local marketing

Honda uses Adobe Social to effectively engage European fans of cars, motorcycles, robots, jets, and other inventive products through a single, coordinated effort

Marketers face a unique challenge to allocate resources across a variety of tactics to target key audiences that need their product or service – with limited information on what combination of products or services will have the optimum impact, which target audience members are ideal fits, and what allocations will provide the best return on investment to the organization. Healthcare has its own myriad of challenges, including many local, regional, and national options for consumers, service line variations, and disparate demographics. The good news is that there is an emerging understanding of digital and multichannel marketing, and ample opportunity to define best practices, systematically calculate marketing effectiveness and return on marketing investment (ROMI), and use technology and data to create great business outcomes.

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When we released our first white paper in February 2015 discussing the ways multi-location businesses were using online media to drive in-store visits, most of the strategic opportunities being leveraged by marketers revolved around using things like promotional coupons, beacons and other tactics. While those methods certainly provided incremental lift in in-store traffic and revenue, there existed a number of gaps in connecting online data associated with promotional efforts, to data that indicated a customer actually converted offline at a business location. At press time for our original “online-to-offline” white paper, digital industry giants were still very much in the early stages of evaluating data points that signified offline customer conversions. Many of these “conversions” were somewhat implied (i.e. Clicks on “Get Directions” link), while others were a bit more reliable in signifying in-store visits and purchases made by consumers (i.e. downloadable coupon redeemed in-store

About $3.7 trillion is spent annually in consumer purchases in the United States, according to Deloitte. But it’s often forgotten that only 8% of that is spent on e-commerce. This means that offline brick-and-mortar spending is where the true scale occurs. In order to support consistent franchise growth for your business, digital strategies must be designed to impact every stage of the franchising life cycle.

Location3 client Mountain Mike’s Pizza and their franchisees face significant competitive challenges when advertising on Google, which ultimately requires the need to be both incredibly efficient with campaign setup and incredibly precise when managing bids and local budgets. A quick Google keyword search for “pizza near me” in Mountain Mike’s home state of California yields over 58,000,000 results (“pizza delivery” yields 56,000,000) and often features a predictable set of ad results from industry giants like Domino’s and Pizza Hut, among others. Suffice it to say that buying “pizza”-related terms in AdWords can get incredibly expensive, incredibly quickly, if a local franchisee’s budgets and bids are not managed with precision. When you combine that fact with limited location-level advertising budgets, our team atLocation3 was presented with a significant challenge in helping Mountain Mike’s Pizza generate increases in customer pizza orders while simultaneously ensuring that ad spen

Each Location3 partner receives this customized approach as we work through the Local Search Roadmap, resulting in hyper-local optimizations targeting local consumers and queries. These efforts combine to increase online customer conversions and on-offline customer visits to your business.

In our experience as franchise marketers, Local Ad Fund dollars provide a solid foundation for paid search campaigns that drive consistent, high quality-low cost, leads. However many franchisees and local business owners could be doing more to support established corporate search marketing campaigns, ultimately capturing the maximum search interest for their services within their markets, driving increased local revenue.

Roughly five years ago, an industry shift occurred in franchising that saw many franchisers and their respective marketing teams hire multiple agencies, partners and vendors to conduct various marketing programs on their behalf.

Your Local Business Listings are part of the foundation of your online presence. Ensuring that all of your brick-and-mortar business locations are accurately represented on directories like Google My Business, Facebook Places, Bing Places, Apple Maps and more requires a hands-on, managed approach to local data optimization.

As a result of our ability to more efficiently target prospective Edible Arrangements customers using programmatic, Connected TV media buys, we were able to drive significant increases in total sales and total revenue while spending nearly 76% less in advertising dollars than Traditional TV. In addition, customers engaged via our Connected TV advertising purchased both higher quantities of Edible Arrangements’ items and higher priced items as a result. In conclusion, our test proved our hypothesis that Connected TV can drive significantly better ROI than traditional television advertising.

LOCALACT was created by Location3 to scale local digital marketing programs to drive positive business results for franchisees and local businesses, while providing complete transparency into local marketing performance for all users. LOCALACT helps business owners promote their locations with targeted paid advertising, manage their online presence, respond to reviews and clearly understand how their marketing dollars are driving actual business results. Franchisees and business owners enrolled with LOCALACT can access a variety of performance metrics by logging into their online dashboard at any time, including: • Paid Search & Paid Social Advertising • Listing Insights & Health • Customer Reviews & Responding • Site Traffic & Search Visibility

The Association of National Advertisers revealed in an independent study that several agency powerhouses were marking up media inventory 30-90% on top of the fees they were already charging. These practices combined with highly publicized data breaches have contributed to an increasingly contentious environment surrounding agencies and the brands they work with directly. This white paper examines how brand marketers and corporate teams can identify potentially harmful practices undertaken by their vendors, while also offering tips for brands and franchisees to make sure they’re getting the most value out of their agency partnerships. Key Takeaways Include: Identifying Non-Transparent Marketing Fees Tips for Assessing the Value of Your Marketing

Operating across multiple countries is complex, as is shipping printed material. When our customers shared their stories with us, we knew we needed to act. In April 2017, Gelato entered each BRIC country. By establishing legal entities and print partners within Brazil, Russia, India, and China, Gelato gives customers an easy way to get printed material to colleagues and customers within those borders. The specific considerations in each BRIC country are numerous and often cumbersome. And who better to share insights on the state of local printing than the Gelato country managers on the ground? This ebook is for global enterprises than need to get prints in the BRIC countries, for those that are considering starting up sales and marketing operations in the regions for the first time, and also for domestic businesses that simply want to improve their local print processes.

The local consumer decision journey has changed. This step-by-step guide will show you how to connect with local consumers to improve visibility, gain control of your reputation, and drive more local leads and sales.

In order for brand promotion activated at retail by POP materials to succeed, it must drive sales. However, retail activation materials aligning with and supporting your national brand are just as important. Many marketers fail at this due to a lack of reliability, effectiveness and value. In this white paper you’ll learn about: • Reinforcement of your brand • Faster speed-to-market • Improved quality & consistency • Cost savings Increasing efficiency

This Deep Dive analyst insight from Gleanster research explores what local marketing automation is and why is it unique & different from traditional campaign execution tools.

This Deep Dive from Gleanster research will explore why some marketing technologies may not be the best solution for distributed marketers and how an merging class of technology called “local marketing automation” is enabling corporate marketing to oversee brand consistency and simultaneously give local marketers autonomy and control over communications to their local target audiences.

This Deep Dive research study from Gleanster explores how Top Performing organizations are using a new class of multi-channel campaign management technology called "local marketing automation" to empower local / regional marketers with marketing technology while simultaneously maintaining corporate control over the brand.

Organizations face many challenges when creating a constellation of global Web sites. They need to maintain brand consistency while allowing for variations that reflect local culture. Creating truly localized Web sites can be a daunting process, in which corporate and local marketing teams need to work together to provide relevant information to many different target audiences.

One of the great advantages of the digital age is the vast amount of information and opinions that consumers are exposed to when making a buying decision. This gives enormous exposure to businesses, whether in a positive or negative way. With this significant increase in information, unbiased and authentic customer reviews become increasingly important to both consumers and businesses. There is a wide choice of rating portals and review platforms, that specialize in all types of industries and services.

Your store locator is a critical component on your website; it’s the moment of truth when an online shopper becomes and offline customer. And while it may seem like a simple tool, there are several key factors that will transform the user experience from functional to best-in-class. See how you can optimize this key aspect of your customer journey.