Marketing Eye Magazine

I went and did some last minute Christmas shopping last weekend, squeezing and weaving my way through the crazy busy crowds, dodging the Sunday strollers whilst pumping the strong coffees into my exhausted body. But something occurred to me whilst shopping, I see Christmas very differently to the average Aussie shopper. I came to the conclusion it was my work, my career in marketing has signifcantly changed and remolded my outlook on the Christmas season. Is it for the better or the worse? Who knows? But what I know is this. 

Yes, I know what you're thinking! How can Beyoncé and marketing possibly be related and at all connected? But if we look really closely at both Beyonce and Marketing, we discover that they are so interconnected it isn’t funny.

The world of social media can be a difficult one to navigate, as it comes with a variety of endless opportunities and possibilities for businesses future overarching success. The overwhelming growth of social media platforms creates a sense of pressure on businesses to display a conscious active presence on all these diverse platforms; from Facebook, Instagram to YouTube, this list goes on and on. One of the main causes of failed social media strategies are due to businesses utilising and prioritising the wrong social media platforms for their particular industry and consumer market.

Coming into the marketing world as a university graduate, I knew what an EDM, open rate and click through rate was, but didn’t quite understand how it all worked. Last week I got a pleasant surprise when I went to analyse two EDMs sent out for a client and saw a whopping 63.6% open rate and 6.1% click through on one, and a 55.2% open rate and 13% click through on the other. I was shocked. I started checking everything, thinking I had somehow made a mistake and only sent it to a small database, or was looking at the wrong numbers. No, it was legit.