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Betsy McLarney Joins Geopath Board of Directors [Press Release]
Betsy McLarney, CEO of EMC Outdoor, a nationally recognized, location-based marketing agency headquartered in Philadelphia, PA, was elected as a new member to the Geopath Board of Directors.
Best of the Blog 2018
As we enter 2019, we look forward with excitement at what new opportunities and developments lay ahead. We're eager to gain deeper engagement, more connectivity and a better understanding of the world around us. These are all major focal points that will make us better marketers and planners that create more effective out of home, trade shows, experiential and digital campaigns. At the same time, it's equally important to reflect on the year behind us, taking stock of our growth and development over what has been a landmark year for marketing and advertising. To that end, this 2018 Best of the Blog is a compilation of the year's top-performing, most-read, most-shared posts.
5 Important Trends for Out of Home in 2019
As the New Year fast approaches, we take a look at trends that are gaining ground in out of home. As marketers and media planners know, staying up on the latest technologies and innovations means future-proofing your business and creating a sustainable operation built for success. This is precisely how the out of home industry has managed to grow at a time when screens and digitization dominates every corner of our business and personal life. Data and technology will continue to drive the changes in OOH, just as it is with other media channels. As we look ahead, we see opportunities to increase efficiency and connectivity while decreasing irrelevant creative and wasted impressions.
Out of Home’s Shift from Knowledge to Skill-based Planning
The average consumer spends 70% of their time out of their home. Being able to reach them with relevant content or brand story is what makes out of home advertising a key component of the marketing mix. In this age of digital and big data, OOH planning and strategies are shifting from knowledge-based to skills-based.
What’s Your SXSW?
Every year, brands and agencies from all over the globe focus on connecting with the massive and trend-setting crowds that converge upon South by Southwest. But if the BBQ, interactive, film and music-infused flavor of the enormous event is not quite right for your brand, rest assured that you can have your own SXSW.
3 Steps for Optimizing Your Trade Show Marketing
Whether its brand awareness or a product launch, trade show marketing allows you to get the right message in front of the right audience at the right time and place. The key is to define your needs and embrace an integrated approach to build a campaign that goes beyond the booth.
Finding My Outdoor Voice in Out of Home [Intern Spotlight]
Since May, I've held an internship at EMC Outdoor. I'm grateful to be one of the 80% of students who intern at least once in college and 50% who intern more than once. The Out of Home industry and location-based marketing were exciting and new, and this internship meant the opportunity to learn and grow in both worlds.
How to Leverage Your Emotions for Better Selling
When you go through a full sales cycle, you experience the myriad of emotions which accompany it: rejection, fear, resiliency, purpose, fulfillment, defeat, and success. Closing a deal feels great, but the losses don't. We must learn to bounce back from rejection and rely on our confidence and training to overcome it.
Why is the Customer Experience Important for Your Brand?
Customer Experience is an integral part of all interaction between a company and an individual. Through careful and deliberate experiential marketing and customer service efforts, a company can expose an individual to a brand and continue to develop that relationship into a loyal customer.
How to Use Location-Based Marketing to Capitalize on Holiday Spending Trends
This time of year, people’s thoughts turn to the holiday shopping cycle. Forecasters predict a four percent increase in holiday spending. This marks a persistent uptick in the adoption of targeted marketing strategies by retailers who are using location based marketing aimed at an increasingly digitized society.
Does Brand Authenticity Matter?
We’ve all heard the popular slogans companies use to position themselves as socially supportive organizations. Since this positioning strategy can be a value-add for a brand, but it can also be perceived as disingenuous, it’s important that brands understand authenticity and why it matters.
Introducing Account LAB: How Our Strategy Team Can Benefit You
At EMC Outdoor and EMC Events, we have officially launched our strategy team and named it Account LAB. This team acts as a strategic and creative plug-in, ready for engagement with you around your goals, challenges, and KPI’s related to out of home, experiential and events.
Meet Rainy McGrew, EMC’s Experiential Extraordinaire
Rainy McGrew, is EMC Outdoor's Director of Insights & Development. Rainy is a woman who is always on the move, furiously exploring new ideas and clients. We ask her some questions about her background in Experiential Marketing, her perspective on the industry, and what the future of EXP looks like!
Innovating With the Oldest Ad Medium
In recent years, Out of Home advertising has gained greater recognition as a core part of an integrated media plan. The digitization of assets is rapidly transforming how and why advertisers use it. With new technological advances, we look at what brands are doing with this extraordinary opportunity to innovate.
6 Traits of Good Relationship Development
The key to being successful in sales is the ability to forge a trusting relationship with clients or prospects. Successful selling is dependent upon an established rapport, being likable and trustworthy, and a willingness to dig-in to a business to understand their point of view.
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