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Choose from over 150+ free Quick Guides to improve your online marketing categorised in our RACE digital marketing planning framework.

Content management

Effective content needs managing, easy to say, less easy to do. Content has always been King, but in the real-time, social sharing world it’s about lot more than achieving conversion. Quality content is essential across the RACE customer lifecycle.

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Customer engagement

Of all the areas of digital marketing we cover on Smart Insights, Customer engagement is arguably THE most important and THE most challenging for a brand. It’s crucial to repeat business, but with the choice available online difficult to achieve.

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Digital marketing platforms

In the beginning, the web was just flat text and images accessed through desktop computers. In this section we cover emerging technologies and innovation.

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Digital marketing strategy

Your digital strategy provides a foundation for all of your tactical marketing to engage customers across the lifecycle of Reach-Act-Convert-Engage summarised in our RACE digital marketing planning framework.

Our recommended links:

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Email marketing

Some say Email marketing is dead. We’re sure there’s a lot of life in yet; it’s still a primary way of engaging customers and one of the most popular topics on Smart Insights.

Our recommended links:

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Goal setting and evaluation

If you don’t know where you’re heading, you’ll never know when you get there or whether you’re on track. Setting the right goals for digital marketing isn’t so easy, but our RACE framework should help you select the right goals.

Our recommended links:

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Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a fantastic tool, but to get the most from it and so get more commercial value from your Internet marketing needs careful setup. Our guides take you through the steps to customise it for your business.

Our recommended links:

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Managing digital marketing

Managing digital marketing will often need new skills, new staff, new technologies and new processes for marketing. It’s a big change! We look at digital marketing governance the – best way to structure teams and update processes in larger organisation. If you’re a team of one you can ignore this section! The bigger the organisation, the bigger the challenge!

Our recommended links:

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Marketplace analysis

Understanding your customers online is the first step to improving your results from online channels. Next, it’s benchmarking competitors and looking for partners to work with. We’ll show you how to audit your capabilities and identify the best commercial opportunities.

Our recommended links:

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Mobile marketing

Mobile marketing is massive already and forecast to exceed desktop Internet access in many developing countries. So every marketer needs to keep tabs on the opportunities of reaching their audiences via mobile and how to make their mobile sites and presences visible and accessible.

Our recommended links:

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Online PR

We think Online PR is one of the most cost-effective marketing approaches for all types of business. But it’s difficult to get right since it is often managed by different people and there’s the overlap with SEO and social media marketing.

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Online brand strategy

The Internet and digital technologies give fantastic opportunities to engage companies with your brand in new ways.

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Search engine optimisation (SEO)

Our recommendations on SEO best practice

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is arguably THE most cost-effective digital marketing technique, but also the most challenging to get right. Here’s how.

Our recommended links:

Here is a selection of the most useful articles on SEO on Smart Insights followed by a listing of the most recent articles.

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Social media marketing

You may have heard of this! It’s transforming marketing, for the better most would say. We’ll help you navigate social media with a strategic approach sharing approaches from the leading commentators and companies.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Content management

Effective content needs managing, easy to say, less easy to do. Content has always been King, but in the real-time, social sharing world it’s about lot more than achieving conversion. Quality content is essential across the RACE customer lifecycle.

View Quick Guide

Conversion optimisation

Conversion rate optimisation (CRO) isn’t only important for Ecommerce and transactional sites. Every site should have conversion paths to marketing outcomes which contribute to the business.

We’ll show you how to increase your conversion, no matter what your type of site through using the right measures and applying the right best practices.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Digital marketing platforms

In the beginning, the web was just flat text and images accessed through desktop computers. In this section we cover emerging technologies and innovation.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Email marketing

Some say Email marketing is dead. We’re sure there’s a lot of life in yet; it’s still a primary way of engaging customers and one of the most popular topics on Smart Insights.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Goal setting and evaluation

If you don’t know where you’re heading, you’ll never know when you get there or whether you’re on track. Setting the right goals for digital marketing isn’t so easy, but our RACE framework should help you select the right goals.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a fantastic tool, but to get the most from it and so get more commercial value from your Internet marketing needs careful setup. Our guides take you through the steps to customise it for your business.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Lead generation

Online lead generation creates new selling opportunities by converting site visitors to prospects. Prospects are classically qualified through completing a profile form and then tailored communications delivered.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Marketplace analysis

Understanding your customers online is the first step to improving your results from online channels. Next, it’s benchmarking competitors and looking for partners to work with. We’ll show you how to audit your capabilities and identify the best commercial opportunities.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Mobile marketing

Mobile marketing is massive already and forecast to exceed desktop Internet access in many developing countries. So every marketer needs to keep tabs on the opportunities of reaching their audiences via mobile and how to make their mobile sites and presences visible and accessible.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Persuasion marketing

Creating usable sites is important, but an effective marketing site overlays persuasion to encourage visitors to engage and follow a journey to conversion. So understanding user psychology and knowing the persuasion principles we describe here is helpful.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Search engine optimisation (SEO)

Our recommendations on SEO best practice

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is arguably THE most cost-effective digital marketing technique, but also the most challenging to get right. Here’s how.

