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Whether you use it or don’t, love it or hate it, voice assistants and their search capabilities are here to stay. In fact, not only are they here to stay, but they’re continually taking up a greater role in our lives. With this in mind, marketers are wise to keep an eye on voice search and how it affects digital marketing. Here’s some thoughts on tackling this challenge proactively: Voice Search Basics Voice search is based on speech recognition technology, which works by taking phonemes and translating them into letters. […]
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 […]
If you run a business in 2019, you almost certainly — get ready for a bold statement — have a website. Going out on a limb, we know. But a website isn’t free. You have to pay for the domain, pay a designer to design it, pay a copywriter to write it, and pay a web developer to keep it going. You have to pay with your own time and energy coordinating and collaborating with everyone involved. So, with all the time and money you spend on your site, surely […]
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 […]
Written by Preston Parshall “Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.” – Peter Drucker Since we started in 2014, we’ve been asked a lot of questions about who we are and our approach. The one question that we have been asked the most is a variation of these: “What’s your juice?” “What’s your differentiator?” and “What makes your team special?” At Fujisan Marketing, it all starts with thoughtful execution. Thoughtful execution is the cornerstone of any viable strategic plan or engagement. Whether you are launching […]
The PPC For Beginners series is designed to help newcomers gain a high-level understanding of the functions for a successful PPC campaign. We recently published the first of our series, PPC For Beginners Pt. 1: Prepare, Target, and Remarket. While Part 1 explains how you can research and prepare for a successful PPC campaign, Part 2 delves into the most important properties of designing a strong and successful foundation. This is a continuation of Part 1 of our series. Our beginner’s series blogs build upon one another, therefore, we highly […]
