How to Increase Event Engagement with Live Tweeting
Live-tweeting, whether done from the Academy Awards, a college hockey game or a conference, ensures that event news is timely and capitalizes on the energy of what’s happening. Live tweets can pull in new followers, raise more interest in your association and increase your influence within your area of interest. But like any collection of information, it should have a coherent purpose and adopt a basic structure. Here are some of the reasons you should be live-tweeting your events: You’ll…
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10 eCommerce Best Practices That Will Boost Your Sales
Are your online sales increasing your bottom line? Are you using eCommerce solutions that position your company as a robust marketplace where shoppers can get merchandise that fills a need, solves a problem or enhances their lives? We’ve gathered some eCommerce best practices to pass along to you: Provide Answers Via Your Blog Use your blog to anticipate what your potential buyers might want to know, and answer their questions before they can ask them. This practice not only provides…
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How to Hook Potential Customers with Funnel Marketing
Luring in customers with funnel marketing is a little like fishing. They don’t take the bait at first, but they’re curious. So you show them a little more, and they move in closer. Some will nibble at the bait, while others will hang back and wait to see what else happens. You won’t catch them all, but some fish will succumb to your marketing efforts showing them that the worm, minnow or leech at the end of your line is…
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Marketing to Millennials, Part 2: Tips for Publishers
In Part 1 of our Marketing to Millennials series, we described why people born in the early 1980s to the early 2000s are such an important market segment. In this post, we’re going to take a look at specific ways publishers can target this important demographic. Gain Trust Trust is important to Millennials. They connect better to the people behind the brand than the brand itself. That applies to groups such as associations, where Millennials don’t automatically buy into the…
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Marketing to Millennials, Part 1: How to Connect
Millennials — people born in the early 1980s through the early 2000s — spend $1.3 trillion a year. They currently make up the vital demographic of 18- to 35-year-olds. But they’re a varying group of 18- to 35-year-olds, and marketing to Millennials is a different prospect. This is not a monolithic group by any means. Millennials are more racially diverse, far more politically independent than any other demographic group, and more likely to be unaffiliated with a religion. These young people…
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6 Tips to Make Sure Your Writing is Really Done
Whether you’re writing an article, blog post or news release, it’s crucial to ensure your work is written in an authoritative yet approachable style. Making certain that your writing is free of typographical errors, misspellings and grammar blunders will improve content clarity and improve readability. That means more than skimming and running spell check to catch typos and obvious errors. Look over your work closely to avoid errors like run-on sentences, comma splices and subject-verb agreement, as well as to…
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