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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 [...]
Transformational CSR: When a Pro-Bono Client Metamorphizes Into a Cultural Change Agent Within an Agency
*This blog was first published at Waxing Unlyrical. By Lisa Holtorf and Dawn Buzynski For most companies, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) means giving back to the surrounding community. It is typically done by supporting specific organizations either financially, through time and resources, or both. Companies choose to give because it’s the right thing to do, and it directly impacts the communities [...]
Why the Best Companies Practice Self-Reflection
By Jill LaBarre and Stephen Smith “How was your day?” This question is asked millions of times across the world every day. Why? Because we all share a thirst for collecting new information. As humans, we are constantly exploring and learning, most often from people and sources we trust. While asking this question demonstrates a curiosity, it also demonstrates care. [...]
Trending Topics: Your Media Relations Secret Weapon
If you’re like me, it can be a challenge to consistently create new story angles and ideas. For content marketers, it’s critical to keep pushing out content to the audience. But we have to make sure that content has relevance; the message must be significant enough that audiences will take notice. This is just as important for media relations when [...]
Smart Home Market Forecast 2019
Smart home products are beginning to come into their own, and there is a long way to go before they reach their full potential. Amazon Echos and Google Home units that flew off the shelf last year (and continue to do so) are doing more than making for an easy gift for your tech-minded friend. Smart home devices stand as [...]
Facebook’s New Third-Party Policies: How Your Company Can Adapt
Over the past year, Facebook has come under a continued scrutiny for how it handles member data. Increased attention to how that data is gathered, as well as who has access to the data continues to be an ongoing issue for Facebook. While the changes will increase user data privacy, it creates new challenges for marketers and advertisers who use [...]
2019 Trends for Channel Marketing Success
In every successful marketing program, the focus begins with the consumer—and how they prefer to be served in the journey to purchase satisfaction. That goes for channel marketing too. This hasn’t changed, but in today’s marketing environment, the channel (i.e., the local retailer, dealer, distributor or agent) is more focused, data-driven, automated and accountable than ever. Customer Centricity This is [...]
Leveraging Data Analytics to Transform Your Marketing Strategy
Big data is not a fad. As business and marketing leaders work to increase value for consumers and measure the results of their advertising efforts, spending on data analytics continues to rise—and it’s not predicted to slow down any time soon. According to the Data & Marketing Association (DMA), becoming data-centric continues to be a priority for U.S. marketers and [...]
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 [...]
A Litmus Test For Proving a “Big Idea”
There's nothing more subjective – more likely to stir passions – than an idea. Wars have been fought over ideas. Lovers have quarreled over ideas. And closer to home, ad agencies have prospered or failed in the pursuit of the elusive Big Idea. And there's the problem. An idea that's brilliant and breakthrough to one person is lame and disposable to another. So, how can you tell [...]
