Voice search is one of the hottest topics in marketing right now. As I come home from work and tell my TV to play “Orange is the New Black” or ask my phone for the “best 5 minutes abs workout”, I can understand why we’re all buzzing about the next big thing. However, as you start to get deeper into it, the main question is actually how big it is...
If anyone doubted that multichannel marketing is the optimal advertising strategy, 2018 surely convinced that one person. Not only did Google again make a huge change in its algorithm with mobile-first indexing, but GDPR and the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal also impacted the way data is collected and used. What if Facebook disappeared scenario almost happened and users got harder to reach and define. Digital advertising is moving at the...
As users change their behavior, digital marketing has to adapt and follow the surviving and new trends, while abandoning practices that don’t yield results. Innovation in technology and digital channels shapes the road to consumers. Keeping an eye on future predictions and riding the wave of innovation before certain practices become over-used, not only explores the best ways to communicate with users but also positions brands as fearless leaders. As...
As a brand selling to clients, you should never ask: what can we do to make it look like we care, you should ask: what can we do to show our clients that we care? Cue in Dove's brilliant Real Beauty Sketches that parallels how we perceive ourselves and how others perceive us. An artist drew women based on their own description and based on the description of a stranger....
Alex was walking down the street, consumed by thoughts about the meeting he was going to have in the morning with an unsatisfied advertiser. As a campaign manager, he had to find a way to keep them happy and returning each quarter with more budget. The numbers didn’t tell a good story. Not a lot of users clicked on the advertiser’s ads, and the ones that did didn’t proceed to...
As a client manager, you're likely to encounter all sorts of great people, with whom you'll get to share amazing experiences. Said no one ever. The sad truth is that the person on the other side has a million problems, and they need you to be an easy solution. If your relationship is not going too well for whatever reason, try to pinpoint the problem and act accordingly. Here are...
The sun revolves around your best performing seller. It’s true! They have a say when the day starts and when the day ends. With revenue-centric company goals, it's all about who brings in the dough. Planners don’t bring in the dough - they are too busy in the back, right by the oven baking the bread, well for a little while at least. Until the unthinkable happens, they want to be in sales....
[mkdf_list_ordered] Make sure all team members can be locked in should the urgent requests arrive Buy love: send gifts to the clients to be on their good terms. If your team needs an extension on an RFP response, then make sure to shell out big time. Buy a coffee drip (it’s essential that caffeine flows straight through your veins) Keep ad ops team in an office lockdown until Q1. Important:...
[mkdf_list_ordered] They throw a fit and tell everyone how their ad campaign is about to under-deliver. “The worst has happened. The world will end. The FroYo Fruit Salad Cyber Monday Special ad campaign is about to under-deliver.” They cry to AdOps on Skype and demand that ALL the other campaigns be paused because “their” campaign is about to under-deliver. Then they send their client a super charming note asking for...
I don’t care if I lose my social status and never get a date again, I really have to say why I like reporting. There are days at work when I just get in the zone and crank numbers all day long and I don’t mind, on the contrary, I LOVE IT! Numbers are easy to manipulate, you can easily show how campaign outperformed all the campaigns in the history of...