Our recommended links:

Here is a selection of the most useful articles on SEO on Smart Insights followed by a listing of the most recent articles.

View Quick Guide

Social media marketing

You may have heard of this! It’s transforming marketing, for the better most would say. We’ll help you navigate social media with a strategic approach sharing approaches from the leading commentators and companies.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

User experience UX

The tools and techniques for creating a compelling user experience are constantly changing. With today’s websites and social networks offering interactivity and rich media we couldn’t have dreamt of a few years ago, there are great opportunities to produce an effective experience.

Our recommended links:

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Conversion optimisation

Conversion rate optimisation (CRO) isn’t only important for Ecommerce and transactional sites. Every site should have conversion paths to marketing outcomes which contribute to the business.

We’ll show you how to increase your conversion, no matter what your type of site through using the right measures and applying the right best practices.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Digital marketing platforms

In the beginning, the web was just flat text and images accessed through desktop computers. In this section we cover emerging technologies and innovation.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Digital marketing strategy

Your digital strategy provides a foundation for all of your tactical marketing to engage customers across the lifecycle of Reach-Act-Convert-Engage summarised in our RACE digital marketing planning framework.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Ecommerce

Our content on Ecommerce focuses on techniques to increased sales from a range of transactional Ecommerce sites including retail (of course), travel and financial services.

Our recommended links:

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Email marketing

Some say Email marketing is dead. We’re sure there’s a lot of life in yet; it’s still a primary way of engaging customers and one of the most popular topics on Smart Insights.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Goal setting and evaluation

If you don’t know where you’re heading, you’ll never know when you get there or whether you’re on track. Setting the right goals for digital marketing isn’t so easy, but our RACE framework should help you select the right goals.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a fantastic tool, but to get the most from it and so get more commercial value from your Internet marketing needs careful setup. Our guides take you through the steps to customise it for your business.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Lead generation

Online lead generation creates new selling opportunities by converting site visitors to prospects. Prospects are classically qualified through completing a profile form and then tailored communications delivered.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Marketplace analysis

Understanding your customers online is the first step to improving your results from online channels. Next, it’s benchmarking competitors and looking for partners to work with. We’ll show you how to audit your capabilities and identify the best commercial opportunities.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Mobile marketing

Mobile marketing is massive already and forecast to exceed desktop Internet access in many developing countries. So every marketer needs to keep tabs on the opportunities of reaching their audiences via mobile and how to make their mobile sites and presences visible and accessible.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Persuasion marketing

Creating usable sites is important, but an effective marketing site overlays persuasion to encourage visitors to engage and follow a journey to conversion. So understanding user psychology and knowing the persuasion principles we describe here is helpful.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Search engine optimisation (SEO)

Our recommendations on SEO best practice

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is arguably THE most cost-effective digital marketing technique, but also the most challenging to get right. Here’s how.

Our recommended links:

Here is a selection of the most useful articles on SEO on Smart Insights followed by a listing of the most recent articles.

View Quick Guide

Social media marketing

You may have heard of this! It’s transforming marketing, for the better most would say. We’ll help you navigate social media with a strategic approach sharing approaches from the leading commentators and companies.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

User experience UX

The tools and techniques for creating a compelling user experience are constantly changing. With today’s websites and social networks offering interactivity and rich media we couldn’t have dreamt of a few years ago, there are great opportunities to produce an effective experience.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Content management

Effective content needs managing, easy to say, less easy to do. Content has always been King, but in the real-time, social sharing world it’s about lot more than achieving conversion. Quality content is essential across the RACE customer lifecycle.

View Quick Guide

Conversion optimisation

Conversion rate optimisation (CRO) isn’t only important for Ecommerce and transactional sites. Every site should have conversion paths to marketing outcomes which contribute to the business.

We’ll show you how to increase your conversion, no matter what your type of site through using the right measures and applying the right best practices.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Customer engagement

Of all the areas of digital marketing we cover on Smart Insights, Customer engagement is arguably THE most important and THE most challenging for a brand. It’s crucial to repeat business, but with the choice available online difficult to achieve.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Customer relationship management

Customer relationship management or CRM is a well established approach. Although some argue it’s impossible to achieve and customer managed relationships is more appropriate! Digital media provides new opportunities to tailor customer communications integrated with traditional channels.  We also review this for our email marketing tactic.

