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Digital Marketing Basics

Foundational tips, strategies, and explanations to help you understand and succeed in the digital marketing landscape.
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Mobile Ad Spend 2017: Why You Should Care
Back in 2008, an analyst by the name of Mary Meeker predicted that “mobile will overtake fixed internet access by 2014”. Many well-respected individuals laughed at her prediction
Kiri Tamte-Horan
October 30, 2015
Landing Pages: The Key to Conversions
Landing pages are specific pages on your website that someone lands on after they click or engage with an advertisement that are used to get a viewer to fill out a form, sign up for something, or to call someone. These actions are what we call conversions, and they are what every digital marketing campaign strives for
Kiri Tamte-Horan
October 16, 2015
What is A/B testing, and how can I use it to my advantage?
Digital display advertising is great. It allows you to show potential customers more than just a few words
Kiri Tamte-Horan
October 11, 2015
Call Tracking: The Hidden Gem of Digital Advertising
When putting together a digital campaign, it is always important to figure out how you will track, monitor and evaluate them.The most common way is to look at a campaign report which will give you all sorts of useful data
Kiri Tamte-Horan
October 2, 2015
Going Digital? Know your Audience.
Here at Vici we get asked a ton of questions about campaign optimization. One of the most popular questions is “What is the best way to target this specific group of people?” The answer to this question isn’t exactly straight forward, but there are a few things that can be done to help maximize exposure of a campaign to a specific group of people
Kiri Tamte-Horan
September 24, 2015
Traditional Advertising, Where Does It Drive Consumers? Online!
Consumers are watching TV and listening to the radio and the adverting they are consuming while doing so, is having an impact on them: It is driving them straight online. Research shows that 74% of people go online for more information on products and services advertised on TV and Radio
Dana Bojcic
September 22, 2015
Ad Spending 2020: Digital Video is King
Rarely does something compel me to write, but an article I came across on Business Insider did just that. Well, the chart that accompanied it did most of the work, take a look
Kiri Tamte-Horan
September 18, 2015
Chrome moves on without Flash. Finally.
Flash-based advertising has been around for a while, providing a way for digital advertisers to incorporate interactive, animated, and audio components into their ads. This type of advertising is often called "rich media creative" and often returns a higher CTR thanks to its ability to better engage a viewer
Kiri Tamte-Horan
September 10, 2015
Digital Advertising: A History Lesson
When you think of where digital marketing is in 2015, I'm amazed everyday at how quickly advancements are being made to deliver beautiful marketing to the sophisticated web users.  As web users we expect a lot
Megan Malone
September 9, 2015
10 Questions To Ask Your Digital Advertising Company (part 2)
In case you missed it, yesterday we covered the first five questions you must be asking when making decisions on who you should trust with your digital dollars.   If you do any type of advertising it is likely that you have been approached by a digital advertising salesperson or digital advertising vendor
Dana Bojcic
September 3, 2015
Mobile App or Mobile Website?
Over the past few years, the number of people who own an internet capable mobile device has risen dramatically. According to the Pew Research Center, 64% of American adults own a smart phone and 42% of American adults own a tablet
Kiri Tamte-Horan
August 28, 2015
How Many Leads Will I Get From My Digital Ad Campaign?
In last week’s post we tackled “What will my traffic/clicks be from my digital ad campaign?” and now we will cover the follow up question that advertisers usually have… “How many leads will I get from my digital ad campaign?” This question is basically asking, what ROI can I expect from my digital advertising?Well, you need to have an idea of what your typical conversion rate is for the people who come to the website. (Remember a conversion is whatever you want a customer to do on the website - i
Leslye Schumacher
August 25, 2015