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AZIMA October: Massive growth in mobile device usage and advertising

14 OctPOSTED BY : admin

Mobile usage is already far ahead of comparative desktop growth a decade ago. That’s one of the insights gleaned from this week’s AZIMA monthly event featuring guest speaker Devin Anderson, Google Mobile Account Executive.

Nearly 100 members of the Arizona Interactive Marketing Association gathered to hear Anderson disperse such tasty nuggets of tech-geek goodness like:

  • About 925,000 mobile devices are activated every day
  • Mobile-specific adwords campaigns have seen click-through rate increases up to 11.5%
  • Retailers with optimized mobile sites are increasing customer engagement by 85%
  • 61% of users will not return to your site if it is not mobile enabled

Clearly, the theme running through the 45 minute presentation was to mobilize your web site, if you haven’t already. Anderson provided several tips to AZIMA members to do just that, including keeping the layout simple; design for thumbs, not mouse clicks; prioritize your content; use uniquely mobile features, and make it easy to convert.

Among the AZIMA members attending included interactive marketers from Vertical Measures, Mint Social, Empire Cat, Gannett Local and other Valley marketing companies. Anderson’s talk is just one of the benefits to members and guests that AZIMA brings to the Valley’s Interactive marketing world every month.

Every month, AZIMA brings a guest speaker to offer new insights and challenges to some of the best interactive marketers. To find out more about becoming a member or reaching this targeted tech-driven audience, contact our board members to learn about exciting opportunities for 2012.

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Arizona Interactive Marketing Association is a nonprofit organization created to help you better understand interactive marketing through education tools, events, and networking.

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August Event Recap – Social Media Advice with Neal Schaffer

19 AugPOSTED BY : Nick Roshon

AZIMA Neal Schaffer Meeting

The August AZIMA event featured guest speaker Neal Schaffer of WindMill Networking and author of Maximizing LinkedIn for Sales & Social Media Marketing, who spoke about the power of social media, and in particular LinkedIn, to drive results for your company and your career. Neal reinforced the importance of businesses needing to not only participate in social media, but embrace it throughout their organization. A few years ago, social media was viewed as a fad – but now its here to stay. According to Neal, more time is spent online than watching TV, especially among 45-54 year olds, so it’s critical we shift our marketing focus there accordingly.

Neal broke down social media strategy into something easy to understand and act upon. According to Neal, the average marketer or company goes through three stages of understanding social media:

  • It’s scary and has no ROI – let’s ignore it.
  • Maybe we should consider it – after all, other companies are doing it, maybe even our competitors!
  • How can we do more social media? Social is great, lets do more!

Once marketers move to third stage and have fully embraced social media, Neal recommends the PDCA approach. What’s that, you ask?

  • Plan – plan your strategy & define your goals
  • Do – execute your plan
  • Check – monitor your results
  • Act – revise your plan based on the results you checked

In the end, you’ll realize just how critical the role of a social media marketer is. Neal believes its so important a community manager should truly be a 6 figure job!

Neal also shared some tips for LinkedIn with the audience – Neal was one of the earliest adopters of LinkedIn and known as one of the original “LinkedIn Lions.” He was part of the open networking movement and built his connections to be as large as possible, generating tons of business leads, consulting gigs and job prospects. Neal encourages marketers to be open & connect with each other on LinkedIn as a great way to generate leads and connect with others.

Arnie Kuenn

In addition to the presentation and usual networking hour, we gave away a free Kindle to one lucky attendee, as well as a few copies of Arnie Kuenn’s new book, Accelerate!, which just debuted recently on Amazon and can be purchased here.

Thanks to all that attended!

Nick Roshon

Nick is an SEO Strategist at iCrossing, a global digital marketing agency owned by the Hearst Corporation that helps brands find and connect with their customers online. He's also an active blogger, amateur race car driver, and loves all things social media.

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Attend the next AZIMA Event Featuring Neal Schaffer

02 AugPOSTED BY : Abby Gilmore

Social media is all the rage lately.  There’s Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Google+ and more.  Individuals, businesses and other organizations, use these platforms and there is a different strategy (or lack there of) for each user type.

Everyday social media users use these platforms to network with likeminded individuals, keep up with friends and family, make professional connections and more. The possibilities are truly endless.

