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How to Find the Best Brand Ambassador for Your Mobile Tour

Posted on by Claire Kelly

Experiential Marketing

When it comes to crafting an experiential marketing strategy, mobile tours are a high-efficacy tool guaranteed to help expand the reach of your brand. One of the most important steps to take when planning an experiential marketing mobile tour is making sure you choose the correct mobile tour brand ambassador. But what exactly is mobile tour marketing, and how can it work for you?

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What is mobile tour marketing?

Mobile tours are an experiential marketing tool that lets you advertise your brand to thousands of people in a key demographic area, while also allowing potential consumers to experience the benefits of your product or service first-hand. With many advertising strategies, the customer can only imagine what their life could be like if they went with a certain brand. With a mobile tour, they don’t have to imagine, they can live it. 

There are countless advantages to employing this strategy, especially when you utilize the expertise of mobile marketing tour companies. When a mobile tour vehicle is driven through a city,  separate impressions and connections are made with each person it passes. These mobile brand activations are valuable, but only a small part of what mobile tours have to offer.

Once the tour reaches one of it’s intended stops, this is where the real engagement begins. Mobile marketing tour companies carefully choose spots containing members of your key demographic. This means that you have a higher rate of conversion with mobile tour activations. A mobile tour vehicle unfolds into a multi-tiered piece of experiential marketing, allowing potential consumers to be enveloped in a fully interactive brand experience. 

But all of this hinges on a very important factor: choosing the best mobile tour brand ambassador.

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What is a mobile brand tour ambassador?

A good mobile tour brand ambassador is the foundation for all high-quality experiential marketing mobile tours. If you want the highest return on investment for your marketing dollar, you need to make sure you employ the absolute best ambassador you can find. To do this, you need to know exactly what an ambassador does.

The role of a mobile tour brand ambassador is to put a face to your brand, and help guide a potential customer through the brand experience packaged in your mobile tour. These are the staff you have working the booth, interacting with customers, demonstrating what your brand has to offer. These individuals are there to make sure your key demographic establishes an emotional connection, increasing the chances they will become loyal customers. 

Mobile brand tour ambassadors can be regular staff members, or social media influencers in your industry. Whichever type of ambassador you go with, it’s important they have a distinct set of qualities. 

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How to find the right mobile brand tour ambassador

Now that you know what a mobile tour ambassador does, you need to know how to find the right fit for your unique brand. These will be the people wearing your logo and displaying your products or services: in essence, they will be representing you. You need to make sure that the connection potential consumers make is a positive one, and encourage these consumers to further spread your brand name through social media and word-of-mouth.

Let’s go over the qualities that any mobile tour ambassador must have, regardless of brand. You need to make sure that your ambassador is:

  • Engaged: They need to be excited about your brand, and establish a connection with the product or service. The advantage of experiential marketing mobile tours is that in person engagement: if your ambassador is genuinely excited, the customer will be too.
  • Friendly: A smile is an experiential marketer’s most powerful tool to bring in potential consumers. Studies have shown that not only are smiles contagious, but that the mere act of smiling can put you in a more positive mood. If the consumer associates your brand with a positive mood, you’ve laid the foundation for future brand loyalty. 
  • Knowledgeable: a mobile brand tour ambassador needs to know your products or services inside and out. If someone has a question, they should be able to answer not only quickly, but accurately. Consumers are far more likely to trust an expert, and through that have more trust in your brand. 
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Tailor Your Ambassador to Your Unique Brand

Now depending on what your brand specifically offers, you will want to tailor your mobile tour brand ambassador to the experience you want consumers to have. If you can, try to find well-known members of your industry that can help represent the goals of your marketing strategy, and the ideals of your brand.

Social media influencers are usually open to sponsorship, and can be a vital asset in expanding the reach of your campaign. When you choose these individuals, or any ambassadors working directly with the mobile tour, you need to choose people who are perfectly tailored to your brand’s message.

If you are a health food brand, you will want to make sure the ambassadors you choose are healthy and fit. If you are a brand that deals with men’s products, you will want someone who fits the stereotypical archetype of a “man’s man”. You want your ambassador to be the embodiment of the benefits of your product or service: make the potential consumer look at that person, and say “I want to be them.” 

If you follow these steps, you will be sure to choose the correct mobile tour brand ambassador for your brand. Once that important piece is in place, you can ensure the success of your mobile marketing campaign, and get the name of your brand out to countless potential consumers. 

