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Digital
The Keys to Creating the Right Metrics for Your Digital Campaign
In bygone days of advertising, measuring the success of a media campaign often relied on the client to confirm increased sales or in-store traffic. Industry advancements and digital technology now give agencies and clients new options to set meaningful goals and measure campaign success. However, more measurement tools mean more variables and metrics to sort through at campaign’s end. It [...]
The Social Silo Problem
If there’s one thing social media professionals are tired of, it’s the implication that social media is a less important part of the marketing mix. One that exists in a silo and doesn’t work with other strategies—and shouldn’t have to. It exists all on its own. In a world of digital connectivity, that’s a misconception we need to retire. Consumers [...]
Investing in User Research for Your Website Increases Conversions
When it comes to designing websites, you may have heard the terms User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX). Both are essential when designing a website. Would you rather have a nice-looking website or a website that drives conversions and makes money? Trick question! You can have both! You just have to use UI and UX in harmony. And research [...]
Google Ads: The Upcoming Changes Announced at ‘Google Marketing Live’
On May 14, 2019, Google held their annual ‘Google Marketing Live’ event in San Francisco. The event provided a look at how marketers can take action on new consumer insights. Here is a breakdown of some of the updates revealed during this event. Discovery Ads The first big announcement that came from the event was Discovery Ads. This new feature [...]
Behind the Process of Website Design
To the untrained eye, a well-designed website is just a pretty face. As a web designer, I can tell you first hand that high-quality web design is about a lot more than appearances. There’s quite a bit of depth behind all those good looks. Maybe you’ve heard of user experience (UX) and user interface (UI). These are the design principles [...]
Digital Media Trends to Watch in 2019
Modern, effective marketing requires a digital presence. For marketers used to the tried and true tactics of ‘traditional’ marketing, that can be daunting. Luckily, evolving marketing platforms provide our industry more touch points for reaching audiences—rather than making previous efforts suddenly useless. As digital becomes more integrated into marketing mixes, it’s important to look ahead and watch for trends. As [...]
Building a Data Rosetta Stone
I love analyzing data. For some clients that means taking data from one source. For others, it means sorting through multiple data sources with different formats from different data platforms. When that happens, a once easy data analysis project becomes a bit more difficult. More difficult, but not impossible. Luckily, one thing I love as much as analyzing data is [...]
Google Changes the Search Landscape on its Birthday
Happy Birthday Google! We probably should have expected that Google would be throwing a celebration for their 20th anniversary. And by "celebration" I really mean completely changing the search landscape again. So, on Monday, September 24, Google made a series of announcements to show off their long-term plan to completely alter how search works … and some of it has [...]
A Recap of MozCon 2018
MozCon 2018 was a busy event for me. There were smart, charismatic speakers on stage and opportunities to network with SEOs from around the world. I quickly made it my goal to not only attend the sessions and learn from the speakers, but to also see what other professionals in the industry were doing. I was suspicious that the pros [...]
Persona parameters for a user-centered content strategy
A user-centered content strategy is a critical component of delivering functional web design. I attended a couple of workshops at Confab this spring to strengthen my process-driven approach to web projects. Scott Kubie’s workshop about user-centered content strategy was about why we need to ‘fall in love’ with our users and map out meaningful journeys across our websites. Being user-centered [...]
