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J. Darius Bikoff was brilliant. He was a random guy in New York City, who enjoyed being active and one day combining water and some vitamic C gave him what would turn out to be a brilliant idea, Vitamin Water! Vitamin water is now sold under the glacéau vitaminwater® mostly known as Vitamin Water. It is sold in over 20 countries and new products and flavours are developed often.

Airbnb is a US based company that operates an online marketplace that allows people to lease or rent short term lodging place at an affordable price. The dwellings range from holiday cottages, hotel rooms and hostel beds to home stays and apartments. The company doesn’t own any real estate, rather it earns by charging a service fee in return for providing this online platform where customers can connect with the hosts. The company has nearly 5 million lodging listings in 81,000 cities and 191+ countries and has 300 million+ guest arrivals at all time.[1] Airbnb had a difficult end to year 2013 because of a trademark infringement lawsuit from a competitor. However, they came back with another marketing campaign that embedded the concept of user generated content within a contest to create excitement about the brand.

Social media (as its name suggests) seems to function best for customer engagement when companies bypass the impersonal and take the customer firmly by the (digital) hand. This courting is difficult to do, yet Lay’s Canada (a PepsiCo company), a brand which largely relies on *actual* consumer consumption of their products, recognized that giving the customer agency, or the feeling of ‘a say’ in the design or production of a product is a highly effective, person-to-person way of engaging consumers, relying on them to buy Lay’s products with the subtle feeling that they have had a personal investment or stake in the brand. As a marketing tool, this kind of consumer-business enmeshment is prime territory for social media, which functions largely (and hopefully successfully) as a means of engagement. By researching a consumer’s stake in the product offering, companies like Lay’s assess which viral topics or trends are meaningful to their customers, and follow suit with an effectively-designed interactive digital campaign to increase daily or ongoing engagement with the public. And the outcome of this kind of campaign can be unprecedented.

Social Media has proven to be a great tool that companies can use to research their target market. Traditional market research can be expensive, but with social media companies can now reach out to a vast audience for feedback and opinions. The benefits of using social media to gather information include low/no cost, instant results, and simultaneously creating another channel of communication with customers that make them feel valued. One downside is of course the potential for customers to provide negative feedback on something as public as Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms, but negative feedback is still very valuable if not more valuable than the positive.

Friends who share together travel together; AirAsia’s Facebook marketing ploy

ekastner   November 5, 2015
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Title of post: Friends who share together travel together; AirAsia’s Facebook marketing ploy Organization: AirAsia Berhad Industry: Air Transportation CEO: Tony Fernandes Web references: Noble Studios, Fascinating Marketing, Hallam, Digital Training Academy, tnooz, Facebook, YouTube  Free plane?! Where do I sign up? There is nothing that grabs attention more than free stuff. Businesses have been wise to capitalize on our… Read more »

Icelandair uses wit, humour, and a planeload of platforms to connect with customers

mirko   February 8, 2015
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Organization name: Icelandair Industry: Airline Web references: Icelandair, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, Google+, annual report, Brilliant Online Marketing  How social media is used for business performance: My wife has been captivated by Icelandair’s social media offerings lately. She regularly nudges me to peek at her laptop screen to check out an online marketing campaign or a clever tweet by… Read more »

Doritos – From Global to Universal

Terry   October 16, 2014

Organization: Pepsico Inc.;   and  Frito-Lay North America, Inc.   Forbes Lists #40 World’s Most Valuable Brands Industry:  Food, Snack, Grocery Web References:  www.fritolay.com; www.doritos.com; en.wikipedia.org Product Development: New Trends     Frito-Lay America, Inc. is a the forefront of Product Development and Crowdsourcing today.  Using every social media tool at hand they are continually engaging the consumer for their opinions and interactions…. Read more »

Ben & Jerry’s Asks You to Do The World A Flavor

aryanaheit   June 12, 2013

Over the past couple of years, it is has been pretty clear that we have been witnessing some major shifts in the ways that businesses are operating. Digital and social media have come to play key roles in core marketing strategies for all businesses and corporations wishing to grow and maintain prosperity. In addition to this use of social media… Read more »