Neglecting the planning stage of a marketing campaign can cause bitter ruin. Often times, a marketing agency will be hired and expected to perform flawlessly without a discovery or planning period. This can hurt the campaign and limit it's success. For one, the marketing planning process allows for...
Podcasts can be great marketing tools for both B2C and B2B marketing depending on your product or service. Success with podcasts requires more than just being an ace with technical details. It requires a good concept, experience with producing and thinking deeply about what would be interesting for...
Blog content marketing with SEO and social media There are interdependencies between search and social media marketing. Blogging can play a large role and help to align social & search efforts. The effect of blogging on a marketing campaign is largely dependent on key factors related to social...
Email can play a big part in conversion for B2B marketing. Whether the email mechanism is part of a marketing automation solution or the marketer sends out email, depends more on the size, scale and aggressiveness of the campaign--than the desire to improve conversion rates. Email can be used for a...
Why you need TrueView? Whether you like funny videos or moving speeches, we both enjoy spending our time on YouTube and so do 800 million visitors all over the world. That makes YouTube an extremely attractive medium for online advertisers and marketing agency campaigns. If you are not taking...
By Jennifer Kim Marketers today are faced with the challenge of moving beyond traditional media routes and reaching a consumer accustomed to choices and adjusted speeds. Technological advancements accelerate as consumer behavior is thwarted by media formats and simultaneous marketing impressions of...
by Rachel Greene Although we have plenty of documentation (and even a movie!) that tells the tale of Facebook’s relatively small beginnings, it’s hard to imagine the social network behemoth as anything less than what it is today. With more and more people signing in every day, it only makes sense...
The best applications and websites are the ones users truly enjoy using. But ensuring users do so takes continual testing, refinement and more testing. Here are some tips to make the testing process as thorough as possible. Embrace Paper Testing - Once you’ve defined which tasks should be tested,...
by Soyoung Kim If you already have the list of possible names, it’s time to research the availability of each of the brand names on your short-list. The following tasks are helpful in basic branding due diligence. Trademarks research Federally registered trademarks The first step is to go to the...
WHO? WHAT? WHEN? WHERE? Presently, marketing teams & analytical groups have focused on aggregated data such as views, visitors, and time spent on site to help drive their initiatives. Although these variables are important at a high level, a more in depth look and research into key performance...