Posts Tagged ‘digital marketing’

A big problem in the automotive industry is distrust of auto dealers. This is an issue that is highly discussed but almost never addressed. 87% of Americans dislike car shopping at dealerships. 61% feel they’re taken advantage of while there (Jazel Automotive). I bet this percentage would be even higher if all of these shoppers […]

Digital marketers, working on behalf of the same brand across all three tiers in the automotive industry, are competing with each other. They are driving up costs for each other and providing inconsistent messaging and pricing to consumers. To give you a specific example, let’s use Paid Search marketing, as this is the marketing channel […]

As reported by eMarketer, video ad spending continued to grow throughout Q2 of 2019. Of all programmatic ad spend, video will account for 49.2% in 2019. If the brands you manage have not already, now is the time to begin video content creation. Especially as consumer viewing habits evolve from traditional media, with the demand […]

Auto manufacturers need to rethink their entire approach to their websites. The typical content that every OEM displays on their website is getting stale and boring. Yes, you should still have a vehicle details page, and all the shopping tools that go with it, but why not start including different types of content outside of […]

Digital marketers in the automotive industry need to take advantage of the uniqueness of the industry. There are two specific factors I want to discuss that make the industry so unique. First, the auto industry is required to report industry-wide sales to the government and the public. Second, its transactions are done entirely in-person rather […]

According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services and the Pew Research Center, millennials are defined as those born between the years of 1981 and 1997. That would make those between the ages of 21 and 38 millennials (up to this point in 2019), for those of you looking around the office wondering […]

Delivering success with Marketo requires best practice knowledge and expertise for marketing automation teams. This ongoing Marketo Essentials series shares tips and expertise you can put to use in Marketo to do more and perform better. This is a common question Marketo users ask when creating programs inside Marketo Engage. Today I am going to […]

This is the second post in a four-part series sharing real stories of success in marketing automation. A Fortune 50 health insurer came to us with a simple question. “What if we could deliver highly personalized experiences for thousands of healthcare customers, at scale?” The client had a marketing team of three. They were experiencing […]

Google Ads is launching a new tool called the Performance Planner. The goal of this tool is to identify the ideal budgets for your campaigns and drive additional conversions by giving you bid and budget recommendations, which highlight how you could maximize one out of three performance metrics: clicks, conversions or conversion value. In the […]

Delivering success with Marketo requires best practice knowledge and expertise for marketing automation teams. This ongoing Marketo Essentials series shares tips and expertise you can put to use in Marketo to do more and perform better. Do you want to build Marketo programs faster? Today I’m going to show you how to use program templates […]

This is the first post in a four-part series sharing real stories of success in marketing automation.  Nurturing your prospects with personalized emails can be a fast way to boost engagement and convert buyers. If your marketing automation platform is listening and capturing buyer engagement, then delivering an enticing offer when the buyer needs it […]

As Digital Marketers we are bloated with options for tools and processes and have bloated backsides from sitting at desks all day long. Over the past 3 years I have lost and kept off 80 lbs and have led multiple end-to-end digital marketing transformations. I can safely say I’m a bit of an authority on […]