Category Archives: Marketing Guide

Reviews: The most ignored, most important part of your social media strategy

Consumer reviews can make or break your brand. Columnist and Bitly senior content strategist Blaise Lucey explains how to make them a central part of your social media strategy. Blaise Lucey on December 12, 2016   Uber drivers who get lower than a 4.6 rating often have their accounts deactivated. You’re never going to a … Continue reading Reviews: The most ignored, most important part of your social media strategy

3 Digital Strategies To Win The Super Bowl, With Any Marketing Budget

by Bill Chamness, Columnist, December 8, 2016 I love the Super Bowl. It’s the best day to go skiing … For marketers, the Super Bowl is the great equalizer, providing common context for the entire marketing community. It enables us to tweet about the lights going out and everybody gets it … and then we’re tortured by … Continue reading 3 Digital Strategies To Win The Super Bowl, With Any Marketing Budget

People-Based Marketing: What’s New?

by David Baker, Op-Ed Contributor, December 5, 2016 People-based marketing (PBM) is likely one of the buzziest buzz words in the ad-tech space right now.    Though it’s actually been around for years, PBM is  helping clarify ambiguous terms like “omnichannel marketing,” “mobile marketing,” “cross-device marketing,” or something CRM people have used commonly for years. … Continue reading People-Based Marketing: What’s New?

Report: What is data onboarding, and why is it important to marketers?

Management consulting firm The Winterberry Group says this is the first such independent study. Barry Levine on December 5, 2016   Data onboarding is one of those many processes in digital marketing that is, essentially, a black box. To help shed light into this particular black box, management consulting firm Winterberry Group has released its … Continue reading Report: What is data onboarding, and why is it important to marketers?

The truth about channel marketing: everything you have been told is wrong

Three misconceptions that might cause your channel marketing strategy to fail.   There is no more powerful concept in go-to-market strategy than the channel. The idea of hundreds or thousands of independent partners passionately selling your products is a wildly attractive concept. But longstanding challenges with messaging, funds utilization and performance management have complicated this … Continue reading The truth about channel marketing: everything you have been told is wrong