Anthony Gaenzle June 26, 2020 Retail sales around the globe have felt the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, with in-store shopping seeing a significant plummet in activity. The initial shelter in place orders had a huge impact on consumer purchases. In the United Kingdom, April retail sales declined by approximately 18%. In the US, retail … Continue reading The Global Impact of COVID-19 on E-Commerce
A 0.1 second site speed boost increased retail AOV by almost 10%, Deloitte study finds. Greg Sterling on June 24, 2020 Site speed has always been an important feature of the mobile user experience. Google made it an explicit ranking factor in 2018. Speed is also a component of the new “Page Experience” ranking factor. … Continue reading The need for (mobile) speed: Small improvements have a big conversion impact
Yelp Builds Out COVID-19 Section, As Data Reveals Larger Economic Impact by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, June 17, 2020 In a push to help businesses as they re-open, Yelp says it will continue to build out its COVID-19 Section to help businesses that were temporarily shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since March 1, … Continue reading Yelp Builds Out COVID-19 Section, As Data Reveals Larger Economic Impact
Activism, Current Events, Blackout Tuesday Impacts Ad Spend On Facebook by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, June 4, 2020 Many marketers and U.S. consumers are closing their wallets in disgust in the wake of the murder of George Floyd as well as Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor and other black men and women. Tinuiti analysis shows that … Continue reading How Activism, Current Events, Blackout Tuesday Impact Ad Spend On Facebook
Carrie Morgan — April 24, 2020 The Coronavirus is affecting businesses across the world, of all sizes, and in all industries. But just how is it affecting those industries – and are all B2B brands experiencing the same impact? We reached out to our network of B2B sales reps, managers, business owners and business development … Continue reading B2B Sales Impact of Coronavirus [Infographic]
Cloudera Makes Impact With OOH Awareness, But COVID-19 Could Change Strategy by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, April 8, 2020 In its first awareness campaign, Cloudera, an enterprise data cloud company, ran an OOH campaign in the Americas from September 2019 through January 2020, focusing on a new product called Cloudera Data Platform. The strategy tapped search, paid … Continue reading Cloudera Makes Impact With OOH Awareness, But COVID-19 Could Change Strategy
Liz Weinsten — April 2, 2020 Understanding the Effects and Finding the Light in Dark Times The impact of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) has run rampant, affecting just about every industry not to mention the worldwide economy and humankind. The way brands market and sell their products, let alone conduct their business, has changed rapidly in a … Continue reading The Impact of Coronavirus on Visitation Patterns and How Brands Can Get Creative
Many expect client budget and project changes will have a negative effect on their businesses. Ginny Marvin on March 26, 2020 Small agency leaders are feeling skeptical about the near-term even as they express confidence in their teams’ ability to work remotely amid the coronavirus outbreak. That’s according to a survey of 250 predominantly small … Continue reading Small agencies brace for impact, but say remote work isn’t slowing them down
Arik Hanson — March 9, 2020 Last week, Greg Swan shared an interesting tweet as part of his presentation on the state of social media in 2020. It talked about the “half life” of content. See below. Fascinating to compare the half-life of content across platforms (time it takes for a piece of content to … Continue reading How Your Content’s Half-Life Should (Drastically) Impact Your Social Media Strategy in 2020
Anthony Santiago — March 6, 2020 The famous, influential person on social media networks who endorse brand products and services is an influencer on social media. You can also define a social media influencer as a person working in and collaborating with a particular industry. It is also an individual who can have an impact … Continue reading How Social Media Influencers Impact Businesses
