The Hot Sale is excellent because it benefits thousands of businesses, and this event occurs every year to encourage and boost online product sales. Having good strategies for the Hot Sale is crucial to increase your sales; the Hot Sale is designed for Mexico and Latin America.
What is the Hot Sale?
The Hot Sale is an event that promotes online product sales and is designed to boost e-commerce and benefit thousands of brands and businesses in Mexico and Latin America.
This event generates an economic impact of 29,949 million pesos, according to 2023 data. You can read the full AMVO report here.
This event is driven by the Mexican Association of Online Sellers (AMVO), which has over 600 registered brands.
Should I participate in the Hot Sale?
If you have online sales, it’s important to know that participating in the Hot Sale is necessary because it will bring you many benefits:
It allows you to increase your average ticket size.
It increases your potential customers.
It improves your community.
You achieve better visibility.
Here are some tips to start participating in the Hot Sale and make your participation effective:
Analyze your competitors
Identify all your competitors and what they have done for the Hot Sale, and see if there’s anything you can learn about what not to do or how to propose something better.
Pre-plan your Hot Sale
Plan your marketing strategy for your Hot Sale, thinking from the discounts you will offer to the marketing strategy itself.
Publish before the Hot Sale
Announce that you will be participating in the Hot Sale in advance and what they will be able to purchase so that your users are prepared to participate.
The Hot Sale is a great opportunity to push your brand to a new level and attract new customers who, if you do it right, could become regular customers. Are you already participating in the Hot Sale?
When working in marketing, one of the most important points is to achieve very good results within each strategy, and one of the best ways to obtain excellent results and know what is good for the company is to measure the ROI.
What is ROI?
ROI, which stands for Return on Investment, is a foolproof metric or tool to validate whether what you did has given you a return on investment. It is important not to confuse it with ROAS.
What is ROAS?
ROAS stands for Return on Advertising Spend. It is a metric that allows you to measure the return on investment of your advertising campaigns.
Difference between ROI and ROAS
Although they may seem similar, they have small differences. For example, ROI is not only a metric for marketing or advertising but applies to any area, unlike ROAS, which applies only to ads. Another big difference is that ROI already considers the payment of taxes unlike ROAS, which measures gross money.
Best Platforms for Your ROI or ROAS
First of all, if you’re reading this, it’s because you’re looking for shortcuts, and unfortunately, there aren’t any, but we’ll guide you on how to choose the best platform to get better ROI in your advertising campaigns.
First of all, we need to understand how our business works and know who we sell to. For this, you can read our blog about buyer persona or target market, or simply identify if your business is B2B (Business to Business) or B2C (Business to Consumer).
Knowing the above, it’s time to identify what each platform is useful for. Be aware that each platform has its focus and achieves different things, but we will land them in the B2B and B2C models.
Below you will find a list of networks and platforms you should use depending on your business:
Web = B2B, B2C LinkedIn = B2B Instagram = B2C Facebook = B2C Facebook Merchant = B2C Instagram = B2C TikTok = B2C TikTok Shop = B2C X (Twitter) = B2C Pinterest = B2C Mail = B2B, B2C Google = B2B, B2C Google Merchant = B2C
Once you identify which channel works for you, select the ones you can start using. It is very important that you consider the following factors: the budget you have for your campaign, the trained personnel to manage that account, and the tools your sales team has.
If you have defined the channel you are going to use, it is time to start creating your campaign and measuring. It is important to consider testing no longer than 3 months on each platform. The important thing here is that you measure each action you take and start seeing your ROI and ROAS at each step. Once you manage to measure it, it’s time to assess where or where you should invest all your budget.
Now that you know which platform works for you, your business, and your target market, it’s time to direct your budget to this platform. Always thinking that when you have more possibilities, you expand the channel to obtain more conversions in other channels, because it is necessary to be everywhere, all the time.
This strategy is a summarized form of a book called Bullseye Marketing written by Louis Gudeman. It’s an excellent book that I recommend for achieving effective marketing strategies that will allow you to achieve effective results.
It’s time to achieve your goals and obtain excellent ROI and ROAS. Start today and begin seeing results.
This year, elections will take place in several countries around the world, and these elections will have a significant impact on the direction of those countries in the coming years. This raises the question of what will happen with the elections and, specifically, what happens with their marketing. We will focus on the marketing of Mexican politicians because that is what we know best.
To understand political marketing, let’s first clarify that in the political case, it’s called advertising since advertising focuses on ideals and marketing on business. Having said this, we would also like to clarify some important points about political marketing.
Some characteristics of political marketing:
It has a defined and limited market, as it already works with adults.
It has a specific predefined period and an assigned budget.
It is adaptable and studies the impact of actions.
It combines traditional and digital marketing.
Having a solid personal brand is essential for achieving good results.
Political marketing sometimes takes place with practices that are not very ethical. If you are working in political advertising, it’s important to know the guidelines set by the authorities so you don’t get into trouble, in addition to considering the ethical and moral implications of these practices.
Unethical practices in political marketing:
Fake news
Social media and search engines are full of fake news, and this is not always accidental; some politicians promote the creation of campaigns with fake news. It’s important to distinguish between fake news and biased news; fake news provides false information, and biased news only loads the information with real data where it suits. Although this strategy, if well done, can achieve great success, it is not ethical and can get you into trouble.
Bots for positioning
The use of bots to position important topics is not new and surely will not disappear; bots position topics or news you want to put in the dialogue quickly and consistently. This tool has been used for years with great results, but like the previous one, it is unethical and will get you into trouble.
Gifts or vote buying
This practice happens less than it used to, but it still happens. In these practices, political marketers give away or deliver food, gifts, or some kind of incentive to vote for the desired politician.
