First-Party Data Marketing: 3 Powerful Use Cases

Marketing has undergone a dramatic shift in its approach and implementation. Gone are the days when it was solely based on assumptions or speculations. Now, marketing is based on reliable and authentic customer data, which is now central to any successful marketing approach. A data-driven marketing approach enables you to effectively target, attract and convert…

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Don’t Quarantine Your Marketing

“If you were given the opportunity to have your competition go to sleep and stop strategizing, producing and delivering their marketing message to your potential customers, would you take advantage of it? That opportunity is now. Take advantage of it, or when this is over, don’t be surprised to find yourself behind.” Nathan Yerian – President…

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6 Software Systems that are Essential for Every Startup

Starting a business is never easy. You have a lot of things to manage simultaneously. You make many mistakes and every single one of them contributes to damaging your business. An easy way to minimize those mistakes and make business processes more efficient is the use of software systems. Here I have shared six software…

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SEO for a Local Target Audience

Pursuing a local target audience will get you the business you want with the lowest investment of time or money. A local SEO strategy, by default, focuses on a target audience. The audience may or may not be bound by geography. In any cases, your search engine optimization efforts should be directed at reaching out…

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Don’t Panic: A Traffic Decline Analysis Checklist and Toolbox

Has there been a shift in your site’s organic performance that’s got your wheels spinning? Did rankings inexplicably drop from Page 1? Are conversions slowing to a crawl? Is the three-month traffic bleed suddenly alarmingly apparent? As Google’s algorithms become less announced and more nebulous, it can be easy to allow paranoia and chaos to…

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Metrics That Matter

One of the most famous quotes about advertising is from a merchant named John Wanamaker and he said, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.” Back when I started in the business much of the work we did was difficult to measure all the way…

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3 Reasons Analytics Help Business

When you’re running a small business, you’re constantly looking for ways to save time, without cutting quality. One area where businesses often struggle is finding the time to engage with their audience through social media. While they may do what’s necessary with some tweeting, post creation and so on, the battle is lost when it…

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The Value in Assisted Conversions

For nearly every single client that I have ever worked on I have recommended some sort of educational content. By educational content I mean content that is informational and doesn’t really have the goal to generate revenue on its own, but act as a top part of the funnel for a new customer or a…

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How to Augment Site Search Data in Google Analytics

To put it simply, site search lets you see what users are searching for on your site. You can analyze exactly who’s searching, what terms they’re searching for, and compare engagement for those that use this feature versus those that don’t. Generally users that are searching on your site show strong intent as they’re actively…

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