Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 29, 2019

For businesses to remain competitive, a significant effort in achieving marketing automation is required, as the gains to consumer interactions and experience, and company productivity and profit are many to be had. Analytics is a prime example of how marketers and businesses can benefit from automation. Feature #2: Email marketing.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

The Letter “K” in branding. The other day I watched a short video by Sara Blakely – the inventor of Spanx brand products and a fellow Southerner – where she reflected on the value and edginess of the letter “K.” Why is the letter “K” so strong in branding? K” is good for branding.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Did you know that 47% of B2B marketers and 34% of B2C marketers don’t measure content marketing ROI? Another reason why marketers don’t measure content marketing ROI is that they simply don’t know how to do it. Following is a list of 15 content marketing metrics that you should measure: 1. Unique Visits.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 22, 2013

Why not just set up your branded business email address, especially if you already own your domain? Wouldn’t this be one of the basic marketing mistakes to avoid ? A company branded address seems more professional. Should You Brand Your Business Email Address? And I’ve always wondered: why? What do you think?

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Yet for some reason, brands continue to drone on about facts, instead of taking the same, tried-and-tested approach for emotional communication. In a world that’s saturated with marketing, it’s more important than ever for brands to make a lasting impression with their customers. Why Storytelling is So Effective.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 25, 2013

Was I somehow branding myself as a personal or life coach? And if somehow that is how I am coming across, I need to do a much better job of marketing my business! And this will help me brand and grow my business the right way , so that I can continue to do the work that’s right for me… at least, more often than not.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 6, 2013

Do you know how your favorite brands measure up on the issues that matter to you? We hear a lot these days about how brands are working hard to become more green; “sustainability” is the new black. But just how green – or black – are big food brands? Behind the Brands.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Yes, we’re even starting to talk about marketing. Hopefully, this is what the birth of a plural democracy looks like, providing brands with the channels they need to communicate with their audiences. Libya’s Media and Marketing Industries Inching Forward is a post from: Waxing UnLyrical.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

have honored those films and actors that stand out from the crowd, creating a brand that exudes excellence. So, taking a (gold) leaf out of Oscar’s book, this week’s roundup features seven posts that examine how smart branding strategies can position your company (or you) as unique in a sea of competitors.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 15, 2011

However, when it comes to branding, the opposite may be true. On Twitter especially, a new term has arisen called “humanizing a brand.” This refers to a business’ attempt to give their brands a human touch. Going beyond simply “personal” gives your brand more appeal, PR and potentially, controversy.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 4, 2013

By now your seasonal marketing campaign should be well under way. And even though you’ve placed your media buy and have your media relations program in gear, are you still looking for that extra edge to your marketing efforts? Below you’ll find three ways to boost your seasonal marketing with Pinterest.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 4, 2015

Content marketing does much more for your brand than just aid your marketing. Effective content marketing shapes your brand by giving it a face to know, like, and trust. Content marketing and becoming human. Another excellent example from the mid-market is Twist Image and Mitch Joel.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 13, 2016

This is where influencer marketing comes to the rescue. Loosely defined as a marketing strategy involving influencers to impact buyer decisions and boost a brand’s visibility by using their online personality and popularity, influencer marketing has many takers. So, how do you “bell” an influencer for your brand?

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 3, 2013

But this is the approach I see in the early days of a lot of start-up marketing. Unfortunately, most of these ideas fail because they fail to successfully hit their mark in the open market. And the reason they fail to hit their mark in the open market is that they fail to differentiate themselves from the competition.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 22, 2016

– influencer marketing best practices, relationship-building, and measuring your efforts. They included: Gini Dietrich , CEO of Arment Dietrich and queen creator of the popular Spin Sucks blog community; Founder of the influencer marketing platform Traackr (my client), Pierre-Loic Assayag (my friend!) measurepr.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 17, 2012

When it comes to entrepreneurs, management experts, professional communicators and other careerist business junkies, the dream of becoming a top brand in the marketplace is near the top of the list. And not every major brand sticks around forever. the market leader, for dominance in the industry. Now, it’s out of business.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 20, 2016

Design elements can play a big part in the success of your marketing strategy… and there’s a lot more to that than meets the eye. Identity/Branding. It is important to keep your design elements visually cohesive with the identity and branding that you already have established. DON’T try doing it on your own.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

It is very rare that social media is used to propel or hurt brands in significant business-altering ways. And brands should prepare for such an eventuality with an integrated public relations/social media strategy. One brand has benefited for years from this lack of control. The stock market hates surprises.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 15, 2016

As more and more brands jump on the influencer marketing bandwagon, how they structure influencer programs and communications is becoming increasingly important. But I don’t need to have signed up to know one thing: this company is not engaging in true influencer marketing. Here are some guidelines. Create content?

