Before you start a search engine marketing campaign (aka Pay-Per Click) it’s important to do a bit of homework first. As they look through their Google Analytics, they see clicks+cost with an overall increase in traffic. Putting these items together, increased traffic with clicks implies ads are working, right? Not necessarily! Your customer could potentially be losing revenue from really [...]
Ready or not, the holiday season is upon us. While some of us are already planning on procrastinating holiday shopping until Christmas Eve and some of us are still in denial that it isn't July anymore, the most avid shoppers have had their credit cards ready since the first leaf of the season changed. But this year, instead of fighting [...]
What was once only available to premium members of Linked In has now reached the masses: customizable backgrounds, similar to Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. Give your profile a professional punch by uploading your own in a few easy steps: Step 1: Create a 1400 x 425 background that is under 4 MB in .jpg, .png, or .gif. You'll notice that [...]
Generation X, the middle population of 65 million Americans ages 34-49, are frequently recognized as being squished in between the older, dominant Baby Boomers and the young, free-spirited Millennials. And boy does Generation X love their mobile technology and social media! Despite blatantly targeting every new tech trend to be marketed towards millennials, it's Gen Xers that spend the most time [...]
Take a peak at your Google Analytics. If you are seeing your website traffic is at an ALL time low in the past month you may have been struck by the Penguin, or Googles’ third update to its algorithm. Colloquially known as Penguin 3.0, this update launched on October 17th (according to Google Webmaster Hangouts) and has caused many websites [...]
Step into our time machine and travel back to September 4, 1998 when Google was founded. This is what their website looked like: That's Google in Beta test mode and trying out their new colorful logo. Let's travel back a bit further, to July 5, 1994, when Amazon.com was founded. This what their website looked like: [...]
Snapchat, the “now-you-see-me-now-you-don’t” photo app, has caught the attention of the tech world because of its rapid success, occasional controversy and most of all, its devoted audience of users. “What the heck is Snapchat?” you might be saying in your head right now… Snapchat is a photo service that allows users to take pictures or videos, known as “snaps” of [...]
Technology is affecting customer behavior and the changes are opening and closing customer touch points with businesses. With businesses in markets across America, the advertising mix is changing, and with that advertising revenues are shifting from legacy media to all things digital. Yet I feel that many in the media sector don’t understand the velocity of the change and how [...]
I had a client the other days ask a question about his website, asking if it would be a "do-follow" site. This question is SO CLOSE to being a legitimate question, but also kind of funny. Here's why: Essentially you have two terms: "dofollow" and "nofollow". This tells search engine spiders to crawl, or not crawl, a website. The [...]
Retargeting web visitors is a common best practice to maximize conversions and invite back potential customers to your website. Our clients often ask us to help retarget (or remarket) their web traffic. Retargeting technology uses a pixel (lines of HTML code), which creates a cookie to track site visitors. But how the heck do you install that pixel? Wordpress doesn't [...]
Nearly seven in 10 marketers say Googles Product Listing Ads (PLA’s) perform better than paid search ads. Performance of Products Listing Ads (PLA’s) in relation to Paid Search, Q1-2014. Slightly Better than paid search- 43% Much better than paid search- 26% About the same as paid search- 14% Much less than paid search- 8% Google is seeing a shift in [...]
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Scratching your head when it comes to the jargon of online marketing? Well LOL and WTF no more. Here's some common acronyms and what they mean. Got something to add? Be sure to leave a comment! CPM means Cost per thousand. So why isn't it CPT? The ‘m’ is a Roman Numeral that stands for 1000. CTR means Click Through [...]
When marketing online or with mobile, men and women can't be treated equally. Check out the compelling infographic below which speaks to gender trends in social media and advertising and how it affects men and women differently. Some interesting points: Women send text messages more often than men More women look for support in social media Women are less likely [...]
Online marketing can feel overwhelming. There are a lot of acronyms: CPM, CPC, PPC, SEO... when really all you care about one acronym: ROI, your return on investment! There are a lot of places to be online from Pay-Per-Click, to organic search, Google, Yahoo, and Bing search engines, Instagram, Vine, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Youtube... what business owner has time for [...]
Small business owners know that the cost of operating can be downright expensive. Whenever there are programs out there that can help eliminate costs, while still maintaining a professional image, you should take advantage of them! Here are the websites that top my list: MadMiMi.com “Simple and beautiful email marketing” – Mashable. MadMimi gives you customizable email templates that are not only [...]