Picture this: You’re scrolling through Facebook for the tenth time one day when, all of a sudden, you see an ad. It shouldn’t be anything out of the ordinary, but when the ad displays the exact band tee you found yourself googling earlier that morning, you can’t help but wonder, “how does it do that?” […]
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So you’ve embarked on a career with a marketing agency. Congratulations! You’ve joined a growing world at an exciting time. Opportunities are many and varied. In fact, the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts a 19% rise in marketing analyst roles by 2024. And the positions themselves are even more exciting. Because every sector is now thinking deeply
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Back in 2016, we surveyed the retargeting landscape and gave some tips on how to get started. For the uninitiated, retargeting is an online marketing strategy that keeps your brand in front of users who have bounced out of your site. By placing a tracking pixel on your website, you can follow them when they
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“Why are you playing that Nintendo?” “You ought to be learning a real skill with your time.” “Go play outside like they did in the good ole days.” Do any of these statements sound familiar to the gamers out there? Growing up, it was preached by the older generation that video games were a waste
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If you have ever been in a dilemma deciding where to go for dinner and you end up choosing the more popular restaurant of the options you have: congratulations, you are living, breathing, evidence of social proof. Social proof is the psychological concept that people will conform to the actions of a group under the assumption
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If you’re a B2B marketer, odds are that creating content is an integral part of your inbound strategy for attracting prospects. After, all inbound marketing costs 61% less than traditional advertising, while producing 54% more leads. Because of this, however, everyone is investing more in content marketing. This raises the bar, meaning that creating more
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A train barrels down, rattling the small theatre. Women scream, men shout, and children fall to the ground in fear. Then, silently the train disappears, and only a small silver screen is left. Film, when seen through the eyes of those unfamiliar with the tricks of photography, was a frightening affair. The train audiences saw
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Sending an email can be as good as having a real conversation with a person. If you are a business using email for your marketing activities, you must be adding personal touches to your emails to make it look and sound more tailor-made and relevant. Personalized emails stand out in the subscribers’ inboxes as highly relevant
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Picture yourself as a prospector in 1859 drilling one of the first commercial oil wells in western Pennsylvania. You seek a dark, mysterious substance that can illuminate rooms at night. Your peers are drilling too, so you assume there’s value. To be an ‘early adopter’ is both thrilling and comforting. You pursue a fantasy of
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Building an audience is perhaps the most important aspect of growing a company. And yet, it’s also one of the most elusive. Turning digital advertisements into swaths of new customers is seen as a miracle, a magic trick. The phrase “growth hacking” is spoken in reverent tones as a sport for geniuses. The truth is
