Who’s Thirsty? It’s time for Thirsty Thursday! Thirsty Thursday is the award-winning piece of content from Hasseman Marketing where we take a mystery drink out of a piece of branded drinkware! It’s funny. It’s irreverent. And we will show you some really cool merch as well! This week we feature the Hydro Flask Wide Mouth With Flex Sip Lid. And to add just a bit more excitement, we welcome our guest-taster, Leslie Fehrman from Ohio Family Counseling. Watch the latest episode below!
Hydro Flask is a Brand on a Mission
This fall, Hydro Flask is partnering with Tap, a purpose-driven technology company, and app, to eliminate single-use plastic bottles on college and university campuses around the country. Through
Tap students can find water fill stations around campus and refill their reusable bottles—taking one small step to eliminate single-use plastics. Join the challenge. Change a habit. Change the world. Learn more about that here.
Each time on Thirsty Thursday, we feature a really cool piece of branded drinkware. To learn more about the Hydro Flask Wide Mouth with Flex Sip Lid… head to our shop here.
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Welcome to episode 2 of the brand-new Branded Merch Podcast! This is the DEFINITIVE podcast for marketing professionals that want to leverage branded merch to grow their organizations and their brand. The Branded merch podcast is brought to you by Hasseman Marketing…and the Delivering Marketing joy podcast network. Watch the latest episode below. And if you want to make sure you and your team are “doing merch right,” check out our book Delivering #MarketingJoy. You can get your copy here for free.
The Branded Merch Podcast
Each time on the Branded Merch podcast, Bill Petrie (industry pro from brandivate) and Kirby Hasseman will tackle topics for the marketing pro that wants to leverage branded merch to grow their brand.
This week Bill brings up the 5 things that drive your customers crazy about your website. Want to have a website that is effective? Listen to this section right away.
And what about onboarding new team members? Bill and Kirby talk about some ways to make sure your new hires feel a part of the team…and plan to stay.
Welcome to the Hasseman Marketing featured Product of the Week! Our goal each week is to show you a piece of branded merch that we love…and give you 3 reasons to love it too! This week we feature a branded drinkware item that has high quality and a high perceived value.
Let’s talk about the Highland! Watch this short video below!
Here are the 3 reasons we love the Highland
Packaging: When you have a product with great packaging it makes it feel like it’s worth even more. It’s more of a gift!
Quality: This is a really nice drinkware piece (we have even featured it on Thirsty Thursday). It will keep beverages cold for days and hot for hours!
3 Lids: This might seem strange, but it allows you (and your customers) to use the product the way they like. I usually don’t like larger bottles, but I use this all of the time…and I think it’s because I can choose which lid works for me.
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It’s time for the latest edition of Thirsty Thursday! Who’s ready? Thirsty Thursday is the award-winning piece of content from Hasseman Marketing where we take a mystery drink out of a piece of branded drinkware! It’s funny. It’s irreverent. And we show you some really cool merch as well! This week we feature the 15 oz Havana Collection. And to add just a bit more excitement, we welcome our guest-taster, Amy Crown from the Coshocton County Chamber of Commerce. Watch the latest episode below!
Each time on Thirsty Thursday, we feature a really cool piece of branded drinkware. This week we feature the 15 oz Havana Collection. You can order for your own team here.
Hasseman Marketing is your one-stop marketing shop. We work hard to “Deliver #MarketingJoy to you. If you want to make sure you never miss an update, now is a great time to become a VIP. Sign up to be “on the list” here.
Despite the fact that there always seems to be a new, shiny tool for marketing each day, email marketing is still incredibly powerful. Don’t get me wrong. I get plenty of emails each day that go directly into my junk mail. But just because some businesses stink at email doesn’t mean the whole tool is obsolete.
Whenever I see a headline that reads “email is dead,” I think to myself, “No…it’s not.”
My recent guest on Delivering #MarketingJoy, Luke Charlton, agrees. Luke Charlton is known as the Aussie Hermit and he teaches business coaches how to increase their business by sending amazing emails…every day. Yes. Every day. You can watch my full conversation with Luke here.
Here are his 3 steps to big email success.
