#okBoomer: My TikTok experiment & what marketers should know about the platform!

Download or read book #okBoomer: My TikTok experiment & what marketers should know about the platform! written by Markus Rach and published by Markus Rach. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 0 to over 27 million views in less than 6 weeks. A TikTok experiment by a marketing expert on the fastest growing social media platform on the planet: TikTok. TikTok is one of the fastest social media platforms of 2018, 2019 and surely 2020. It is approaching the 1 billion monthly active user mark and setting new records on almost any level. It’s rocket like user growth gets much media attention. But who is behind TikTok? What makes this app so special? What is its addictive formula to keep users for hours on the platform?Markus Rach, a marketer, entrepreneur, researcher, lecturer, husband and dad set out to answer these questions. To do so, he engaged in a TikTok experiment! On January 14, 2020, Markus created a TikTok profile with the objective to get a TikTok upload with 1 million views. Although it took him 6 weeks to achieve his goal, his account the @marketing_guy, has now over 30 million views, over 2.8 million likes, multiple TikToks with millions of views and over 50.000 TikTok fans. Ok for a boomer, right? In this book, Markus shares his experience and learnings from this unique experiment. He looks at TikTok from a marketer’s perspective. Answering the very questions marketers have in their mind, when thinking about TikTok. Is TikTok relevant for me? Should I join TikTok? How does TikTok work? Isn’t it just an app for 13-year-old teens? How can I create a TikTok. Will I get views and how? All of these questions were answered in 7 chapters and to great detail. It also addresses why marketers should not just engage in advertising on the platform, but understand the platform first. At the same time, this book documents the experiment's dark side. The emotional side. The race for content and ideas. The emotional twist to wait for views to go up. The happiness is they do and the disappointment if they don't. This book also deals with advertising on the platform. One brand got almost 4 billion views on their sponsored hashtag challenge. Others are less successful. Some brands even fail to setup their account. Some just throw money at influencers and others miss to understand the platform's culture. It reveals what went wrong with marketing. And how you can become a kick-ass marketer on the platform. Understand the platform, get your hands dirty, get over yourself and don't forget: there are teens with 35 million followers and 2.2 billion likes on the platform, they don't have an agency nor a department full of degree educated marketers. Your time to get on the platform is now! Want to be in my TikTok? the @marketing_guy