analytics

Understanding The Difference Between Business Metrics And KPIs

As the leader of your marketing team, it’s important for you to understand how to use data in digital marketing. Unfortunately, many organizations offering digital marketing for businesses often use terms such as analytics, KPIs, metrics interchangeably when, really, they mean different things. One of the key steps to getting the most out of your business data is to establish an understanding between KPIs and metrics and to understand how to use them. Understanding business

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best practices

Are You Not Understanding What You’re Buying from a Digital Marketing Agency?

If you’ve hired or are considering hiring a digital marketing agency to guide your messaging, strategy or implementation, there is considerable value to be gained. Yet, it’s important to truly understand what you’re getting for your money to ensure there is sufficient return on your investment. What Do You Need from a Digital Marketing Agency? To increase your understanding of what an agency is offering, it’s important to start with evaluating your own data. Only

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content marketing

How You Can Keep Your Marketing Team Cool Under Pressure

Managing a marketing team can be exceptionally challenging. The intensity of the workload combined with changing demands and a complex market can easily cause anxiety. However, as a manager, it’s your duty to ensure that your content marketing team is able to manage their own stress. After all, you’re in this together. But how can you help to reduce the stress of your content marketing team in order to boost productivity? Here are three common

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marketing strategies

Is Lack of Marketing Planning and Research Sabotaging Your Success?

While successful marketers place a lot of focus on the execution of marketing strategies, they also know that the underlying foundation for success is ongoing marketing planning and research. As marketing becomes increasingly complex and digitized, the need for well-thought out planning and in-depth research only continues to increase. Still many marketers make the common mistake of “winging it” and not investing sufficient time in the essential preliminary work and then are dismayed by disappointing

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social media marketing

3 Social Media Marketing Strategies To Help You Stay Ahead Of The Game

One of the key challenges for marketing directors is ensuring your social media marketing strategy is not only up to date, but ahead of the game. Social media and digital technology evolve and move at such a pace that it’s critical to plan your company’s marketing strategy in correlation with the future to be in the now. To help inform your company’s digital marketing strategy, here are some of the incoming social media marketing trends to be aware

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social media

Overlooking the Social Part of Social Media

One of the most rapidly evolving aspects of digital marketing is social media. While networks, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Google+ and LinkedIn, continue to grow at an exponential pace, new channels are being launched on a regular basis. This has made it a challenge for many marketers struggling to not only get up to speed on the capabilities of each platform, but also to understand the nuances of the audiences using them. It’s

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digital strategy

Not Refining Your Digital Strategy

The topic of digital strategy re-emerges again and again within many organizations. With digital marketing continuously evolving, the conversation is often concentrated on how to best leverage new technologies with the goal of using the latest and greatest digital marketing innovations. Yet, when there is no discussion of how the investment fits into a successful marketing roadmap, there is a high likelihood of less than optimal results. The key to successful digital marketing is continuously

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Are You A/B Split Testing?

Are You A/B Split Testing?

Don’t Miss Out on the Value of A/B Testing There isn’t a set formula for digital marketing. What works for one organization may be a big mistake for another. This is because there are far more variables with digital marketing than with print advertising, direct mail and other traditional forms of marketing. Not only do you have to consider your brand proposition and your supporting content and images, you also need to carefully determine the

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digital marketing metrics

Are You Not Measuring Key Digital Marketing Metrics?

Twenty years ago, digital marketing success meant having a website which served as an online source of information about your organization. Today, a website is only one of many digital tactics that must work together to deliver a consistent message and drive the common goal of generating measurable results. One of the many challenges of today’s marketing professionals is being able to sort through available digital marketing metrics to make smart business decisions. Because the

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An Extra Pair of Digital Hands

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