For example, I ran this post a few years ago "The Best Search Marketing Research Papers. Group interviews: If you use group interviews in your content marketing efforts (and if you don’t you should be), there’s another opportunity here.
Pay-per-click search marketing may have been invented in the second Clinton administration, but it's a modern iteration of a hundred-year-old tradition of direct marketing: Find people who have a problem, get their attention with a small...
Social Marketing Platforms Will Allow Brands To ‘Buy Into Moment’ – ClickZHow close can a marketer get to real time? PPC for B2B on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook – ClickZAs we move into social media, the additional targeting options available...
Before any sort of execution, our marketing and strategy team created a near 30 page creative brief that was fueled by specific goals we wanted our new website to achieve, and backed up with persona-driven market research.
Eighty-four percent of 700 business leaders, entrepreneurs, and marketing professionals believe there is a correlation between an influencer’s reach and their ability to drive action, according to the study.
RG: For Bing, the social platforms with the most juice are Twitter and Facebook, because they have direct integration with both of those properties. What rightful place does social has in the search marketing mix?
Thom Craver (@thomcraver), Digital Marketing Strategist and consultant, kicked off his information-packed session by recommending that you start your mobile strategy where you always should with any major project – with your core business objectives.
Speaking of direct sales, there's also yellow pages. But courting a fragmented SMB market (direct and through re-sellers) continues to develop. Yelp has an edge here, as it brings engineering and product focus together with direct local ad sales.
A June 2012 report by Forrester for affiliate marketing platform Rakuten LinkShare found that affiliates are profitable for advertisers, drawing new customers, often triggering reconsideration and closing the sale.
Based on data recorded by the Adobe Marketing Cloud customers, video consumption has grown dramatically over the past two years. Publishers should look for opportunities to weave more video content into their marketing channels, such as social media.
Whether you're managing a marketing team, a company, or an agency, the only way to truly succeed (and scale) is to make sure you empower your team enough to do the job – even in your absence. For example, if the account manager doesn't know what a...
You can see this in direct mail, product catalogs, store coupons, etc.just like you can with email marketing, content marketing, pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, and so on. If you can increase the amount of purchases, donations, signups...
Ronco was the direct response marketing company founded by Ronald M. Orabrush has even created tailored endings to their videos that direct the viewer to the closest retail store carrying its tongue cleaner.
A recent report published by the Wildfire Google Team – The Road to ROI: Building Strategy for Social Marketing Success speaks to how to influence the conversation without trying to control it. The good, the bad, and the ugly stemming from social...
This serves as your main marketing image on the site, branding you more effectively to your audience. Destination URLs to Direct to Custom Tab Timing: Decide when to test the new One Channel design, ideally well before the automatic conversion...
The panel discussed that the integration of mobile is an opportunity to have a holistic marketing program that spans across TV broadcast, web, mobile, tablets, and more. Brendon suggested that marketers are just not trying mobile marketing...
This morning I caught up with Duane Forrester from Bing as he prepared to kick off the Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference (RIMC), a two-day boot camp in Iceland featuring content focusing on search and social.
I know a lot of direct marketers who'd be thrilled with those results for customer acquisition," Mackey said. Most companies aren't eBay: they don't have the marketing budget that eBay has, nor the name recognition," said Melissa Mackey, search...
Great advice for a hot-headed young hero until your direct mentorship, but totally counter-productive when we first encounter our prospect on the hero’s journey of search. When Yoda encourages Luke Skywalker to persist in his attempt to lift his...
Bear in mind now, Bing has direct feed access to the entire Facebook database of connections, Likes, and shares. Bear in mind what I said about lean content marketing teams in October 2012: A mere 19 days later, a very interesting excerpt from "The...
