The Benefits of DTC Marketing
In 2019, the Customer is King. It’s no surprise that brands have started scanning their business plans, looking for ways to shift even more focus to their customers. For many, this is done by either dedicating more resources, or fully pivoting, to DTC.
3 Ways to Market to Short Attention Spans
A big trend online right now is the “listicle,” an article taking the form of a list — especially on popular time-killing entertainment websites like BuzzFeed and UpWorthy. The New Yorker even covered this occurrence in a recent article, mockingly formatted into 10 bullet points. The article discusses today’s shortened attention spans and states that […]
Marketing Made Fun: Mobile App Game
Marketing your brand may be beneficial to you – but can it also be entertaining for the people you’re advertising to? If the latest mobile app games are any indication, the answer is a clear “yes.” This year, one of the hottest new phone-based games in Apple’s App Store is called Logos Quiz Game. In […]
Holiday Marketing: Bud Light V.P. Talks About Branding
Just in time for May 5 – widely known for its association with the Mexican holiday of Cinco de Mayo – Budweiser is discussing its marketing strategy with relation to two popular, nontraditional drinks in its arsenal: Bud Light Lime and the newer Lime-A-Rita. One of these has been around since 2008 (among the first […]
Step-by-Step: Creating Google Alerts
Last week we talked about why and how Google Alerts is an important tool when it comes to brand marketing and management. So now are you ready to try it out? Here’s how to do it: 1. Visit Google.com/alerts 2. There are five forms to fill out: • Search query (the word or phrase as […]
How to Create a Google Alert – and Why
Whether it’s from a vendor, customer or your competition, you want to know about the word-of-mouth buzz going on about you. And honest feedback isn’t always easy to receive. People are not always going to head to the source by calling you, visiting your website or putting a message on your Facebook business page wall. […]
Is A Person A Brand?
Anyone can easily be a brand, even if there’s no office full of employees or official letterhead to back it up. You also don’t need to be a celebrity to feel like you need a personal brand. When one individual is marketing himself or herself, defining an image is key. But so is living up […]
Google+ Business Pages
This week, Advertising Age spotlighted a curious inconsistency from Google execs regarding Google+ brand pages. Immediately, companies accustomed to business pages on Facebook and Twitter tried to create standard profiles in their names, though there isn’t yet a distinct niche on the platform for organizations. One by one, Google suspended these accounts – since profiles […]
Our New Client Makes Us Hungry For More
Meat (er… ‘meet’) Nat Deliman, the newest client of Mad 4 Marketing. He’s what you would call a standup guy, a real go-getter who loves to be involved in his community and make new friends. From our very first meeting, he was an instant hit with the entire staff – whetting our appetite with his […]
OOH Advertising We Admire
Taking your marketing campaign and putting it out there in the world where your audience can interact with it from a new angle, anywhere, is a very broad definition of out-of-home marketing. We’ve recently seen some neat examples that we wanted to share: 1) To tie together the brand’s new “free shipping” website policy and […]