Digital Ad Spending, Platforms and Statistics

Digital Ad Spending, Platforms and Statistics

There was a time (years ago) when I strongly believed that Facebook’s plan to transform itself into an ad platform by restricting the reach of their business pages and forcing them to spend was not sustainable. Well, I was wrong and when I am wrong about...
Brand Search Marketing Today And Tomorrow

Brand Search Marketing Today And Tomorrow

We have found that many startup and mid-sized brands have a fairly standard understanding of search related to their business and tend to group their knowledge of search into three main categories. These are SEO or search optimization, search advertising and the...
Paid Media Versus Organic Traffic – When and Why

Paid Media Versus Organic Traffic – When and Why

Paid media versus organic traffic isn’t a black and white question for any brand. In fact, let me start out this post by telling your that it shouldn’t ever be paid media vs earned media, it should be understanding when and why to be using both paid and...
Building Audience Trust In Digital Marketing

Building Audience Trust In Digital Marketing

Trust is one of the most foundational components within relationships and there is really no difference when it comes to digital marketing and brand content. If you don’t trust a person or a brand, your relationship with them will take on predictable patterns...
B2B Digital Marketing Becoming Just Like B2C Marketing

B2B Digital Marketing Becoming Just Like B2C Marketing

As I have discussed for some time, B2B digital marketing is in a period of transition that is beginning to resemble something very similar to B2C digital marketing. It’s true that there are some substantial differences between business to business customers and...
Blocking Ad Blockers – The New Battle

Blocking Ad Blockers – The New Battle

If you were to ask almost anyone that is not in marketing what they thought about the ads that are forced upon them online, many would indicate they detest them. But most of us tend to just drudge through the annoying popups, screen takeovers and in feed ads that are...