Influencers don’t persuade?

Influencers don’t persuade?

Are you working with ‘influencers’? EMarketer found most US marketers aim to do so in 2021, despite very low trust in this type of content. The growth of the practice — and a host of issues including fraud — prompted the FTC to regulate the...
Iowans, here’s how you can make me wear a mask

Iowans, here’s how you can make me wear a mask

Note: thanks to the Des Moines Business Record for publishing an edited version of this post. When Iowa’s governor said she was launching an “awareness campaign” to fight COVID, I wondered: who is not aware of the global pandemic? Awareness spiked in March, and,...
My very first Facebook Messenger ad

My very first Facebook Messenger ad

Ads aren’t new on Facebook. We’re all familiar with sponsored posts in our newsfeed. At H&A we have been responsible for a good number of ads on our clients’ behalf. But I encountered a new type of ad. I received a new message in Facebook Messenger. I...

Digital advertising: working hard or hardly working?

Clients are increasingly asking Hanser & Associates for help with paid media. Our recent experience, echoed by peers and partners, has shown us that Web traffic is only part of what online ads deliver. In short, we’re able to use modest budgets to quickly refine...

The voice of your customer

Who’s most credible to persuade potential customers to purchase from your company? Your current customers! Potential customers say their peers – “a person like me” – provide the most credible third-party endorsements. That’s why public relations strategy that...

Advertising: Classic PR?

The relationship between paid media and earned media still has room for improvement. Certainly, there should be more understanding of how PR leads, how ads generate word of mouth and how owned media fits in the mix. We’ll save all of that for another day....