By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Elon Musk’s sudden rebranding last week of Twitter to “an everything app” named X sent branding and marketing experts abuzz, with some calling the billionaire’s move a worthy risk and others wondering if it will be a “dud.” Since acquiring Twitter in 2022 for $44 billion, Musk has […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. One of five advertisers are reducing their marketing budgets this year because of rising inflation rates and supply chain issues, according to a recent study from Advertising Perceptions. What can you as a small business marketer do under such conditions? Just sitting out the next couple of quarters […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. The American Marketing Association (AMA) calls it “the million-dollar question”: What are the best times for social marketing managers to post to their social media platforms? The answer is one of the “depends on” variety — as in depends on which platform to which you’re posting, such as […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. A search of Crumbl Cookies within Yahoo News reveals a baker’s dozen of headlines from just the past week about the latest openings from one of the country’s hottest restaurant franchises. “Crumbl Cookies is planning 3 additional locations in Jacksonville by the end of 2022,” notes one headline […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. As marketers mull uncertainties spawned by the coronavirus, one trait they’ve always brandished continues to stand above the rest, as recent virus episodes gone viral have shown. That trait is called creativity. One hashtag campaign in social marketing, for example, is #TheGreatAmericanTakeout, which encourages citizens nationwide to support […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Perhaps you saw Facebook debut its first Super Bowl commercial earlier this month. Titled “Facebook Groups: Ready to Rock?” and set to Twisted Sister’s “I Wanna Rock,” it ends with comedian Chris Rock and actor Sylvester Stallone, decked like Rocky Balboa, celebrating at the top of the steps […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. When it was launched in 2003, LinkedIn mainly served as a professional networking service where businesses could post jobs and potential employees could post their curriculum vitae for any potential employers to see. Owned by Microsoft since 2016, LinkedIn has grown exponentially, now boasting its own business model […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. With the 2020 primary-election season but a month away and $6-billion plus expected to be spent on political advertising for the campaign, ad targeting will be a crucial factor in determining how candidates, political parties and others in the U.S. divvy all of those funds. When it comes […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. In the world of social media strategy development, knowing your target audience long has been a chief marketing chore. And across the generations, which may be the toughest audience to attract on social media, in terms of generations? That — perhaps not surprisingly — would be the oldest […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. You don’t follow Ariana Grande on Instagram, but suddenly her image is serenading you on the social-media platform. What’s up with that? It’s Instagram’s attempt to seize upon the social-influencer market with a new revenue strategy — “branded content” ads, from which advertisers can promote branded content from […]