Brandon Redlinger — May 22, 2017 Follow @brandon_lee_09— May 22, 2017 When building a house, you can’t start with putting up walls and a roof – you must start with setting and building the foundation. When producing a movie, you can’t start with the conflict – you must start with character and plot development. When … Continue reading The Top 10 Secrets for Sales and Marketing Alignment From the Pros
Brenda Caine — May 22, 2017 — May 22, 2017 What happens when you mix B2B marketing with a six-pack? The answer: A new go-to-market execution model that can help your business transform from product-centric to audience-centric. On Thursday morning at the SiriusDecisions 2017 Summit, Marisa Kopec, VP, Innovation and Product Management, and Ross Graber, … Continue reading From Product-Centric to Audience-Centric: The Transformative Six-Pack
Ginny Marvin on May 22, 2017 at 12:04 pm The IAB Tech Lab has introduced a tool to help eliminate counterfeit and unauthorized inventory by cutting illegitimate sellers out of the supply chain. Called ads.txt, the solution enables publishers to declare publicly which sellers are authorized to sell their inventory in a file posted to … Continue reading To purge fake ad sellers from digital advertising, IAB Tech Lab launches ads.txt
Columnist Christi Olson outlines exciting developments that bring image search and shopping together to enhance the search experience for users. Christi Olson on May 12, 2017 A little over a year ago, I published an article on the importance of data feeds as influencers of future search: Structured data feeds front-load the search engine … Continue reading Let’s get visual: Shopping from within images
Victoria Heckstall — May 3, 2017 Follow @wahmjourney91— May 3, 2017 Trust is an important word in the world of eCommerce. Any successful retailer would argue that it’s the only eCommerce blueprint you’ll ever need. The moment you lose trust it’s almost impossible to get it back. It takes months and years to build a … Continue reading How to Keep Online Shoppers from Losing Trust in Your eCommerce Business
The Bottom 90: Best And Worst Email Practices From Dotmailer by Ray Schultz , Columnist, May 2, 2017 All praise is due to Best Buy, J. Crew and other brands that made into dotmailer’s top ten email matchup, “Hitting The Mark.” But what about the other 90 retailers? What did they do wrong? Plenty, as … Continue reading The Bottom 90: Best And Worst Email Practices From Dotmailer
Columnist Jason Warnock explains how you can take a page from Spotify’s powerful UGC-based campaigns and incorporate them into your brand’s marketing strategy. Jason Warnock on May 2, 2017 A. Aleksandravicius / Shutterstock.com You’ve decided to make user-generated content (UGC) a priority for your brand. But now you’re struggling to get your UGC campaign … Continue reading User-generated content: What your brand can learn from Spotify
Deji Atoyebi — April 24, 2017 Follow @I_amAtoyebiDeji— April 24, 2017 Every human endeavor requires the right mix of hardwork and patience, and freelancing is no exception. While it’s a cliché to say freelancing isn’t easy, the obscure truth is: it’s extraordinarily difficult only for people who refuse to give it the attention it deserves. … Continue reading From Regular to Super: 4 Ways to Improve Your Freelance Career
Social Users Turn Away From ‘Interruptive’ Ads by Gavin O’Malley @mp_gavin, April 20, 2017 As Twitter demonstrated earlier this week, social networks have not given up on in-stream video ads, and similarly “interruptive” brand experiences. But as new research shows, people are far less likely to view, like or share a video on social media … Continue reading Social Users Turn Away From ‘Interruptive’ Ads
Are your competitors bidding on your branded terms and driving up your CPCs? If so, what can you do? In part 1 of her multi-part series on brand protection, columnist Lori Weiman provides some advice on how to make your brand terms work for you, even when the competition is fierce. Lori Weiman on April … Continue reading 2017 SEM growth hacks: Monster growth from brand protection
