Contextual Online Marketing Explained

Certainly you remember from my previous messages that high-performing marketing organisations create exceptional user experiences. Let me explain to you where online advertising fits into this and more specifically google search ads. The google search ads experience helps people to accomplish their task at hand or achieve the value they seek in the moment. 

This brand experience is called “Available”  in the context framwork by Mathew Sweezey. It’s the opposite of a forced brand experience where you push your message to the largest audience possible and see what sticks.
The ultimate brand experience you are seeking is when people find you on their own. 

Let me recap for you; You can think of forced experiences as magazine ads, billboards, TV or even online banner ads. Direct experiences range from emails to social media engagements and google search ads. The apex of organic experience are found by the people on their own time.

As always I hope this was useful for you and please feel free to leave a comment and share your thoughts with me.

But remember, as long as the Matterhorn stands, everything is going to be alright.

Cheers people.

Source:
https://mathewsweezey.com/books/

Context Marketing: How Google Failed

Do you still remember when Google ads, formerly called  Adwords, showed their ads on the right-hand side of your search results in  2016?

And do you know that these Google ads failed to drive any action by over 98 percent of the time? How is this possible despite Google ads being the perfect message at the right time to the right person?


Clearly Google had to rethink the way of doing things and had to come up with new ideas of what marketing is.


The question for you or your enterprise is where do you need to be to drive consumer actions?


Rethink your marketing campaigns may that be PR, Out of home advertising, social media or digital. Don’t continue to rely on what used to work and start understanding one very important change.

The consumers don’t listen to the advertisement anymore. Over 600 million people today use ad-blocking software.


Mathew Sweezey’s research in his book called The Context Marketing Revolution explains key traits of high -performing marketing organizations. Everything those companies did from their metrics, tactics, roles and business goals, traced back to the consumer experiences they created.
And by the way, today you see the Google ads on the top or at the bottom of your search results page.


Hopefully, this video is valuable for you and as always don’t be shy and reach out to me to discuss your marketing challenges.

But remember, as long as the Matterhorn stands, everything is going to be alright.

Sources
http://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2016/02/22/google-kills-off-right-side-ads
https://mathewsweezey.com/books/

Snowboarder Kevin Pearce speaks at Google Zeitgeist 2014

Every year around this time Google organizes Zeitgeist where some great minds come together and share their thoughts and stories. Watching this year videos there has been on speaker that stood out from the crowd for me. Kevin Pearce, Snowboarder and today ambassador for the love your brain movement tells you more about his personal life where he went from the top to the bottom in a blink of an eye.

Fascinating story where you will find purpose in adversity.

Subscribe to Google Zeitgeist Youtube Channel , start watching and get inspired like me.




Claude

 

What Moves Your Content?

Don’t you also want your content to be shared among thousand of people?

Find below what I believe is needed to make your content move. Youtube is a great source for this;-)

(Disclosure: The videos are my personal choice and not linked to any commercial activity)

 

1. Be loud

2. Be provocative

3. Be funny

4. Be emotional

 

1. Be loud

Watch the CWS commercial “Say no to dirt”

2. Be provocative / be misterious

Watch the Travel Book Shop Case movie from Zurich.

3. Be funny

Even though you don’t speak german I am sure you’ll enjoy this video.

4. Be emotional

The music matching the content creates even a greater emotional experience.

Pro Infirmis “Because who is perfect?” illustrates this in a great way. By the way the video has been seen already over 14 million times to date.

 

The online revolution isn’t over yet but I am over with my post;-)

 

Claude

 

The Rise Of Google +

The Rise of Google PlusA lot of talking takes place on the web these day whether Google + is going to become the second social network giant next to Facebook or not.

In my opinion Google+ has a very good chance to make it this time after being rather unsuccessful with Google Wave and Google Buzz.

You Gov announced the results of a Bloomberg / You Gov survey and here are some stunning statistics:

Google+

Already 13% of adult Internet users in the US have signed up for a Google+ account with another 9% planning to sign up in the next 12 months.  Those signing up are also highly engaged:

  • 45% of users report reading content once a day or more (only Facebook’s 62% is higher among social networks)
  • 46% of Google+ users report creating content (e.g., creating updates; posting links) at least once a week.  This is on par with Twitter (42%) – which focuses on easy content creation

Jeff Bullas has been blogging about this subject recently. Read his blog posts.

18 August 2011 – Will Google+ be the Second Biggest Social Network in 12 Months?

4 August 2011 – Google+ Hits 25 Million Users in Less than One Month

19 Jully 2011 – 7 Reasons Why Google+ Drives Hyperactive Engagement

11 Jully 2001 – Why Google’s New Second Generation Social Network Google+ Will Threaten Facebook

I would like to hear your comments on this. Is Google+ going to become a second Facebook?

Video to watch



More reading about this subject on blogs like:

You Gov – Google+ on target to be 2nd largest social networking site

All Facebook – Facebook: No One’s Playing On Google Plus Yet

Simply Zesty – Facebook Testing First Response To Start Combatting Google Circles

Search Engine Watch – Launch of Google+ Games Heats Up Social Gaming Battle With Facebook

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