Digital Marketing Toronto Meetup Presenters: Eyal and Gil Katz, owners and operators of Giant Step Inc. who created the ComicReply platform. A common problem: A low conversion rate of digital marketing from both inbound leads and ads. A solution: Provide engaging contests through customized remixes and meme challenges. Focus of this meetup: There will be a short presentation about the ComicReply contest marketing platform (http://www.comicreply.com). We will focus on tips and tricks that can help your marketing initiatives. Concepts for contests include: Fashion – “My Style” Contest http://www.comicreply.com/my-style-contest Electronics – “Build a Robot” Contest http://www.comicreply.com/build-a-robot-contest Salons – “Customize your Hairstyle” Contest http://www.comicreply.com/hairstyles-contest Sports – Trivia Contest http://www.comicreply.com/sports-trivia-contest Pet Supplies – Pet Comics Contest http://www.comicreply.com/pet-comics-contest-idea
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Read OnComicReply attended the Toronto stop of HubSpot’s Inbound Marketing Tour HubSpot was one of the first software providers to focus on inbound marketing and have many years of experience perfecting website content, landing pages, call to actions (CTA) and related outreach. Throughout the day we learned a few new tricks and reminded again of the importance of having very detailed information online to support every aspect of the customer’s needs. Customer behavior has changed Search Patterns In the past few years the way people search for products and services has changed in many ways. Advertising today doesn’t work as it used to and companies need to adapt. Customers are looking for products and services online, through blogs, reviews, social media, apps and related documents such as online brochures, eBooks, interactive experiences and more. Content is King Ads are still effective in bringing prospects to these content pieces, but the ads don’t work by themselves. Having an ad link to a product order page can work for selling a commodity, but most products, services and even basic items can be further explained and presented with more information than they were in the past. That content makes a big difference in the […]
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Read OnComicReply met with visiting producers from Wallonia in their trade mission to Toronto. The Belgium trade commission organized a large group of Wallonia producers for an event at the Tiff Lightbox to introduce a new collaboration with the Canada Media Fund. The event was also hosted by Wallimage, the belgium media funding organization. They explained the extremely favorable funding climate for producing content in Wallonia and arranged meetings with producers. We met with several production companies that could benefit from using ComicReply to promote their films and TV shows online. We also received some great advice and ideas for growing ComicReply.
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