Posts Tagged ‘digital marketing’

For eight years running, Adobe has surveyed industry leaders around the world to understand the latest trends and priorities in digital marketing. This year, Adobe surveyed 1,165 digital marketers in enterprise companies in the US, Canada, UK, France, and Germany. You can see these insights come to life in a beautifully creative HTML experience, and/or download a […]

Starting October 4th, Google is allowing themselves to spend up to twice the campaign daily budget on any particular day. Advertisers can’t opt out, either. The intention is “to help you reach your advertising goals, like clicks or conversions.” Google can now better accommodate the unexpected ups-and-downs of traffic on a day-to-day basis to help […]

If you’ve ever been to a campus career fair to learn about job opportunities, you probably visited one or two companies that really stood apart from the rest. For me, that was my experience with Perficient Digital. Over on the Life at Perficient blog, I recently posted about my transition from graduate student at Carl […]

Paid is the new organic. It was not too long ago that social emerged as a free platform brands and businesses started taking seriously and leveraging to increase their sales and brand recognition — essentially seen as free advertising. Even a couple years ago, it may have seemed foolish to pay for a social media […]

Marketing to users based on location is not a new concept, but new technologies – especially the rise of the ubiquitous smartphone in the past decade – create potential for hyper-accurate campaigns and personalization. Sitecore embraces personalization, and thanks to a few core technologies, personalizing based on end-user location is easier than ever in Sitecore. […]

Apple dropped a bomb on search engine marketing teams recently with the announcement of their Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) for the iOS 11 update. Apple is changing how third-party cookies are now handled on mobile Safari, essentially disallowing third-party cookie targeting after just one day. This significantly (and negatively) affects the ability to target iOS […]

Too much tension is deadly for teams and projects, causing fraying tempers and relationships. Too little tension can also endanger projects, by allowing one perspective to control the project, to the detriment of others.   Many teams and perspectives are required to create a successful digital marketing solution team. Digital marketing teams may include digital […]

Google Think has a long but interesting blog post about, “What Brands Can Learn from Educational Content on YouTube”  Here are some stats from the post: Educational content gets 4X viewing time than animal video content. (Yes, that a statistic pushed directly towards digital marketers) There are 500 million views of educational content every day […]

In the past twenty years, the methods people use to locate and travel to a destination have changed drastically. When I was young, everyone was still using physical maps or asking locals for hopelessly complicated directions when trying to find their way through new cities. Though these methods have served us well for centuries, our […]

The internet can be a scary place. And some of your shoppers may have been burned in the past by unsecured sites or shady businesses. And this can make people uneasy moving forward with other sites. 58% of consumers claim to have dropped out of a check-out process because of security concerns. To help combat […]

Ask three digital marketers what their biggest challenges are, and you’ll likely get three different answers. But is there an underlying theme? Common goal? In most cases, yes. We all seem to be striving to make informed, data-driven decisions, and in turn, improve the customer experience. Overcoming the major challenges marketers face today – elevated […]

If you’re a retailer wanting to make the most of the holiday season sales spike, you need to be planning a great Cyber Monday/Black Friday deal. Last year, consumers spent $3.45B on Cyber Monday alone (a 12% increase from the year before), and this number is only expected to grow. The fact is, your customers […]