PPC Pro – You’re Being Replaced

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You’re fired, laid-off, downsized, terminated, made redundant, rightsized, pursuing other opportunities, discharged, dismissed, pink-slipped. Search Engine Marketing professionals are becoming redundant, replaced by technology, so they should prepare themselves to hear those words. In the next 3 … [Read more...]

The CMO’s Marketing Analytics Optimization Framework

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In my last column, I shared recent research about how CEOs have lost trust in CMOs' ability to be focused on business performance. Hopefully, when asked how your company currently measures its digital initiatives you don't get an answer like this (LOL, well done Adobe): Seriously, the issue … [Read more...]

Conversion Optimization 101: Perfectly Persuasive PPC Landing Pages

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Last week, in our Conversion Optimization challenge we looked at the following PPC ad: and the corresponding landing page (image capture below): How would you optimize the ad and the landing page? My general guidelines for marketing with landing pages: Start your marketing with your … [Read more...]

Conversion Optimization 101: PPC Landing Pages

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This week's Conversion Optimization challenge is to look at a PPC ad I found on Google for the search term "SEO Management Software." Here is the ad I clicked on: and here is the landing page (image capture below): How would you optimize the ad and the landing page? Is this the … [Read more...]

The Must Have Big Data Tools

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In the column, "Claiming your Unfair Advantage, I describe four types of "Big Data" tools. Before I elaborate on these tools, I want to share a lesson from my friend Mark Huffman of P&G. When Mark joined the world's largest advertiser in 1984, it was all about data analysis. "In God we trust," … [Read more...]

Who Contributed the Most to Google’s Earnings in 2011?

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How to Go From Suck to Unsuck

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Your website sucks! Your mobile experience sucks! Your competitor's website and mobile experience suck too! Guess what? My site sucks too! As is often the case when I speak, I tell the audience that their website is like a leaky old bucket with traffic falling out the holes. I let them know we … [Read more...]

ROTS: Return on Time Spent

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Marketer’s are always losing battles to time. Time is all you need to get everything done and to be most effective marketer possible. Marketing operations are more complex than ever before and the demands on our resources are constantly increasing. We need to identify solutions that help us get … [Read more...]

The 5 Rs of Search Engine Marketing

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We came up with 5Rs of Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to demystify the process of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). This 7 1/2 minute video interview with Dr. Ralph Wilson from Web Marketing Today covers how content on your site must be (1) Relevant, (2) build your Reputation, (3) Remarkable, (4) … [Read more...]

Does Your Search Strategy Depend On Customers’ Memory?

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Men dread these moments: my wife's errand was to go to the drugstore and pick up...diapers. My little guy was on his last one. I was ready to get him his Pampers when I was stymied by the store selection. The sale was nearly lost! As I stood looking at the row of diapers, all I could see was … [Read more...]