With it being more than halfway through October, ideally, you’re already well into planning your 2020 holiday advertising strategy—but don’t worry if you’re not. Delays happen, pandemics hit, and there are always last-minute pushes needed to ensure success. What you should worry about is whether YouTube is part of your 2020 holiday paid media mix. Given the explosive…
How These Hootsuite Customers Achieved Social Transformation
Last month, we shared the Social Transformation Report which analyzed the results of our survey of 2,162 marketers conducted with Altimeter Group. The report delivers insights about the true value organizations realize from their social media efforts. In modern organizations, we noted three key trends: Social media deepens relationships Social media increases the efficiency of…
The Ultimate Guide to Platforms and How They Can Benefit Your Business
Once upon a time, the typical business tool belt was sprinkled with digital tools: email marketing software here, website CMS there, and perhaps software for accounting and tracking sales. In the last decade or so, software has become more intelligent, consumers have become more engaged and easier to learn from … and business owners have…
Core Web Vitals: The Page Experience Update Is Coming, And It Could Be A Big One
It’s no secret: content has long reigned king on the frontier of search engine optimization. To get organic traffic, you need web pages. Those pages need to rank for a diverse set of voluminous keywords. If you can solicit (or naturally earn) authoritative inbound links to those pages, all the better. You’re well on your…
18 Simple Yet Superb November Marketing Ideas (with Examples)
Ah, November. Summer is long gone, it feels like fall has only just begun, and yet winter vibes are is starting to trickle in—sort of like guests that arrive before your party starts and you’re kind of annoyed because you’re not quite ready. But I like the definition below: So, in the name of new…
How to Bid Like a Pro in Google Ads (in a Fraction of the Time)
I don’t know about you, but I am exhausted. Between juggling all of my personal and professional responsibilities while also trying to stay safe and healthy during a pandemic, every day feels like running a marathon. Have I run out of gel energy packs? Yep. Are my calves cramping up at mile 22? You betcha….
Google Cache: How to View Cached Pages
Cached pages is an undeniably useful tool when you come across a web page that is performing poorly, or temporarily down for some reason. At its most basic, Google crawls web pages and then makes raw HTML copies of them — a cached page. This can enable you to view a website that is slow…
15 Insanely Effective Sales Promotion Examples To Win More Customers
Successful companies know that sales promotions are among the most effective methods of increasing sales, boosting customer satisfaction, and heightening brand awareness. Sales promotions have been used for decades with great success and, no matter your industry or the size of your business, there are sales promotion techniques that can work for you too. With…