Gamification. If you hear the word and immediately think of points, badges, and leaderboards, don’t worry—you’re not alone. The almighty Wikipedia defines gamification as “the use of game design techniques and game mechanics in non-game context to solve problems and engage audiences.”
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Friday, May 17, 2013
The Psychology of Sales: Six Facts Every Brand Should Know
Discount retailers, such as Target, Macy’s, and J.C. Penney, have tried various pricing strategies over the years to lure customers to buy more of their products. The primary tool in the competitive arsenal is to offer the best value because they know that customers are motivated to seek out price…
Thursday, May 16, 2013
iStrategy Miami: Crucial Takeaways From the Digital Marketing Event
iStrategy Miami in April brought together an all-star lineup, including Facebook marketing expert Mari Smith, business development and marketing media executive Dorothea Bozicolona-Volpe of Social Espionage, and Ken Segall, formerly of Apple.
For those folks who couldn’t make it to iStrategy Mi…
Monday, May 13, 2013
The Frugal Content Marketer’s Secret Weapon: Fiverr
There are three things that every marketer needs to be successful: creativity, resources, and freedom. Creativity brings the ideas to the table, the resources put them into play, and the freedom gives them the ability to try new things. Trial and error is the key here, but the problem is that it can…
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Focus on Both Brand Building and Revenue Generation (Not Just One)
There’s been a lot of chatter lately about the changing role of the marketing agency. I find that topic especially interesting because I work side by side with agencies to help them expand their service offering through marketing automation.
Marketing agencies are being held more and more accou…
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Three Vital Traits of a Positive Online Community
As a marketing manager for PRO membership, I work hard to create a sense of community among MarketingProfs PRO members. With them in mind, I thought I’d share some traits about what differentiates an online community from a run-of-the-mill website.
1. An online community makes users feel like t…
Monday, April 29, 2013
How The Home Depot Uses Comedy (and an Orange Cat) to Help Tell Its Story
The words “home-improvement specialty retailer” probably don’t make you laugh… but The Home Depot hopes that its adoption of a dry-witted orange cat named Richard can help consumers see the company’s fun side.
Bright orange, fluffy, and very self-possessed, Richard the cat recently hit the so…
Friday, April 26, 2013
Five Ways That Advanced Social Intelligence Helps Marketers
Within the tsunami of social network and open channel commentary lies a wealth of intelligence, rich in deep insight and free from disruptive bias seen with traditional surveys and focus groups. Leading companies are using streaming Big Data solutions and complex conceptual modeling to go well…
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Learning to Incorporate Content Strategy and Content Marketing in the Enterprise [SlideShare]
“The average organization is responsible for continual and increasing content demands of 178 social media properties, to say nothing of a myriad of other owned media properties, from websites and blogs to live events,” according to Rebecca Lieb, with Chris Silva and Christine Tran, in the…
Five Reasons Why Market Research Matters (and Five Tips for Using It)
All marketers will agree that market research is important. Because the media landscape is in a constant state of flux and marketers are constantly overwhelmed with data and business priorities, though, marketers tend to shave timelines, do “internal” research, and lose sight of the need for…
