Here’s a great guide to how to find the best digital agency for your business brand needs.
Getting an organisation who matches your needs and is able to deliver to your brief takes time and careful analysis. Get yourself all the information you need in order to find the best agency and then you have to brief them well.
Writing an awesome creative brief is a challenge and one we can help you out with – even if we’re not doing the work for you. Getting the language and the articulation of your requirements correct will shortcut the selection process of finding the best digital marketing team for your needs.
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Persuading people to join your mailing list is probably the most important first step in new business development tactics. A mailing list is a valuable asset for your business. The people who give up their time to join your list WANT to know what you do. They are interested in your business.
The right offer drives more sign ups
Copywriting for new business is a particular skill. You need to be able to put forward the right offer in a manner and tone of voice that makes the biz dev copy persuade the reader to take the action you want.
The words included require these elements:
an offer
a reason
some exclusivity
Case study texts for newsletter sign up
First, Chris Garrett gives away e books – he’s updated these since I first saw them but the offer is still 2 ebooks, he varies them.
Expert copy writing for newsletter sign ups
And from BlueGlass marketing at the bottom of a blog post an offer of insider information. Good use of italics and bold and three strong offers.
Persuasive newsletter sign-up copy
Want to make your newsletter list grow?
Get our experts working on your offer so we can make an irresistible offer to your site visitors.
They will want to sign up and get closer to your business. And that’s step one on the road to a pipeline full of new business leads coming to your business.
Read more articles on Step 1 of the new business development process with Creative Agency Secrets.
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Trade show stands are a strong component of most technology B2B marketing programmes and they are a great place to sweep up new leads for your service.
Our client, FeedBlitz, briefed Creative Agency Secrets to deliver collateral, case studies and a slide deck for their stand at the New Media Expo NMX in Las Vegas, formerly called BlogWorld.
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You have read everything on our Resources page haven’t you?
Readers, you are in biz dev, you want leads for your business and you need to get contact details of key personnel in target organisations: Have you read the B2B Lead Generation slidedeck? It’s linked right there on the Resources page – top of the list.
Today we add in more goodness to that research process.
How to find contact details for someone outside your network
This is a fabulous process from Andy Foote’s blog.
LinkedIn makes money by limiting search. One of the most annoying restrictions is being unable to see Last Names on LinkedIn searches. Fortunately Google to the rescue. Here are step by step instructions on getting full name Profiles.
(1) Start the search in People. My example: “hr manager accenture”
(2) “Mary F” is the prospect but I need her Last Name. – Linked in will only show a limited profile because she’s outside my network. But it does say that she is an Outsourcing Manager at Accenture
(3) Copy “Outsourcing HR Manager at Accenture Toronto Canada Area” into Google and click on the search icon.
(4) Bingo! Click on the Google Search result and you find the full name Profile (of Mary Frank).
How cool is that?
Read Andy’s full blog post of 5 Exceedingly clever LinkedIn hacks
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Wests New Zealand is a Dunedin based manufacturer of Cordials and Soft drinks. Wests have been producing beverages since 1876 and are currently in the process of spicing up their branding. This includes the purchase of a new bottling machine that allows them to customise their bottles.
Creative Agency Secrets spoke with them to discuss ways they can improve their marketing efforts using the Wests NZ Facebook page.
Facebook marketing goals
Their goals for Facebook include increasing their followers and developing more consistent levels of engagement.
By improving their Facebook marketing they also hope to maximise the potential that this new bottling machine will create. They want to achieve this by generating excitement and anticipation amongst their customers before the new bottles come into circulation.
Because of the investment required for the new bottling machine, they are looking to be as cost efficient as possible with their marketing campaign.
By leveraging their already established Wests NZ Facebook presence they will be able to achieve these objectives with minimal costs.
Wests had already created a solid foundation of Facebook fans, but found that they had reached a standstill. They weren’t gaining new followers and they weren’t consistently keeping their reach and engagement at high levels.
Creative Agency Secrets recommends Building Social Engagement
We gave them some recommendations on how they could go about improving these statistics, which can also be used for their promotion of their new bottling machine:
Regular posting to help stabilise reach and engagement of their Facebook fans.
Utilising and 80/20 rule when thinking about posts. 80% are aiming to build engagement and the other 20% are marketing their own products and specials.
Be active on other group pages (mainly by sharing and liking posts) that are in their product or geographical area. This is to get visitors to these pages to also visit the Wests page.
Would you like to know what ideas we have for your business?
Get in touch with us for a FREE 20 minute chat on the the phone or Skype.
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There is sometimes a bit of ‘black box’ magic that seems to happen when a creative brief turns into an executed campaign.
Some would have you believe there’s ‘secret sauce’ but the reality is that expertise and years of experience are the best predictors of what will be a success and what will fail.
Funding appeal by website
I am a Wikipedian Campaign
Take this series of images we found online.
This year, Wikipedia, Row2K and other community funded websites will be running a drive to raise funds. We have supported Jimmy Wales’ appeal last year and we’ll be doing it again this year.
But compare the lovely, sharable images above with the rather bland appeal text which are on the Row2K site. Which would you rather emote and pay out to?
