The Wax Blog

07 Jan

Posted at 14:33h in Content Marketing, IMC, Integrated Marketing, Social Media by
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Welcome to the first in a four-part series in which we'll be exploring major trends in communications for 2022. In this initial installment, we're examining the concept of emotional marketing, its traditional definition,  and its current state. People have been appealing to emotions to motivate others for millennia. Aristotle himself established techniques for emotional appeals that were quite persuasive. While appealing to emotions may seem manipulative, it's usually not nefarious. Emotional marketing connects people with the things they want and need on a deeply personal level. True, some marketing and advertising campaigns play on negative feelings of fear or greed.  Here, however, we're looking at how emotional marketing can elicit positive results, and why it's a major trend in communications with tremendous staying power.

What is emotional marketing?

Emotional marketing identifies and builds on an audience's emotions to market to them more successfully. Rooted in current best practices in research and behavioral psychology,  today's emotional marketing requires a deep understanding of the feelings a specific audience has toward a product or service and its competitors.  To work, emotional marketing has to get a good handle on an audience's vibe, and how it affects their view of the entire product genre. A very simple example is marketing campaigns for online talk therapy providers where emotional marketing is essential to conversion. The target audience naturally includes anyone who's experiencing distressing emotions and could benefit from online mental health counseling. You don't have to look far on Twitter to see people tweeting about their struggles with mental wellbeing - and you also don't have to look far to see ads for these therapy providers in the same places.

Is it ethical?

23 Dec

Posted at 10:31h in Personal by
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  The other day I read this quote in Anne Lamott’s new book Dusk, Night, Dawn: “…the movement of grace in our lives so often begins with desperation and blurt.”  After I stopped laughing I realized it was a perfect way to recap 2021. Grace continues to...

27 May

Posted at 19:52h in Digital Marketing by
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Since the announcement of nationwide 5G, it seems that almost every day, a cellular provider comes up on the television during a commercial break to tell us that nationwide 5G is going to revolutionize the world. Now, two years after the first introduction, Americans are starting to see 5G phones and plans become more of a common occurrence. Sure, 5G means faster internet browsing and higher quality video streams, but mobile users aren’t the only ones getting an upgrade with 5G capabilities. The launch of nationwide 5G is also great news for the Internet of Things (IoT) market. In this second installment of the Wax Marketing Blog’s “5G Experience Series”, I will be talking about how the already powerful IoT market will be seeing record-breaking growth in 2021. It’s All About Speed It’s no secret, the success of IoT over the past two decades has come down to how fast it can perform data transfers. When 4G was released, it was meant specifically to enhance mobile data services. It was never optimized to ensure that IoT would have the same improvement nor was it strong enough to handle the billions of devices trying to link to it. That has all changed with 5G. It has been reported that 5G will be 10 times faster than current LTE networks. This massive increase in speed will allow IoT devices to communicate and share data even quicker than before.   How Many Devices is too Many?

06 May

Posted at 08:41h in Digital Marketing by
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We are officially living in a world where nationwide 5G technology is an everyday reality. For most people, this means faster phones, internet, and streaming capabilities. For digital marketers, it’s a new realm of possibilities just waiting to be explored. As digital marketers, we work in an industry where user experience is at the top of every company’s priority list, and with 5G, it seems anything is possible. In the Wax Marketing Blog’s first installment of the “5G Experience Series”, we will be looking at 5 different ways 5G technology will open new doors for digital marketers.  

5 Ways 5G Will Change Digital Marketing 

  1. Video Marketing
In 2020, mobile video advertising in the United States nearly doubled while still operating on mostly 4G internet speeds. Now, in 2021, the industry anticipates mobile video advertising to rise yet again due to the capabilities of 5G technology. While it currently takes about six minutes to download a 2-hour movie with 4G, it takes around 3.6 seconds with 5G. This dramatic increase in speed allows for video marketing to explore campaigns with higher quality content at a more consistent rate. As higher definition video becomes more accessible on more devices, consumers will be more likely to open video advertisements.  
  1. Acceleration in The Mobile Ecommerce Industry

19 Apr

Posted at 15:02h in Digital Marketing by
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Visual search marketing is breaking down new barriers for businesses every year and we are seeing this the most in the field of ecommerce. With more than two-thirds of online sales1 being made on mobile devices, utilizing visual search and e-commerce stores is a sure-fire way to increase revenue. In our first blog on visual search, we dove into the specifics of visual search and why it is projected to be the top marketing trend of 2021. Some companies are doing it better than others, however. Here's how Amazon, eBay and other e-commerce juggernauts are dominating this new trend:
  1. Amazon
Amazon is the fastest-growing e-commerce company in the United States. Although well known, it is still stunning to look at Amazon’s projected sales in 2021. According to emarketer.com, the juggernaut of online sales is projected to gross $367.19 Billion in sales this coming year. So it’s no surprise that Amazon would be one of the leaders in visual search marketing. StlyeSnap  is the software that Amazon created to enter into the visual search market. StyleSnap helps users shop for clothes and accessories online, generating recommendations for similar items in the same style. Jeff Wilke, Amazon’s Consumer Worldwide CEO explained how the software works stating, “When a customer uploads an image, we use deep learning for object detection to identify the various apparel items in the image and categorize them into classes like dresses or shirts. We then find the most similar items that are available on Amazon.” The software will incorporate brands, customer reviews and price ranges in its analysis.
  1. Ebay
Ebay is often looked at as Amazon’s younger cousin. Landing in the top 3 of projected e-commerce sales in 2021, Ebay is projected to generate over $38 Billion in sales this year.

05 Apr

Posted at 14:52h in Uncategorized by
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The term “Visual Search Marketing” has been around for a number of years. Although large companies like Bing, Yahoo and Google have been utilizing visual search technology in their search engines for a while now, it wasn’t until recently that this type of technology reached a point where it could become a top trend in the digital marketing world. In this blog, we'll walk you through the basics of what visual search is,  and why it is on the cusp of becoming the biggest marketing trend of 2021. What is Visual Search? Simply put, visual search uses Artificial intelligence (AI) technology to help people search for items using real-world imagery as opposed to a text search. When someone performs a visual search, they are searching for a product using an image, which saves them the hassle of typing multiple keywords into a search engine in hopes of finding what they are already currently seeing. Imagine you are on a hike in the woods and come across an animal or flower that you want to know the name of. As we know, it can sometimes be incredibly difficult to describe exactly what you are seeing. Instead, you take a picture of the object, using Google Lens, for instance. The software will identify the object as well as give you information on what you are looking at. There are a lot of reasons why visual search is becoming such an important component of integrated marketing, but here are the main top four:  
  1. The Demographic Demands It
Visual search has been around for several years so why is it now, in 2021, becoming a top trend? The answer is simple. Millennial and Generation Z consumers are drawn to visual search capabilities more than any other new technology. In fact, 62% of Millennials  desire the ability to visually search for products online. With Millennial consumers making up over 30% of total retail sales and Generation Z accounting for $44 Billion in buying power, it’s important that marketing trends closely follow these generational tendencies.
  1. Statistical Success

15 Mar

Posted at 10:24h in Mobile by
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Being stuck in your house does not imply that you cannot film professional-looking videos.  While video creators are no longer able to go to the studio on a daily basis, travel across the world, or shoot freely in any given location other than one’s own homes, it is possible to create attractive videos with the resources available at home.  Filming Professional Videos While Working from Home