Vendasta offers an anti-churn formula of sorts to marketing companies serving the small business market. Greg Sterling on June 20, 2018 Customer retention is a persistent and vexing problem for many companies that serve the small and medium-size business (SMB) market. But enterprise software company Vendasta thinks that it has found a formula of sorts … Continue reading Report: Key to SMB advertiser retention is onboarding engagement and early upselling
Patrick Knight — April 26, 2018 Follow @veriato — April 26, 2018 Studies continue to show that insiders – whether regular employees, IT staff or contractors – can be just as or more damaging to an organization as outsiders. And it isn’t just malicious employees intending to directly harm the company through theft or sabotage. … Continue reading The 2018 Insider Threat Report [Infographic]
The bar is getting higher for retailers, and most of them won’t clear it. Greg Sterling on April 26, 2018 It may be that different generations have always shopped differently. However, new research from Euclid shows that millennials stand apart from earlier generations in their shopping habits and use of technology. The new Euclid report … Continue reading Report: Millennials least influenced by retail advertising, most active tech adopters
Gartner Analyst: Marketers Struggling with Parts Of GDPR by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, April 9, 2018 Gartner analysts estimate that by the end of 2018, more than 50% of companies affected by the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which goes into effect May 25, 2018, will not be in full compliance with … Continue reading Gartner Analyst: Marketers Struggling with Parts Of GDPR
Columnist Kevin Rowe points out some handy reports available in Ahrefs for helping to inform your link building, SEO and content strategy. Why not check them out? Kevin Rowe on January 16, 2018 Author’s note: Besides being a customer of Ahrefs, I have no affiliation with the tool, and this is not a paid … Continue reading 4 reports you can pull from Ahrefs that you didn’t know existed
On Facebook, 25x more impressions took place on local Pages. Greg Sterling on July 11, 2017 Until comparatively recently, most multilocation brands and enterprises didn’t maintain separate corporate and individual store location pages on social media. There was a single national brand account, and social posts were typically generated from that account. All that has started to … Continue reading Social media pages for store locations have 5x the engagement of brand pages [Report]
Steven Shattuck — October 30, 2016 Follow @stevenshattuck— October 30, 2016 Election years are hard on everyone (especially this most recent cycle). So it’s appropriate that the newest Millennial Impact Report is this year focused on how millennials’ cause engagement behaviors may change during an election year (having focused last year on the relationships and … Continue reading 4 Insights from the 2016 Millennial Impact Report
by Craig Scribner July 25, 2016 Follow @craig_scribnerJuly 25, 2016 Picture a Thousand Words (i.e., Make a Chart) Adobe Analytics clients are genuinely surprised to learn how far off the mark their own reports have strayed. SAINT Classification technology isn’t rocket science—anyone who has used a Pivot table or a Lookup function in Excel is … Continue reading SAINT Myth No. 1: Classification Reports Always Mean What They Say
Retailers need to optimize content and reviews to fully realize the “ROBO” opportunity. Greg Sterling on March 9, 2016 While e-commerce has grown to hundreds of billions of dollars annually, the influence of digital media on offline purchases is a multi-trillion-dollar phenomenon. And though this behavior pattern has been around for at least a … Continue reading Report: For every $1 online influenced by reviews, offline impact at least $4
by Andrew Sheridan December 15, 2015December 15, 2015 As 2015 comes to a close, marketers have turned their attention to forecasts of next year’s ad spend growth. Earlier this week, three major advertising firms, Magna Global, ZenithOptimedia, and GroupM, came out with revised projections for 2016 ad spend growth. After a lackluster year of ad … Continue reading 2016 Ad Spend Projections (and Why Marketers Need to Pay Attention)