So part of the success depends on creative quality of input.That may be hard to measure, and it’s certainly rarely guaranteed.
But there are inputs that will raise your chances: Starting with using an experienced team for your marketing. Get your agency team members to show you their own work from previous jobs. Ask how they came up with a campaign and what the “signal moment” was when the core creative idea was articulated. It’s not rocket science and it’s rarely a single burst of genius – frequently team work and careful development from an initial concept delivers the goods.
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List.ly is a list building website that allows you to build and curate shareable lists. These are then viewable by others.
People can ‘like’, ‘dislike’, comment or even add items to the list. This results in a list that re-organises items based on their popularity. You can then embed these lists in your website or blog. So, rather than directing traffic to lists you’ve built on Facebook or Twitter, you can keep that traffic on your own site! One of our first principles of marketing: build your own audience on assets you own.
Getting started with List.ly
Creating lists is simple. Go to the list.ly site and click create a ‘new list’, then put in a name and description. Then all thats left is to add your content, simple.
By delving into the advanced options you can also create branding on your list. The advanced options allow you to add tags, a header image and links back to your website. This means that Listly will also help you promote your brand through the header image, and also give you another backlink to your website.
How can brands and agencies use List.ly?
Product FeedBack
There is huge potential for brands to leverage Listly in order to gather customer feedback. Feedback is key in developing new products or making adjustments to existing products. Listly can be leveraged to create feedback, and even to get new insights into what your customers want.
Simply create a list of your products (or even future product ideas) and watch how customers interact with it. They will vote up the products they like, and vote down the products they don’t or they can leave comments.
In addition to this give them the opportunity to contribute their own ideas. If they add something to the list that resonates with your other customers it will climb up the ranks and give you new products/developments to consider. The best part of this is that not only are you getting ideas that your existing customers want and will buy, you’re getting them for FREE!
As a bonus you will also receive alerts from Listly when someone adds an item to your list. So you always know when something is added to your list, as well as who added it. You can also follow other peoples lists. This feature helps you to stay up to date with the how lists you’re following are changing and the new ideas that are being added.
Lists of Tips
Creating an industry specific list of tips allows you to easily find out what content your followers engage with the most. By following what tips people are voting up or down you are able to see what they want to know more about. This allows you to better plan out your blogs to appeal directly to your audience and will help to prevent you wasting time producing content that your audience isn’t interested in.
These ideas only highlight some of the potential that list.ly can offer in terms of content and product development strategies.
Do you have any other strategies? Have you used list.ly? Let us know your thoughts.
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After the success of the first Battle of the Brands post, I thought I would revisit the subject, but this time use the heavy weight of New Zealand, in terms of social media engagement.
The brand I am referring to, of course, is the All Blacks. With 1.87 million likes on Facebook and 170 thousand followers on Twitter, they are, by a long way, New Zealand’s most followed brand.
But how does their social media engagement stack up against some of the other top sporting brands in the world?
Step up to the plate, England Football Team and the Dallas Cowboys from the NFL. As we did last time, we will be looking at how these sporting brands engage with their huge number of followers/ likers and critiquing who does it best, as well as providing our suggestions for improvement along the way.
The All Blacks numbers speak for themselves, they are a head above any other NZ brand on Facebook or Twitter. I’ll start with Facebook.
Their Facebook page has just over 1.87 million followers (at time of writing) with an average of 50,000 Facebook users talking about it at any one time. They use the ‘favourites boxes’ in a basic but effective way, including; photos, videos, online store, E-calander, Youtube account, events, live streaming and an RSS blog feed. Possible improvements here could be a competition box/giveaway box, or a Fan Photos box offering high quality All Blacks photos for fans to use as their own cover photo on Facebook.
They average 3 posts on any given day but this can change if events are happening or important news is being circulated. Every post includes a photo or video/news link as well as posting polls and finishing all posts with a question of sorts. One of their most popular posts of late was‘Who has the better signing pose, Ma’a or Dan?’ and includes a photo of the two players signing jerseys at school event. It is very simple, asks a question and has a photo. A great way to get involved and engage with their fans. The post received almost 3,000 likes and 400 comments.
The All Blacks Twitter account is also used in a very engaging way and has an impressive 175 thousand followers. They send regular tweets with news updates, promotional info, the live location of training’s and events and post twitpics of fans at the events. They use hash tags effectively and retweet mentions of the brand/messages of support. A possible improvement for their Twitter engagement would be to tweet less (currently anywhere between 10 and 25 tweets a day) and mention fans as well as retweeting messages. They could also start up hash tags that can reach certain players or coaches and think about a ‘Player Takeover’ – more on that soon. Read more
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There are many different ways to organise your creative agency. Reading in the news from the Guardian where Lorraine Ruckstuhl thinks small agencies are getting the advantageover larger networks with many service offerings.
Avi later writes about agency compensation in another article where he links the incentive to come up with a big idea to how we get paid for our work.
This is a topic that will run and run – but for many smaller agencies, the opportunity to get new revenue streams exists from new product development [apologies it’s firewalled for subscribers].
What do you do? Have you got new income streams from non-traditional work? Or are your clients still happy to pay percentage media fees?
The difference between the business model, framework and architecture
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