With a plethora of technology driving digital advertising performance including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, blockchain, specialized platforms, sophisticated targeting, and more; does creative even matter any longer? The answer is yes. Despite all the...
Should You Cut Your Marketing Budget in a Downturn?
Business uncertainty and economic downturns can lead to difficult decisions and high levels of anxiety when trying to preserve profits and liquidity. In these situations, the marketing budget can often be an easy target for reduction or elimination. As a local...
How Much Should Your Local Business Invest in Marketing and Advertising?
How much you spend on advertising and marketing depends on several factors including your industry and position within that industry, your target customers, the competitive environment, and your goals and aspirations. Your marketing plan is the foundation of your...
Can Search Engine Extensions Help Your Local Business?
Adding extensions to your search advertising can help to optimize your marketing investment and facilitate sales conversions for your local business. What are Search Extensions? Search extensions are simply additional information that can be added to Google search...
What is Marketing Attribution?
The consumer path-to-purchase includes complex engagements with multiple media as consumers research to learn more about the product and service options available to them; and the best business to meet their needs. These customer touchpoints are interconnected,...
Can Connected TV Help Your Local Business?
Your Local Business Can Benefit from Integrating Connected TV (CTV) into Your Marketing Plan. An increasing number of TV viewers are abandoning cable television to ‘cut the cord’ in favor of the convenience of streaming services that offer increased variety and the...
The Continuing Strength of Newspaper Advertising
Your Local Business Can Benefit from The Effectiveness of Newspaper Advertising. Newspaper advertising, despite its naysayers, remains an important component of any effective marketing mix. In today’s frenetic digital world, where the firehose of social media and...
Can Customer Reviews Help Your Local Business?
How Reviews Can Help Your Local Business. Customer reviews can bring your local business an opportunity to develop new business, solidify relationships with existing customers, and improve your business’s product and service offerings. It’s not that potential...
Can Search Advertising Help Grow Your Local Business?
Search Advertising is a powerful digital marketing tactic that places your advertising in front of consumers who are actively looking for your product or service. What is Search Engine Marketing? Search Advertising, also known as “paid search advertising”, “Google...
Understanding The Customer Journey Toward Business Success
Understanding The Customer Journey and How to Use it to Grow Your Business What is the customer journey? The customer journey is a series of steps a person will take, often including interaction with multiple media, that lead to a purchase and eventually customer...