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How Mainstream Brands Can Identify and Serve Muslim Niche Markets

We have talked about why mainstream businesses should consider the Muslim consumer market extensively here at Muslim Ad Network. We have also written articles and guides in general about how to do so. Today we [...]

Capitalizing on Social Media Algorithms for Better Engagement with Muslim Audiences – Part 1 Facebook

Part 1- Facebook Part 2 – Twitter Part 3 – Instagram A few months back we looked at How to Leverage Muslim Consumer Behavior Online with Social Media Marketing and gave you the tools to [...]

How to Build a Muslim-Friendly Brand

Your brand is the lasting impression that your audience has of your company. Your brand includes: your brand style guide,  the tone in your website copy, your tone on social media,  your color palette logo, [...]

Muslim Ad Network’s (MAN) Beginner’s Guide to Analyzing and Optimizing Your Display Ads

Whether you are an Islamic organization or a mainstream brand targeting Muslims you need to make analyzing and optimizing your display advertising a key part of your digital marketing strategy. Today’s technology gives you the [...]

6 Easy Steps Guide to Starting a Business Targeting Muslims

Here at Muslim Ad Network we have discussed extensively how to promote your business- Islamic or mainstream- to Muslims. Today we want to take a step back and offer quick but efficient guidance to those [...]

Preparing Your Marketing for Ramadan 2021- Part 6

Creating a Community Around Your Brand for Ramadan Six-Part Series Part 1: Ramadan Muslim Consumer Behavior Part 2: Preparing Your Products and Services for Ramadan Part 3: Using Your Blog to Promote Your Brand for [...]

Preparing Your Marketing for Ramadan 2021- Part 5

Mail and Email as Promoting Tools for Ramadan Six-Part Series Part 1: Ramadan Muslim Consumer Behavior Part 2: Preparing Your Products and Services for Ramadan Part 3: Using Your Blog to Promote Your Brand for [...]

Preparing Your Marketing for Ramadan 2021- Part 4

Using Social Media to Gain Ramadan Buyers Six-Part Series Part 1: Ramadan Muslim Consumer Behavior Part 2: Preparing Your Products and Services for Ramadan Part 3: Using Your Blog to Promote Your Brand for Ramadan [...]

Preparing Your Marketing for Ramadan 2021- Part 3

Using Your Blog to Promote Your Brand for Ramadan Six-Part Series Part 1: Ramadan Muslim Consumer Behavior Part 2: Preparing Your Products and Services for Ramadan Part 3: Using Your Blog to Promote Your Brand [...]

Preparing Your Marketing for Ramadan 2021- Part 2

Preparing Your Products and Services for Ramadan Six-Part Series Part 1: Ramadan Muslim Consumer Behavior Part 2: Preparing Your Products and Services for Ramadan Part 3: Using Your Blog to Promote Your Brand for Ramadan [...]

Preparing Your Marketing for Ramadan 2021 – Part 1

Ramadan Muslim Consumer Behavior Six-Part Series Part 1: Ramadan Muslim Consumer Behavior Part 2: Preparing Your Products and Services for Ramadan Part 3: Using Your Blog to Promote Your Brand for Ramadan Part 4: Using [...]

Another Muslim Prayer App Tracking Users – What’s Next for Muslim Consumers?

After waking up to the scary reality of having their personal data sold to military contractors by Muslim Pro, Muslims find themselves yet again in the same predicament. This time via a similar prayer app: [...]

3 Online Advertising Trends and How to Reach Muslims in 2021

There is no denying the fact that advertising has never been the same since the COVID-19 crisis started. The tourism and leisure industries have been the hardest hit and have cut their online advertising budgets. [...]

7 Simple Consumer Psychology Tactics to Gain More Muslim Customers

Defining Consumer Psychology Consumer psychology draws on many disciplines: social psychology, marketing, behavioral economics, and more. It focuses on understanding consumers and their purchasing behavior.  Some of the psychological factors that influence consumer behavior are: [...]

The Ultimate Lesson From the Muslim Pro User Data Scandal

Muslim Pro User Data Scandal – A Betrayal On the 23rd of November, 2020, The Los Angeles Times reported “Muslims reel over a prayer app that sold user data: ‘A betrayal from within our own [...]

How to Influence the 3 Types of Online Muslim Consumers

Not all Muslim consumers behave the same when shopping online. We have mentioned in a previous article that a consumer buys a specific product resulting from his or her need for that particular product, which [...]

The $3 Trillion Reason Why Mainstream Brands Cannot Ignore The Muslim Consumer Market

The Global Halal Economy is Heading Towards $3 Trillion in 2023 In 2018, the State of the Global Islamic Economy Report 2018/19  reported that in 2017, the global Islamic economy reached $2.1 trillion and is [...]

How to Create a Halal Brand Personality to Gain Brand Loyalty Among Young Modest Fashion Consumers

The modest fashion industry today is worth $283 billion globally. Meanwhile, the global Islamic clothing market is estimated to rise to $361 billion by 2023. The growing competition in the modest fashion industry is starting [...]

