There are several key elements to successful brand engagement, from simply hiring the right staff, to acting on your worst feedback. The world’s leading business people, entrepreneurs and marketers give advice better than anyone else, so scroll down to see what their tips are when it comes to brand engagement and retaining your customers.

There’s been a lot of buzz about the best way to acquire new customers through brand building, which includes long lists of things to do and working with other companies for support. But what if it’s much easier than that? What if you can take user-generated content and use it for new customer acquisition?

The biggest mistake brands are making is waiting for customers to approach them. This is lazy and will not improve your engagement. Take control over your brand and push yourself to have regular sessions purely geared for enhancing customer engagement and building your brand. Take note of these five creative ways to connect with your customer and give yourself the chance to be part of the 8% of companies to receive a top grade by their customer (Bluefin Solutions). These top five tips are created to guide you to a better brand building strategy for you and your audience.

There’s no denying that music has an incredible affect on advertising sales. With 98% of people across the globe reporting that they listen to music, there is a big opportunity for companies to start building a brand with music. Music and brand engagement has a reputation for engaging customers and increasing ROI to brands over time and with the review of Nielsen’s “Emotions giving a Lift to Advertising” report (2016), it’s evident that ads with the best emotional response generated a 23% increase in sales volume.

Below are three important elements that leads music and building your brand to connect with customers better than any other means of content marketing.

There are several steps that a shopper takes on their journey to becoming a loyal customer using brand building strategies. During the process, the marketer needs to ensure they Attract, Convert, Close and Delight the shopper and turn them into their best customer. But how do get from Attract to Delight? With quality content and by building your brand's emotional connection with your customer through music, you will see an increase in shoppers becoming loyal customers.

Engaging with your audience with unique methods is meant to be done in a timely, consistent manner. With 72% of customers expecting to hear from the company within the first hour, brands have more to do than ever before. Below are the key points for building a brand with music by increasing audience engagement to potentially enhance your brand’s ROI and gain more customers.

According to Kevin Roberts, the CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi, “brands are running out of [marketing] juice”. Luckily for you, Roberts has a remedy for this, which he calls “Lovemarks”. Lovemarks is a term that refers to the process a brand follows to create an emotional connection with their target audience, through mystery, sensuality and intimacy. And how do leading marketers aplpy this to their brand building strategy? Through the #PowerOfMusic, of course.

Below is a list of what music marketing offers customers.

Hotels are really seeing the value of using music to build brand value, and this article illustrates 3 hotels from across the globe who are using music in different ways in order to engage their patrons and offer a holistic branding experience. From music download cards, to live music and music tribute rooms , the opportunity to grow brand affinity and enhance guest experience through thoughtful use of music is strong and valuable. Because of its power to evoke strong emotions, music can empower brand-consumer relationships.

The changing landscape of marketing means that customer engagement has taken a hit leading into the first couple of months in 2016. Also affecting the level of engagement is the rise of the Millennial and what marketers understand in order to connect with them. To  understand what it is you should be doing to enhance your brand, it’s important to first understand why customer engagement dropped this year.

Here are the top 4 reasons that brands are seeing less customer engagement in 2016: