More Good Media Ideas

We like following the retail sector, working with several clients in the space. And I--as a shopper--enjoy seeing brands innovate to surprise and delight me to earn my business in this current era of e- and m-commerce. It has certainly been a tumultuous year for retail, though with weekly announcements of store closings by stalwart industry brands like Macy's and Sears. The evolution to online shopping by the average American consumer has been especially swift in recent months, led by e-commerce giant Amazon. Prime membership is now estimated to be up to 80 million in the US, most of them in affluent households; and Amazon has shown no signs of slowing its aggressive stance in retail, with announcements late last month aimed at disrupting both grocery (Whole Foods Market purchase) and clothing stores (Prime Wardrobe). The stakes for retailers couldn't be higher and the demand to adapt couldn't be greater. But does all this mean brick-and-mortar storefronts are dead? That all successful retail brands will be 100% online? I don't think so. Here's why....

Topics: digital marketing, retail, amazon, whole foods

Lately I've been deemed the "webinar guru" here at McCulloch+Company. In fact, I've helped coordinate 3 with different clients just this month.  There's a very good reason I am such a huge proponent of these online seminars and recommend them often to our B2B clients. For your money in the B2B marketing space, there's very little else a company can do that's as successful in generating leads. And they are qualified leads, too - having submitted their information to register, and then invested an hour of their time. There are several more residual benefits that come along with participating in this type of content marketing - including thought-leadership within your industry. 

Topics: good media ideas, digital marketing, webinars, content marketing, B2B marketing strategy, best practices

Time to get back on the wagon and write about developing a quality digital media strategy. This time in our series on digital media strategy, we will focus on best practices for landing page and form designs. You've developed your KPIs and CTAs. Now you need to create within your CMS a landing page for your website that effectively converts your prospects that land there into leads. (can we have more acronyms in marketing, please?) There are certain things you should do and not do in designing these pages and the forms found there to make them most effective with high conversion rates. In this post, I will share just a few high-level best practices on this topic - all that we have learned from Hubspot, the CMS we use.

Topics: good media ideas, digital marketing, digital media buying, B2B marketing strategy, best practices

Last month I started this series on Best Practices for Digital Strategy. Read the first post here. Before I get into today's best practice, I want to share an article I recently read in the Harvard Business Review. It contains spot-on advice to make sure you are asking the right questions when developing your digital marketing strategy - to be more than just attention-grabbing online. From the article:

Topics: good media ideas, digital marketing, digital media buying, best practices, CTAs, call-to-action

When it comes to promoting a business online, all marketers know they have to do it - that's where their prospects are. But what's the best way to go about it? In this series, I will share some principles we have uncovered in advising clients in their media planning - for both tradition and digital media (yes- there is some crossover between these channels, believe it or not) over the years.

Topics: good media ideas, digital marketing, KPIs, digital media buying

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Back in December, I posted some of our initial thoughts on what we think through when putting a media plan together for our client partners. This is part 2 in a series of posts giving you a glimpse into our media planning process.

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This month's good media idea comes to us from H&M and their Super Bowl TV spot they have planned featuring David Beckham's Bodywear line. The 30-second spot, when appearing on Samsung smart TVs, will feature a pop-up menu offering more product information, the option to send that info to another device, and even the ability to purchase product using your remote. It will remain interactive, even if viewed later through a DVR. This is all via a platform, Delivery Agent, that has been doing this for years. 

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This time of year our all of our hair is on fire as we are feverishly putting together media plans for our clients. We're checking rates with publications, requesting Media Kits for new
 opportunities, scanning websites and exploring new media ideas based on our client's annual marketing objectives. (That's also why we've been a bit silent on the blog this month). But if you are searching for a new media agency, or perhaps unaware of what to do when it comes to forming a quality annual media plan, here's a few of the things we think through at McCulloch+Company when designing media plans for our clients.

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