Common sense alone should be enough to understand the benefits of an engaged and committed workforce. After all, how can having generally happier and more responsive employees be a bad thing? But just in case common sense isn’t convincing enough, here are a few numbers to help drive the point home. A more engaged workforce can deliver:
It’s fair to say that no two people are the same. Each person has different interests and different perspectives. Advertisers have known this for years and have increasingly been applying it to their marketing efforts through personalized email campaigns, dynamic banner ads, dynamic keyword insertion and other personalization technologies. But until recently, advertisers were unable to implement this approach in the world of video advertising which is, after all, the most engaging and powerfu...
adidas is one of the main sponsors of the Boston Marathon and, like other event sponsors, was looking for a way to create a more meaningful connection with participants and viewers - something that goes beyond the standard freebies giveaway.
Advertising on Google and Facebook has become the standard way to generate leads, and why wouldn’t it? It’s measurable, performance-based (well, sort of… as we’ll see below), offers broad reach and rich segmentation and is relatively straightforward. Better yet, according to many industry reports, this ad spend generates healthy returns. In fact, the Google Economic Impact report claims that every $1 spent on Adwords generates $2 in revenues.
Marketing has evolved from somewhat of an art into a very precise and quantifiable science. No marketing campaign should ever be rolled out without a robust understanding of how to measure whether your campaign was a resounding success or, contrarily, a bit of a let-down.
Perhaps the biggest shift we've seen in marketing over the past decade or so is towards consumer empowerment. Due in large part to the sheer volume of companies out there vying for the attention of consumers, as well as advances in media technology and the role it plays in marketing, consumers now have a lot more power and control over which brands they choose to interact with - and how. From choosing to skip Youtube ads to selecting which among the hundreds of marketing emails they receive t...
If you're doing everything you can to make your brand stand out from the crowd, you already know the phenomenal value of video in marketing.
The marketing industry has moved beyond questioning whether or not to personalize. I think we can all unanimously agree that not personalizing your marketing efforts is a pretty heinous crime nowadays, people (I'm looking at you, 70% of brands who think personalization is important but are still not implementing).
