By Tanya Hall, Guest Contributor With much of the business world abuzz about content marketing, smart marketers are taking stock of opportunities for their clients to use the power of story to convey a message and build stronger brands. Conspicuously absent from most content strategies, however, is the granddaddy of all content marketing: writing a book.…
My agency / production company recently produced an animated video for a new product called Swoon. Before that experience, I seldom equated beauty or cosmetics marketing with comedy, but rather pouty lipped stick figures stalking a runway amidst a barrage of camera flashes.
I don’t care of your game involves stacking cherries on top of ice cream before it melts or shooting hookers in the street. Own it.
What’s the best way to market your mobile app or game? I reached out to a variety of experts including app developers, game studios, app summit organizers and extreme gaming machine builders to get their thoughts. Here’s the advice that made the most cents, along with my two pennies’ worth, of course. Charlyn Keating @CharlynKeating…
Following in the steps of funny viral video promos for Old Spice and Dollar Shave Club, is the world’s first curated subscription box for cured meats. Carnivore Club has launched a video to promote the expansion of their services with F-Up Insurance, the newest way to stay protected before committing another transgression. The video shows…
I was in a McDonald’s one day when I saw the cleaning checklist on the back of the bathroom door. I thought, if the guy cleaning the bathroom needs a checklist to make sure he doesn’t forget to sweep or wipe down the sink, we definitely need a social media update checklist to make sure…
The perfect branded video series combines elements of entertainment and the same addictive qualities that keep people coming back to watch their favorite TV series. The trick is to plan out how you’ll build a fan base, appeal to your audience, get your message across without unleashing a series of ads, let people find and…
Everybody who launches a new product, from Proctor & Gamble to a couple of college grads who thought it up at a bar, is convinced they’ll be rich. If they didn’t think it would sell, they wouldn’t try. Look at some of the morons on Shark Tank. They all believed in themselves and their products…
Lots of marketing people with brands, businesses, organizations and startups wonder how to approach social media. Approach it like you’re asking out a girl or a guy with the short term objective of getting a date and the long term goal of getting married, having kids and living out the rest of your days in…
I know the inclination is to just dive right in there and make a video, or hire an online video production company to dive right in there and bang out a video that will go viral, be an ad and explain everything your brand, product or service does and stands for, all in one neat…
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