We’ve all heard it before: the money is in mobile. You’ve probably heard dozens of reason why it is so important for your business to have a strong mobile presence, whether it be a mobile website or by utilizing mobile advertising. We hate to say we told you so, but Google’s most recent mobile business report suggested that mobile devices...
Do you know how to survive a shipwreck? What about tie a tie, change a tire, apply makeup, dance the Whip/Nae Nae, or cook the perfect poached egg? You can learn these skills and more through step-by-step instructional videos on YouTube. And consumer's love these handy tutorials. Google says that YouTube how-to video searches have increased 70% this year...
Are you ever curious what leads people to your website? Well there’s an easy way to check the keywords people are searching to find you. By using Google Analytics! Never checked this out before? Don’t fret, here’s how: Once you sign into your Google Analytics, look at the left hand column and click on Acquisition. Underneath Acquisition you’ll go to Search...
Remember the days when the only place you could access the internet was through a clunky, heavy desktop computer? Those clunky computers may seem like a distant memory compared to the dozens of choices tech users have when they want to explore the internet. Today’s tech users juggle multiple devices like laptops, mobile devices, tablets and now even watches...
With over 171.5 million people owning a smartphone worldwide, it’s almost irregular not to have one. Of those 171 million, 85% of these owners are millennials. To go even further into millennial smartphone usage: 85% of Millennials aged 18-24 own smartphone devices and 86% aged 25-34 own them. However, while there is a divide amongst ages, there isn’t a divide between genders....
The average drop in viewability between above the fold ads and below the fold ads is 84%. In one eyetracking study the difference was found to be as high as 102%! Above the fold positioning of ads means that the ad appears before someone has to scroll. As the numbers above indicate, where your ad falls on a webpage greatly...
Have you ever struggled to make ad creative for your campaign? Well you’re in luck because there is a fabulous and free service called Canva. Canva is a great option for business owners or those who want to do-it-themselves to create quality graphics to market their company. Here’s how Canva helps the everyday business owner: Canva is super user friendly. It...
Angry Birds, Candy Crush, Trivia Crack, Bookworm, Gym Streak. At any given time, there are millions of smartphone users with their noses glued to their screen using gaming apps or lifestyle apps like these. Smartphone users are so attached to these apps that the US mobile gaming user base has grown to more than half the US population for the...
When you Google yourself, what do you see? Your customer's are doing searches everyday looking for business information, and if they aren't seeing your address, business hours, aggregated reviews, and directions to your location you are missing valuable leads. Nothing is more frustrating then driving to business that is closed- or even navigating to the wrong address because your...
How many times have you been scrolling along on your mobile phone and accidentally clicked on an advertisement? Well, you’re not alone. To address it, Google has implemented several changes to reduce accidental clicks on mobile display ads. First, Google has identified the border of an image as those areas are particularly prone to accidental clicks. If you tap the...
Banks and credit unions are businesses that have served their customers' financial services and needs for centuries. As many traditional industries are still learning to adapt to new technology, financial services are leading the change in the digital evolution as they attempt to keep up with our new fast-paced lifestyles. There is no disputing that technology has had an incredible...
Digital marketing is expected to have a bright future. As consumer behavior migrates online, so will advertiser spending. In fact, online advertising is expected to overtake TV advertising in size by 2019. Below is an infographic that details the amount of spending and where that spending will be allocated: TV advertising spending is projected to grow from 71.1 billion this year...
Who doesn’t want the best, especially when it comes to your digital campaigns? Well, good news because there are simple things you can do to optimize your campaign right now. These strategies are simple and easy to implement and will help your campaigns so you can see results. The first thing you’re going to want to do is focus on...
Today is an exciting day for us at Vici Media, we are celebrating our 100th blog post! We take pride in providing you with digital marketing education, campaign strategies, and trends in the ever-changing online marketing world. To commemorate 100 blog posts about effective digital marketing strategies, check out our five most popular posts ever. These posts and many other...
Some of the most frequently asked questions in digital advertising revolve around click-through rates (CTR). So what is a good CTR and what is a bad CTR? The national average click-through rate for display ads as a whole is 0.07% (Criteo). Keep in mind, that's across all industries and all ad sizes. So it's important to know how your...
All around the cyber world, especially in the digital marketing universe, people are insisting that mobile usage will soon exceed PC usage. Although mobile usage has grown over the past few years, it has not eclipsed desktop usage. In fact, it seems as though desktop usage is increasing! According to the chart below from comScore, desktop usage has remained relatively...