Political marketing makes use of management, research, and communication to profile the “ideal product” for the “consumer – voter”, taking advantage of both traditional and digital marketing. Political campaigns require innovation, a multidisciplinary team, and detailed planning of messages to ensure effectiveness and emotionally connect with the audience. In this context, social media plays a crucial role, not only for spreading political projects but also for facing the challenges of fake news.
With this in mind, we bring you some political marketing campaigns from 2024 in Mexico.
Political campaigns in Mexico:
Mariana Rodríguez – Fosfo fosfo
Mariana is betting on becoming the mayor of Monterrey, with this in mind, she does what she knows best: being a great public figure who perfectly understands how social media works and using something that would have sunk anyone, which was her fosfo fosfo video, is now part of her campaign just as it was for her husband’s campaign.
Maynez Maynez president
Maynez is one of the candidates who appears not to participate significantly in the presidential competition, but with this in mind and knowing that nobody knows him, they have made a great political campaign so that his name is remembered and heard everywhere, to such an extent that my students sing it in classes, even if they do not vote for him, they are positioning him in an extraordinary way.
Xóchitl Gálvez
Xóchitl Gálvez’s campaign is betting on her story, what she is, what she has been, and a lot of work with technology. In her campaign, she is being very upfront against the current president Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Claudia Sheinbaum
Candidate Claudia Sheinbaum is focused on leveraging the current presidency and pushing what Morena has done in this six-year term and how she represents the continuity of the current presidency with clarity and presidential support.
These are the beginnings of political campaigns, and from this, we get to see how they create fun campaigns and others not so much, but in the end, it’s political advertising, which works extraordinarily today thanks to social media.
What do you think, which are the best campaigns of these elections?
As I know nothing about American football, every year the Super Bowl happens, I prefer to focus on what I do know and like: the commercials or the marketing. So, like every year, we bring you the commercials we liked the most from the Super Bowl 2024.
Good or bad, every year the Super Bowl commercials surprise us for better or worse, or just by the great artists they manage to get and even greater the productions they make for this event. Here are the 5 most interesting commercials from this Super Bowl:
Mountain Dew Commercial Super Bowl 2024
Featuring my crush Aubrey Plaza and leveraging her public persona characterized by being very indifferent and not paying much attention to things, comes the commercial she developed with Mountain Dew.
Squarespace Commercial Super Bowl 2024
Squarespace, a management tool, and in this beautiful commercial where aliens are invading the planet, but since everyone is on their phone, they don’t pay attention until the aliens make a website, showing the importance of having a website. If you still don’t have one, you can make it with the best marketing agency in Monterrey, BLNK 😉 😉
Google Pixel SB Commercial Super Bowl 2024
This commercial is very nice because it shows how the cell phone interacts with the user’s daily life and how having a cell phone impacts their life.
Dunkin Donuts Commercial Super Bowl 2024
We all love donuts, and in this delicious Dunkin Donuts commercial, we see Ben Affleck trying to impress Jennifer Lopez with the collaboration of Tom Brady and Matt Damon.
E*Trade Commercial Super Bowl 2024
A trading company with digital tools mocks the sport of pickleball, which is like tennis with small rackets, while talking about their finances, demonstrating how easy the sport is, just like managing your finances.
These commercials are not as interesting as they used to be, nor are they as fun and innovative as they were. Currently, few companies manage to make an impact. I believe this is something we will continue to see as they create commercials with decent narratives, and occasionally we will have very interesting commercials.
What do you think of the Super Bowl 2024 commercials? Did you like them, or were they as disappointing as the halftime show?
When we start marketing for our business, the question arises whether we should make videos for our brand, and the answer is yes…
That’s the simple answer, but the complex answer is also yes, because video in marketing, since its inception, has been the strongest and most aggressive tool for campaigns. Today, it is not just the strongest tool but the most basic one. This is thanks to applications and smartphones that have enabled any user to access video tools.
Having access to video tools and platforms is not everything. Nowadays, centennials use TikTok as a search platform, leading Google to consider indexing TikToks. This means that when you perform a search on Google, there is a high likelihood that TikToks will be offered as part of the results.
Having the tools and applications to make videos is not the only thing you need. You also need to create extraordinary and unique narratives, as nowadays everyone can tell when a brand is trying to sell something. Therefore, it’s better to use more natural strategies that fit the community you are targeting.
This is the long answer to tell and indicate that you really do need to consider making videos for your marketing. If your brand isn’t using videos in its strategy, you are making big mistakes. Remember, you don’t need big productions to achieve your goals.
When working on web design, the most important thing is to keep it updated and meet user expectations at the time. A website is no longer just for larger companies; it’s a standard for all businesses. To help you create and improve your website, we bring you the top trends to consider in 2024.
Microinteractions
We already know that our websites should generate interactions and animations. Now, microinteractions are emerging, which give small animations to buttons or areas without needing to be too aggressive or strong.
Fast Loading
Although this area is not strictly design but programming, you shouldn’t design an extraordinary website without considering high-quality programming. More than a trend, it is a necessity to have websites that load quickly and are efficient in their data usage.
Mobile First
In the 2024 design trends, don’t just think about designing responsive sites—that’s already basic. What we need is for websites to be thought of and designed first for mobile and then for desktop.
3D Elements
In your web designs for this year, consider using 3D designs to give more interactivity and dynamism to the websites.
Different Typography
Prepare for bold and different web designs in 2024 with the use of exotic and purposeful typography that will create a strong and unique impact on our users, thus offering them a unique and different experience.
Were you already aware of these trends or were there some you didn’t know about? Tell us if you have applied any of them or if you want to apply them.
