Archive for the ‘Avis UK’ Category

Next generation social marketing (Podcast)

September 12th, 2008 — Mark

Mark Rogers recently did a podcast for the company Knexus looking at the next generation of social marketing. We looked at how to do social marketing using case studies from Cadbury, Sony, Avis and H&R Block, and assessed how to measure the results. Here is the deck to accompany the podcast.

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What brands can learn about persuasion from ex-Bush guru Rove

July 11th, 2008 — Mark

It has long been rumoured that much of the success of the Bush campaign in 2000 and 2004 was down to their superior understanding of social networks. Now a chance remark (highlighted by Valdis Krebs) by Bush’s campaigning guru Karl Rove on Obama’s election campaign draws attention to this.
Barack Obama’s manager admitted to the [...]

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Avis: showing the ROI on social media marketing

March 28th, 2008 — Mark

A lot of brands are dipping their toes into social media marketing. They naturally want to know what ROI they can expect. For that reason we are delighted that our client Avis UK has gone public with the results of their 2 year experiment in monitoring and responding to online conversations. They [...]

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What is it about John Lewis and Nationwide?

December 18th, 2007 — Mark

Department store John Lewis have announced that whilst their rivals may be suffering, they are growing market share. The Nationwide building society has seen a surge of deposits recently, partly the effect of the Northern Rock collapse.
Both businesses are growing market share during a slowdown. What is it that links them? In [...]

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Connecting with your customers – social marketing ROI

October 24th, 2007 — Mark

Attending the EyeForTravel conference in Berlin, most of the talk is about Web 2.0, how brands can connect with their customers, can allow customers free voice (that is: allow and respond to negative comments) and still achieve marketing goals: growing brand loyalty and business.
Reaching out to one’s customer base through an online community strategy is [...]

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