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A Business Listing Is Your Online Anchor (Five Rules for Ensuring Stability) by Gib Olander
In today's noisy business listing landscape, it's important that your online anchor be consistent and visible throughout the local search ecosystem. Here are five essential rules to keep in mind when managing your online listing.
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What's Wrong With This Picture? The Stauer Chronographby Barry Densa
We've all seen them—those disastrous ads that make us cringe as marketers. Here is a detailed critique of one ad—gone terribly wrong—that'll help you avoid a host of pitfalls in your ad copy.
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Stop Pushing, Start Engaging: How Marketing Mimics Datingby Paolina Milana
Just as in dating, being too pushy or too neglectful when marketing could get you dumped. Learn how to effectively woo prospects into becoming long-term committed customers who stick with you through thick and thin.
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How to Get to the Bottom of Base Sales Driversby Henry Wang
To significantly boost sales, you've got to understand base sales drivers and marketing's impact on them. Learn from examples that illustrate how factor analysis can help you yield consistently high ROI.
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How to Sell Ad Space on Your Websiteby David Murton
If you have a website that gets a good deal of traffic but generates no money, placing ads on your site may be the key to success. Learn how ad type, placement, and location can boost your website revenue.
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Go Local: Seven Steps to Running Geotargeted Campaigns Like a Proby Kfir Moyal
This is the decade for geotargeted local advertising and bringing the global presence to the local user. Though it may seem daunting, getting local can be a simple and rewarding process if you follow these seven steps.
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Do You Really Know Your Customers? Marketing to a Rapidly Diversifying Populationby Karen Talavera
The 2010 census results will be released this summer, and marketers should expect major demographic shifts. To cope with these changes, I recommend adopting three approaches for your email, mobile, and social marketing.
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Four Facets of Strategic Storytellingby Bill Baker
The corporate community has recently recognized the potency of using storytelling strategically—to position brands, transform business, and engage and align employees.
Here are four distinguishing facets of strategic storytelling that'll help you better understand what it is and how it ...
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Killing Giants: Three Rules for Toppling the Goliath in Your Industry by Stephen Denny
We all face giants, those competitors who have more people, budgets, and resources than we can ever hope to have. And despite the uphill fight, we're asked to not only compete but also win. It's possible. Here are three ways ...
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Worst-Practices: Anatomy of an Awful Adby Barry Densa
When I saw this ad, I thought it was a joke. A parody, a satire, a lampoon... anything but what it really is—totally legit and serious. If ever there was a marketing message completely unaware of the modern zeitgeist (and ...
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How Storytelling Can Spur Business Growthby Rich Nadworny
When you have a fabled story attached to your business, it should be easy to succeed in social media, right? Wrong. Storytelling the right way and monitoring feedback will connect you with customers and get you results.
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Seven SMB Marketing Trends for 2011by Niel Robertson
This will be the year online advertising turns its attention to small and midsize businesses (SMBs). Many SMBs could get overwhelmed by the number of new online marketing tools. Here are seven trends that'll create the biggest opportunity—and confusion—for SMBs ...
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Boost Digital-Ad Yield by Knowing Your Audiences and the Content They Readby John Shomaker
How does advertising yield improve when targeting digital ads to certain audiences? How much influence does the type of content users are reading when the ad is shown have on yield? This article summarizes the results of an extensive study ...
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Five Reasons Why App-vertising Is Right for Your Businessby Adam Boyden
Simply put, "app-vertising" is the use of applications to deliver branding, messages, content, or functionality to reach target audiences. And if you're looking for a tool that offers affordability, ease of use, and significant return on investment (ROI), then app-vertising ...
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DRTV: There's Method in the Madnessby Dave Miller, Miguel Ferry
Some of the funniest comedy skits have been spoof TV spots—and they closely follow proven DRTV principles to make their sketch more believable and more poignant: They grab your attention; they frame a problem that needs to be solved; they ...
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Seven Reasons Why Leading With Price Will Kill Your Advertising, Your Branded Offers—and Your Companyby Dan Hill
Leading with price in your messaging suggests your brand has nothing else to say or show for itself. And that's not good for a host of reasons.
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How to Avoid Online Advertising's $1 Billion Mistakeby Russell Glass
Although most online campaigns seek to drive conversion-based goals, many still use the click or CTR as the primary metric—mainly because it has been traditionally used to measure success and because it's easy to measure. But that's no excuse for ...
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Bring Your Fans Home: How to Capitalize on Facebook Fatigueby Jessica Shieh
Is the buzz around Facebook fading? That is just what a couple of recent studies suggest, so perhaps it's time to bring your fans home—back to your website. Marketers should give serious thought to supplementing their social-media strategies with a ...
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Email Campaign Testimonials: How to Maximize Customer Praiseby Hal Licino
Welcome to the power of the testimonial: A potent plug can make people as much as seven times more likely to buy or try than if they saw a paid advertisement. Email-based testimonials can be just as persuasive, but the ...
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Six Reasons Print Belongs in Your Media Mix (or Why Digital Popularity Brings Print Opportunity)by Gordon Plutsky
Just because marketers are jumping on the interactive-marketing bandwagon doesn't mean things on the interactive side are all rosy. The decreasing numbers for print don't necessarily mean a particularly high ROI for all digital initiatives. Still, there is opportunity—but you ...