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Live social shopping is a fast-growing trend within the ecommerce and social commerce marketing categories. Live social shopping is one specific format within the broad social commerce category where the buying happens during a live-streamed video with real-time...
A consistent theme in our blog posts has centered around media recommendations based on the best way to find and reach your business’s target audience. Here at Sentinel Solutions, we advocate for a data-informed approach that places our client needs first. Because...
The Jam Study by psychologists Sheena Iyengar and Mark Lepper in 2000 demonstrated the phenomenon of choice overload. The study found that while a display of 24 jam varieties attracted more interest, shoppers were ten times more likely to buy a jar of jam when...
The holiday season provides a crucial economic uplift for local businesses, driving significant portions of annual revenue. While the average for a small business can be 25% or more of annual revenue, this figure can be much higher, especially for retail businesses,...
Marketing automation is an effective tool for engaging customers and increasing the efficiency of your marketing by improving both marketing execution and personalization by delivering tailored content to the customer. It also enhances lead generation and nurturing...
Psychographic segmentation is a marketing strategy that divides a market into segments based on psychological characteristics including lifestyle, values, interests, opinions, social status, and more. The goal of psychographic segmenting is to understand why people...
I recall an anecdote from back in the days of Yellow Pages (YP) advertising. There was a pizza restaurant in New York City who ran a full-page ad encouraging customers to tear the adjacent full-page ad of their competitor out of the YP and bring it into the...
Hashtags are keywords or phrases preceded by the pound (#) symbol, used on social media platforms to categorize and improve discoverability. Hashtags help users find content related to specific topics, events, or trends. Originally popularized on Twitter (now ‘X’),...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is significantly transforming local search marketing by making it more personalized, precise, and efficient for the user. To be successful, local businesses will need to adapt to these AI-driven changes to maintain visibility and attract...
There’s no doubt that Google is the dominant search platform, handling trillions of searches annually and commanding search engine market share of 89% in North America. The platform sees billions of searches and 79% of people using Google every day. In the US alone,...