You Can Now Shop & Sell (More Easily) On Facebook!

After Facebook’s recent scandal with leaked user information and the US Election fiasco, the social media giants have decided to become more transparent with their platform. In early April, Facebook announced they were making ads transparent and marking political ads as special cases.

This has been a long time coming, given the chatter on Russian meddling since the US Elections fiasco ended 2 years ago.

How does this affect your business?

Ad transparency means anyone and everyone can now view all the ads you are running. This includes your target audience and unfortunately, your competition. The good news is that they can only see the content and the type of ad but nothing on the data and statistics that come with it.

So what should you do?

The digital marketing industry has seen massive changes over recent years and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a rising factor. Because of the expansion of AI, we are able to study and identify consumer trends when crafting marketing strategies. This is vital, as an effective partnership between AI and digital marketing results in a boost for performance and revenue.

In line with the AI rave, Facebook has acquired the genius startup, GrokStyle. Yes, the social media goliath has acquired the entire team behind the savvy invention. By emerging with a one-of-a-kind invention, Grokstyle has helped multinational corporations communicate with its consumers effectively. Their point-and-search functionality earned recognition when it was added to Ikea’s mobile application, Place.

Beyond enhancing its AI inventions, the social media platform is on a roll to get new technology to contribute to their AI capabilities. Brands and companies can continually adopt new technology to always be ahead in engaging its audience while exploring and tapping into new territories for digital marketing in the near future.

To fully maximise the use of existing social media features, speak to professionals who can craft a thorough strategy just for you.

So how should I utilise AI in my marketing strategies?

AI has evolved to be beneficial to many industries, as seen by Facebook expanding on AI’s creative abilities to enhance their consumers’ experience. How about you?

If you’re looking for a date, you’re in luck! Facebook is preparing to launch a dating feature for help users find their soulmates.

In the current digital age, social media has often been used primarily for connecting people, expanding networks and the occasional marketing.

For some ‘daring’ Facebook users, they use it to pursue and date individuals they are interested in at this point of time.

In fact, Facebook has seen more success for dating than Tinder and Facebook has decided to make it easier for users to do so.

Why is Facebook doing this?

Diversification is important for business, and Facebook is throwing their hat into the dating ring against the likes of Tinder and OKCupid.

With the wide number of users readily available on Facebook, it allows an easy transition to include a dating feature.

Here’s what you can expect from this dating feature!

• It’s an opt-in so it’s your prerogative (PSA to Singles out there!)
• Users would be able to access profiles beyond their network
• ‘Networking’ events that catered to specific interests to help users meet someone who is on their frequency

This could also be part of creating meaningful interactions and connecting people on their platform, as announced earlier this year.

If your brand is looking for someone to help create meaningful interactions with your target audience, look no further than a creative digital team.

So what can you do about this?

Any brands that have services or products related to dating can start thinking up or drafting dating-related ads.

It would not be a surprise if Facebook launches ads that caters to the dating crowd, such as events or gifts that helps break the ice on dates.

If you are having trouble creating a tailored ad, leave your number with experienced digital marketers to help you with it!

This feature could also be a precursor for similar platforms for business collaborations in the future.

In fact, the same feature could be tweaked to meet similar individuals and find opportunities for brand collaborations as well.

Want to stay ahead of the digital trends? Pair your brand up with the one – a dedicated team that will help transform your brand in the digital scene!

On the other hand, a badly executed branding campaign draws criticisms and sets the wrong tone for your brand going forward. Even the most well-known brands that employ branding agencies or invest thousands of dollars for a branding campaign to create one can flop in their branding campaigns.

To avoid making a mistake of your own, here are 4 rules to help you execute a successful branding campaign.

In early July 2018, Google announced another significant change in it’s ranking algorithms – one of which will be of concern for many businesses hoping to rank their website in Google’s Search Engine Results Page. And this involves your site’s mobile page loading speed. Just early this March 2018, Google rolled out the mobile-first indexing which uses mobile version of web pages when it crawls, index and ranks them for mobile users.

This time, the focus goes deeper into the site speed, worrying advertisers and business owners all at the same time. Whether you’re in Singapore, Malaysia or any part of the world, this change will affect you the same.