Muslim Marketing: Three Stories We Can Learn From

Here at Muslim Ad Network, we have talked extensively about marketing to Muslim consumers. In this article, we wanted to highlight three different stories that could motivate you when you find that your efforts to [...]

What’s Your Online Marketing Mix for Your Halal Business?

Do you have an online marketing mix for your Muslim Audience? If you do, congratulations, you have the fundamentals of a successful halal business in place. If you don’t, it’s OK. Stick around and let [...]

Want to Know if Your Social Media Marketing for Muslim Audiences Works? Here’s How!

In a recent blog post, How to Leverage Muslim Consumer Behavior Online with Social Media Marketing we discussed how to successfully market your brand or organization to Muslims on social media. Today we take a [...]

How to Leverage Muslim Consumer Behavior Online with Social Media Marketing

Successfully marketing your brand or business to Muslims on social media requires an understanding of the behavior of Muslim social media users. In this article, we will help you understand how to leverage social media [...]

How to Run a Successful Digital Marketing Campaign to Muslim Consumers

Marketing to Muslims is not the enigma it used to be. Many business owners and marketers understand the basics and the dos and don’ts on a high level. The problem is execution, it’s not always [...]

TikTok Introduces Marketing Partner Program For Advertisers – Is it Suitable for Muslim Businesses?

As a Muslim business owner or a marketer working for a Muslim business, you must engage your audience where they hang out. It is however never the case that all platforms where your audiences hang [...]

Under Armour and Tommy Hilfiger Launch Hijabs – What it Means for You

Under Armour Launches First Sports Hijab Saman Munir left her job at an aerospace firm after giving birth to her first baby. At this stage, she had no idea that she would become a health [...]

What You Must Know About Islamic Advertising Principles

One of the most important things in a Muslim’s life is not going about business as usual while being ignorant of his or her Creator’s rules and regulations. This is true for all his or [...]

The One Reason Every Brand is Failing to Capitalize on the Muslim Consumer Market Effectively

According to the State of the Global Islamic Economy Report 2018/19 in 2017, the global halal economy reached $2.1 trillion and is expected to reach $3 trillion in 2023. With the internet becoming more accessible [...]

7 Hard Truths You Will Face When Targeting Muslim Audiences

Today I want to take you through the realities of owning a business that targets Muslim audiences. In order to validate what I am communicating, I will be quoting three business owners who I had [...]

How to Not Mess Up Your Ad Placements

As a Muslim business owner, you are wary of where your ads will be placed. As an advertiser, you do not want to have your ads placed on websites that do not comply with Islamic [...]

We Scored Joe Biden on His Chances of Making the Muslim Vote Work for Him

A Marketing Perspective on Joe Biden Making the Muslim Voters Matter for His 2020 Election Campaign Look, one of the things that I think is important is I wish we taught more in our schools [...]

3 Ways of Cutting Through the Noise to Reach Muslim Consumers

Today’s article is designed to help you market to Muslim consumers in a way that doesn’t have to deal with the clutter of competitors as much as you would have to. No, it does not [...]

7 Quick Fixes to Your Landing Page for Converting Your Display Ad Campaign

Dear Reader, You and I have come a long way. We started our journey when we discussed why Muslim business owners should adapt to Digital Transformation. We then moved towards setting a foolproof online marketing [...]

3 Quick Tips for Effectively Designing Banner Ads that Spark Engagement

1. Size Matters  One of the most common questions that our clients ask after signing up with Muslim Ad Network (MAN) is which are the highest performing banner sizes? Some ad formats are more noticeable [...]

Becoming a Publisher at Muslim Ad Network – What You Need to Know

There is no doubt that extra income is the number one reason for website owners to sell ad space on their websites. Display advertising is the most established method of earning passive income through your [...]

The World of Advertising and the Consequences of Racist Ads

The murder of George Floyd at the hands of four police officers started a conversation in our communities more powerful than the riots seen on television. The major media outlets may want you to see [...]

7 Things to Remember When Your Marketing Efforts Resume After Ramadan and the COVID-19 Lockdown

Now that Ramadan has come to a conclusion, we want to use it as a springboard towards a better you and me. This is true for both our personal life and the way we run [...]

17 Tips for When You Reopen Business After the COVID-19 Lockdown

A while back we discussed 14 Tips When Shutting Down Your Business Due to the COVID-19 Crisis for a Quick Bounce Back. During the last few days, we have been witnessing some relaxation on restrictions [...]

Evidence Shows that You Should Keep Advertising During a Recession

As promised, during this year’s Ramadan and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic we will be helping you with tips to come out of the crisis stronger. So, when I was doing research for this article, I [...]

6 Things MAN is Doing During a COVID-19 Impacted Ramadan Which You Can Do Too

This Ramadan, in the midst of the pandemic, is unlike any other Ramadan. No, not in a doom and gloom way. It’s quite the opposite of that. It is a Ramadan of opportunity for us [...]

Ramadan Blackout Challenge

Ramadan is here and this translates to a time of dedication to spiritual growth for all Muslims. The Ramadan Blackout Challenge offers you an opportunity to withdraw from all distractions and unplug from all social [...]