Tell A Story
As Luke says, if you want to send an email every day, it needs to be interesting. They have to include a story. It needs to entertain. That might be something that makes your audience laugh, cry, or be angry. It just needs to be interesting!
Tie In A Lesson
With each story, there should be a lesson. Regardless of the service or product, you are selling, the point of telling the story is to relate it to the audience. How does this help them? What can they learn? And of course, this lesson should relate to the product or service that you offer.
Give An Offer
Finally, after you have told the story with the lesson, you need to tie it to what you sell. What offer do you have that will help solve a problem for your audience? Make that offer!
There you have it! According to Luke Charlton, that is the key to building an email list and creating big sales success by sending an email every day. Those are the 3 steps to email success. Again, you can watch the full interview here!
Video is an incredibly powerful marketing tool. If you want to tell your organization’s story, using video is one of the best ways to do it. And yet, most organizations don’t use video to its full potential. When I visit websites, I am often surprised to find no video…at all! And even when there is a video on the website, there is almost never a clear strategy to use video to match the brand and tell the whole story.
The reason, I think, is that most organizations look at video as a one-time project. They create one video about their company, try to fit everything in, check the box and move on. This, of course, creates a boring video for the viewer, and less than exciting results for the marketer. What you need is a full video strategy. The most effective organizations use video to touch all areas of their company…so that customers and prospects can go on a journey…and arrive exactly where they need to be.
So what videos do you need? We have you covered. Here are the 10 videos we believe every growing organization needs.
Mission Video
What are you and your organization all about? This video explains that to potential customers and employees. Picture your CEO or leader looking into the camera and talking about your “why.” As Simon Sinek said in his best-selling book “Start with Why,” most organizations tell you “what” they do. But most customers and prospects resonate with “why” they do it. This video gets to the heart of that topic.
Marketing Video
This video is your front-facing message to your prospects. It is fast-paced with upbeat music and graphics. This is the video that tells your story and sells your story. It needs to be quick and to the point, but is not handcuffed by broadcast timelines. And while you will share this on social media (and you should), this will be hosted on your website to tell your story when visitors come to do their research.
Interview Series with Leaders
When customers are doing their research, they like to know who they are doing business with. Who is leading the ship? This series of videos humanize your company and the leadership team. The goal is to not only show that the team is competent and smart…but also fun to do business with.
Testimonial Series with Customers
While you can do a good job of telling the organization’s story, there is nothing more powerful than a great testimonial. These interview-style videos can show prospects what the real customer experience is like.
Facility Tour
If you are proud of your facility (and the people that work in it), a video showcasing your location can be awesome. This might include some beautiful drone shots and artsy shots set to music, it might be guided with narration, or it might be a fun one like we did when we moved into our current location (we were so excited that we were “walking on sunshine”).
Commercial (or series of commercials) For Broadcast
While the marketing video is perfect for social media and on your website, the broadcast video needs to fit into a 30-second or 60-second window. Some organizations use a shorter version of their marketing video, and then drive people to their website to see the full version. And other companies create an entirely new set of creative to even further ramp up the results.
Employee Interviews
Much like the concept with the leadership interviews (from above) interviews with your team are powerful. People still buy from people they like, know, and trust, and these videos show your customers and prospects who will be doing their work. When people connect like this, they are more likely to stay longer, forgive mistakes and pay (a little) more. Oh…and if you are looking for employees, these videos can be a powerful look into your company culture.
Quarterly Update To Employees
While marketing videos and outward-facing communication is important, using video to communicate with employees is under-utilized. What is going on at the company? Are there goals you are moving toward? What initiatives are you implementing? Regular communication with employees can help your team not only work better with customers but also feel more engaged and appreciated.
What Problem Does Your Organization Solve?
It seems so simple…but so many organizations don’t answer this vital question. What problem do you solve for your ideal customer? Creating a video that gets to the core of your organization can really lead the right people into your funnel.
Those are 10 videos that we believe that every growing organization needs. And while there are plenty more videos (and variations of these) that can be done, this is a great jumping-off point for companies that want to better communicate and market. Oh…and a bonus video if you want to highlight a fun company culture…a fun video. We have created a few “fun videos” (including this one) that are not only fun to produce but they help us really stand out in the marketplace.
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