View Quick Guide

Digital marketing platforms

In the beginning, the web was just flat text and images accessed through desktop computers. In this section we cover emerging technologies and innovation.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Email marketing

Some say Email marketing is dead. We’re sure there’s a lot of life in yet; it’s still a primary way of engaging customers and one of the most popular topics on Smart Insights.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Goal setting and evaluation

If you don’t know where you’re heading, you’ll never know when you get there or whether you’re on track. Setting the right goals for digital marketing isn’t so easy, but our RACE framework should help you select the right goals.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Managing digital marketing

Managing digital marketing will often need new skills, new staff, new technologies and new processes for marketing. It’s a big change! We look at digital marketing governance the – best way to structure teams and update processes in larger organisation. If you’re a team of one you can ignore this section! The bigger the organisation, the bigger the challenge!

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Mobile marketing

Mobile marketing is massive already and forecast to exceed desktop Internet access in many developing countries. So every marketer needs to keep tabs on the opportunities of reaching their audiences via mobile and how to make their mobile sites and presences visible and accessible.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Online PR

We think Online PR is one of the most cost-effective marketing approaches for all types of business. But it’s difficult to get right since it is often managed by different people and there’s the overlap with SEO and social media marketing.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Online brand strategy

The Internet and digital technologies give fantastic opportunities to engage companies with your brand in new ways.

View Quick Guide

Social media marketing

You may have heard of this! It’s transforming marketing, for the better most would say. We’ll help you navigate social media with a strategic approach sharing approaches from the leading commentators and companies.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing is still an essential digital media channel for many transactional Ecommerce sites for retailers, travel and financial services. Affiliate marketing is also a revenue model to consider for site owners, especially online publishers. Here’s the issues to think about it to manage it effectively.

Our recommended links:

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Content management

Effective content needs managing, easy to say, less easy to do. Content has always been King, but in the real-time, social sharing world it’s about lot more than achieving conversion. Quality content is essential across the RACE customer lifecycle.

View Quick Guide

Digital marketing platforms

In the beginning, the web was just flat text and images accessed through desktop computers. In this section we cover emerging technologies and innovation.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Digital marketing strategy

Your digital strategy provides a foundation for all of your tactical marketing to engage customers across the lifecycle of Reach-Act-Convert-Engage summarised in our RACE digital marketing planning framework.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Email marketing

Some say Email marketing is dead. We’re sure there’s a lot of life in yet; it’s still a primary way of engaging customers and one of the most popular topics on Smart Insights.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a fantastic tool, but to get the most from it and so get more commercial value from your Internet marketing needs careful setup. Our guides take you through the steps to customise it for your business.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Internet advertising

In our coverage of Internet advertising we focus on display advertising, still more commonly known as banner ads. These get a bad rap because of low clickthrough rates, but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t worthwhile.  We have separate advice on paid search (PPC) marketing strategy.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Managing digital marketing

Managing digital marketing will often need new skills, new staff, new technologies and new processes for marketing. It’s a big change! We look at digital marketing governance the – best way to structure teams and update processes in larger organisation. If you’re a team of one you can ignore this section! The bigger the organisation, the bigger the challenge!

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Mobile marketing

Mobile marketing is massive already and forecast to exceed desktop Internet access in many developing countries. So every marketer needs to keep tabs on the opportunities of reaching their audiences via mobile and how to make their mobile sites and presences visible and accessible.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Online PR

We think Online PR is one of the most cost-effective marketing approaches for all types of business. But it’s difficult to get right since it is often managed by different people and there’s the overlap with SEO and social media marketing.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Paid search marketing (PPC)

Paid search marketing opportunities includes Pay Per Click Ads via Google and Bing plus ads on the display network – a third of Google’s revenue. The cost of pay search can be high, so we discuss how to make sure you’re getting the most value from PPC by maximising your Google Quality Score.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Search engine optimisation (SEO)

Our recommendations on SEO best practice

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is arguably THE most cost-effective digital marketing technique, but also the most challenging to get right. Here’s how.

Our recommended links:

Here is a selection of the most useful articles on SEO on Smart Insights followed by a listing of the most recent articles.

View Quick Guide

Search engine marketing

Search engine marketing is now a core marketing activities. We have a lot of details on the techniques for search marketing in our separate Quick Guides on SEO and PPC Adwords. Keyphrase analysis is important for both paid and natural search, so that’s covered here.

Our recommended links:

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Social media marketing

You may have heard of this! It’s transforming marketing, for the better most would say. We’ll help you navigate social media with a strategic approach sharing approaches from the leading commentators and companies.

Our recommended links:

View Quick Guide

Traffic building strategy

Most site owners want more traffic, that’s quality traffic of course. In this section we show how a planned approach can help you build traffic. We also cover how to increase the reach of your brand through publisher sites and social networks.

Our recommended links:

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Blog posts

Mobile app promotion methods
Rob Thurner, May 17, 2012

What are the options for promoting a mobile app? Many businesses are now looking to use mobile apps to encourage customer interaction and loyalty. Fortunately, this seems to fit with the preferences of mobile users; recent research from Comscore showed …..

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