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If you’re a digital marketer (or, honestly, pretty much anyone) you know much of today’s purchases — surprise! — are online. But, despite this rise, shopping in person is still a huge part of how things are done. Sure, buzzword-heavy tech stars might try to convince you brick-and-mortar establishments are obsolete, but the reality is that — while in-person stores are no longer the sole place to shop — they are still where 90% of purchases happen, plus their conversion rate tends to be greater than their online counterparts. With […]
Advertising for healthcare, online or otherwise, can be difficult. Unlike many industries where advertising works to promote your product or service, advertising for healthcare hardly gets people thinking, “Gee, I could really go for a cholesterol test right now.” Almost all healthcare products and services are relatively immediate in need – either someone needs it now or they don’t. For example, if you break your leg, your priority is seeing a medical professional as soon as possible so you can get on the road to recovery. Because of this, healthcare […]
This is the second half of a two-part series on using YouTube to build your brand and business. Here we review how to optimize your video content and then how to report on and measure your video content performance. If you haven’t already, we recommend reading part one. Optimizing Your Video Content Assuming you’ve read the first part of this series, you now know how YouTube-based content boosts your search engine positioning and domain authority, plus the factors in which YouTube videos are ranked. We have identified the four main […]
YouTube was founded in February 2005, almost one year after the founding of Facebook, a year-and-a-half after Myspace, and more than two years before Twitter. A year later, it was the fastest-growing website. By 2006, it garnered more than 65,000 video uploads and 100 million page views every day. By 2015, over 400 hours’ worth of video were uploaded every minute. By the time Google came calling and purchased the platform in October 2006, YouTube estimated they were making $15 million per month from ad revenue — and after the […]
Modern advertising has come a long way since the magazine copy of Mad Men. Yet while recent decades have brought a natural evolution, the biggest changes have come from our technological advances. One example of this is programmatic advertising. Although it might sound complicated, “programmatic” just means “automated,” and refers to the process through which digital ads are purchased and sold. In the past, online advertising was manually exchanged between the advertiser and domain, but today the majority of these are done with AI. Intelligent ad-buying software facilitates, purchases, and […]
The basics… RLSA stands for Remarketing Lists for Search Ads, and it has been a feature on Google Ads since 2013. Instead of targeting anybody searching for a given keyword on Google (or an affiliated search), RLSA specifically targets users who are searching for a keyword after having visited your site. Here, we’ll explore their results and how to best utilize them. How it Works The phrase “after having visited your site” probably brings up mental images of those stalker-ish visual ads for, say, adult diapers that follow you around […]
The online advertising landscape is rich with options from traditional platforms like Facebook to essential players such as Google. What many may overlook when spending precious advertising dollars is the younger, more visually focused option: Instagram. With various ad formats to choose from, this popular social media channel can yield a higher return on investment than its more well-known counterparts. In this post, we’ll examine the ins and outs of the platform, how to determine if the Instagram audience is right for your brand and how to get started if […]
Long gone are the days of sifting through pages of unrelated products online. Google Shopping delivers an ecommerce service displaying similar items for sale across the Internet that objectively match a search query. Thanks to Google, window-shopping is not just for brick and mortar storefronts anymore. What Is Google Shopping? Google Shopping is a service that enables consumers to view and compare retail items side by side based on a Google search. A consumer that searches for “black leather gloves” no longer has to blindly click individual website links in […]
What Are Google Grants? For non-profit organizations that are seeking support, recruiting volunteers, and procuring donations, allocating money for an online advertising campaign isn’t always a realistic option; that is what makes Google Grants so impactful. If you are a non-profit organization, it’s in your best interests to consider this vastly underutilized and highly valuable resource. The Google Grants program provides the opportunity for non-profits to create and manage Google Ads, free of charge. As part of a greater program called Google for Nonprofits, Google Grants allows Google to give […]
Creating quality content for any industry is a challenge, but effective content writing for healthcare can be an especially daunting task (perhaps even as daunting as attending the annual physical you’ve been putting off for years). Writing healthcare content entails more than just explaining a topic; it requires careful research, a clear understanding of highly technical information, and the ability to explain that information in a way that is easily understood and accessible to your audience. Optimizing your content for SEO also requires a baseline understanding of how to write […]
