SmartBrief - Marketing

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Having learned their lessons — and burned their fingers — by wandering into contentious issues earlier in this decade, we are likely to see brands grow more cautious, conducting business as usual in an effort to avoid alienating shareholders, customers or employees. Paralyzed by fear and afraid to make the wrong move, they will remain silent.

Promotion 102

Promotion Branding Health Communications 102

Sprout Social

JULY 30, 2024

But what made this event even more unsettling was Claiir’s then-ongoing partnership with vegan, cruelty-free brand, MCoBeauty. When the brand found out about the crisis, they released a statement condemning Claiir’s actions and announced that their partnership was terminated—a move that protected the brand from further outrage.

Influencer Marketing 98

Influencer Marketing Branding Health Logistics 98

Jeff Bullas

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Nowadays, brands, especially entertainers, are leveraging social media more. One way you can do that is by collaborating with other brands that share similar audiences with your business. This way, you’ll expand your reach by introducing your brand to new audiences. The last thing you need is to lose your customers.

Entertainment 348

Entertainment Communications Health Product 348

Sprout Social

JANUARY 11, 2024

Brand awareness is like a mental shortcut. You see a logo, hear a jingle or spot a particular color and instantly particular brand associations spring to mind. How exactly do you quantify the impact of your brand in people’s minds? They capture the subtle yet significant impressions your brand leaves. tangleteezer

Branding 121

Branding Transform Health Analytics 121

Buffer Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In my 20s, I fell down a health and fitness rabbit hole.   It did mean I went through a very intense period of saying no to dessert (would not recommend), but it also helped me fall in love with exercise (would recommend) — and almost accidentally, build something of a personal brand.  

Branding 130

Branding Health PR Transform 130

Martech

JUNE 28, 2024

Brands are having a moment. Many advertisers are shifting investment back up the funnel after realizing their performance-heavy investment strategies may have starved their brands of the reach and relevance needed to fuel future growth. Still, savvy CFOs will demand a business case for the dollars invested in driving your brand.

Branding 132

Branding Key Performance Indicator Marketers Marketing 132

Hubspot Marketing

JUNE 14, 2023

Brand colors shape how people perceive your business. McDonald's has done a fantastic job of using its colors to establish a memorable brand identity that stays with you long after you've finished your burger and fries. So why settle for a forgettable brand image that blends in with the crowd? What are brand colors?

Branding 138

Branding Food Finance Fashion 138

SmartBrief - Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2024

Beyond its biological implications, menopause represents a significant opportunity for brands to redefine women’s health and wellness strategies. billion by 2028, driven by increasing awareness of menopause as a critical health phase and the demand for innovative solutions.

Health 93

Health Millennials Transform Retail 93

Hubspot Marketing

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Her coffee brand, launched in 2020, took off among young coffee lovers (and even tempted me, a not-so-young coffee lover). They’re already the winning formula for CPG brand marketing. These brands spend ~$40B per year in ads, a big chunk of which goes to creator partnerships.

Food 127

Food Branding Energy Manufacturing 127

Adams & Knight Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Adams & Knight is a branding and marketing consultancy based in Connecticut that specializes in results-driving advertising, digital marketing, PR, social media, content marketing and marketing technology services. “These awards are a direct reflection of the incredible work we did with each of them.”

Advertising 246

Advertising Advertisers PR CMO 246

Sprout Social

APRIL 29, 2024

Homegrown content creators engage their communities more deeply and get more impactful brand endorsements because of their strong, authentic relationships. This shows that when influencers showcase a product or brand, their followers trust their recommendations and take action based on their endorsements.

Branding 118

Branding Fashion Food COS 118

Sprout Social

JUNE 27, 2023

In a world where star ratings can make or break a brand, review analysis is your north star. It gives you deep insights from customer feedback so you can uncover trends, make targeted improvements to your business and build a richer brand management strategy. Why should brands carry out review analysis? Let’s take a closer look.

Branding 133

Branding Customer Key Performance Indicator Fashion 133

Jeff Bullas

MARCH 15, 2023

That purpose is to give it a human face (user interface) that provides an intuitive and natural way for people to interact with machines, opening up a whole new world of possibilities for customer service, content creation, mental health support, language translation, and so much more. Its possibilities are almost infinite.

