After a couple of years of touting a rise in “near-me” queries, Google recently announced that these explicitly local searches have fallen out of favor. The search company was quick to point out that this didn’t mean local searches were decreasing, just that “over the last two years, comparable searches without ‘near me’ have grown…
The holidays come with more opportunities for sales than any other time of year. The job of local marketers is to help your clients tap into the seasonal traffic. However, it is impossible for you to design personalized marketing campaigns for everyone, especially if you have hundreds of clients. To ensure all your clients benefit,…
The ways potential clients find local businesses are changing dramatically. However, the marketing funnel for SMBs should remain the same. Google’s Consumer Barometer offers insights into how local consumers use the internet and how they interact with digital assets of SMBs. Using this data, marketers can help local businesses create content and campaigns for each…
At the Place Conference last month, Walter Geer, VP and creative director at Verve, said that data is like marketing fuel and the creative is the vehicle that the fuel goes in. In other words, marketers may have access to data and customer insights that aid in targeting and reach, but it is the creative…
If you’ve eaten a burger this year, it’s possible you bought it from a truck. Putting it that way might make it sound a little less than appetizing, food trucks are serving everything from handmade burgers to organic salad, and some are even being awarded Michelin stars. Food trucks are presented with the unique challenge…
There’s a symbiotic relationship between online and offline. In the age of mobile, marketers have become clear on how digital media influence offline behaviors. On the flip side, and equally important, they are beginning to understand how offline behaviors impact online purchases. Euclid recently released a report exploring the relationship between online and offline shopping, in anticipation of Black Friday and…
Whether working with small, medium or large businesses, B2B marketers are creating reports, white papers, infographics and other “thought leadership” content in order to reach these target audiences. This has resulted in an overwhelming amount of content for business decisions makers to sift through in order to find real, actionable insights and the companies that can provide these insights. A recent Edelman…
Location intelligence has been the stealth player in mobile advertising, while search, social and video have gobbled up the attention of advertisers over the last couple of years. But don’t underestimate the power of location. According to Pew Research, 77% of Americans now own a smartphone, which means advertisers now have lots of information about…
Trends tell us what’s happening in our world today. They give us insights into what the future will look like. As marketers, we look to digital marketing and internet trends specifically to assist in planning marketing strategies for our clients. Every year, Mary Meeker of Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byers (KPCB) shares her highly-anticipated Internet…
As many marketers know, data can be overwhelming. In today’s advertising and marketing ecosystem, we have more data to work with than ever before, and it can all get very daunting. However, data – and good quality data – are imperative to ensure accuracy and effectiveness in digital advertising. So, while it may seem intimidating,…
