
One-to-one-household marketing requires solving the ‘shareability’ problem
‘I’m going to open this column by repeating, verbatim, the opening line from another recent Marketing Land article: “At a time when...

Debunking the top 5 stereotypes of programmatic traders
Do you think programmatic traders’ jobs consist of basic data entry, playing around on computers and saying “no” to requests all the...

New customer acquisition vs. retention: 7 best practices for search
Like nearly all retailers, a large health and beauty organization is facing escalating competition and CPCs on search. The performance...

Here’s how digital word of mouth and search have converged
For many industry practitioners, including me, the Moz Local Search Ranking Factors report serves as a useful and reference throughout...

4 stats on what wins on Amazon vs. Walmart
Previously, I’ve outlined some findings from Amazon benchmark reports in this column, but applying those findings across other retailers...

A case study for delivering performance in a mature Google Ads account
Running a Google Ads campaign can be a case of you’re damned if you do and your damned if you don’t. If the campaign turns out to be a...

Leveraging RTB display to engage, nurture and convert audiences through personalization
With a history dating back 25 years, the banner display ad is not only the oldest digital advertising platform: it’s also the most...

Video on demand’s future requires an ad model built around the experience
Ads are annoying. Study after study reiterates the fact that consumers find ad messages intrusive and aggressive. For some reason, even...

Rethinking the marketing funnel with Consumer Decision Journeys
The traditional marketing funnel, starting wide at the top and narrowing down to purchase was appropriate in the past but has become...

Think like a search marketer to drive growth with YouTube
Today’s consumers are constantly moving between channels and devices, and video is becoming an increasingly important part of their...

Amazon had a record-breaking holiday season, here’s how advertisers managed it
The 2018 holiday season was record-breaking for Amazon, which recorded its biggest shopping day in the company’s history on Cyber Monday....

6 tactics for PPC marketers to save time, reduce stress and improve performance
As PPC marketers, everything we do revolves around structure and organization. Sure, there’s a huge amount of unstructured work as the...

Opinion: Google Partners Program incentives should include actual client goals
I received an email yesterday about new challenges and rewards in the Google Partners experience, so I headed over there to see how...

Winning on Amazon: Here are 3 strategies that can help
Paraphrasing what Ginny Marvin wrote in this publication recently, 2018 was largely the year Amazon’s ad business matured. But changes...

‘Hey Alexa, how do I get my product visible in Amazon search in 2019?’
There has been a seismic shift in consumers search behavior as an estimated 56 percent of people begin their product search on Amazon,...

Shopping ads for the small budget: Here’s what to expect in 2019
Believe it or not, a new year is upon us (our surprise, of course, being in the speed of its arrival rather than the arrival itself) and...

The Black Friday Ecommerce PPC doomsday checklist of dramatically epic proportion
Welcome fellow eCommerce PPC laborer, to that annual moment of glory, reward, doom and failure. A weekend of highs and lows, a weekend of...

Tips for using the new Google Ads interface
Google is in the process of rolling out their new Google Ads interface. This is the second time Google has said they’d roll out the...

5 ways to make your holiday advertising campaigns more profitable
For retailers, it seems like the holiday shopping season starts earlier every year. If you’re an e-commerce retailer, that means it’s...
























