Retaining customers, building customer loyalty and keeping them satisfied are some of the biggest challenges for businesses today.

Social Media can help manage these challenges.

Businesses can put systems in place to gauge their customers’ level of engagement on social media and thus understand their behavior and analyze how to involve them further.

  Every December we hunt down the most viewed Christmas video, but before we get to it, let’s recap. on which Christmas videos topped the popularity charts the previous couple of years (2017, 2016) and why businesses put so much time and investment into these videos which last just a few minutes. Starting with the…

With the upcoming festivities and holidays just around the corner, if you’re finding it hard to stay focused on work you’re not alone. There are millions of us watching Christmas videos online and what better place to do it than on Youtube?

When you’re on a break or during your lunch hour we recommend watching a few of the nativity themed videos. There’s songs, cartoons, and the wildly popular TV ads to get you in the festive mood and perk up your spirits for the rest of the day.

Most businesses have been doing emailing marketing for so many years is there anything new to learn? Yes. An article contributed to BusinessBlogs recently is trending right now. It has valuable recommendations for businesses specially those whom use it as their primary channel for new business prospects.

In our earlier blog article Email List Size Matters we analysed why your email lists are so valuable to your business and what steps to take to look after them and also attract more subscribers. We don’t have ultimate control over our social profiles and pages and so many of the channels that feed our business with visitors and clients yet we spend a lot of time and money nurturing them; often with dedicated personnel tasked with updating and posting regularly throughout the day. As a business we need to also focus on what we do own now more so then ever before.

The size of your email list should be your focus in 2017. Grow it. Set up online and offline campaigns dedicated to list-building. The campaigns need to be relevant to your target audience and capture the basic information initially then follow-up with campaigns that are more targeted. Next, analyse your follow-up campaigns and all email marketing statistics to build segments of your email list subscribers so your business can target it’s offerings more accurately and be rewarded with a higher success rate.

Merry Christmas to all our clients, supporters and followers. Just like email marketing, videos also compete fiercely for consumers attention and topping the Christmas charts is the aspiration of many businesses. However with millions of views on offer no cost nor time is spared in creating a masterpiece.

Keep it simple is the number one tip from leading email marketers. Businesses have more customer data at their finger tips today than ever before and slowly it’s being put to good use by email marketers. As a result email content is more personalised and in 2017 more businesses will realise the potential for greater conversion from unique marketing emails campaigns; so while the back end becomes more complex the actual email message itself should remain simple.

Businesses tend to use the digital marketing strategies they understand and have confidence in while ignoring the rest. Reading articles on digital marketing may not change what your business is doing immediately however when the time is right more knowledge on what is available will be useful.

Gareth Morgan has launched a new political party called TOP (The Opportunities Party) and it’s off to a good start with well over the prerequisite 500 financial members but what will it take for the party to get 5 percent of all party votes to get into Parliament? We believe TOP will need to fully embrace online marketing including email marketing Clinton Style