In a modern-day marketing environment, it’s essential to provide a seamless mobile website experience for your customers. It’s imperative for success. Not only is mobile dominating search, social media and online shopping, smartphone use also continu [...]
By Sophie Knox So everyone’s talking about creating good content. If you have an online presence – let’s face it, if you don’t by now here’s your wake-up call – you need content. Simple as that. The best designed website with the trickiest features m [...]
At Mastermind, we’re always on the hunt for relevant data about wineries and direct-to-consumer marketing trends. Why? It helps inform our client strategies and ensures we’re ahead of the game. So when Wine Direct announced it was hosting its first 2 [...]
Is there a more fitting time for a new start than the beginning of the year? After a refreshing break over the festive season, our energy lifts and clarity of mind kicks in to gear. It’s a great time to evaluate the effectiveness of our marketing pla [...]
The marketing landscape is a moveable feast. As much as we love working in an industry that constantly changes, it’s often hard to keep abreast of the latest digital and social media trends. So to kick off 2016, the Mastermind team has summarised the [...]
User-generated content (UGC) is defined as "any form of content such as blogs, wikis, discussion forums, posts, chats, tweets, podcasting, pins, digital images, video, audio files, advertisements and other forms of media that was created by users of [...]
Often email marketing strategies focus on communicating to your existing database, but there’s an opportunity to capitalise on automated emails that send a targeted message based on a specific event or website behaviour. These emails are called trigg [...]
Top 10 Tips to Improve Your Email Marketing How alarming is this fact? IBM research found that 17% of all emails never see the inside of a recipient’s inbox. From defunct emails and SPAM traps to uninteresting subject lines, there’s a multitude of re [...]
As technology evolves and shiny new platforms are introduced into the marketing mix, the role of email in marketing strategy can often be neglected. And yet, when done properly, email is still one of the most powerful tools in a company’s marketing a [...]
Your owned media sites are important in your marketing mix because you can control the messages and can also analyse how specific content is performing. However, in many instances you cannot fully view initiative results and understand the true user [...]