Patrick Collins — September 11, 2017 Follow @patpaulcollins — September 11, 2017 Within the first 6 months of starting my first job in the startup space, I had the opportunity to be part of a team pitching at startup battlefield at TechCrunch, New York. Being very young and inexperienced at a time, I had no … Continue reading How to Prepare for Startup Conferences
We often look to industry leaders for inspiration, but columnist Brian Weiss notes that big e-commerce players are often making critical SEO mistakes that should not be emulated. Brian Weiss on September 11, 2017 Competitive research is an important part of any SEO program — after all, it’s a zero-sum game that we’re playing. … Continue reading Don’t follow the leader: Avoid these 5 common e-commerce SEO mistakes
Sahail Ashraf — September 11, 2017 Follow @BizGrowInsights — September 11, 2017 There’s nothing wrong with being boring. But there is everything wrong with being boring about stuff that you care about. If you run a company or you have a client with a company that is generally boring, as in having a product or … Continue reading How To Get More Engagement On Social Even When Your Brand Is Boring
4 Location Data Myths That Hold Back Your Marketing Strategy by Ryan Kanterman , Op-Ed Contributor, September 6, 2017 While most marketers rely on “impressions” and “clicks” to measure the impact of marketing campaigns, it’s becoming clear that actual conversions, like physical store visits, work much better to gauge success. Digital signals have a place … Continue reading 4 Location Data Myths That Hold Back Your Marketing Strategy
If you want to have a strong data-driven organization, it’s essential to use data throughout your design process. Columnist Brian Massey shares tips to help you be a data leader in your design decisions. Brian Massey on September 11, 2017 . It can be hard to change things. I know. I started writing about conversion … Continue reading Lead the charge to use data in every stage of your design process
What Digital ROI Is Really About, In Three Words by Mike Donahue , Op-Ed Contributor, September 6, 2017 To properly calculate return on digital media investment, we must take into account two other words beginning with the letter I: intent and impressions. What is the advertiser’s intent? Simply put, it is to get the best … Continue reading What Digital ROI Is Really About, In Three Words
Linking Out: LinkedIn Creates Audience Network, Serves Mobile Ads Outside LinkedIn by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, September 6, 2017 In a first, LinkedIn will now give advertisers a way to serve their native mobile ads — Sponsored Content — on other publisher networks, extending its flagship ad unit to tens of thousands of websites and apps. … Continue reading Linking Out: LinkedIn Creates Audience Network, Serves Mobile Ads Outside LinkedIn
William Harris — September 10, 2017 Follow @wmharris101 — September 10, 2017 Content marketing is changing. In the past, you might have been able to get real ROI from lazily publishing 500-word articles on your blog week after week, but it’s not enough anymore. In order to use content to build brand awareness, differentiate from … Continue reading How Ecommerce Brands Should Approach Content Marketing in 2018
Search, Website Slowdowns Can Cost Brands $20 Million Annually, Study Says by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, September 7, 2017 Website performance and IT issues cost brands roughly $20 million annually — about $1.5 million due to slowdowns and $18.5 million due to general site issues — for those analyzed in the study despite … Continue reading Search, Website Slowdowns Can Cost Brands $20 Million Annually, Study Says
Angela Hausman, PhD — September 9, 2017 Follow @MarketingLetter — September 9, 2017 Humans are visual animals and we learn better from visual information than in writing. So, when I ran across this infographic that maps the keys to success in digital marketing in a single image, I just had to use it. Rather than … Continue reading 13 Keys to Success in Digital Marketing in a Single Map