A cookie is is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser while the user is browsing that website. A cookie can track everything from the websites the user visits afterwards, their behavior, purchase decisions, etc. Cookies can even deploy ads back to the user inviting them to revisit the original...
Do millennials ever put their phones down? No. In fact, 24% of millennials attached themselves to their smartphones less than 5 minutes after waking up. An even more astounding 52% of millennials start using their smart phones just after being awake for 5 minutes. Throughout the rest of the day, these digital obsessed millennials are likely to check their smartphones...
Think click-through rates (CTR) are the only way to manage engagement with your digital ads? WRONG! View-through rate (VTR) can make a huge impact on your advertising strategy by showing what digital elements are working for your campaign. A view-through measures someone seeing an ad, and then returning to your homepage through another channel, without clicking on the ad...
CTA is Call-To-Action! You can have the greatest digital strategy implemented but if your ads don’t have an equally great CTA – a compelling reason for the person to click or convert - then your campaign will not get the results you want. So, just what is an effective CTA? Something that reaches out and grabs your potential customer and...
Could this be the end of coupon mailers and Sunday ads? The year 2015 has shown an immense positive correlation between digital advertising and in-store retail sales. Digital advertising is expected to influence 64 cents of every dollar spent in retail stores, or $2.2 trillion, by the end of this year. This figure has grown considerably since 2012, where digital advertising...
Digital Ad Spending is expected to reach about $60 Billion this year, and retailers will comprise 22% of that, or $12.9 billion. Retailers, by far, outpace all other industries. According to Victoria Petrock at eMarketer, “mobile, digital video, and programmatic buying are the brightest stars in the digital advertising lineup." Retailers will spend nearly twice as much as any other industry...
As a business owner, you may have asked yourself- What is the point of blogging? What do I blog about? Do I HAVE to blog? Yes. Not only do you have to, but you want to. As of May 2015, there were more than 47 billion Web pages indexed on Google. Instead of letting the 47,000,000,000 other pages intimidate you, educate...
Call tracking is very beneficial to not only your campaign, but your business as well. It gives you a unique opportunity to track which marketing efforts are generating phone calls. Call tracking works by assigning a virtual number to a campaign which you can place in a PPC ad, video ad, on a mobile or desktop website or a...
The weeks leading up to Mobilegeddon put many businesses into a frenzied panic as they tried to make their website mobile responsive or optimized by April 21st in order to avoid the wrath of Google’s new algorithm. Now that April 21st is behind us, many companies might be asking, “so what happened?” According to Google, there was a 4.7% increase...
It’s no secret that ad spending in digital is growing. In fact, in 2014 the highest advertising revenue was directed towards the Internet. According to the chart below, 49.5 billion dollars was spent in online advertising alone in 2014, making it the highest advertising media by revenue. These numbers are steadily growing. According to a study done by Duke University, mobile...
A new report by NADA (National Automobile Dealers Association) has some fascinating information about how automotive dealerships are using digital advertising and where they are spending their ad budgets overall. Here are some highlights from the report for 2014: This was the fifth year of growth for automotive sales, with the average growth rate up over 9 percent since 2010....
Nielsen recently tackled a question that many advertisers have regarding video advertising. How much does the ad benefit me (if at all) if the person skips it after a few seconds? The answer, their research shows, is…a lot! The study found significant lift in ad recall, brand awareness and purchase consideration even for people who saw the video before it started...
Think you've pulled out all the stops for your SEO campaign? Go bigger! You may have the basics: inbound links, a blog, optimized keywords, and many more strategies in place to boost your organic search rankings. While these are effective, take an extra step to set your business apart by creating a video. The video can be anything- a biography...
Ever wonder just what does Google know about my search history? Think that when you delete your browser cache that also deletes it from Google’s servers? Cue the Jaws theme song music…WRONG! If you want to know what Google has on you (yes, it’s a little scary) the search giant has quietly rolled out a new function that allows you...
Online reputation management consists of monitoring, improving and maintain the publicly available online information about your business. As the internet becomes more mobile, on-the-go and fast-paced, it becomes much easier for your customers to research the good and the bad about your company. Not only is it easier for customers to find reviews about your company, it is also extremely...
Let’s be honest, how often to you get advertisements through direct mail and how often does that marketing piece end up in the recycling bin? Here's how direct mail stacks up: Just how much do consumers dislike direct mail? 51% of people have a negative/very negative reaction to receiving an advertising card or flier through direct mail. This is greater...
According to a recent article in eMarketer, digital media continues to surpass traditional media in amount of time spent with major media by US adults. In 2015, the average adult will spend 5 hours and 38 minutes with digital media each day! To put that growth in perspective, that number was just 3 hours and 40 minutes in 2011. TV,...
