about the “customer journey” – a fancy word encompassing everything from product discovery to actual purchase action. But what exactly is this “journey” and how, as product or service providers, can we influence it? Think about it that way: the last time you purchased something other than aContinue reading “How to Influence the Customer Journey”
It is Time for B2B Enterprises to Embrace Global Influencers
We’ve all heard of influencers in the consumer brand space, real estate, restaurant or travel industry. Increasingly, however, B2B brands, e.g. in the industrial space, are relying on influencers too. For many traditional manufacturing companies, it is not easy to understand and manage this transition. Read also: The 7 Deadly Sins of Influencer Marketing Why useContinue reading “It is Time for B2B Enterprises to Embrace Global Influencers”
Old Style Marketing That Still Works on Social Media
Social media is all new and shiny, and every year there’s a new app waiting to reach the 100 million, the 500 million, the 1 billion user threshold. Marketers seem to have to learn new skills all the time, familiarize themselves with new formats, new concepts, new technologies. But there are a few tactics inContinue reading “Old Style Marketing That Still Works on Social Media”
Employee Advocacy: The Key to Digital Marketing Success
One of the most overlooked tools in creating engagement and distributing your digital marketing content surely is employee advocacy. Yet even the marketing teams of very large corporations don’t make use of it. Have you ever wondered how a blog post by a 60’000 employee organization ends up having only 80 views? How is that even possible?Continue reading “Employee Advocacy: The Key to Digital Marketing Success”
3 Outdated SEO Tactics You Should Stop Immediately
The battle between search engines and the SEO crowd is one of the most exciting events nerds can observe today because it is perhaps the first global fight between human and artificial intelligence. Here are the players in this epic battle: on the one side the search engines, which try to serve up the mostContinue reading “3 Outdated SEO Tactics You Should Stop Immediately”
Marketing for Boring Industries
We would all like to work for exciting companies. The latest VR headset, a luxury car, that awesome new food brand. Truth be told, most us work for companies that are neither sexy nor exciting. What do you do with boring industries in the age of digital media, visual platforms, and content marketing? Here areContinue reading “Marketing for Boring Industries”
10 Common Misconceptions About Inbound Marketing
For years now “inbound marketing” has been a buzzword. Yet surprisingly, a lot of businesses still don’t understand what it is, why it is better for companies and customers alike, why it is the natural way of marketing, and how to go about it. Even those who do it often do it without a real strategy inContinue reading “10 Common Misconceptions About Inbound Marketing”
Inbound Marketing Explained
Traditional marketing is dead, and the future is all about “Inbound”. Come again? For years now “inbound marketing” has been a buzzword around the world. Yet surprisingly, a lot of businesses still don’t understand what it is, why it is better for companies and customers alike, why it is the natural way of marketing, and how toContinue reading “Inbound Marketing Explained”
