By most accounts, the holiday shopping season was an e-commerce success, with final tallies beating analyst estimates. Earlier this month, we asked e-commerce teams about their holiday marketing strategies — planning, budgeting and expectations — and what they did differently this year from last year. Nearly 100 respondents shared their feedback. The majority (57 percent) […]
Paid search spending increased by just over 10 percent year over year in Q4 2017 across Marin Software’s customer base. CPC growth doubled that of overall spend with an increase of roughly 20 percent year over year. Mobile CPCs increased 25 percent year over year, accounting for 53 percent of total spend. Google took 89
You know that feeling when you get a new subscriber? Or a lot of new subscribers? It’s a great feeling. And it’s incredibly motivating. It shows that what you’re doing is working. Perhaps your new subscriber loves your content. Or, even better, they’re interested in your product or service. Either way, they opted in to
Introducing Push Notifications – Know When Your List Grows Read More »
By most accounts, this year’s Black Friday to Cyber Monday stretch was another record-setter for e-commerce sales. The search team at Merkle shared with us some early top-line stats on how a sample of the agency’s retail accounts fared over the weekend. The sample includes Google AdWords data from 50 of the top 500 retailers
Black Friday, Cyber Monday sales from Google paid search up by double digits YoY Read More »
There are roughly 20 million smart speakers now in the US. And more than half of device owners have used them to buy something, according to survey data from NPR and Edison Research. The data released this week is part two of a report first introduced in July. Called “The Smart Audio Report,” the data are
57% of smart speaker owners have bought something with their voice Read More »
No matter where they’re located or what market they serve, retailers around the globe have questions about how consumers use search and Amazon. At Bing (my employer), we’ve found that retailers — regardless of size — ask us about the same three things: Where do consumers look for products online? How do users behave differently
Why you shouldn’t put too many eggs in one shopping basket Read More »
In the US, Google saw second-quarter search ad spend grow around 20 percent from the same period last year, in keeping with what we’ve observed in previous quarters. Meanwhile, Bing and Yahoo recovered from Q1, and shopping ads on all engines have begun to account for still more click share among retailers. Those are among
Google paid search spend up 23% in Q2, thanks to non-brand text & shopping ads Read More »
In 2016, mobile drove the nearly $6 billion year-over-year increase in search spend and and surpassed desktop for the first time, according to the IAB. Now that mobile is a given and we no longer have to wonder if this is its year, let’s look at the big trends, launches and news we’ve seen so far
The biggest trends & changes in PPC so far in 2017 Read More »
Earlier this month, we made our powerful marketing automation features free for all MailChimp users. Now, no matter the size of your business or budget, you can use automation to create targeted emails that send when triggered by a specific date, event, or activity. It’s a great way to personalize your marketing and communicate with
The Most Profitable Automations for E-Commerce Businesses Read More »
In my previous post, we discovered that MailChimp’s marketing automation tools can be incredibly valuable for e-commerce businesses, leading to nearly 16 times more orders per recipient than regular bulk email. Marketing automation gives you the ability to create a single email—or an email series—that sends automatically based on predetermined triggers. Today, we’re going to
Single Email or Series? Choosing the Most Effective Automation for Your Business Read More »
