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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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How Does Walmart Motivate Their Employees?

In chapter 11 ( Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies ), Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff talked about how to use the power of the groundswell to motivate employees.            Motivation is an employee's intrinsic enthusiasm about and drive to accomplish activities related to work. Motivation is that internal drive that causes an individual to decide to take action. Every person has activities, events, people, and goals in their life that they find motivating. The trick for employers is to figure out what employees really want and create a motivating work environment. The workplace is evolving and shifting. Leaders need to realize that the wants and needs of employees are changing. We saw this when we learned how to create a culture where Millennials and members of Generation Z can thrive. Empowerment and motivation happen when people solve their own problems and create their own aspiratio...
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