One of my hobbies is collecting autographed footballs from former Alabama teams. Often, former teams will have a 25th anniversary or even 50th anniversary reunion, and I like to attend these when I can and get members from that team to sign a football for me. I attended one of these reunions for a team […]
Selling Your Passion vs Selling Your Product
The vast majority of companies I work with are using social and digital media to build awareness for their brands. Typically, they contact me because their efforts aren’t getting the results they need. One of the first mistakes I often find is that these companies are selling before the buyer is ready to make a […]
How to Segment Your Engagement Strategy Based on Customer Type
Most companies have a customer engagement strategy, but that strategy views customers as one type and structures the strategy accordingly. Yet your customers are very different people, they might be a part of a larger group, but there are many smaller subsets of the larger group that your company should be aware of. Let’s review […]
Great Customer Loyalty Programs Are Built on Offering Great Experiences
You’re grocery shopping, and it’s time to buy cereal for your kids. They like Apple Circles and Honey Nut Loopies equally, so you typically grab whichever one is on sale. But not today. Because you just joined the ‘loyalty’ club for Apple Circles, and they sent you a $1.00 off coupon, so today is an […]
Research: How to Create Loyal Customers and Reduce Customer Churn Rate
Yotpo recently surveyed 2,000 American shoppers to learn their views on brands and brand loyalty. The results gave some interesting insights into brand loyalty in 2018, so I wanted to highlight some of the findings: Despite the growing importance of customer experience, product is still both the point of entry and departure for brand loyalty. 55.3% of […]
What’s Next For Blogging? Delivering Personalized Content Based on Visitor Intent
Recently I’ve been discussing how blogging will have a bit of a Renaissance soon as users move away from a centralized experience (social media sites like Twitter and Facebook) and back to a decentralized experience (like blogging). I believe blogging will become popular again as we look for ways to better gain control of the […]
Social Media is Destroying Our Ability to Create Impactful Content and Meaningful Connections
Go scan your timeline on Twitter or your news feed on Facebook. Look at the articles being shared, and more importantly, look at the headlines. After a while, you’ll begin to notice something. The headlines are written in a way to attract people that are already on Twitter and Facebook. This is important, because the […]
This is Why a Brand Ambassador Program is Your Best Way to Acquire New Customers
In 2013, Forrester did a study into which forms of content were most trusted by American shoppers. In short, Forrester found that if content originates from a customer or 3rd-party source, it is far more trusted than any content that originates from a brand. The most trusted form of content was product recommendations from friends […]
How to Convince Your Skeptical Boss to Invest in a Brand Ambassador Program
Whenever you attempt to sell your boss on launching a new initiative, there’s a few things you need to do to improve the boss’ chances of signing off: 1 – Help the boss understand the value 2 – Help the boss understand the cost 3 – Help the boss understand the scope of the initiative […]
Case Study: Patagonia’s Brand Ambassador Program Focuses on Product Design and Development Over Sales
Did you know Patagonia has a Brand Ambassador Program? Probably not, but the brand has had an ambassador program since at least 2000. This makes sense when you consider that Patagonia has never made advertising of any kind a priority for the brand. Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard has often proudly proclaimed that the brand only spends […]