If a company has multiple brick-and-mortar locations within a city or metropolitan area, this can create challenges in advertising overlap, self-competition and ad relevance. This article will focus on lessons learned to manage a pay-per-click (PPC) program for a dental provider with multiple offices located across a multistate region and will illustrate the benefit of […]
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A very detailed oriented thread is going on at Cre8asite Forums named After SEMPO: Should we Start a Trade Association?. With over a 146 replies so far, this can be the real thing. So join the discussion and have a say. If all the issues and goals are detailed in this thread, maybe it will work.
‘I know that half of my advertising money is wasted,’ early 20th-century department-store pioneer John Wanamaker famously quipped. ‘I just don’t know which half.’ Humor aside, Wanamaker wasn’t joking. And the challenge still remains with brands struggling to accurately capture the performance of their online ad campaigns amidst a fragmented array of marketing touch […]
It is not every day you see SEM companies featured in Wall Street Journal articles but a few weeks ago, they ran a story named Small Businesses Search in Vain for Web-Ad Help. It isn’t good. It calls out two very large SEM companies named ReachLocal and Yodle as not delivering on their promises to […]
Large enterprise websites typically have 75 technologies in their martech stacks, according to a recent study. What’s stunning is that when asked, most marketers believe they are only using 2-3 technologies. Helping you manage the breadth and depth of your martech stack and how it impacts customer experiences is why we created the MarTech Conference […]
Live Webcast: Thursday, October 20, 2016 – 01:00 PM EDT (10:00 AM PDT) Are you losing control of your content? If you’re like the majority of marketers, you’re going to produce more content in 2017 — but feel less than confident about your content marketing operations. Join experts Arnie Kuenn, CEO at Vertical Measures, and […]
If you’re in B2B marketing today, Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is likely sitting somewhere in your 2016 initiatives. It’s an exciting concept but one that requires a ton of research, planning and grunt work. It also might not be right for your business. This guide from BrightFunnel reviews the basics of ABM and provides a framework […]
Siri, Cortana and Alexa are virtual assistants with female personas — though Siri can be a man, too. Until today, Google voice search didn’t have an identity or persona, though it has a female voice. That is changing with the official rollout of Google Home. For the launch of Home, Google took its voice search […]
Call tracking, now generally rebranded as “call intelligence” or “call analytics,” went from being a novelty in the SEM world a few years ago to a perceived commodity today. However, the benefits of using call analytics extend well beyond campaign optimization into operational and customer experience insights for brands and marketers. Allstate offers a case […]
No news flash here. Marketing teams cannot afford to exist in silos. Paid search and social are no exception. You can amplify the reach of both of these channels by combining your efforts and leveraging data from each together. In the SMX East session, “Using Paid Search and Social Together,” three speakers, Tara Siegel, Jahil […]