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Category: Acquisition Marketing

21 July, 20217 July, 2023Acquisition Marketing, B2B, B2C

How to Audit Your Digital Marketing Channels

If you’ve been hired to take over a digital marketing project, your first order of business should be to understand and analyze what came before. Here’s how to conduct a comprehensive digital marketing audit.

24 January, 20197 July, 2023B2B, Marketing, Marketing Automation, Search, SEO

How to Measure Marketing Attribution Accurately

Marketing attribution is about asking, out of the many marketing channels you are using and paying for, which marketing channels actually work? […]

3 May, 20187 July, 2023Marketing Automation

How to Choose Marketing Automation Software (or at least, how we did it)

When I was VP of Marketing at Newfi Lending, we decided we needed a new, proper marketing automation system.  The selection process […]

2 November, 20152 April, 2024Marketing, Search, SEO

The Future of Search Marketing

Somebody recently asked me, what is the future of paid search marketing?  At first, I thought, the simple (and stupid) answer to […]

28 October, 201514 February, 2020Display, International, Marketing, Search, SEO

Spanish-English Glossary for Digital Marketing

If you do digital marketing in Spanish or many other languages, you quickly realize it’s hard to find good translations for English […]

24 October, 201512 February, 2020SEO

Is SEO Dead?

Recently somebody asked me, is search engine optimization dead?  I asked them, what does that even mean? SEO is only dead when […]

5 November, 201310 July, 2018Marketing, Search

LinkedIn Ads: A Hands-On Review

LinkedIn Ads is LinkedIn’s advertising platform. I’ve been using LinkedIn Ads on live clients since 2013, and since there aren’t many hands-on […]

14 August, 201320 December, 2019Marketing, Search, SEO

SEO for Local Businesses

A number of my friends have small, local businesses, and I often see them making the same mistakes with their search engine […]

6 March, 201312 February, 2020Search, SEO

How to Find the Best SEO Keywords

Finding the best SEO keywords (search engine optimization) requires a good plan, some creativity, and a lot of research. Here’s how to do it.

26 September, 201210 July, 2018Affiliates

How to Shave Perfectly, Every Time

This is the best shaving technique I’ve found, with dermatologist-approved recommendations for shaving cream, shaving oil, and moisturizers.

28 June, 201214 August, 2018Display, Marketing

The Pitfalls of Retargeting

Retargeting is an easy way to get the most out of your online marketing, but it can easily corrupt your marketing data if you’re not careful. Here’s how to avoid that.

20 June, 201210 July, 2018Display, Marketing

Why DSP Advertising Doesn’t Work As Advertised

Demand-side platforms (DSPs) were supposed to revolutionize how we buy online advertising, but they have trouble delivering for performance marketers. Here’s why they haven’t lived up to the hype.

1 February, 201228 February, 2013Marketing, Search, SEO

Your website is only your customer’s second stop

Your website is not the sum of your online marketing. You must consider where customers actually learn about you, and then where they need to go to make you money.

22 October, 201113 March, 2013Search

Stop Using Broad Match on Google Adwords

If you are still using broad match for search engine marketing on Google, you are wasting your money. You can greatly improve […]

11 November, 201022 September, 2012Search

How to turn Google Conversion Optimizer into a better bid management tool

Harried search engine marketers like myself — and especially those who don’t have the money to pay for agencies or bid management […]

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