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Give Your Brand the Human Touch With Street Team Marketing

Posted on by britney

Experiential Marketing

Street team marketing is all about getting boots on the ground, engaging with consumers, and putting a human and friendly face to your brand.

By reaching your audience where they are, you can create memorable moments, receive real-time customer feedback, and inspire people to invest in you. 

It’s easy to plan a street team marketing campaign. It just takes the right amount of strategy and skill to pull off these one-of-a-kind events. 

Let’s dive into what street team marketing is, why it’s so effective, and the most important tips you need to know.

Street Team Marketing

What is Street Team Marketing?

Street team marketing is a form of experiential marketing that deploys brand ambassadors to engage consumers with in-person experiences. In fact, street team marketing is one of the oldest forms of live, experiential marketing. 

By targeting busy, high-foot traffic locations, street team marketing gives brands the chance to directly influence people by informing and educating them, distributing samples, conducting live demos, and more. 

Street team marketing impacts awareness, consumer engagement, and sales. When your brand is able to launch a memorable experience in-person, your creative options are endless. All you need is your imagination and a solid plan to fully harness the power that a street team marketing event can deliver.

How Street Team Marketing is Effective

Street team marketing gives your brand a personal touch and inspires face-to-face interaction. Even as digital forms of experiential marketing rise in popularity, consumers still crave human connections.

  • Whether your event is held in a major city or small town, you can reach hundreds or even thousands of consumers. 
  • In-person events create positive brand impressions. 
  • In competitive environments, street team marketing increases your brand’s chances of standing out from the crowd. 
  • Street team marketing gives your brand the fluidity and mobility to move where consumers are throughout your event (i.e. outside subway stations, college campuses, business districts, etc…).
  • Street team and social media marketing go hand-in-hand, allowing your brand to further enhance quality brand/consumer content and engagement. 
  • Unlike most experiential marketing activations, and depending on your location, permits are not generally required for most street team marketing events.

Plus, street team marketing is relatively cost-effective compared to other types of experiential marketing, while yielding similar results. 

At World Pride NYC in June 2019, Zara and JustWater partnered to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. With a three-sided glass mobile showroom displaying a 3D Pride flag created from nearly 10,000 bottles of JustWater, Zara’s friendly street marketing team livened spirits and kept parade-goers hydrated with a rainbow selection of complimentary drinks.

That same year, Twitter celebrated the U.S. Women’s National soccer team’s historic fourth World Cup championship with a three-day branded promotion tour around New York City. Transforming a food truck into an immersive, branded vehicle and creating a soccer-themed, interactive experience, Twitter’s #StartWithThem campaign was led by a street marketing team who greeting passers-by with French-themed culinary delights and a chance to win prizes from lounge chairs to Apple TVs and Airpods. 

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Types of Street Team Marketing

Street team marketing comes in many forms and is completely customizable to your specific goals:

  1. Product sampling marketing teams give brands the opportunity to showcase their products by allowing consumers to engage their senses with the help of knowledgeable, day-off event staff. 
  2. Experiential street marketing teams use interactive mediums to connect consumers with a brand. Whether props, games, digital apps, or other activities, these teams thrive on building authentic audience participation. 
  3. Guerilla marketing teams are built to capitalize on the element of surprise in headline-grabbing ways. Think flash mobs that perform dances and sing songs or costumed characters dressed in eye-catching outfits. 
  4. Retail street marketing teams are brand ambassadors that promote brick-and-mortar retail stores and highly effective for generating same-day, in-store sales, and attracting attention for nearby in-store events.
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Tips For Street Team Marketing Success

There’s a lot to consider when planning a street team marketing event, especially since you’re utilizing a staff meant to enhance and advance your ultimate goal of reaching more people, and raising awareness and sales:

  1. Have a clear and concise message that’s memorable and aligns with your brand.
  2. Know your target audience and know where they can be reached. 
  3. Work with professionals who can provide you with the right staff and can handle event logistics. 
  4. Secure necessary permits and insurance not only for your event but your street marketing team as well.
  5. Provide your street marketing team with proper training and dress them in branded uniforms. 
  6. Leverage your in-person event before and after with a compelling call-to-action on social media to boost engagements. 
  7. Post-event, evaluate your performance, gather feedback from your street team, and make notes on how you can improve future campaigns.

