Email has been - and continues to be - the backbone of all online marketing, while social media and the mobile landscape continue to emerge as top tools for today's marketers. These mediums are cost effective, informative, and have the potential to reach millions of people.
Join Blue Sky Factory as we navigate through the convergence of email, mobile, and social media - 3 core mediums that are currently on the hearts and minds of marketers everywhere - and discuss how marketers can leverage these tools to drive new sales and increase brand awareness.
2. Agenda.
Goal: High level understanding of these 3 core mediums
and how they can be effective when working together.
- Macro trends.
- 3 core mediums (Email, Mobile, Social Web).
- The Engagement Metric.
- Questions.
5. Marketers Begin to quot;Get itquot;
One of the big messages smart marketers
quot;gotquot; over the past two years:
Media really is two way now. In so
many ways through so many
different mediums.
6. Everything is Connected.
The digital experience now goes
with you everywhere you go. It is
integrated into the fiber of our daily
lives.
7. Uber Metric: Engagement
The emerging metric is engagement.
Email, mobile, social media offer
the most interactive ways for people
to engage your brand.
10. quot;48% of marketers plan to increase
their email marketing efforts in 2009,
according to MarketingSherpa’s
September 2008 Marketing and the
Economy Survey.quot;
11. Email is a key driver of social content...
...now more than ever before.
14. Over 85% of people 18-49 have a mobile
phone.
(Pew Internet & American Life Project, August 2008)
In two years, the average number of text
messages we send every month has grown
nearly 500%. (Nielsen Mobile, September 2008)
source: eMarketer
15. 39% of teens believe the mobile is the
only type of phone they will own.
(CTIA, Harris Interactive, September 2008)
68% of consumers say the mobile
Internet is an important factor in their
next mobile phone purchase. (AKQA/dotMobi, June 2008)
18. Types of Mobile Marketing
Interactive
Interactive
Mobile
Text-Messaging
Multimedia
- Auto-reply channel
- Music
- Text Alerts
- Pictures
- Voting/Polling
- Video
- Mobile coupons
- Text-to-Win
Mobile Web
- Advertising
- Display
- Banners, etc.
19. Email Marketing with Text-Messaging Cross Promotion
Brand: MGM Grand Hotel LLC
Category: Data Acquisition Campaign for SMS
Vendors: Cellit Mobile Marketing
Runtime: January 9-13, 2009
Summary:
The primary objective behind adding an SMS call to action to e-
mail campaigns is data acquisition through e-mail marketing.
Supporting a larger property initiative of building an SMS database.
Results:
o Total opt-ins via SMS call to action on e-mail blasts: 6,192
o Total Room Bookings: 404
o Estimated Revenue Generated: $49,632
25. Email marketing through Blue Sky Factory (Email)
Corporate facebook, twitter, LinkedIn (Social Media)
iPhone app for branch location (Mobile)
26. quot;Professional, timely, relevant and targeted
communication is the most important action you
can take in this market. Make sure you continue to
reach out and touch customers (and prospects)
regularly via voice, text, mobile, email, and in
person. Provide a platform that allows your
customers to let you know their preferred
communication channel.quot;
- DrivingSales.com
27. Thank You!
Q&A
Greg Cangialosi
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