ClickZ recently released its Digital Trends 2016 Report which gathers insights from various digital marketing experts and discusses the digital landscape and expectations for the upcoming year’s trends. While the report covers many different areas of digital marketing, here are the main takeaways from the e-commerce section of the report. To read the takeaways from […]
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Search Takeaways from ClickZ’s 2016 Digital Trends Report
ClickZ recently released its Digital Trends 2016 Report which gathers insights from various digital marketing experts and discusses the digital landscape and expectations for the upcoming year’s trends. While the report covers many different areas of digital marketing, here are the main takeaways from the search marketing section of the report. Audience Targeting Becoming More […]
Why Isn’t My Paid Search Account Tracking Properly?
Accurate tracking is vital to the success of any paid search account. Without it, you could be losing credit for some of the success you’re having and be unable to justify continuing some campaigns. It’s important to know when data is not coming through in your website analytics platform and what to do to fix […]
Transforming Technology Obstacles into Opportunities
Just as the promise of technology in marketing is undeniable, so are the challenges many companies face when integrating it with their marketing. In many organizations, marketing teams aren’t reaching their potential in digital marketing, frequently due to technological obstacles, whether internal or external. “Kovalev v Szilagyi 2013 Fencing WCH SMS-IN” by Marie-Lan Nguyen is licensed under CC-BY […]
3 Key Takeaways from SODA’s Digital Marketing Outlook Report
The 2015 2H Digital Marketing Outlook report from the Society of Digital Agencies was recently published. It’s a sort of “State of Digital” report, so our teams here are very interested in what it has to say. I found it interesting the way that SODA defines “digital marketing” to cover what I would simply refer to as “digital”…or […]
The Year in Review | Top 10 Spark Posts of 2015
Without any further ado, let’s count down the top 10 posts from 2015: Ten | Why You Should Really Put Down Your Cell Phone at Lunch (Really) Cell phones are inserting themselves into our lives, perhaps in places that they just don’t belong. Nine | Part 2 – What to do about […]
Get Your PPC Account Ready for Holiday
The holiday season is quickly approaching. Is your PPC account optimized for the impending visibility and traffic increase? Here’s a nice checklist to help make sure you set yourself up for success this year. RLSA (Remarketing in Search) Bidding Increase your bids for visitors who have been to your site before. With the increase in […]
Sponsored Social is All Grown Up
Over the past few years, we have watched social advertising trying to find it’s feet. According to a recent study, social ads have moved out of the toddler phase and they are walking right onto the budget sheets of traditional advertising. 52 percent of companies now have a stand-alone Sponsored Social budget for their brand and […]
The 5th P of marketing – people
Part 2 of 2 We are rapidly moving into the holiday shopping season and retailers are in for a rubber meets the road experience. The tried and true sales gimmicks they’ve relied on in season’s past may not work so well this November and December. Consumers have become accustomed to receiving free shipping, price matching […]
Platform ambassador: The new title in media management
Take a guess: How many virtual communities exist online, right now? The answer is complex. If you count only those sites with 100 million members or more, the list is about a dozen names long. If you count those considered “major” and “active” at the same time, the list has about 400 members. But if […]
6 Common Misses When Importing Adwords Campaigns into Bing Ads
Bing Ads contributes to about 20% of the search engine market share (however it may decrease slightly over the next year due to the new Microsoft-Yahoo search partnership agreement). That’s nothing to sneeze at and definitely deserves some of your marketing time and budget. Simply importing your Google account into Bing Ads is extremely easy […]
B2B2C: The Next Wave of Digital Marketing
Over the last several years, the digital marketing revolution has moved outward from B2C brands into the B2B companies. This wave of change has seen massive changes in retail and the death of numerous brands that were not able to compete in the new digitized landscape. Consumer’s increased expectations are now affecting B2B interactions, and companies […]