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3 Ways To Improve Any Ad in Minutes

Hubspot Marketing

Back in 2019, KFC Australia ran a promotion. To promote the offer, KFC devised a giant Facebook experiment. They created 90 different promotional messages, including creative copy like: The Colonel has never been so generous, chips for a dollar. KFC was limiting the promotion. Create scarcity. It’s due to scarcity.

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2024 holiday sales live up to the record-breaking projections

Martech

Marketers continue to line up promotions for this day, and consumers, no matter where they happen to be at that moment, are ready to capitalize on the savings. Another thing to watch closely is that it appears that promotions — and holiday sales success — are moving earlier in a substantial way. The total mobile U.S. sales were $7.6

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7 Proven Social Media Promotion Ideas That Don’t Suck

Hootsuite

There are many reasons to use social media to promote your business. Here are 7 social media promotion ideas to explore instead, and how to execute them. Why promote your business on social media? 5 steps to promote your business on social media. Don’t hide behind boring promotional content. The rumors are true.).

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How Marketers Can Play an Essential Role in Climate Change Education

SMEI

This means that not only should you be mindful of the kinds of campaigns you create and promote, but also think critically about who your business partners with. For example, Patagonia launched an ad campaign in 2019 with the goal of encouraging customers to reduce their carbon footprint and purchase sustainable products.

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Black women founders have to keep pushing

Martech

In the decade between 2009 and 2019 in the U.K., ” Business customers can decide not only how many subscriptions to take out, but also how to deploy them, whether it be supporting newly onboarded employees or people in a promotion pipeline. just 10 Black women received venture capital funding. That’s worth rereading.

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How social listening increases customer advocacy: 6 examples

Hootsuite

Customer advocacy is the practice of nurturing relationships with your happiest, most loyal customers with the goal that they’ll promote your brand and recommend it to others. In fact, 34% of consumers say “too much self-promotion” is a major turn-off in how they perceive brands on social.

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Salesforce sees a shorter, more competitive holiday season in 2024

Martech

Brands also face the fewest days between Thanksgiving and Christmas since 2019 and fierce competition from the major cut-price Chinese shopping apps, Temu, Shein and AliExpress being joined by TikTok and its growing emphasis on shopability. Use AI to power product recommendations and tailored promotions. That makes sense.