BrandLords Digital

Hello there! We are BrandLords Digital, a social media marketing agency in Kampala, Uganda.

We know times are tough for most businesses in Uganda and we want to help. We have slashed our social media marketing service rates by over 60%.

Sounds too good to be true? We know.

Email [email protected] for details/inquiries (or simply send us a direct message).

Took this photo at exactly 07:16am.

It is a proper representation of how seriously we take each and every client and project. We were all in office by 07:00am to work on a client project.

If that's not passion, I don't know what is.

See the boyish looking man pictured below in a checkered shirt? That's Murungi Asaph.

That photo is more than 3 years old and was taken on his first day at a digital related job. He's a lot bigger now, trust me. Over the next 3 years and more than 16 digital marketing clients and projects later, he would start his own social media/ digital marketing agency - BrandLords Digital.

His aim with BrandLords Digital is to help small businesses in Uganda with limited marketing resources to utilize the internet (specifically, social media) as a primary marketing tool to grow their businesses.

The past few months have, with all honesty, been a lot better than previously anticipated. Barely three weeks after we launched, we got 2 clients that desperately needed social media marketing services.

For the next four weeks, we dedicated every resource to these two clients and helped them achieve their marketing goals. Both clients were so impressed by our work that they both increased their budgets, renewed their contracts and one of them actually signed up all 4 of his other businesses for our social media services.

Things aren't exactly as rosy as I might be painting them. There's obviously challenges and low moments occasionally but it's all worth it, honestly.

We're also currently working on launching a new digital service that will probably launch in about two weeks if all goes as planned.

If you run a business or plan to open one any time soon, I seriously beg you to look into social media marketing as a potential tool for growth. If done right, it will significantly impact your business in ways you never thought possible. You have my word on that.

Have yourself a lovely day!

-M.A

Social media is just a buzzword until you come up with a plan.

Everyone starts out with nobody listening to them and nobody to listen to. How and who you add determines what social media will become for you.

Content Doesn’t Win. Optimized Content Wins

When we are sharing stories to create bonds with other like-minded people, we want to give them social currency with the highest pass-on value we can.

You can buy attention (advertising). You can beg for attention from the media (PR). You can bug people one at a time to get attention (sales).
Or you can earn attention by creating something interesting and valuable and then publishing it online for free.

When the world is running down, you make the best of what is around.

Don't let Covid-19 take you (and your business) down with it.

Content-based marketing gets repeated in social media and increases word-of-mouth mentions; it's the best way to gather buzz about a product.

If there's one lesson Covid-19 has taught us, it's always be open to adjustments. Things won't always go as planned.

Don’t believe everything you read or see on social media.

There’s no shortage of ill-intentioned people on these streets.

Especially now that we’re grappling with a global health pandemic, some people out there are creating and circulating conspiracy theories and taking advantage of this situation to scam and spread fake news.

Before you believe, like or share a news story you’ve seen on social media do your research to make sure it’s actually true.

Social media is about the people! Not about your business. Provide for the people and the people will provide you. – Matt Goulart

Employers have now started doing social media background checks on everybody they’re considering to offer a job.

Anything you post online can come back to haunt you, even years later. You might think your comment was ironic, hilarious or edgy. You may have intended it as satire or social commentary. It may have just been a moment of misjudgment you expect to blow over.

But your online record is part of your permanent record, and you aren't guaranteed the benefit of the doubt, even if you think you deserve it.

Be careful what you share online. In fact, take time to go thrugh your old posts and delete or hide anything you wouldn’t want your future boss to see.

As we grow even more depending on our phones in the next decade, remember to lift your face from the screen, step away from your devices and spend time making connections that matter right where you are.

Technology may become an even greater part of society's fabric in the decade ahead, but it's crucial to remember why it's there -- to ease our lives, not to control them.

Social media is about the people! Not about your business. Provide for the people and the people will provide for you.

A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is – it is what consumers tell each other it is. – Scott Cook

Word-of-mouth marketing isn’t about giving customers talking points, as if they were brand spokespeople.

It’s about delivering an exceptional customer experience that makes customers want to recommend you.

Be where your customers are.

Right now, a majority of your customers are on social media. And social media is not going away any time soon.

You’d better get to them before your competition does.

The first rule of social media is that everything changes all the time. What won’t change is the community’s desire to network.

If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends. – Jeff Bezos

At BrandLords Digital we believe social media (and the internet as a whole) is a lot more powerful than most people actually realize.

Our goal is to help small businesses to discover this power, and help them put it to good use.

This is to the business owners whose enterprises got beat up and buried six feet deep because of Covid-19;

Hang in there buddy. Push through the fog. Someday, your future self will thank you for it.