In Mexico City Uber is using drones to promote its UberPOOL service by showing ads to drivers stuck in rush hour. “Driving by yourself?” the ads ask. Continue reading
According to a HubSpot blog post, “A buyer persona is a semi-fictional representation of your ideal customer based on market research and real data about your existing customers.” That’s as good a definition as I’ve seen, so I’ll give them a hat tip for it. Continue reading
Marketing technology produces vast amounts of data for marketers, and it can be supplemented by purchased second and third party data. But for many companies their omni-channel marketing efforts are seriously hampered by siloed data. Continue reading
Kim Kardashian West has over 48 million followers on Twitter, 29 million on Facebook and 84 million on Instagram. Even with some overlap among them, that’s a huge following. And even if a post is only displayed to a few percent of her following, which is typical, it will have millions of impressions. She often posts the same content on all three channels, resulting in hundreds of thousands of likes, shares and comments, extending the reach of her posts even further. A single post from her on all three channels has far more impressions than if it were an ad in most publications. Continue reading
Edward Tufte is a statistician, computer scientist, and writer of several books about conveying information and data visually.
His favorite data visualization (below) is a French graphic from the 1800s. It illustrates Napoleon’s attack on Russia. Continue reading
Many of these email tips involve strategies and tactics for demand generation. But marketing starts with knowing your customer and understanding what they want. As marketing guru Seth Godin says, “Don’t find customers for your products; create products for your customers.” Continue reading
Followerwonk is a tool from Moz — which is worth looking at for its other tools related to SEO and other forms of digital marketing. It provides some advanced capabilities for Twitter that you may find very useful. Continue reading
Yesterday I wrote about direct mail Christmas catalogs. Today’s marketing tip about the use of direct mail in political campaigns – ‘tis the season.
Direct mail has not declined in politics in the way that it has in the catalog business; in fact, some estimates say that its use continues to increase. Obama and Romney spent over $200 million on direct mail and printing in 2012. Continue reading
With Christmas now less than three months off, our mailboxes are increasingly filled with catalogs. (And I’m not going to say that these are “holiday” catalogs; if Christmas didn’t exist we wouldn’t be seeing this surge.)
The number of catalogs is certainly less than it once was. According to the Direct Marketing Association it peaked in 2007 with over 19.6 billion catalogs being mailed. Despite a small uptick in 2013 by last year it was down to 10.6 billion. That’s still a lot of trees. Continue reading
You’ve probably seen some recent websites that use very long scrolling pages that often touch on several topics – it’s as if several pages were combined. These are often referred to as parallax style sites. (Technically a parallax site is one that also simulates a kind of three dimensional look with the plane closest to you moving faster than the plane(s) that are father away. But the term parallax has been also been more generally applied to any site with long, scrolling pages.) Continue reading