In the beginning, before the hype of Cyber Monday, it was nothing more than a marketing ploy implemented ingenuously by Shop.org. However, today, Cyber Monday 2011, has gone far beyond just marketing hype and has grown to literally become the busiest online shopping day of the entire year. This amazing transformation from the 12th busiest online shopping day of the year to the first was made possible by expert marketing, something every eBusiness can learn from.

Cyber Monday

Cyber Monday started back in 2005 by Shop.org in an attempt to pursued shoppers to forgo the retail stores and shop online. Purchasing products on Cyber Monday still affords all gift givers enough shipping time to get that present to its final destination. This year, Cyber Monday is looking to break all kinds of records, as the experts compare numbers to a rise in purchases on Black Friday this year.

 
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Running a successful Facebook marketing campaign is complicated. Beyond the time it takes to personally connect with your target audience and network with your demographic, Facebook marketing requires a strict objective, measurable goals, and a plan. Launching a successful campaign is one thing, maintaining that marketing objective over time is quite another.

Case Study: Arizona OB GYN Affiliates

Understanding that Arizona OB GYN Affiliates’ (AOA) target two most important audiences are women just before and during their childbearing years. This audience, the Y Generation, born after 1982, are incredibly technology savvy and are categorized as the “Connect with Me” health care consumer. With that knowledge, we decided to embark upon a Facebook campaign with the goal of connecting with this target demographic.
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If there is one demographic that every brand wants to target, it’s the baby boomers. They account for over 50% of the United States’ discretionary spending, and are responsible for over half of all consumer spending. Their spending power simply can’t be ignored, espcially when it comes to internet sales.

Buy The Numbers

The common myth among marketers is that baby boomers aren’t online. They are listening to talk radio and watching the news, right? New numbers released by eMarketer in March takes that myth and squashes it. In fact, baby boomers ages 47 to 55 spent 40 hours per month online during the study, and those 56 to 65 spent 37 hours online. As we take a look at the total time that Generation X’ers and Generation Y’ers, these are big numbers.

 
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The inherent point to every press release is to grab attention, and over the years public relations professionals have increased their vocabulary to include big, compelling phrases to hopefully persuade news sources to publish their stories. However, over the years as this has become common practice for the PR world, many readers and news outlets are adhering to the notion that less is more.

What are Buzzwords?

Technically speaking, buzzwords are a form of salesmanship, or politics, where a phrase or single word that ‘has begun to see use in the wider society outside of its originally narrow technical context.” These are words that, over time, have grown to mean something more and generate more feeling than other words. Buzzwords garner excitement, interest and sentiment, and are hopefully compelling enough to follow the ultimate call to action.
 
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What is your brand? Is it just a logo, a tagline? Is it a storefront, a website? Perhaps your brand is an experience, an emotion that each ‘fan’ feels with each company interaction? We’ve spent a lot of time talking about digital marketing, holiday marketing, and social media marketing, but today I wanted to get back to the heart of everything we do here at Quaintise; branding.

Define Brand….

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Football is a religion. Well, some people will tell you that. A few weeks ago we dove into the expert marketing behind the NFL’s push to grab female fans, including its Breast Cancer Awareness efforts during the month of October. While at Quaintise we focus more on medical, hotel, and local business marketing, it is fascinating to look deeper into the incredibly effective marketing strategies of the NFL.

The NFL and TV Ratings

In the world of television advertising, ratings mean everything. When you have high ratings, you have the world at your fingertips simply because you have the opportunity to charge a small fortune for advertising spots. Everyone is well aware of how expensive it is to advertise during the Super Bowl because the amazing ratings that the Super Bowl gets.

 
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While we enlist many different forms of advertising and marketing for clients in nearly every industry, medical marketing is something that Quaintise has always had a keen knowledge of. Every industry is distinctive, and requires unique marketing strategies that not only cater to the industry, but the client’s brand as well. Medical marketing comes with unique challenges, but also provides amazing opportunities. In this case, I’d like to dive into medical marketing online, and the simple steps that you can take to increase online brand awareness.

Medical Search Marketing

With many years in the medical search marketing field, we’ve become familiar with the marketing techniques that provide the highest results. Every brand, no matter what industry, needs to increase their online brand awareness to amplify their overall brand presence. With an integrated marketing plan, online strategies such as search marketing, online reputation management, social media marketing are essential. The 5 steps provided below are the foundation to a great online presence.
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It’s incredibly difficult to run a successful marketing campaign in the first place, but running a second act, or continuation of the first campaign, is nearly impossible. You can integrate your campaign by adding social media elements, hoping to increase the advertisement’s lifespan and reach; however such elements will open you up to sophomore criticism, where Fans will make or break your attempt to extending the first campaign.

Old Spice’s Round One

Everyone knows the Old Spice Guy and how amazingly successful that marketing campaign was for the brand. Awareness grew, Fans increased, and Old Spice advocates were everywhere. The brand won numerous advertising awards for their “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like” campaign. We’ve spoken about it many times here on the Quaintise blog.

 
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