Breathe Life Into Your Brand With Street Team Marketing

If you think about it, all live marketing campaigns require staff to play a critical role in helping you reach your goals. On the front lines, these brand ambassadors are the ones who will make that always-important first impression on consumers. 

In order to ensure you have the best people representing your brand that can handle the nitty-gritty, it’s important to work with an experienced team that has proven success under its belt, allowing you stay focused on the big picture of executing a remarkable campaign that lets you reach your goals.

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Trust and Influence: The Power of the Brand Ambassador

Posted on by britney

Experiential Marketing

Want to build trust and gain influence with consumers that translates into sales and widening your audience. Take a look at why brand ambassadors can help leverage your reach and set your brand up for success. 

It goes without saying that the best way to experience a brand is to engage with it on a personal level and experiential marketing is uniquely designed to create genuine interactions and meaningful moments for consumers. And, brand ambassadors are the human engines that drive the conversations that make those moments possible. 

While they’re the ones on the front lines, the role of a brand ambassador is much more complex. From conveying brand messaging, to creating a direct channel for consumer feedback, and building trust and transparency in real-time, brand ambassadors play a vital role in setting up a brand for success. 

By giving your brand a boost on social media, spreading positive messages about who you are, influencing sales, and more, find out more about who brand ambassadors are, what they do, and how they can help your next experiential marketing campaign. 

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THE BRAND AMBASSADOR NEXT DOOR

There are two types of brand ambassadors. In the age of social media, “influencers” on Instagram and YouTube have become just as (if not) more recognizable than “traditional celebrities” (i.e. actors, recording artists, athletes, etc…), with their millions or tens of millions of followers, who are active and engaged on a variety of different platforms. 

More simply though, brand ambassadors are anyone hired by a company to represent their brand positively and help market to a new audience, and increase brand awareness and sales. In recent years, brands have leveraged their own employees to become effective brand ambassadors. 

Perhaps there’s no one better to showcase who you are and what you represent than those already working for you. Employees have the best insights into your brand’s culture, essence, products, services, and beyond. 

Twitter Brand Ambassador

And, their effectiveness is notable. In a 2017 survey by earned content platform Olapic, “76% of consumers believe the content that average people share is more honest than advertising from brands.” 

“That should serve as a wake-up call for brands to start exploring the use of authentic content in ads and marketing to build trust and create a more meaningful dialogue with their customers,” said Olapic co-founder Pau Sabria in an interview with Adweek. 

 

Finding the Right Brand Ambassador

In order to find the right brand ambassador for either your brand and/or your experiential marketing campaign, you first need to determine your objective. Is it your goal to increase social media traffic? Boost sales? Expand your target audience?

Your employees in your sales, marketing, communications, or HR departments can each serve as effective brand ambassadors in their own right, targeting a niche objective that aligns with your goals. 

But, regardless of whom you choose, make sure your brand ambassador has a vibrant network consisting of people outside your organization. Employees in sales, marketing, and management can be a great place to begin your search that’ll help maximize the most optimal bottom-line results for your brand.      

 

The Value of Brand Ambassadors

So, why should your company staff a brand ambassador instead of outsourcing the work to an outside personality? 

The more trust you earn with consumers, the more likely you are to earn their respect (and their business). And, that’s where brand ambassadors come in. The personal relationship they already have as employees of your brand can be leveraged into influencing their own networks and your consumers. That built-in connection will always be stronger than hiring a “celebrity” who’s foremost priority is getting paid. 

When your brand hosts events and activations led by your own team who are enthusiastic and engaged, that creates the perception of authenticity, which translates into credibility with consumers.

Think about it this way. Would you believe a “real person” who recommends a product or service over a paid celebrity or influencer? Having a brand ambassador dedicated to your business allows you to optimize your goals in order to translate them into success. 

 

Build Trust and Gain Influence with Brand Ambassadors

Brand ambassadors are crucial to brands’ success in 2020. As more and more consumers crave genuineness when making purchasing decisions, hundreds of millions of dollars are spent each year on campaigns to project exactly that. The irony is your brand already possesses the capability to promote trustworthiness with those who come to work for you each and every day.    

When you understand what brand ambassadors do, how to find the right one for your business, and why they’re so valuable, you can develop an effective experiential marketing campaign that enhances your brand reputation and turns real feelings as to who you are and what you do into real results.

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