Pilar Lazzati, founder of Dalai Group and Mil y Un Consejos, has been involved in the digital marketing industry and the development of internet companies since 2001, when she co-founded Mailcreations Corporation.

How to Grow Your Brand With Influencers

While social media has opened the door for select innovators with small budgets, the landscape has become almost entirely pay-to-pay. Scaled reach on Facebook requires advertising spend, and winning brands on YouTube rely on TrueView in-stream ads — the platform’s premier advertising product — or offline advertising to drive viewing.

In the midst of this shift towards big budgets, savvy brands are discovering a more cost-effective way to drive digital video impact: Influencers.

Traditional brands are not the biggest winners on YouTube, influencers are. In the Beauty space especially, vloggers and makeup artists have gained significant scaled reach on YouTube without pre-roll advertising.

By: https://twitter.com/PilarLazzati/status/855300063765057536 @PilarLazzati

Social Intelligence Is Changing Market Research

With the right technology, marketers are able to save time and focus their efforts on analyzing insights and applying intelligence to achieve strategic advantage.
Social intelligence provides marketers with hundreds more potential data points to build audience profiles. Gone are the days of expensive labor-intensive focus groups and surveys. Now marketers can and should use social intelligence to understand what motivates an audience and integrate the data with other information (i.e., customer data) for richer insights. The data is open and accessible now.

By: https://twitter.com/PilarLazzati/status/854182700575465472 @PilarLazzati

Why SEO should always Complement your Content Marketing

Folks walk up to me at conferences or email me for advice on SEO all the time, and a question they often ask is, “What is the role of SEO in content marketing?”
My answer is always the same: SEO should be viewed as reinforcement to your content team.
More often than not, this is followed by another question: “How should SEO and content marketing teams work together to achieve success?”
Let’s explore this in more detail. In the SEO universe we live in today, getting this synergy right can mean the difference between exponential business success and miserable failure.

By: https://twitter.com/DalaiGroup/status/853835416591634434 @DalaiGroup

Plan Your Mobile Social Media Marketing Strategy

Today while reading the news headlines a new report by Nielsen provided factual research to back up my anecdotal “S & F Survey” (street and friends survey) by announcing that in the last 12 months the Apple iPhone had more doubled its market share from 13 to 28 percent and it was expected to triple it in the next year according to Nielsen’s online business managing director Matt Bruce.

By: https://twitter.com/DalaiGroup/status/846059180381257728 @DalaiGroup

Steps to Developing Ad Revenue from Your Website

When it comes to generating revenue from your website, there are three primary ways in which you can do this. These are e-commerce, which is receiving direct profits from the sale of products or services on your site, advertising, where you are paid by an advertiser to display their ads on your site, or affiliate marketing which is where you promote a product or a service for a merchant and receive a cut of the revenue if you site generates a sale.

By: https://twitter.com/DalaiGroup/status/843175177441697792 @DalaiGroup

Essential Retail Innovation Stats for Planning 2017

Retailers are undoubtedly enthusiastic about innovation, with more than half viewing it as a priority for their business. But when it comes to actually delivering innovation, retailers face a variety of challenges.
To find out how retailers are approaching innovation in 2017 and beyond, we surveyed 500 retailers from across Europe. Here, in a summary of our full report, we share five key findings.

  • 9 in 10 retailers take innovation seriously
  • A lack of time is the #1 barrier to innovation
  • Only 15% of retailers have a dedicated role for innovation
  • Fewer than 50% of retailers have a defined process for innovation
  • 27% of retailers consider positive media attention a KPI for their innovation programmes

By: https://twitter.com/DalaiGroup/status/841770928556109824 @DalaiGroup