B-to-B Events
Hitting The Boards
EVENT MEASUREMENT dashboards are getting big play as brand marketers begin to consolidate their measurement efforts and data-mining. Don’t have one? OK timeout: A dashboard is a graphic user interface or report that houses and shows off all your measurement information in a way that’s easy to read and interpret. It’s meant to present performance...
Happy Employees Make the Best Brand Ambassadors
AS MARKETERS TRY TO BUILD WORD-OF-MOUTH BUZZ a few have realized the ultimate influencers may already be on their payrolls. McDonald’s Hewlett-Packard and Amtrak have found that engaging employees as brand ambassadors gives them credibility and the employees a sense of pride. It’s an approach that benefits both sides.
Using Buzz Metrics
Television has Nielsen ratings. Print ads circulation numbers. Even billboards in the middle of South Dakota can look to traffic patterns to help illustrate their value. None of these tracking units are a perfect science of course. (No matter what they tell you.) But based on sheer market maturity these disciplines have historically enjoyed more...