Health 202

Health User-Generated Transform Education 202

Martech

MARCH 11, 2024

For this prompt, try selecting the Brand Manager persona. I’m a brand manager for a new organic juice brand. How do I use multi-touch attribution to find the most effective digital channels, increase ROI and improve brand awareness for my brand? Understood? Please use simple language.

Branding 118

Branding Key Performance Indicator Customer Journey Marketing Mix 118

Sprout Social

MAY 11, 2023

Operating on social media without brand safety tools is like browsing the internet without malware protection. Brand safety has traditionally been relegated to just protecting brands from advertising on or near inappropriate content online. What are brand safety tools?

Branding 136

Branding Transform Thought Leadership Advertisers 136

Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

As a marketer, it can feel like getting your brand noticed in today’s crowded digital landscape requires a herculean effort. You reach your target audiences even when they don’t encounter your brand directly online. You boost your brand visibility, and widen your marketing reach beyond what you can achieve with internal efforts alone.

Branding 126

Branding User-Generated Entertainment Health 126

Sprout Social

MARCH 21, 2024

Looking to build buzz for your UK-based brand? The platform, known for its fast-moving trends and authentic content, is often tough for brands to break into. If you’re a brand looking to reach Gen Z or Gen Alpha consumers, you’ll likely be a hit on UK TikTok. He’s worked with brands like Thomas Sabo and Just Eat.

Gen Z 115

Gen Z Branding Fashion Food 115

Jeff Bullas

JANUARY 3, 2023

If you cover the health space, consider particular products you can discuss — for example, weight loss products as a big sub-niche for health. Product or brand comparison keywords. Brand comparison keywords compare two brands that sell similar products — for example, WebCEO vs. SEMrush – two keyword research tools.

Affiliate Marketing 241

Affiliate Marketing Non-Profit eBook Health 241

Jeff Bullas

MARCH 14, 2023

Affiliate marketing programs offer you the chance to promote brands that sell online business tools such as VPNs and other software, pharmaceutical items, digital products such as e-books, and anything else you can buy online. Most of the products are in the digital information marketing and health supplement niches.

Affiliate Marketing 182

Affiliate Marketing Health Fashion Marketers 182

Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Brand visibility measures how well a brand is known and how often potential customers encounter it across various channels, such as search engines, social media, advertising, public relations or word-of-mouth. Among the highlights are the significant roles played by links, clicks and the authority of entities, brands and websites.

Branding 99

Branding Customer loyalty SEO PR 99

Rock Content

MAY 2, 2024

One of the goals of branding is to establish a distinct brand voice that sets you apart from competitors. While recognizing the importance of a brand voice, you might be unsure where to start. Fortunately, numerous brand voice examples from other companies can serve as inspiration for crafting your own.

Branding 98

Branding Communications Health Education 98

Hootsuite

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Well, it often makes for perfect content for your brand. Whether you’re laughing about your early brand flubs or posting pics of your very first office in your parents’ garage, looking back on the past is a great way to keep it light and playful. Here’s why. It happens every week.

Branding 145

Branding Automobile Fashion Copywriting 145

Sprout Social

JANUARY 10, 2024

Turning a negative situation into a positive outcome will help win their loyalty and maybe even earn your brand public praise on social media. Used car dealers, home repair and health and wellness companies are also some of the most complained about companies. It’s also an opportunity to become the ‘hero’ in your customer’s story.

Management 118

Management Branding User-Generated Energy 118

Sprout Social

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Even the most well-known legacy brands need to adapt to attract audiences over the years. A strategy that made a brand successful years ago may be obsolete in the future, that’s why building brand awareness remains critical for established and upcoming businesses alike.

Gen Z 128

Gen Z Branding Millennials Transform 128

Sprout Social

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Casey Lewis, social media consultant, author behind the After School newsletter and expert of social trends among younger audiences, sums it up like this: “Any brand not actively trying to reach Gen Z and Gen Alpha is doing themselves a disservice. What brand content does Gen Z engage with? Data backs this up.

