Easy and cost-effective ways to make a presence online AWeber, a global email marketing software provider, released a survey today on small business owners and marketers. This study indicated that 94 percent of small business owners and marketers declared online marketing to be very important for...
Why are landing pages important for lead generation? Most business people view no more than one web page after clicking an advertisement online. Usually, if a prospect doesn't like what they immediately see, they click away. For this reason, B2B marketing teams need to be familiar with landing page...
Many start-ups face enormous pressure to succeed. This pressure causes many start-ups to adopt bad marketing practices, as they try to drive short-term sales, website traffic and build subscribers. At concern here is the adoption of bad practices like buying links, buying followers, joining link...
Destination organizations are challenged with providing great information online in an era of information overload. In addition to providing great information, destination websites are also charged with demand generation, driving traffic to partners, engagement and capturing interested users....
As we begin the year, a couple of trends stand out that marketers should consider in their practices. By now, it is fairly obvious (maybe cliché) to say that marketing is undergoing a constant state of disruption, but it is true. Taking note of evolutions in technology, practices, and user behavior...
Sure, Facebook is a social network used commonly for ranting, raving and sharing vacation photos. Facebook is also a platform. Web developers can build applications within the Facebook environment or that use Facebook data within external applications or websites. Facebook applications can be found...
Marketers often use key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the effectiveness of their efforts. KPIs are metrics that help analyze and report on website and marketing campaign performance. Leads and sales are deep KPIs that also demonstrate a return on investment. When determining whether you...
Many businesses and non-profits are shifting focus to online PR and SEO efforts. Online PR is very similar to regular PR, but the focus is digital online or digital first. Online PR involves everything from creating great and shareable content to influencing bloggers and inspiring stories within...
US media advertising spend will hit $171.33 billion in 2013. This number is up 3.8% in total--over $6 billion from last year. Digital and mobile advertising was responsible for this uptick in ad spend for 2013. Programmatic advertising is very popular among online marketers and is seeing popularity...
Many marketers ask: "How many social networks should I use to promote my brand?" There is no absolute formula to answer this question, but here are some general guidelines. It is possible to dilute your efforts to a point of ineffectiveness if you use too many social networks. Quality over...