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ASOS: An Online Fashion Destination

Ask any marketer to name an online retail business they admire and the response will always include: ASOS . ASOS is an online fashion destination for 20-year old millennials. Its online platform works by choosing the best fashion items from a variety of brands and grouping these items with the company's products. This strategy has not only helped ASOS sell their own products, but it has also led them to become the best online fashion destination. In fact, the company has amassed over 80,000 branded and own-brand products. Trends data provider SEMrush crunched online fashion search data to uncover online shopping trends and the most popular e-commerce sites in terms of fashion sales, over the past year. Top 10 Fashion E-commerce Web Sites: Asos.com Hm.com Macys.com Supremenewyork.com Uniqlo.com Rei.com Zara.com Jcpenney.com Nordstrom.co Grailed.com (Source: SEMrush) What makes ASOS the most popular fashion e-commerce website? The data shows tha...
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How Starbucks Built an Engaging Brand on Social Media

The new Internet era is also known as the "Fans Economy" era. Fans are equal to customers. Social media marketing has become a necessary tool for marketing, with over 97% of marketers using it. But there are thousands of social marketing methods. What do you do most to be favored by consumers? When it comes to social media marketing, we have to mention the faithful believer - Starbucks . Look at a few of the eye-popping Starbucks social media statistics: 36.9 million Facebook likes 11.3 million Twitter followers 18.2 million Instagram fans 238K YouTube subscribers These staggering numbers speak for themselves. Starbucks has taken its successful offline branding to its online platform. How do they do it? Facebook + Twitter: Promote New Products In 2011, Starbucks set up a Facebook account to promote the new Blonde Roast coffee beans. Consumers can get new product information, enjoy free Blonde Roast, and repost information to friends via Fa...
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Why is Word-of-Mouth Marketing So Attractive?

There are many common marketing methods, and the most appealing is word of mouth marketing. Word-of-mouth marketing is a kind of marketing method that is widely spread in people's mouths or in the market. It attracts more customers mainly through recognition and praise of product brands. Some products were not noticed at the beginning of the sale. But as time went by, it became popular and widely spread under the public's evaluation. Let's look at an example of Chipotle. Casual dining chain Chipotle has somewhat distinguished itself being a national chain that sources its ingredients locally. That said, “ingredients sourced locally” isn't necessary something that is going to blow up anyone's Facebook feed. In order to spearhead word of mouth, Chipotle released an online video called ‘The Scarecrow’, depicting a dystopian world in which a scarecrow is forced to work in a fictional factory but eventually rebels to run his own. The video also happ...
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