[ 80% of US Small Business Owners Consider Facebook the Best Platform for MarketingClick To Tweet In March, G2 Crowd surveyed owners and executives of US small businesses and what they found was surprising. G2 Crowd found that small businesses prioritized marketing, despite being hard-pressed for financial resources. Out of the small businesses that participated, […]
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Do you want to retarget your offline event customer in Facebook? Do you know how to create the offline event custom audience? This article will help you discover how to create the offline events and new offline activity custom audience for your Facebook ads. To beat the competition Facebook always tries to innovate their advertising
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In the run-up to Black Friday and the holiday shopping season, retailers are competing like crazy to attract the eyeballs of as many paying consumers as possible through paid search advertising. But how well is it paying off? To find out, search intelligence platform Adthena has analyzed the paid search landscape in the run-up to
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According to Hochman Consultants (2017), the average cost of pay-per-click (PPC) advertising is increasing – with the average cost-per-click in 2016 being nearly double that of 2013. When you consider the fact that Google processes over 2.3 million searches per minute (Business Insider, 2016), this is hardly surprising. But what can marketers do to ensure that they can
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The battle between those who specialize in certain marketing practices is prevalent throughout the industry. Individuals, departments and indeed agencies are all involved. After all, they are often competing for the same budget, beating their chests and promoting their own channel as the most valuable. It is understandable. We all need to make a living.
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In today’s marketing climate, data is key. Indeed, more data is generated in a 24-hour period than ever before, with 2.5 quintillion bytes of data being created daily across the globe (IBM, 2017). The challenge lies in being able to harness this data to optimize marketing activities. After all, without an understanding of what your
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Let me say this first – keyword research is hard! Every SEO has done it, but few will ever master it completely. This is not supposed to be just another keyword research post. This post is about going beyond raw search volume data, using metrics which will help you choose keywords which deliver the best
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People have a natural tendency to care about what others are doing around them as a means of validating themselves. This is true in our personal lives when the Joneses come home with a new sports car, but also in paid search when brands want to outrank their competitors. In our personal lives, it does not often
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Disruptive Advertising recently outlined the main reasons that AdWords campaigns succeed or fail, based on an audit of more than 2000 AdWords accounts. They found the following causes of failure: Incomplete conversion tracking Poor conversion rates Ad spend inefficiency Wasted ad spend Looking at these reasons, it became clear to us that they all have
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“Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t.” That famous quote applies to the many marketers who default to last-click attribution, even with its well-documented failure to take the entire customer journey into consideration. During ClickZ’s latest Masterclass on paid search optimization, in association with Fospha and Kenshoo, we surveyed 800 marketers on
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