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 6, 2016

Influencer marketing is more than just a buzzword. According to a 2015 report by Augure , marketers are increasingly achieving positive results with influencer marketing campaigns. Like most other things in the digital marketing space, garnering the support of influencers in your niche takes time , and sustained effort.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 4, 2016

When it comes to using humor in marketing, advertising and public relations, we often have to step back and answer a few questions before proceeding down a path of knock-knock jokes, current event inspired memes and company social media postings which could potentially make your mother-in-law cringe. Is your type or brand of humor universal?

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 23, 2016

Last year, I started a Twitter chat called #SocialPowWow in order to have a meeting ground on Twitter for PR pros, marketers and startups from India and across the world. It was last year in October that I decided to start a chat to build a community of PR pros, marketers, and entrepreneurs in India to discuss topics of mutual interests.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 27, 2011

I have a client – a gourmet dessert brand – that considers me its Director of Marketing. So I was asked to interview six PR pros who would work to expand the brand and product exposure, primarily from a publicity point of view. Or me, the professional marketer? This is Part 1 of a two-post series.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 5, 2015

Leah Fein-Roque , who specializes in tech PR and digital marketing understands the Snapchat appeal personally: “I have a 21, 19 and 16 year old using it mostly for everything including texting. Brand discovery (“Discovery”). Texting and emailing are dinosaurs to them. We snap together over 100 times a day.”. “In

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 24, 2015

But it struck me that the Batman franchise offers some great takeaways for content marketing. He needs help solving the brand challenge – er crime. There’s always more than the male perspective to consider and some brands still overlook that. What can other comic franchises teach us about content marketing?

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 26, 2015

Here are some of the most interesting posts on 2015 marketing and PR trends we’ve seen. How 4 Social Media Predictions Impact Email Marketers. 6 Digital Marketing Trends to Watch in 2015. Five 2015 digital marketing trends for your consideration. Why: What does marketing look like when there are no boundaries?

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 24, 2011

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Four Free Digital Marketing Tools for Non-Profits January 24th, 2011 Tweet Guest post by Erica Holt These are frugal days, and everyone loves getting and writing about free stuff. Why do I like it?

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 28, 2011

We PR pros often talk about what Public Relations can learn from Marketing. But what can Marketing learn from Public Relations, if anything? “First, once marketing materials are shared online, they are no longer under the control of the brand. How to be more analytical. Focusing on the numbers.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 24, 2019

On the marketing dance floor, influencer marketing is all the craze-because it works. In fact, 58 percent of brands have seen improved brand awareness and perception from influencer marketing campaigns. This is great news for marketers looking to increase the impact of their campaigns. Popularity.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 8, 2015

Effective marketing. Marketing is most effective when it pulls qualified leads into your pipeline, and that’s all about attracting. How can you hone your marketing messaging to its most compelling and simple form? So we could call this marketing. Keep it simple in marketing. Keep It Simple In Marketing.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

If you’re a marketer who reads the lovely Shonali Burke’s tomes on Waxing UnLyrical and beyond, then you’re probably managing daily disruption, following thought leaders as they jump to SnapChat (and wondering why), watching podcasters use Blab to video an audio, all the while trying to meet client demands. What is Heart Marketing?

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 18, 2019

In 2017, my organization, Goodwill Industries International, then a 115-year-old social enterprise; one of the oldest 501 (c)(3) nonprofit brands; the leading workforce provider in North America; and the #1 brand doing the most good by enso and featured in Fast Company Magazine – faced a pretty significant challenge.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 31, 2019

After working on Welcome to the Machine: A Primer on AI for Marketers (coming later this year), for almost a year now, I can offer you some quick insights that may help. In fact, I have seen brands like BMW parse their social advertising by zip code and optimize content and channel (Pinterest or Instagram or Twitter or Facebook).

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 4, 2019

So how can you, as a communications professional, leverage the power of community building for your brand? Now the hard part, building those relationships to reach your prospects and build brand advocates (your fans who will share your messages on their own networks). She is an experienced marketing and communications expert.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 12, 2018

As an example, he used the goal of producing 2,000 downloads that equate to marketing soft leads for sales. He said, “This goal should be shared across the entire marketing/communications department. It’s not a content marketing goal or a PR goal. Content marketing, yes. And we see marketers doing influencer relations.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 13, 2019

One of the reasons for this is brand deafness. Brands start out small then become big, then become too big to listen to consumers until they’re consumed. Sadly, some other brands aren’t able to start over and bounce back like the aforementioned. Here are: Some Brands that Failed to Listen. Circuit City.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Marketing and Communications are converging as PR is poised to evolve radically over the next decade. Thanks to the latest technologies, PR now has the potential to be a data-driven powerhouse that maps to real business results, earning a seat at the table alongside Marketing generally, or, at least, other important marketing activities.

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