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• Three Ways to Keep Your Search Rankings Healthy
  As Google continues to personalize search results, the data you see in ranking reports might not mean what you think. Why? They only tell you what rankings would look like ...
  Advertising, Content Marketing, Search Engines, SEO
• Tracking Traffic From Pinterest: Three Measurements
  Pinterest serves more than 11.7 million US users monthly. But how do you know how many of them are checking out your Pins? While Pins and Repins of photos from your ...
  Advertising, Lead Generation, Pinterest, Websites
• Driving Engagement With the New Facebook Ad Optimization Features
  Building to its IPO, Facebook unrolled improvements that let marketers optimize ads for multiple actions (not just Likes). In a post at Mashable, Victoria Ransom shares four tips for enhancing ...
  Advertising, Branding, Facebook
• Go Beyond Basic Local Search: Get Hyper-Local
  "More folks turn to the Internet than any other medium—including newspapers, TV, or word-of-mouth—for local information," writes Tom Shapiro in an article at MarketingProfs. "Furthermore, a whopping 83% of local ...
  Advertising, Customer Relationships, Search Engine Marketing
• Five Reasons Your Advertising Shouldn't Lead With Price
  Especially in this economy, small businesses are tripping over themselves to tell customers about their low, low prices. But in an article at MarketingProfs, Dan Hill argues strenuously against price-leading ...
  Advertising, Marketing Tips, Pricing, Small Business
• Two Ad-Design Rules to Make Your Brand Message Stick
  "Brand identifiability is under the advertiser's control and is a key consideration in ad design," note the authors of a recent research report on the effectiveness of visual ads. But ...
  Advertising, Brand Awareness, Customer Behavior
• Debunking Top PPC Myths
  A few years ago, John W. Ellis wrote the post, "If Paid Search Isn't Working, Then You're Doing Something Wrong" at the Search Engine Land blog. Recently, now at his ...
  Advertising, Marketing Smarter, PPC Campaigns, Search Engine Marketing
• It's an iWorld After All
  Time to start thinking "i" again—this time for the iPad. Like it or not, it's a mobile device, and 120,000 were preordered in the first 24 hours of its release ...
  Advertising, Consumer Electronics, Mobile Marketing
• It's a Mobile Makeover!
  Dipping your brand into unfamiliar territory (like marketing a mobile app to the masses) isn't just a matter of learning new terrain, it's a matter of rethinking what you think you ...
  Advertising, Mobile Marketing, Smartphones
• What Can Celebrities Do for You?
  If you tune in to Access Hollywood or flip through the pages of Us magazine, you'll see features on the clothing, accessories, jewelry and cosmetics favored by trend-setting celebrities. In ...
  Advertising, Marketing Tips, Small Business
• Hop Aboard the Search Express
  As Max Starkov writes in an article at Hotel Interactive, the hotel industry is the perfect candidate for managing customer relations via mobile devices. "Using the mobile space to provide ...
  Advertising, Customer Service, Search Engine Marketing, Smartphones
• Stop Flaunting That
  "Before the current recession," writes Mark Dolliver in an article at Adweek, "popular wisdom said wealthy people tended to be relatively untouched by the ups and downs of the economy ...
  Advertising, Customer Behavior, Recession
• Why? Because I Can!
  "Give a man a hammer," says Lori Feldman at The Database Diva blog, "and everything looks like a nail. Email marketing campaign software often has the same effect on novice ...
  Advertising, Email Campaigns, Email Marketing
• Fly a Mile in Their Shoes
  In a recent post at the Church of the Customer Blog, Jackie Huba offers a few quick stats about airline revenues in September '09. First, a couple of positives: Southwest ...
  Advertising, Customer Behavior, Pricing
• From the Mouths of Babes
  "I hate shyster pitches on the radio or TV," says Steve Woodruff in a post at the MarketingProfs Daily Fix Blog. "Like the services that want to extract money from ...
  Advertising, Marketing Inspiration, Writing
• STAMP Out the Ad Noise
  Across all demographics—and yes, we mean all demographics—social networks are where the traffic's at. Because barriers to entry are low and engagement is high, this is perfect turf for marketers who ...
  Advertising, Brand Awareness, Community, Interactive Marketing, Marketing Tips, Social Media, Social Networking
• We'll Have a Gay Old Time
  We've seen Sarah Haskins critique advertising that patronizes women, and now it's time for Bryan Safi's take on commercials that handle gay topics with varying degrees of respect. In this ...
  Advertising, Marketing Inspiration, Videos
• Your Husband: Slightly Dumber Than a Dog
  Comedian Sarah Haskins is back with another Target Women video at Current TV that skewers gender-based advertising clichés—this time it's the Doofy Husband. "Being a woman isn't easy," she says ...
  Advertising, Humor, Marketing Inspiration, Videos
• Have You Ever Noticed…?
  A recent ad from Carnival Cruise Lines shows an average-looking guy in a red, white and blue track suit as he wanders around a ship, sniffing everything in sight: the ...
  Advertising, Creativity, Humor, Marketing Inspiration
• That's Rough
  You've just presented a rough cut of your latest television ad when an executive begins asking questions that demonstrate he doesn't understand the concept of a rough cut. "It isn't ...
  Advertising, Marketing Inspiration, Videos