As a business, you may have asked yourself many times, how do I connect with my audience? Social media is an effective way to help businesses connect on a personal level with their customers. Social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter allow contact directly from business to customer and essentially puts a face to the business and encourages upfront communication...
It’s no secret that desktops and mobiles rule consumers’ online experience, but when are these devices most prevalent? In a recent study done by Chitika, peak times are examined for mobile vs. desktop usage in the US and Canada. The common belief is that mobile and smartphones will soon be overtaking desktops as more and more users are turning...
If you are looking to boost the number of conversions your website gets from mobile users, the answer looks like it’s behind door number 3… Contests! Formstack’s “Form Conversion” study analyzed 665,000 user account contributions and 117,577 form types all collected in January 2015. The research only looked at mobile-responsive forms, which are designed to be filled out easily on smartphones and...
Well, they’re all good ways to optimize your digital campaign! Search retargeting, keyword targeting, and PPC (pay-per-click) are all forms of keyword advertising, and oftentimes get confused for one another. While they are similar in some aspects, they each have unique responsibilities that make them different. Outlined below is the function each one serves: Keyword Targeting is probably the most...
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a incredibly powerful digital marketing strategy. The more organic traffic to your website, the more leads, and better site navigation means more leads turning into business. No website is the same, so it can take many different combinations of statistics and information to gain the most insight on how to run the best SEO...
Your mobile optimized site is complete! You’ve beat the April 21 Google deadline and your mobile site is ready to ensure your customers the most user-friendly website experience of their lives, right? Not so fast. Now it is time to make sure your site visitors are properly redirected from your desktop site to the mobile optimized site. Redirect scripts are...
There’s a reason display ads are so widely used: they get results. To take your digital marketing to the next level, we suggest our clients add behavioral targeting to the mix. Like retargeting, behavioral targeting uses online tracking to follow a user’s web-browsing behavior and compiles that data to determine what ad to display to that user. There are three major...
Mobile Websites. You’ve heard the hype, you’ve seen the Google announcements, you know that mobile sites are not only recommended but soon-to-be mandatory on April 21st if your business wishes to maintain a successful Google search ranking. Now that you know your site has to be mobile responsive or optimized within the next month, you may be on your way...
It’s a little troublesome having a high bounce rate. This essentially means that a user was on your page and then left (bounced) rather than continuing to view other pages. A high bounce rate is a conversion killer. Because bounce rate measures people who bounced off a single page, it shows that they didn’t explore other pages of your website....
“If you lose money for the firm, I will be understanding. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless,” said Warren Buffet. Reputation management has become a necessary component to many successful businesses in the internet age where any customer can say anything about their experience with a company's product or services. A company’s reputation can be permanently tarnished with...
I can’t even imagine a time when information wasn’t at our fingertips. When I am out with my friends and one of us has a question no one can answer, I can immediately pull out my phone (I am more attached to it than I’d like to admit), and answer their question within a minute. In turn, it makes...
You've heard it here: mobile devices are the hottest platforms for effective digital marketing strategies. Not sold on the mobile marketing trend yet? This may change your mind, because for the first time ever, not having a responsive or optimized mobile site can negatively impact your businesses' success. Starting April 21, Google will be penalizing websites that are not optimized or responsive to...
No doubt about it, we are in the social media age. It is common and almost necessary for businesses to have a Facebook page, a Twitter page, and a LinkedIn page since it is one of the easiest (and least expensive) ways to publicize your company. However, there are a world of social media sites just waiting to be...
If you want to know what a website looks like when called up on a smartphone, there is a way you can do this right from your desktop. Google Chrome has a great feature that allows you to do this in a snap. You can even look at what the website looks like on different smartphone models. 1. Open up...
You have probably heard a lot about new digital marketing trends for digital devices. It seems like every week a new research study proves which digital device customers prefer for shopping and browsing. With all the trends, statistics and competition among devices, it is easy to get overwhelmed trying to keep up with the dozens of ways to attract a customer...
Let’s face it, these days SEO (search engine optimization) is essential. What SEO does is create an exceptional user experience and communicates your strategies to search engines so they will recommend your website for relevant searches. Here are three simple ways to optimize your SEO, and reach more consumers around the web. Be relevant. AKA organize your website to comply...
“Pay Per Click works for everyone!” “You’ve got to be doing “AdWords!” “Every media campaign should include Pay Per Click!” These are some of the most prevalent myths circulating. These myths are costing local businesses a lot of money in misdirected advertising. The truth is Pay Per Click isn’t for everyone, especially small businesses and here are some reasons why. ...
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