Gen Z 92

Gen Z Branding User-Generated Influencer Marketing 92

Sprout Social

APRIL 29, 2024

Reputation management services protect your brand and help you maintain a positive and professional image through the following advantages. Helps build and maintain your brand community Social media and review sites are important online channels for engaging with your brand community. This will deepen your connection.

Management 107

Management Branding PR Food 107

Buffer Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

  As content creation continues to blossom into a viable, lucrative career path, so too do the networks of support that can help you level up — whether you’re an influencer, personal brand builder , or just looking to get your work out into the world.

Gen Z 124

Gen Z Branding Influencer Marketing Fashion 124

Martech

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Despite Betterment’s long-term success and technical accomplishments, it has a real problem with brand awareness. You start as a digital brand going into a legacy category where Fidelity has online presence and brick-and-mortar offices and they’re running ads in a huge media spend,” Rosenblum told MarTech. The problem.

Branding 81

Branding Millennials Finance CMO 81

Hubspot Marketing

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Choosing the right logo color scheme for your brand can make a significant impact on memorability and awareness. In fact, 75% of people recognize a brand by its logo, and 45% identify brands based on their brand colors. Simply put, your brand colors matter. Meta: Blue Blue is one of the most common logo colors.

Branding 120

Branding Energy Shipping Communications 120

Hubspot Marketing

MAY 21, 2024

Like that company, a lot of brands have unnecessary friction in the customer experiences they deliver. That friction negatively impacts those brands’ conversions. Why Brands Struggle to Improve Their Conversion Rates Brands don’t talk to enough different types of people. I’ve seen this happen in user testing quite a bit.

Branding 105

Branding Food Energy Health 105

Sprout Social

MARCH 12, 2024

A proof point that illustrates what many social marketers already know: Presidential elections make social media a hard place to navigate, even if your brand isn’t inherently political. In a typical year, running social media for a brand account is complex. Will brands sit this one out? Will brands sit this one out?

Social Media Marketing 127

Social Media Marketing Gen Z Health Marketers 127

Sprout Social

AUGUST 31, 2023

Though the idea might seem infeasible for many social marketers, the L.L.Bean team went “off the grid” for the second year in a row this May in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month. This initiative was prompted by the desire to embody their brand values, and look out for the well-being of their employees.

Health 131

Health PR Branding Customer 131

Martech

AUGUST 2, 2024

Learning from how nature accommodates change In his book, “ The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility ,” Stewart Brand, an American writer, editor and entrepreneur, explains how nature’s ecosystems absorb the shock of change by varying speeds of adaptation. Initiatives for these longer layers include: Brand strategy.

Transform 122

Transform Marketing Plan Fashion Health 122

Martech

MARCH 28, 2024

At each step of this research for pharmaceuticals, health insurance and treatments, brands have an opportunity to build a relationship that will increase the likelihood of conversions. While it may seem there’s no chance to beat WebMD’s authority, challenger telemedicine brands are doing so in certain categories.

Transform 116

Transform Pharmaceutical Health User-Generated 116

Buffer Marketing

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

I now have over 130,000 followers, added brand partnerships as a new income stream for my business (earning $55,000 in 2021 and $105,000 in 2022), and even landed a book deal thanks to my thought leadership on the platform.   I got my first four-figure brand deal when I had only 5,000 Instagram followers.

Branding 112

Branding Thought Leadership Health Management 112

Martech

AUGUST 6, 2024

The way customers make purchases and interact with brands is changing. And how does digital engagement connect back to branding? We recently spoke with Keith Farley, a marketer with experience at big brands like Coca-Cola and Stanley Black+Decker. Sometimes, as a brand, we meet people on their darkest day.”

Gen Z 124

Gen Z Millennials Health Food 124

SMEI

JANUARY 24, 2023

While these tactics can be effective in the short term, they ultimately lead to decreased customer loyalty and a negative perception of the brand. In addition to lowering customer loyalty and creating negative brand perceptions, shame marketing also has the potential to cause serious psychological harm.

Customer loyalty 192

Customer loyalty Marketers Marketing Food 192