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With a one in four chance of winning the game focuses on the App with a chance to win USD 50,000 in cash prizes. The game requires users to find the missing online puzzle pieces to win an instant prize or a cash prize with Collect and win option.
Brands with a Storytelling approach create a lasting emotional bond with the audiences. Brand Storytelling helps your audiences buy into your brand beyond the direct response to a campaign. Brand Storytelling can further be improved with tools and advertising options that are now available on Facebook such as Video Advertising that allow for links to external sites. Brand Storytelling with Content requires Brands to start a conversation with the targeted audience that helps them relate to products and see the usefulness of the Brand in their lives.
Brand Storytelling differs from Branding which can be best described as “A distinctive set of characteristics and crafting stories across a variety of mediums that communicate and contextualize those characteristics in unique and immersive ways.” In the context of Social Media it goes beyond simple mnemonics, logo and brand’s visual identity that consumers usually identify your products with on the shelves.
Tactics For Brand Storytelling With Facebook Posts and Advertising
Generate Enthusiasm
Sports event or a sponsorship opportunity allows for brands to tell their story in a way that helps them generate enthusiasm with the audiences, capitalizing on the enthusiasm of the fans and followers, for the event. The brands can use the opportunity to create a connect with their audience with a sponsorship announcement or celebrity endorsement allowing for improved recall with association.
Taking this a step forward would be creating a brand experience that allows for audiences to share their experience or tell their story at the event featuring the brand during the event.
Brands view Content Marketing as a priority for Digital, as it engages audiences beyond discovery and increases the conversion rate, as can be seen from Adobe SEM benchmark performance where Click through rate for Mobile and Desktop has increased over the last year. While search marketing Click Through Rate was higher, Social Media interaction rate was lower across verticals except Media and entertainment as per the ADI Best Of The Best benchmark for Top Quintile advertisers in Search and Social Media.
Retail was one of the Verticals where Facebook delivered a better than average performance. For Marketers prioritizing content marketing, a review of post types and formats that drive results is imperative, to get the best results from their advertising spend.
According to OneSpot, Brands may prefer re-engagement as the tactic that works better creating repeat visitors and generating referrals.
For retargeting or planning content for new audience. here are some content marketing tactics that will leapfrog your content from being ordinary to fabulous.
Use A Popular Saying
Today’s Food Facebook post for Oreo’s introduction of Strawberry Shortcake flavor, uses and evocative line about audience’s love for Oreo with a caption ” Oh Oreo. we love you just the way you are. you don’t need fancy flavors to win our hearts”. Social Media post content has a similar appeal as the creative messaging that often becomes popular as it resonates with a larger audience.
As the movie quotes work well with message recall, the images have the same effect with imagery that resonates with the audience with the memorability of a popular scene.
Featuring a preview of a limited time flavor in your post makes audiences feel special and forges an emotional bond with your fans and social media followers.
The posts from Ben & Jerry’s gives customers a chance to choose the flavor on free cone day. By making the audience feel special, with a free cone offer, Ben & Jerry’s has successfully built an affinity with the audience as a brand that has introduced new flavors and has now provided a chance to sample one of the flavors. With an engaged social media audience, posts on social networks remind audiences about all that s new from their favorite brands.
Starbucks tweets and posts new product introductions, engaging the Twitter followers. Social networks are the way the audience and customers alike choose to find expressions in their every day lives. promoting your collections and products on social networks works best for re engagement. Customers looking for new ways to find value or choose the best way to express themselves turn to social networks, making them ideal for any brand or publisher to connect and engage the followers.
Posts that center around a context helps brands create resonance and reach a wider audience as the users are likely to engage with the topic of interest. Including interest tags gets your content discovered with users interacting with offers that they find useful.
Enliven Brand Mascots and Spokesperson On Social Media
KFC has enlivened Col. Sanders with advertising where Col. Sanders is a comeback hero making it possible for customers to enjoy their favorite chicken in newer ways. Using Col. Sanders as the brand spokesperson. KFC has created social media posts that take customers and fans through a virtual journey of different montages as Col. Sanders introduces new offers, contests and takes part in national events. As simple as it sounds the social media posts go a long way in creating an emotional connect where audiences are more likely to return for newer posts featuring Colonel Sanders.
According to an ecommerce study among 3000 customers, Omnichannel retail is defining all stages of the buyer journey. The key findings of the study indicate:
Consumers are loyal to a brand that offers them a preferred way of fulfillment. Building your rewards strategy with offers for different shipping and fulfillment options can help brands retain and acquire customers. Walgreens has designed offers such as free in-store pick up within an hour to boost loyalty. One in Ten consumers also expect to pick up their purchases within an hour. Rewarding customers for different shipping and fulfillment options can bring newer customers. If your brand delivers or ships direct to customers, you can offer freebies such as Annual shipping waiver above a certain order size.
Consumers also look forward to flexible payment options, in addition to in-store pick up.Building a rewards strategy that gives customers options to pay on flexible terms as well as in-store pick up will help build a loyal customer base. Customizing your rewards for Order ahead and pay later or Reserve and Pick Up in-store will help retailers capture the interest of consumers who like to shop with the reassurance of easy repayments and in-store pick up.
Though as high as 33 percent consumers buy from retailers that offer in-store pick up, they like to buy online and have goods shipped to their address, making it important for retailers to build in shipping costs in the order value. Aeropastle offers coupons for free shipping on an Order Value of more than USD 100.
As most consumers research online, prior to any purchase, promoting rewards for options such as mobile app, can boost online discovery. Create offers that audiences are likely to respond to such as accelerated reward points on sign-up or purchases made for a limited time.
Peel and Play offers hundred million food and cash prizes, from Medium Fries to 1 Million Dollars with 2016 Money Monopoly Game. McDonald’s earlier ran a Sweepstakes contest with a chance to win USD 500,000 every week and the Tickets to an NFL game and cash. McDonald’s money monopoly game has a mobile first approach with a focus on app only reward of USD 50,000. All through the contest period from March 29 to April 25 in-restaurant, and Online from March 29 till May 9 , the participants can win an instant prize by peeling the game piece or collect and win for each property as per the monopoly rules on Playatmcd.com.
