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Holding Vendors Accountable – The Rising Threat of Digital Ad Fraud
You hear the terminology digital ad fraud and you get scared. And you should. Integral Ad Science estimates the programmatic industry’s standard fraud rate to be 8.7 percent. You want your advertising dollars to contribute to your ROI, not to bots and swindlers. Digital fraud comes in many forms: invalid traffic, squatting, spoofing, scraping, malware, false reviews, and that next [...]
Using Weather to Make a Measurable Difference in Your Marketing Metrics
Weather impacts our daily lives dsbtlme. It affects our moods, what we wear, our activities and what we buy. And our mood affects our spending. Weather is the second biggest influence on our buying decisions after the economy. A temperature shift of just one degree impacts sales of numerable products. Sunlight has a significant positive effect on willingness-to-pay as shown [...]
Getting Those Sheep Sheared by Putting Strengths First
Being a good team leader means you must know your team. You’re observant of everyone’s strengths and you let them know you notice their strengths. You understand how to make them happy and that’s what drives you to lead. I liken leading a happy team to leading a pack of dogs. Trust me, there are many similarities. Various mixes of [...]
Top Five Best Moments of 2016
As 2016 comes to an end, we look to the horizon and watch 2017 break upon us. Typically throughout December, we see many “Best Of” blogs and articles discussing what in our industry has come and gone over the past 12 months. It is also a time to highlight successes. This year, Strategic America had many successes, both large and [...]
Predictions for 2017 – Change is Upon Us
What will the new year look like and deliver for businesses and marketers? Now’s the time to pause, look ahead and see what emerging trends and insights may suggest for 2017. What’s the headline? Change is upon us. Many are expecting solid economic growth. The markets began quickly weighing in with their expectations. The Dow 21,000 and beyond has been [...]
Holiday Season Marketing Trends
The hustle and bustle of holiday shopping is finally beginning–children scramble to find the perfect gift for their mothers, friends hunt for the best White Elephant gift, and families stock up on food for the cold holiday hibernation to be spent together. Here at SA, our favorite part of the upcoming holiday season is not the search for the best [...]
What’s In A Name?
When it comes to selecting a URL for your website, exact-match domains may or may not be the answer to your SEO goals. Marketers are always trying to crack the code of website search engine optimization (SEO). While there are many facets we could discuss relating to SEO, in this article we will address–in a general way–the topic of “Exact-Match [...]
What I’ve Learned at SA in the Intern Cube
Starting a new job is always equally thrilling and terrifying–I always seem to get a knot in my stomach whenever I am handed my first assignment at an internship or job, yet I am equally eager to show my team the great work that I can accomplish. Beginning my journey as a PR Intern here at SA this fall, I [...]
10 Email Marketing Tips To Drive Results
Email marketing is an important part of reaching our current customers as well as potential customers. Worlddata was a featured presenter at the &THEN DMA conference in October. From their presentation, here are 10 important tips to consider in your next email marketing campaign 1. Linking to various parts of your website in a single email actually prevents your viewer [...]
2016 PRSA International Conference puts data and social in the PR driver’s seat
Last week, I spent three days in Indianapolis learning and networking alongside nearly 3,000 public relations professionals at the 2016 PRSA International Conference. This was the first year I’ve attended this event, and I was impressed on the diversity of professionals from corporate, in-house teams to agency owners; fresh-faced newbie and crotchety old-timers. It’s appropriate that the conference this year [...]
