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# Digital Marketing Lessons From Coca-Cola: 10 Tactics Any Company Can Use

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 by [Artash Arakelyan](https://incredo.co/blog/author/artash-arakelyan)

January 10, 2014

Digital Marketing Lessons From Coca-Cola: 10 Tactics Any Company Can Use

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Coca-Cola is one of the best-known brands in the world, and its marketing is studied for good reason. You do not need its budget to borrow its habits. This post pulls out ten tactics from its digital playbook that companies of any size can adapt, and ends with how to measure whether they work for you.

## Ten tactics worth borrowing

### 1. Show up where your audience already is

Coca-Cola maintains an active presence across social platforms, video and its own content site. The lesson is not "be everywhere." Pick the channels your buyers actually use and do them well.

### 2. Answer people directly

Responding to customers in public shows you are listening. A prompt, human reply on social media does more for trust than another promotional post.

### 3. Make sharing easy

Campaigns that let people send a drink, a message or a photo to a friend spread because sharing is built into the idea. Ask yourself what your customers would want to pass on to a colleague.

### 4. Publish stories, not only product messages

The brand's own content hub covers music, sport, food and culture, not just its drinks. For a B2B company, that means publishing useful stories about your customers' problems, not only feature announcements.

### 5. Invite outside voices

Opinion pieces and expert commentary on bigger topics show a brand cares about more than selling. Guest experts also add credibility you cannot claim for yourself.

### 6. Work with creators that fit your audience

Coca-Cola has used well-known personalities for large campaigns. A smaller company can get similar value from niche creators, industry bloggers and customers with real expertise.

### 7. Balance promotion with personality

A feed that only sells gets ignored. Mix product posts with content that is useful, funny or inspiring, and keep a steady tone across channels.

### 8. Use video and visuals

Short videos and strong images tend to earn more engagement than text alone. Even simple visuals, such as a clean diagram of your process, help people understand you faster.

### 9. Join conversations that matter to your audience

Brands that take part in cultural moments and social challenges stay visible, as long as the topic genuinely fits their values. Never force a trend that does not fit you.

### 10. Personalize the experience

The Share a Coke campaign put people's names on bottles and invited them to share the result online. Personalization works because it makes the customer the star. In B2B, personalization means relevant messages by role, industry and stage of the buying journey.

## Measure it in your CRM

Big brands can afford to run campaigns on awareness alone. Most companies cannot. To learn what actually works, tag every campaign and channel, and track what happens to the contacts it creates: leads, qualified opportunities, closed deals and revenue.

That only works if your CRM data is clean and your reporting is trusted. If your HubSpot portal cannot show which channels drive revenue, [book a 30-minute HubSpot portal review](https://incredo.co/meetings/artash?hsLang=en-us) and we will show you where to start.

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Post by [Artash Arakelyan](https://incredo.co/blog/author/artash-arakelyan)  
 January 10, 2014

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