Taking Your Brand on an Experiential Mobile Tour
Brands and companies are always looking for new or better ways to engage with their desired target markets. Currently, many brands are using digital (social media, video, SEO, etc.) and traditional (TV, radio, billboards, door-to-door, etc.) strategies to interact with their audience. While these strategies are an important part of any healthy marketing campaign, too many brands are overlooking the opportunity of a mobile tour, utilizing a mix of both digital and traditional strategies to enhance the in-person experience at each stop on the road.
Mobile tours are great for a number of reasons, but we especially like them because they’re cost effective, and they give brands the opportunity to be present where their target demographic actually lives, works, and plays. Mobile tours are also a unique way to showcase brand personality through bringing products and/or services to life in a way that cuts through all of the clutter created by digital and traditional marketing strategies. By having a live, in-person experience, a consumer can establish a deeper emotional connection with your brand. An in-person experience allows your target market to test out your product or service, which is something they cannot typically do with any other marketing strategy. Mobile tours also lend themselves well to word-of-mouth marketing, which helps your brand gain buzz at an event, and ultimately allows you to reach an even larger audience through social media.
Integration with Existing Strategies
When embarking on a mobile tour, we educate our clients on the importance of integrating the tour with the rest of their existing marketing strategies. An existing social media strategy can be enhanced with new content generated from the stops along the mobile tour, and the company’s existing social media channels can also help to drive traffic to activations. Buying print, radio, and other media can also supplement the mobile tour and drive traffic to your activation.
Possible Tour Elements
There are several elements that can be added to a mobile tour campaign to increase the number of impressions and create a unique and engaging experience for your target demographic.
- Mobile vehicles are the cornerstone of any mobile tour, and can be fully customized to meet the needs of the brand and activation. Driving a vehicle cross-country with a custom wrap is a surefire way to generate thousands of impressions.
- Street teams add an additional in-person element to an activation, and act as a personal extension of the brand. Street teams bring further energy and enthusiasm to your brand’s products/services.
- Kiosks offer a chance to test out or learn about a product or service and can attract the audience in a meaningful way through interactive touch screens or engaging video reels.
- Pop-up shops are an excellent way to sell products/services during a mobile tour, and can be supplemented through traditional or social media campaigns.
