In this day and age, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to be original and distinguishable from others. In the midst of mass production of ads keeping your brand above the others might seem like an impossible endeavor. On the other side, there are so many examples of campaigns that stuck with us years after they ran and maybe even made us regular customers of a brand. In an effort to learn...
A lot of marketers focus on producing excellent content that brings users to their website and helps them create and maintain brand awareness. However, no matter how good the content is, if there are not enough views, ultimately, it becomes useless. While social media is the first and most apparent go-to place to promote content, email is one of the best ways to promote content to registered users. A lot...
Sometimes it feels like an ad has been following you all around the internet for days or months and even if you held the brand dear before, you start thinking can this please stop? On the other hand, the sole point of ads is for them to be seen by users and so many of them get completely ignored by the desired audience. So, what’s the middle ground? What’s the...
Influencer marketing is one of those topics in advertising that we never stop talking about. We keep asking the same question - does it work and how to make use of it? Studies show that customers are influenced by recommendations from trusted sources when making purchasing decisions. Two most important conditions are that you’re reaching your buyer persona and that the influencers you’re partnering with have a trustworthy relationship with...
First of all, let’s define the type of crisis we’re talking about. We want to cover all those situations that negatively affect a business’s reputation or its bottom line. As horrendous as natural disasters can get, we want to focus more on the type of crisis coming from factors more or less under company’s control, for example, a faulty product that has to be recalled, employee misconduct, conflicts with interest...
Are product reviews useful? Let's start with some hard and unbiased numbers! A March 2018 poll from shopper insights firm Field Agent unveiled that three-quarters of respondents surveyed cited product reviews as an essential purchase driver (eMarketer). Another research by eMarketer found that only 8.5% of global internet users don’t like recommendations when shopping digitally. If you’re looking to buy a book or a game, a beauty product or a...
No matter how good the ad or content that lead the users to your website is, the page that they land on is all the more important for the conversion. Landing pages are standalone web pages created with the conversion in mind. Advertisers will often ask why is the conversion rate low or bounce rate high, but this is something that publishers have no control of. Their task is to...
Before we get into all the juicy details, let’s first define native advertising. While it’s often mistaken with content advertising, it’s not necessarily the same thing. Native ads need to align with the organic content of a website, mimicking the tone and providing the value that the audience of that website expects. While traditional and programmatic media buying are still widespread, ad blocking and banner blindness are increasingly becoming a...
When it comes to purchase intent targeting strategy, pay per click advertising is the way to go. However, smaller businesses will often struggle with this model, losing dollars without remarkable results. The first step in determining the effectiveness of your campaign is to enable conversion tracking (Forbes 2018). While automatic bidding saves a lot of time, manual bidding gives you control on all levels to allocate your budget towards strategies...
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....
