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Analytics & Testing
My Online Marketing Checklist in Prioritized Order
There’s a ton of things that need accomplished to fully leverage an online marketing strategy, but I’m often amazed at the priority that companies place each item on the checklist. As we take on new clients, we’re looking to ensure the strategies with the most impact are accomplished first… especially if they’re easy. Hint: content marketing and social media marketing…
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Advertising Technology
Jeeng: 3 Steps to a Strong Digital Strategy for Publishers that Drive Engagement & Revenue
As consumers have moved increasingly to online news consumption and have many more options available, print publishers have seen their revenue plummet. For many, it’s been tough to adapt to a digital strategy that actually works. Paywalls have been mostly a disaster, driving subscribers away toward the abundance of free content. Display ads and sponsored content have helped, but direct-selling…
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E-commerce and Retail
“Art of War” Military Strategies are the Next Way to Seize the Market
Retail competition is fierce these days. With big players like Amazon dominating e-commerce, many companies are struggling to solidify their position in the market. Head marketers at the world’s top e-commerce companies aren’t sitting on the sidelines just hoping their products gain traction. They’re using Art of War military strategies and tactics to push their products ahead of the enemy.…
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Analytics & Testing
Appinions: The Who, What and Which of Influence Marketing
Some marketing technology platforms age like fine wine as they continue to unwind the issues that plague marketers. Appinions appears to be one of those platforms. When we did a post a few years ago, it was a nice little platform that provided influence by topic and person – very useful at the time. Years later and it’s a comprehensive…
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E-commerce and Retail
The New Face of E-Commerce: The Impact of Machine Learning in the Industry
Did you ever anticipate that computers might be able to recognize and learn patterns in order to make their own decisions? If your answer was no, you are in the same boat as plenty of experts in the e-commerce industry; no one could have predicted its current state. However, machine learning has played a significant role in the evolution of…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Cross-Domain Canonicals are NOT for Internationalization (Use hreflang)
A cross-domain canonical tag is a specific application of the rel="canonical" link element used in SEO, but it extends across different domains. This tag is crucial when managing identical or highly similar content across multiple websites. When to Use a Cross-Domain Canonical Tag: Managing Duplicate Content Across Different Domains: If you have the same content published on multiple websites (different…
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Advertising Technology
Social Media Advertising is a Failure
When I got into traditional media marketing, I was immediately pulled into what could be accomplished with data. Data directed our testing and verbiage in direct marketing and advertising, gave us accurate reporting and measurement, and provided us with a much clearer picture of who they were, what they wanted, where they were, where they wanted and how they wanted…
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Analytics & Testing
Autopilot Launches Insights, a Customer Journey Tracker for Marketers
82% of customers stopped doing business with a company in 2016 after a bad experience according to Mary Meeker’s latest Internet Trends Report. Lack of data and insights could be preventing marketers from advancing in their careers: new data shows that One-third of marketers lack the data and analytics they need to assess their performance, and 82% said better analytics…
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Content Marketing
YouTube: How To Provide Your Agency or Videographer With User Access To Your Channel
Yet again, I’m working with a business that is leaving an agency and working with me to optimize their YouTube presence… and, yet again, the agency that they were working with has ownership of all of their accounts. I’ve been complaining about agencies that do this for over a decade now and advising businesses to never do this. Nor should…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
How to Monitor Your Organic Search (SEO) Performance
Having worked to improve the organic performance of every type of site – from mega sites with millions of pages, to e-commerce sites, to small and local businesses, there’s a process that I take that helps me to monitor and report my clients’ performance. Amongst digital marketing firms, I don’t believe my approach is unique… but it is much more…
