It’s a new year and digital is definitely not going anywhere. Here are the top five digital marketing trends every African brand should watch out for and leverage. 1. Creative Content will remain KING — only with the right distribution strategy! Everyone loves some good content, whether it’s content created by brands, influencers or individuals, the more […]
One of my mantras is ‘go where your customers are’….and inboxes are one of those places you will find them! Studies have shown that people working in corporate environments easily spend between 4–6 hours every day doing their emails. Whether you are focused on a B2C segment within a specific income bracket or offer […]
Your brand story is a core part of your brand identity and helps give life to your brand. Your brand story isn’t just what you tell people. It’s what they believe about your brand based on the signals your brand sends. The story is a complete picture made up of facts, feelings, and interpretations, which means that part of your story isn’t even […]
A lot of brands are winking in the dark without crafting and sharing the organisation’s brand story in a way that connects with customers. Content Marketing is that form of marketing that provides your customers with useful & relevant information, in an engaging, and not “sales- ish” way. This enables your brand to break through […]
Yesterday, in the middle of a brief for a website and technical audit project, a senior manager quizzed — “Why is it that every other Thursday, there’s a subtle trend to taste, touch, hear or feel a blast from the past around here?” “Why!” I responded in the most Kierkegaard manner, “It is not another […]
Despite the platform’s recent aggressive algorithm updates that seem to have everyone and especially influencers and businesses worried about the downturn in engagement numbers. Instagram remains a fast-growing mobile-first platform and records over 1bn monthly active users (Data as at June 2019) with 500mil daily active Instagram Story users (you may want to read that daily part […]
Content Marketing is the technique of creating and distributing valuable, relevant and consistent content to attract and acquire a clearly defined audience with the objective of driving profitable customer action. Simply put, it involves the strategic creation and distribution of digital content to achieve an outlined goal, more often than not content marketing is intended […]
2020 is just a few months away and trends show that some of the most successful brands online will be those who invest in strategic content marketing and tell the best stories. While the term “content marketing” may sound cliché to you, it is actually one of the most underrated marketing “weapons” of today, yet […]
In the first part of my last article, I unveiled the power of simple chatbots, and how smart Nigerian businesses can use chatbots to instantly convert leads and support customers on Facebook. Rise of the bots… Now I am fulfilling my promise to share more information on how chatbots can completely transform the customer experience on your […]
Sometime this year what started as a rumour was followed by an official announcement from Instagram sharing plans to eliminate the like indicator in the app. Oh, don’t scream yet, because you’ll still be able to double-tap on your favourite content and like them, but you will no longer be able to see how many […]
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