By Danyl Bosomworth 15 Aug 2013 Clicks: Great for Search, Bad for Display Advertising This research report from Quantcast is particularly interesting, especially given their specialist expertise in the display advertising category. The premiss of their report is essentially People who are on a website have different needs to those searching for one, yet …..
By Dan Barker 14 Aug 2013 Why Conversion Rate is a Horrible Metric to Focus On We’ve all seen those lists of the world’s ‘Top 10 converting websites’ and thought ‘what could I do to get my site to those stratospheric levels?’. This post explains why you probably wouldn’t want your site to be on one …..
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By Expert commentator 13 Aug 2013 7 techniques to make your email more engaging for mobile subscribers Missing a moving target – The disparity between mobile device opens and clicks, and what you can do about it Despite the increase in number of mobile devices, only half of marketers are designing email with mobile in mind, which …..
By Jill Quick 12 Aug 2013 Avoiding campaign Fire Fighting by planning ahead 5 tips showing how campaign planning prevents fires Working in various marketing roles, I have noticed that even though we have advanced with technology to make our jobs easier, we have never been more short of time, with more jobs …..
By Expert commentator 12 Aug 2013 10 techniques for selling on Facebook Examples to encourage more customers to buy via Facebook Big or small, any merchant can sell on Facebook today by following a few simple steps. Here are a few examples of smaller businesses using Facebook promotions effectively before we get …..
By Dave Chaffey 10 Aug 2013 Facebook reveals changes to its newsfeed ranking New “Story bumping” and “Last Actor” ranking changes Importance: [rating=3] Recommended link: Facebook news feed announcement It seems that for some businesses, gaining visibility in Facebook’s news feed is now almost as important or more important than gaining visibility in …..
By Expert commentator 09 Aug 2013 Google AdWords changes in 2013 – reviewing the opportunities and potential problems A checklist and examples of all the key AdWords changes you should review 2013 has seen some of the biggest shake-ups in Google AdWords to date. For example Enhanced Campaigns became mandatory on the 22nd of July, so this post …..
By Dave Chaffey 08 Aug 2013 A new online competitive intelligence tool Daniel Buchuk on the launch of SimilarWeb As part of our occasional feature giving readers the low down on new tools for digital marketers to collect insight, in this post we ask Daniel Buchuk from SimilarWeb to introduce their service. SimilarWeb …..
By Danyl Bosomworth 08 Aug 2013 Consumers want content, not ads 6 experts and 6 takeaways on the future of brand advertising This is a nice piece from Contently. They’re asking what exactly does it mean to be a brand publisher today? They polled a number of thought leaders from some of the …..