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Building Your Personal Brand on LinkedIn

These days to gain a social following on any social media platform including LinkedIn it’s critical to create an experience for your followers.  That can be done in many ways such as; branding (use the same colors and fonts for everything you post), create a physically aesthetic social page so people are captivated when they visit and create unique content. The best way to gain social following and build your personal brand is to do it all.  Step 1: Create a profile people want to see Branding Use the same colors and fonts for everything you post so when your followers see your post they know it's you. Keep your LinkedIn profile picture consistent with your brand. Use a professional headshot on LinkedIn that shows you at your best. Your background photo should be relevant and consistent with your profile picture. If you work for a Pike's Nursery don't have a picture of your favorite constellation instead this is a perfect chance to showcase the landscaping work you...
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Coca-Cola's Happiness Machine

Have you ever seen the Coca-Cola happiness machine? If you haven't, watch this . For those of you who've seen it before let me remind you that it's a coke machine on a college campus distributing a lot of coke bottles so you can share them with people around, flowers or pizza. When I watched the ad I couldn't help but smile along with the students who were getting more than they expected when they just purchased one coke. Coke's mission is "to refresh the world in mind, body and spirit. To inspire moments of optimism and happiness through our brands and actions." Coke creates an experience when anyone and everyone purchases a coke. Coke has branded itself to make people happy and create experiences that make people happy. What soda to you get when you throw a party? What drink do you ask for at a restaurant with your whole family? What mixer do you buy when you hang out with a group of friends after work on Friday? You buy a Coke. All those events create...

Come Back After the Holidays... Ya Hear

What brings customers coming back again and again? According to Accenture's "Personalization Pulse Check" report, 56% of people prefer shopping at retailers that recognize them by name. With the holidays coming up quickly, there is no time to lose customers to a poor experience. Instead of of pre-assessing each customer by their persona, it's time to get to know each customer personally to create a relationship between customer and retailer. A good retailer should create moments that incentive purchasing action not only during the initial interaction but also motivate the consumer to come back and purchase again. A good retailer should be all knowing. Retailers should be aware what products they have in store and online, what products are out of stock and when those products will be restocked. Retailers should also be aware of what the consumers wants but where does this purchasing journey begin? One way it may start is on social media. What if a consumer tweeted ab...

Have you Seen a Thor Ad?

Disney spent $1 million on Advertising in the beginning of September, starting the campaign off slowly. Once late September and early October hit the campaign was pushed to audiences all over the world with a budget starting at $1 million and ending at just under $4 million in early October. The campaign started over 2 months before the movie was released. The budget was mostly spent on 4 ads. Below is one of the 4 ads.  Walt Disney has been preparing for the release of Thor by releasing 27 national commercials. Thor will hit theaters in the UK on October 24 and will hit the US theaters on November 2nd. Thor cost Disney $180 million to produce and opening weekend sales are projects to hit $100-$110 million. Disney has been promoting Thor in a big way leading up to the big premiere. https://vimeo.com/239514718?from=outro-embed Do you want to see Thor in theaters now? Comment Below. From a digital marketing perspective, Disney is marketing Thor on all platforms reaching an...

Who's really benefiting?: Amazon and Kohl's

Amazon and Kohl's partnering?!? A brilliant partnership or a hindering Amazon's reputation? Amazon plans to " open connected home showrooms in 10 stores in the Los Angeles and Chicago markets. "  These showrooms will be staffed by Amazon associates and will give the consumer a Smart Home Experience. Devices such as Echo and Kindles will be sold in these showrooms. Kohl's will also be processing returns for Amazon on current items. Kohl's may be carrying the weight here but Kohl's foot traffic will increase which will potentially increase sales. Both Amazon and Kohl's are benefiting from what the other has. Amazon gains physical store space and Kohl's gains traffic. Do you think this just a partnership or will a merger occur in the near future? From a digital marketing perspective the partnership between Amazon and Kohl's is a gold mine. Amazon has capitalized in online sales while Kohl's is a tradition brick and mortar store. While Ko...

Legit or Scam?

Hey ladies, I know we have all been shopping online for a specific item, let's say a new bathing suit for the summer season and an ad pops up for a super trendy and cheap bathing suit. You automatically head to the website purchase your bathing suit and maybe get a cute t-shirt or bathing suit cover up because it's also cheap enough to justify the purchase. You patiently await for your order to arrive on your front door and then DING DONG... the shirt looks like it is a child's medium and the bathing suit has enough fabric to cover one bum cheek. Well at least the top of the bathing suit fits, so you wear that to the first pool party of the season and everyone loves. When you do your laundry that next week you pull the top out of the dryer and there are 100 pills and the bathing suit looks like it's been shrunken enough to match the bottoms. We say to ourselves "at least is was cheap" or "you get what you pay for" to make ourselves feel better. ...

Should your company advertise on Youtube?

Almost 5 billion videos are watched on Youtube every single day! We've all been on Youtube looking for a music video and 30 minutes later we are watching cats accidentally falling in a bathtub. Youtube is very engaging and that's why many businesses decide to advertise on this platform. There are several types of video advertisements: TrueView in-display video ads, In-stream video ads, overlay in-video ads and remarketing video ads. The TrueView in-display ads are promoted next to the video you are currently watching and the company is only charged if the thumbnail of the ad is clicked on.  There are two types of in-stream video ads, TrueView ads and non-skippable in-stream ads. Non-skippable in-streams ads can be skipped within the first 5 seconds and TrueView ads which make the user watch the entire video. Overlay videos are all text ads that appear within a video. Remarketing video ads target a previous audience using google analytics. Youtube uses Google analyti...