Engagement is a desired outcome for content websites, blogs and brands. Comments, Likes, links, shares and up-votes are all demonstration of engagement, which content websites seek with fervor. There is an additional challenge to building engagement besides great content and great positioning. This...
Both B2B and B2C marketing can benefit from audience segmentation for analytics reporting. Market segmentation is exactly the opposite mentality from mass marketing. In mass marketing, an agency would send the same email or message to a large group, and segmentation allows for targeting smaller...
Content is a vital part of marketing, especially digital marketing. With SEO and PPC forms of marketing, without quality content these methods simply don't work. For the B2B buying process, content is vital, whether your marketing strategy involves direct marketing, digital strategy, traditional...
Advanced segmenting of Google Analytics, at its most base function, allows for the isolation and analysis of specific kinds of data. Utilizing advanced segments allows for the freedom to create and select redefined segments such as “Visits with Mailing List Sign Ups” or “Paid Traffic" to better...
Facebook recently began supporting hashtags,which finally brings them on par with the other popular social networks such as Google+, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. Hashtags are keywords or phrases with the prefix “#”, and works as a way to see all posts that include that specific word or words. A...
In 2012, Pinterest was the 4th largest traffic referrer for all U.S. websites. Generally Pinterest requires less effort than the other popular social networks. By spending 10 minutes a day pinning new content or repining other people’s pins, you can establish a presence. This makes Pinterest great...
Technology lets professionals do their job wherever they happen to be, to do more with less and to use mass talent to build great campaigns. Crowdsourcing, utilizing talent from customers, gives marketers access to a variety of ideas that may otherwise go unheard. Done right, crowdsourcing can be a...
The goals and intent of each business blog are unique to each business. It is vital to define and keep true to those goals, in order to assess the success of a blog or web property. For some businesses, the intent of a blog is to build a following with new visitors as potential customers, and the...
Asking questions and receiving answers can be a great way to participate in an online community--whether you are a community manager, user or brand. Some answer sites score high in search rankings. An example of this is Yahoo Answers, which can be found for numerous question queries. Answer...