As of 2018, all millennials, who are defined as being born between 1981 and 1997, are well into adulthood. This demographic of adults is so large that the number of millennials even surpasses the number of baby boomers! Millennials make up a large portion of consumers and it is becoming increasingly important to know how to appeal to this group of consumers. Many companies complain of being unable to attract millennials, noting they are always in search of something bigger and better. Millennials have been frequently described as disinterested and selfish, unsatisfied, unfocused and lazy, and comprise a group of adults entering the workforce with less security and value than previous generations. With the emergence of social media, millennials have turned to a world of immediate gratification, living a “post-worthy” and filtered life, and have changed the way we market. With all the stigma surrounding millennials, appealing to this demographic…

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Since its inception, blockchain has been a mover and a shaker; primarily a shaker due to how it is expected to disrupt industries such as banking and insurance. In reality no industry is safe from the revolution that blockchain technology is bringing upon us. If your industry deals with data or transactions, you will be affected. Take a business like digital marketing. Most would assume that blockchain technology would not create a big shift in such an industry right off the bat. However, dive into the details and you’ll see that the rise of blockchain has had an undeniable impact on the marketing world. The main pivotal areas can be summed up through changes in trust, customer experience and branding. The trust and transparency between brands and their consumers has drastically shifted. On both consumer and company sides, blockchain has begun to transform the way that business is performed. From a company lens, the way that ads are…

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By Brian Sutter Like change? Then social media is the place for you. Every day there’s some small evolution in at least one of the social platforms. Some days, there’s a big new product announcement—a new tool that could change the way you do business. This keeps things interesting, but it can make it hard to keep up, if you’re only looking at the details of how social media works. When you look at the larger trends, it all starts to make more sense. It gets easier to see the changes not as isolated events, but as trends. So while it’s hard to predict what might happen next on social media, it is possible to make an educated guess about some of the trends we’ll see in the coming year. This ends up being quite the pastime in marketing, actually—making predictions about social media trends. While researching this article, I came across more than…

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What exactly is digital marketing? Why is it so important in today’s world? The answer lies in an age-old quote: “Man is a social being.” The key to socialise is to share. It may be sharing of thoughts,  ideas, food, or simply, sharing of emotion. It is because of this basic nature in humans that platforms like Twitter and Facebook have become so famous. In this closer-than-ever world of people, business leaders must understand that to survive, one must adapt. Adapt to newer methods of marketing your products. Here a few tips to help you in digital marketing: Make a Tactical Plan A vague idea will not give endurance to a business. Business owners must understand that and plan in unique ways to take their company forward. It is true that SEO Optimisation is important, but at the same time, it is also necessary to formulate proper online marketing plans. Marketing plans must be…

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By Nathan Mendenhall With the recently announced Facebook News Feed Algorithm update, there’s been a lot of short-sighted advice being handed out in response. With the increased suppression of organic reach for brands, people have suggested everything, from focusing on Facebook Groups only, to abandoning Facebook altogether. In my opinion, we all just need to take a deep breath and think objectively about what we’re hoping to get from social media marketing. Why does it exist? Why is your brand participating in the first place? Now, this may not be a popular opinion with the social media purists, but social media marketing is MARKETING just like any other channel. The model is essentially to gather an audience, segmented by data, then sell things to that audience via advertising. That’s the way the process works. Misunderstanding this dynamic will doom your social media efforts when it comes to business results. So before I…

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By Jayson DeMers LinkedIn can be a powerful tool for individuals and companies looking to make new connections, generate leads, and build their brand. While it’s an important platform for all businesses, LinkedIn can be a true game changer for B2B (business to business) companies. This article will show you why your business – especially if you’re in the Business to Business space – shouldn’t wait another day to incorporate LinkedIn into your social marketing strategy. 1. LinkedIn is even more important to B2B marketers than Facebook. According to the 2015 Social Media Marketing Industry report, LinkedIn has now surpassed Facebook as the #1 most important social platform for B2B marketers. While only 21% of B2C marketers cited LinkedIn as their #1 platform, 41% of B2B marketers put it at the of their list (compared to just 30% who said Facebook was the most important). 2. LinkedIn is the third most used social platform among…

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By John Waldron Today’s world is jam packed with ads and brand messages. No matter if we, as consumers, are watching TV, listening to the radio, browsing the web, checking social media, reading a newspaper, or just walking down the street – we’re being bombarded with advertisements from all corners. Indeed, a Media Dynamics study revealed that the average adult is exposed to some 362 ads every single day. That’s a terrific amount when you think about it. However, when you do take this figure into consideration, ask yourself: How many of those ads do you actually remember seeing? Not many. In fact, consumers have become so accustomed to advertisements that we’re blind to more than half of them. As you can see from the table below, of the 362 ads you saw yesterday, you only noted 153 of them (and I’d bet my bottom dollar you couldn’t recall what even 10 of them…

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New research finds that sharing consumers’ positive stories about a brand can be a highly effective online marketing strategy. This article is part of an MIT SMR initiative exploring how technology is reshaping the practice of management. When we think of storytelling, we tend to conjure up memories of childhood — fairy tales, fables, and campfires. Stories are an essential form of human communication and are often among the first conveyors of cultural norms and values. There’s a reason why many childhood lessons are conveyed as stories: Research has shown that the human brain likes to encode, store, and retrieve information in narrative form. When consumers prepare to make purchase decisions, stories can deliver important information and shape the decision and the overall brand experience. With the advent of consumer-to-consumer, social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, stories can be powerful tools for shaping cognitive processing, recall, brand image, and choice.…

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By: TJ McCue Look around: How common is it to see someone deeply engrossed in a video on their mobile device? In just a few years, it will take an individual more than 5 million years to watch the amount of video that will cross global IP networks each month. Every second, a million minutes, or almost 17,000 hours of video content will cross the network by 2021, according to Cisco. Think about that – in just one second – more video will move across the internet than you could watch in almost two years of doing nothing else, including sleeping. Online video use is simply staggering from a consumer perspective. It is changing how businesses or brands communicate with customers and how we communicate with one another. As a guy who sees and reads a lot of technology research and is barraged by statistics of every order, I find…

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