With the number of digital shoppers in the US expected to reach 221 million next year, it’s important to find smart ways to remove barriers to purchasing. Facebook has made this doable with its product catalog feature, a container that stores all of your product...
Last year, at Cannes Lions, Facebook introduced Creative Hub as its newest feature dedicated to experimentation in our mobile-first world. They said, “This new, online interface will be a sandbox where agencies can play with different ad formats for online and mobile and experiment with what...
When I first heard about brands using Chatbots in marketing, specifically on their social media channels, I was skeptical. Maybe it’s because I wasn’t familiar with Chatbots. Maybe it’s because as a Community Manager- where my entire job is to build communities and facilitate authentic...
With thousands of people attending live events, both in-person and online, it’s extremely important for your brand to develop good social listening techniques. The social conversation exists whether your brand chooses to participate or not, so it’s critical to be able to listen to the...
Running a sweepstakes for your brand can be a great way to reward your loyal fans and find new ones. Doing a live video sweepstakes on Facebook is a new playing field and we think one that shouldn't be ignored. We’ve already touched on Facebook...
Listening to what your customers are saying about your brand and product(s) is an important part of any social media strategy. Tools that provide monitoring services are doorways into a world of product feedback, customer complaints & praise, competitor announcements, industry trends and much, much...
What are our customers spending their time doing? What are they saying about us on their channels when we aren’t being tagged? Is there a need they have that we could be fulfilling? How can we interact with them to show them that we get...
To produce a product that people want to buy can clearly be a difficult feat or we’d all be bajillionaires (unless you’re this guy). What’s trickier is understanding the actual consumer demand (or what will be next in demand). Here, I’ve compiled an initial list...
Last week, Facebook took additional steps to help brands tie ROI to social. They did this by revamping and making Facebook Offers relevant, again. Facebook first introduced Offers in 2012. A few brands tested them out, but there was limited success due to the poor...
Imagine a world where computers make decisions about where and who to target on traditional and non-traditional media. They handle the entire media-buying process, from building and maintaining relationships with vendors, to setting up insertion orders, to placing and optimizing ad buys. This may seem...
How does one brand monitor and listen to the thousands, if not millions of members in its community? This daunting task seems like a nightmare to any individual managing a social channel for a brand or organization. But don’t worry. The world of technology has come...
Live-Streaming isn’t a new tactic, it’s been around awhile now with companies such as Live Stream and UStream just to name a few. In the past couple years however, live-streaming has become more accessible to the average Joe, making it so that if you have...