Patrick Gillooly — November 16, 2017 — November 16, 2017 Reaching your customers or donors — particularly through social media — is key to driving your year-end and holiday goals. But with diminishing organic reach on social platforms like Facebook and Twitter, how can you get in front of more customers this holiday season? Here … Continue reading 3 Ways to Reach More Customers with Social Media this Holiday Season
Jen Phillips April — November 14, 2017 Follow @Jenphillipsapri — November 14, 2017 Pexels Is your calendar as booked with great clients as you’d like? If your answer is “no.” Don’t beat yourself up. Most likely, the reason why has little to do with your experience (or lack of it). It also doesn’t matter whether … Continue reading Your Small Business Marketing System Starts with This
Amanda Clark — November 14, 2017 Follow @GrammarChicInc — November 14, 2017 Pexels During the holiday season, many companies kick their email marketing efforts into overdrive, seeking to capitalize on the frenzy of end-of-the-year shopping. This is certainly a season in which email marketing can get results—but it’s not the volume of emails you send … Continue reading 5 Tips for Email Marketing Success This Holiday Season
Holiday shopping insights from Cardlytics, VigLink and Valassis Amy Gesenhues on November 10, 2017 Two weeks out from the busiest holiday shopping time of the year, many holiday shoppers are already hitting the buy button. Cardlytics, a company that provides an online rewards platform for financial institutions, says that 40 percent of holiday spend … Continue reading 2017 holiday shopping trends: How consumers plan to research & purchase gifts this season
Shoppers expect visuals to cater not just to product search, but also to discovery. Columnist Steve Tutelman examines how this impacts holiday selling. Steve Tutelman on November 6, 2017 Retail marketers often use “visual search” and “visual discovery” interchangeably to refer to the use of images and videos to find products. But as the visual … Continue reading Prepare for the discovery-driven, visual-obsessed shopper this holiday
Jeff Bullas — October 30, 2017 — October 30, 2017 geralt / Pixabay There are hidden codes that we don’t notice. They make life easy. Built into the platforms and apps that control our lives. Working away in the background. Invisible tech has become so embedded in our lives that we take it for granted. … Continue reading How Big a Problem is This? The Hidden Codes That Are Controlling Our Lives
Why Programmatic Works For This Smaller Publisher by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, October 24, 2017 Brandon Dawson, programmatic ads director at Render Media, an L.A.-based digital media company co-founded by Eytan Elbaz, creator of Google AdSense, thinks he has the formula to make programmatic successful. The media company owns and operates Cooking Panda … Continue reading Why Programmatic Works For This Smaller Publisher
Contributor Frederick Vallaeys shares techniques to get the most out of your product listing ads by employing both new and often-overlooked features. Frederick Vallaeys on October 26, 2017 With the biggest e-commerce days of the year just around the corner, it’s not too late to take advantage of some of Google’s newest ways to … Continue reading 5 ways to sell more this holiday season with Google’s updates to shopping ads
The vast majority of BigCommerce survey respondents expect to see higher holiday revenue in 2017. Amy Gesenhues on October 19, 2017 As we head into peak holiday shopping season, a survey of online retailers conducted by BigCommerce reveals more than a third began their holiday preparations months earlier than last year. The e-commerce software … Continue reading Survey: 37% of online retailers started holiday preparations earlier this year
Mike Mallazzo — October 17, 2017 — October 17, 2017 Pexels / Pixabay In November of 1939, American merchants were coming off a decade of depression and hurting badly. Luckily, President Roosevelt had a quirky solution. With little pomp and circumstance, FDR simply moved Thanksgiving up a week to create another major occasion for Americans … Continue reading Here’s Why Retailers Who “Think Small” Will Win This Holiday Season and Beyond
