Date: February 2022

When TikTok was created in 2016, no one could have expected it to become what it is today. It is now one of the most used social media platforms out. It is ranked as the 7^th most popular social media platform in the world. There are over 1 billion monthly active users. While many companies believe that TikTok is still an app for dancing videos, it has become a lot bigger than that. Since its launch in 2016, TikTok has been downloaded 3 billion times, gaining 383 million installs in the first half of 2021. It has become extremely critical that your company has an active presence on TikTok. Here are 5 ways your company can utilise TikTok marketing strategy to advance your growth.

To keep track of their key performance indicators (KPIs), marketers need help when facing 4.62 billion social media users and the different kinds of posts they create which are spread across 17 different social media platforms. That is not even considering the website traffic and engagement that may come from the 8.5 billion Google searches that occur every day. To provide your clients with clear and accurate results regarding your marketing efforts and their marketing expenditure, platforms have been created to track not only your social media engagement and views but the traffic, sales, and engagement that your website may receive. 

In the past year, we have been involved in more than 500 marketing strategies and campaigns across multiple industry sectors including technology, professional services, health, life sciences, manufacturing, logistics and FMCG.

There is a reason why companies that are seeking to grow know that their business needs a marketing strategy. It is simple. You are 313% more likely to achieve your marketing goals with a marketing strategy in place. If these odds are given to you, and a marketing strategy is accessible and affordable, then it’s a no-brainer.

Social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, or Snapchat are initially created for sharing memories and connecting families and friends. It has now transformed into a source of entertainment, news, and commercial opportunities. Towards the end of 2021, there were 4.55 billion people who are active on social media. Facebook is the most prominent social networking site, but is that still true in 2022? Facebook interaction on organic content has been on an all-time low, at approximately 2%. Some users have abandoned Facebook and moved to other platforms. Do you think Facebook is a dying Marketing Channel? 

After just completing my first year of university studying media and communications, I didn’t know the first thing about what the world of marketing involved. Having only ever taken two advertising classes, I knew almost nothing about what a marketing firm did let alone how they operated in the industry. That was until I found myself scrolling through Indeed.com, trying to find a way to fill in my time over the next three months. At a time when every second person was trying to find a job or internship, restless after the abundance of lockdowns we endured in 2021, every opportunity I was either turned down or was one in 500 applicants. Marketing Eye was no different, an application I thought I would never hear back from. Or so that’s what I thought. 12 weeks later I am left to reflect on my time working as a Marketing Eye Intern learning from and working alongside a team of dedicated, passionate, and hardworking marketing executives.

When you start out in marketing, you always think the career path will be easy, fun and a bit on the glamorous side. Then when you start, you realize that it isn't easy, fun is for Friday's and there is no glamour in organizing an event even if it is for your favorite fashion brand.

Many don't start in the mail room or doing photocopying anymore, but at an entry level there is plenty of mundane tasks that can often bury our enthusiasm for the career that you are by this point indebted to through your university degree.