Tag Archives: retail marketing
April 26, 2013
Motivational Hashtag at Core of Retailer’s Social Media Campaign
Since 75% of social media users now use hashtags, it’s no wonder retailers are using them in social marketing efforts (check out 9 Ways Retailers Use Hashtags to Promote Branded Content). For example, at the core of Dick’s Sporting Goods’ (DSG) “Every Runner Has A Reason” campaign is the #RunFor hashtag.
March 11, 2013
Retailers and Banks Figure Out How to Make Social Pay(ments)
The payments landscape is changing rapidly. While mobile banking apps and contactless payment methods get a lot of play, retailers and financial institutions are also figuring out how to make payments social. Here are some emerging and interesting ways to make purchases in our very social world:
Facebook Gift Cards
When a friend sends you a gift on Facebook, one of the choices now is a Facebook-branded gift card – a physical, plastic card – preloaded with funds from one (or more) of a handful of retailers. The card, which arrives via snail mail after you accept a virtual greeting card and provide your address, is reloadable: when you receive another gifted amount, it is added to the same card. The gift card’s associated mobile app helps users manage account balances for each retailer. Through Facebook’s partnership with Discover, participating retailers like Target, Starbucks and Sephora process the card like any other bank plastic. (Here’s Facebook’s own description of how it works.)
Perks & pitfalls
The Facebook gift card not only brings the social network’s influence offline, but also monetizes data Facebook has been gathering for years (birthdays now serve as prompts for the network to invite users to buy gifts), and opens a new source of revenue for the publicly traded company. The benefit for consumers, provided they buy in, is the convenience of sending and receiving gifts via the social network, where visitors spend an average of 6.75 hours each month.
However, to quote an infamous relationship status, “It’s complicated.”
September 29, 2011
Blogs Are All the Fashion for Retailers Seeking Influence
I’ve been a blogger in my personal life for years, so I was hardly unbiased earlier this year when The New York Times announced that short-form social media, like Facebook and Twitter, were causing the rapid decline of blogs. Even though I fell into the, ahem, older age group for whom blogging was reported as increasing slightly, I bristled at my most beloved medium being labeled out of favor.
In February, an impassioned debate followed The New York Times article, “Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter”), and the internet lit up with posts (blog posts, mainly) on both sides of the argument that everyone began to sum up as “The New York Times says blogs are dead.”
Fast forward to yesterday when The New York Times’ Fashion & Style section published an article about the power of bloggers as influencers.
Posted in Social Marketing
Tagged blogging, fac, retail marketing, social media as a marketing tool, Twitter
May 18, 2011
Tweeting with the Stars
An increasingly popular aspect of Twitter is the velvet rope-less access it provides to celebrities: A- and D-listers alike. With an “@” symbol and verified (this is important!) account name, anyone with a keyboard can tweet to their favorite actor, artist or athlete.
For the star-struck, a tweet back is like a digital autograph, the next best thing to rubbing elbows in person. (Hello, bragging rights!) For retail marketing, it’s a terrific tactic to gain the attention of millions of followers.
Posted in Social Marketing
Tagged retail marketing, social media, Twitter
April 29, 2011
Media Logic Bares All In “FYE Naked” Webinar – Now Online
Learn the naked truth about one retailer’s social media promotions
It’s not every day you get to see a brand in the buff. Media Logic pulls back the curtain back on FYEGUY, its ongoing social media marketing effort on behalf of FYE, the largest specialty digital entertainment retailer in the United States.
Posted in Social Promotions
Tagged Facebook, foursquare, fye, retail marketing, social media, Social Promotions, Twitter
April 14, 2011
Media Logic Makes a Jackass Out of FYE
All combined, the Jackass films produced by Johnny Knoxville and the gang have grossed more than $300 million worldwide. So with Jackass 3D (the most successful of the three pics) prepping for release on Blu-ray and DVD, Paramount and FYE turned to Media Logic to help them make a big, muddy, disgusting splash.
Leveraging exclusive content from the DVD (hosted on FYE’s “fyeguy” Facebook page), contesting and targeted facebook advertising – as well as fyeguy’s regular twitter and Facebook streams – we helped to build momentum for the release.
Then, when the DVD actually dropped, we followed that up with an additional foursquare promotion that closed the loop – driving customers directly to FYE stores nationwide.
Posted in Social Marketing, Social Promotions
Tagged Facebook, foursquare, fye, retail marketing, social media, Social Promotions, Twitter
April 5, 2011
Successful Social Promotions Are Part of Something Larger
Thirty-five thousand entries. One-hundred thousand store visits. Three-hundred thousand YouTube views. 10 million Facebook posts.*
The numbers are impressive. They represent the level of customer engagement Wet Seal earned in its 2010 social media-driven model search. Wet Seal’s Chief Information Officer Jon Kubo related the brand’s online success to fellow retailers at a conference last month in San Francisco.
The significant impact of the single promotion described above not only brings attention to Facebook, the platform that drove most of the engagement, but also entices previously-skeptical retailers to take another look at social media.
March 18, 2011
Media Logic Retail Marketing Report Update: 15 Retailers Beat the Facebook Trend
Walmart makes a big jump on both Facebook and Twitter. Bass Pro Shops, New York & Company, Pottery Barn, Gymboree, Lane Bryant, Ann Taylor, Williams-Sonoma, Chico’s, Macy’s, Bebe, Cabela’s, CVS, Banana Republic and Bed Bath & Beyond also show strong 2011 growth. Meanwhile, Kohl’s, TJ Maxx, Lowe’s, Walgreens and J. Crew flatline.
It took a bit of work to separate wheat from chaff for the January-to-March update to the Media Logic Retail Marketing Report. Most tracked brands experienced a slowdown in fan acquisition after the holidays.
But 15 retailers defied the general trend and posted continued fan base growth into the first months of 2011. What did they do? And what can we learn?
Gain access to the full article to discover what retail sectors and social marketing strategies are yielding the greatest growth on Facebook. Plus, view the complete Liker growth chart for the 100 surveyed retail brands.
Posted in Social Marketing, Social Promotions
Tagged brand loyalty, conversation management, department/discount brands, engagement, Facebook, fan feedback, Media Logic Retail Marketing Report, media value, recreation brands, retail marketing, retailers, return on investment, social growth, Social Promotions, specialty apparel brands, specialty hardlines brands, Twitter, user-generated content
February 15, 2011
Integrating Mobile and Social In-Branch: A Good Investment for Financial Services
During a recent competitive audit for a big investment client, we discovered that now is the time for financial service institution to add social and mobile integration to their in-branch experiences.