But how can the businesses and other organizations make lasting impressions on users who participate for personal reasons?  By being genuine, transparent and real.  Businesses and brands win over social media users when the brand personality is consistent across all channels – especially social media networks.

Businesses are give an opportunity to connect with customers on a very personal level through social networks, but many fall short or miss the point completely. And you don’t want to be one of those businesses.

That’s where Neal Schaffer comes in.Neal Schaffer

Schaffer is an internationally recognized speaker on social media and President of Windmills Marketing, a social media marketing strategic consultancy.  Schaffer helps businesses of all sizes and industries with their social media strategy and implementation, and he will be sharing the secrets of social media strategy at AZIMA’s August event.

Join us as Schaffer shares how businesses can begin go create a social media strategy.  Learn which people in your company should be involved in social media, as well as how to decide what networks are important for your business to participate on.

Here are the details:

Business Social Media Strategy: From Blogs to Tweeting, How & Why

Speaker: Neal Schaffer

Event Location: Scottsdale Hilton (6333 N. Scottsdale Rd., Scottsdale, AZ 85250) A light dinner, and one drink is included.

Time: Doors open at 6:00 p.m. for networking. Dinner served at 6:45 p.m. and presentation will begin at 7:00 p.m.

Pricing:

Student $25 (Enter “STUDENT” promo code)

Members $35 (Enter “AZIMAMEMBER” promo code

Non- Members $45

At the door $55

Register today!

Abby Gilmore

Abby Gilmore is an Interactive Media Analyst at Ryland Homes and a member of the AZIMA Communications Committee. She enjoys blogging, connecting with others via social media and volunteering whenever she can. Follow her on Twitter @abbygilmore.

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Can I Expect to See You at OMS This Week?

13 JunPOSTED BY : Redlincook

This week, starting Wednesday the 15th, Phoenix will host the Online Marketing Summit at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown Hotel (340 N. 3rd Street, Phoenix, Arizona). This year’s event will be more flexible and action packed than years past due to the new two-day format. Day 1 leads off with the choice of 12 intensive workshops covering the digital marketing essentials, advanced “how to” tactics, social media and more.  Followed by the Day 2 Conference Day agenda where Phoenicians will be able to attend sessions across 3 tracks covering online marketing best practices and case studies in search, social, email, integrated marketing and more – all presented by industry thought leaders.

Both days have jam- packed agendas! If you haven’t already gotten your tickets there are limited seats available! As always, OMS covers key topics critical to your success as a marketer – social media, search, email, demand generation, analytics, usability and integrated Marketing, brought to you by industry-leading authors, academics, brand marketers and online innovators. I’ll be there. How about you?

Redlincook

Elise is the eMarketing Specialist at Empire Southwest, an authorized Caterpillar heavy construction equipment dealer which also offers top brands of used machinery to clients across the United States and Mexico. She specializes in content strategy, content marketing, search and social technologies and has been on the AZIMA Board of Directors since the very beginning.

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Celebrate BBQ Month at Free Networking Happy Hour May 25th!

19 MayPOSTED BY : Redlincook

May is National Barbecue Month! What better way to celebrate than by enjoying the hot new menu at the Valley’s venerable Hole-in-the-Wall restaurant, which just changed its menu to slow cooked smokehouse barbecue. To commemorate the milestone, it’s hosting a networking happy hour exclusively for members of AD2, AMA, AZIMA, IABC, PRSA and Phoenix Social Media Club on Wednesday, May 25 from 6 to 8 p.m. It’s casual, free, and won’t be the same without you, so please join us!

Hole-in-the-Wall restaurant is within the Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak Resort at 7677 North 16th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85020-4434. The rustic cowboy-inspired historic building is now revamped into a low & slow BBQ joint, complete with an outdoor grill and vintage smoker. Parking is ample on the north side of the resort, adjacent to the restaurant.

RSVP: “Happy Hour” to 602-953-6795 or rsvp@olsoncomm.com

Redlincook

Elise is the eMarketing Specialist at Empire Southwest, an authorized Caterpillar heavy construction equipment dealer which also offers top brands of used machinery to clients across the United States and Mexico. She specializes in content strategy, content marketing, search and social technologies and has been on the AZIMA Board of Directors since the very beginning.

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