Success with content on social media can be simple if you’re organized and focus on efficiency. Of course, you know that you need to cater content directly to your audience’s needs or challenges and that you need to provide a variety of content to keep your audience engaged. But how can you create efficiency in
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January 24, 2020 10 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Everyone knows that video marketing and sales funnels are two powerful tools in the quest to capture buyers, but what about combining the two to leverage the effects of video marketing within your sales funnel? Together, they can form a very
Focus on one of the many problems people have that you could help them solve. May 7, 2019 7 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The advance of the internet has democratized admission to the world of entrepreneurship. From virtually anywhere in the world (provided internet access), makers can launch real,
I’m tired of people giving email marketing a bad rap. Because despite claims that email is dead, 33% of consumers say they used it more frequently in 2019 than last year. And by the end of 2019, it’s estimated that marketers in the U.S. will have spent $350 million on email advertising. With so much
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Business rich communication services (RCS) messaging has been waiting for its turn in the spotlight for well over a decade now. The long-awaited replacement to short message service (SMS) was first conceived back in 2008 but the progress of the new messaging platform has been stuttering at best. Many would call it an utter shambles.
Building enduring relationships with the right publishers is fundamental to running a successful affiliate program. To determine who the “right” publishers are, you need to (a) understand your business objectives; and (b) have the data that allows you to understand which publishers are likely to help you achieve those objectives. Here, I’m going to walk
Brightcove, a cloud solution for managing and monetizing video content, has released Brightcove Campaign, a video campaign app that lets marketers create, manage and analyze their video demand generation campaigns all in one tool. The new solution comes with analytics and benchmarks so that marketers can compare their campaigns to industry standards. It also provides
In the not-too-distant past, businesses relied heavily on network television and terrestrial radio to connect with buyers and tout their products. But with more people fleeing traditional TV and radio for ad-free streaming services like Netflix and Spotify Premium, advertising on those once-powerful mediums has lost much of its luster. Today, there’s another place your
Is it time for your brand to get mobile? Mobile marketing, if you’re not already familiar, is a set of business strategies that enable organizations to communicate with people in an interactive and relevant way through any mobile device. While your approach to mobile marketing may change over time, the reason for doing it remains the same: to delight, engage,
Ever since smartphones and tablets became an integral part of our daily lives, things have gotten a lot simpler. We can look up an address at the last minute, compare prices online while we’re in-store, look for a restaurant and book a reservation, and even make payments in just one quick click. Mobile payment is a convenient transaction as there’s
With rapidly evolving digital marketing and the proliferation of devices, marketers are faced with the challenge of staying ahead, or simply keeping up, when it comes to capturing and keeping their audience’s attention. How can they do it? Take a page from Hollywood, which understands that they need to be on top of the latest trends in order to create compelling
B2B marketers are in a pickle when it comes to data. Data insights are critical to boosting marketing and sales performance. Yet the marketer’s trust in data has plunged to a new low that’s putting a damper on strategic marketing initiatives, according to Dun & Bradstreet’s (D&B) recently released Sixth Annual B2B Marketing Data Report.
The CMO’s position in the C-suite hierarchy has been elevated significantly over the past several years, thanks in large part to the rise of big data. With the right data at their fingertips, modern marketers can now target customers with surgical precision, as well as provide CEOs with evidence that their initiatives are working. And
Last Christmas, I bought a friend of mine a subscription to a science and culture magazine. She had discovered the magazine during downtime at work, so she was delighted when they started showing up at her door. The gift was a hit, despite the fact that I’d misspelled her name. But then other magazines offers
I am sure most people have quit while waiting for a website page to load. Waiting is a hassle; we all expect fast-loading sites—anything less isn’t worth the wait in today’s time-poor world. If your website is like this, then you probably haven’t upgraded or even thought about your website for a little while now.
If you follow the latest SEO trends, you are probably aware that RankBrain, Google’s AI-driven algorithm, is set to become even more powerful in 2018. Whether organic click-through rate (CTR) affects Google rankings is no longer a question. There is no doubt today—its influence is stronger than ever. CTR along with the dwell time (how
75% of people don’t scroll past the first page of search results. Search engine leads have a whopping 14.6% close rate And 70% to 80% of people skip straight to organic results, ignoring paid ads completely. Click To Tweet But you probably already know all of that. You already know how important landing within the
SEO, or search engine optimization, seems to be an “unpredictable” or “magic” industry to some marketers. However, its elements are straightforward and built on solid ground. Once you know what kind of keywords your customers are looking for, you can start to play with it. In this blog, you’ll learn about the most important on-page
We have come to an advanced leg in our internet science journey. We can no longer think of the internet as a glorified encyclopedia. Enter the virtual assistant with its interpersonal secretary skills. Now, we have a machine that functions with human intent. In light of this, our search engine optimization (SEO) must reflect far more than
There are three types of links that are important to any SEO strategy: internal links, external links, and inbound links. Internal links are those you create in your content that point to other pages on your site. They help both users and Google navigate a website and access its content. External links are those you
Know what happened on September 4, 1998? It was the day Google was born. Legend has it that one of the earliest searches typed in Google was for the name “Gerhard Casper.” Previous searches of this name on AltaVista, the premier search engine before Google returned web pages for Casper the Friendly Ghost. But in 1998,
Content marketers have so many questions and hesitations during their day. Did I include the target keywords in the text and title frequently enough? Did that guest blogger really write that piece? Or did they pull all of the copy from another site and try to pitch it as their own? Is this blog long
Have you ever noticed how a beach looks completely different after a storm? Carefully-built sand sculptures are washed away, and the shore is littered with seaweed and debris. A similar fate awaits a brand’s search landscape following a corporate crisis. Social media profiles, positive articles, and favorable reviews could be swept away and replaced with
January 29, 2020 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Internal communications don’t always remain internal. This past summer, a Lowe’s executive found that out the hard way when an in-house company video — one in which he made an insensitive racial comment — surfaced on social media. The incident quickly became a
June 4, 2019 5 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Getting a strong return on a marketing investment: It keeps a lot of people up at night. How will the money spent on that PR firm translate into sales dollars? How will that huge advertising campaign that cost a million dollars
Emails have a short life. But many don’t have a life at all, according to a recent Adobe survey – into attitudes toward email. Amongst the many insights and data we unearthed, two that stood out for me are opened and read, which means 75% of everything you send is ignored. And when they are
Why do we see what we do? What helps our brains perceive the world around us? What makes something poorly designed? Gestalt psychology helps us with all these questions and can be applied to anything from a website to a well designed logo.