How to Market to Muslims for Ramadan 2020 During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ramadan 2020 is finally here! Are you ready? If you are a business owner or a marketer, you may already know that Ramadan not only brings the best out of the Muslims spiritually but also [...]

14 Tips When Shutting Down Your Business Due to the COVID-19 Crisis for a Quick Bounce Back

So it has finally come to this. You have no choice but to close your business and wait out the COVID-19 crisis. All is not lost, this is just temporary. Shutting down a business temporarily [...]

Your Business After the COVID-19 Pandemic: Going Through The 4 Phases

Here at Muslim Ad Network, we care about you and your business. We are still offering free online advertising to help your business cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. I figured we are now in a [...]

3 Tips for Marketing to Muslims and Not Get The Cold Shoulder

At the time of writing this post, Ramadan is just around the corner. Businesses, both Muslim-owned and not, know that this is a time when a large part of the population will be more prone [...]

Muslim Ad Network Offering $25,000 in Free Advertising for Small Businesses Impacted by Coronavirus

Muslim Ad Network is offering $25,000 in advertising credits for 100 small businesses, an initiative created in the desire to help small businesses survive through the current climate With all the uncertainty and disruptions to [...]

The Impact of Coronavirus on Your Business and What to Do

As the COVID-19 coronavirus continues to wreak havoc worldwide, we at Muslim Ad Network want to give you clarity on what this could mean to your online business and what you could do about it.  [...]

50% More Sales Via Your Display Ads? Do This

Isn’t it frustrating to see all that traffic coming to your website yet only a fraction end up buying? Well, it shouldn’t be. Think about it; do you always buy the first time you visit [...]

7 Simple But Extremely Effective Display Ad Ideas

Display Ads are a great way to get your brand in front of millions of potential customers. There’s just one thing you need to remember. Unlike search ads, your display ads are seen by users [...]

How to Write Content That Your Audience Cannot Ignore

Content is the ultimate way to get your brand in front of your audience organically. The only problem is that your audience is blind to mediocre content and you could be spending hours creating videos, [...]

6 Reasons Why Businesses Targeting Muslims Will Thrive in 2020 and Beyond

1 – Muslims are becoming more conscious of their  Islamic identity Gone are the days when young Muslim men and women idolized other cultures in order to feel good about themselves. There will always be [...]

How Muslim Culture Has Affected Nike’s Target Market

While Muslim women defy a ban to swim in burkinis at French pools, Nike launches a new swimwear line designed for women who wear hijab. Modesty is a part of the Muslim community and culture. Standards [...]

Setting A Foolproof Online Marketing Strategy for Muslim Brands

ccording to Statista, the halal product market is expected to grow from 45.3 billion U.S. dollars in 2016 to over 58.3 billion by 2022. The largest sector of the global halal industry is Islamic finance [...]

Why Should Muslim Business Owners Adapt to Digital Transformation?

The rapid change and development of digital technologies in the last decade forces companies to follow and adapt to innovations in this area. For the most part, businesses are aware that they have to use [...]

The Inevitable Rise of Digital Advertising Continues

Digital advertising is the promotion of your brand or product through online channels. Social media sites, search engines, and news websites are the areas where digital advertising is most common. Digital advertising is first and [...]

How the Halal Consumer Market is Developing with the Growing Muslim Population and Islamic Economies

“Halal” is an Arabic word which means “permitted” and it is generally used to describe foods that Muslims are allowed to eat according to Islamic guidelines mentioned in the Qur’an. In Islam, most food and [...]

Sustainable Modest Fashion and Muslim Consumers

One of the issues that has been on the agenda for those who have been interested in green marketing during the last few years is sustainability in fashion. What is sustainability and what are the [...]

Digital Marketing Trends for 2020

Traditional marketing and advertising methods that used to be effective in the past could serve the needs of any business and increase the demand for the product or service they offer. But times have changed, [...]

What is Modest Fashion and Why is it Becoming Mainstream?

Nowadays, the concept of individuality is much more important and social media has become a key platform for people to express their individuality. Generations are changing and the old hijab clothing style is outdated and [...]

The NBA’s Toronto Raptors Partners with Nike to Create Co-Branded Sports Hijabs

Notably, in 2018, Nike, one of the biggest sportswear companies with a current brand value of $32.4 billion (USD) in the world, added a hijab product to its line specifically produced for women athletes. The [...]

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Muslim Consumer Market is Expanding: Be Aware of the New Muslim Consumer Landscape

It is a fact that Islam is the world’s fastest growing religion. Therefore, the number of Muslim consumers who have high purchasing power is growing rapidly in every market. State of the Global Islamic Economy [...]

Forging Ahead With Impactful Programmes to Enhance the Progress of the Global Islamic Economy

The multisectoral trade exhibition of the 9th Muslim World Biz opens its door to welcome participants from over 40 countries. The organisers expect nearly 30,000 trade and public visitors in addition to parallel business matching [...]

Banana Republic Starts Selling Hijabs

Banana Republic, the mainstream retailer has introduced a line of hijabs, making it the latest consumer brand to create products for Muslim women. “Mainstream companies are waking up to the fact that there is value [...]

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