Posts by Lisa Thompson
How to Measure the ROI of Your Content Marketing Efforts – a Step-by-Step Guide
With as many as 76% of marketers planning to produce more content in 2017, it becomes critical to weigh the performance of content campaigns against goals. Sadly, most marketers see this as a challenge. 57% marketers state measuring the effectiveness of their content as one of their top 5 content-related challenges. To overcome this,…
Read MoreWhy You Must Create a Total Online Presence Right Now
Your website is the hub of your online presence and is clearly a must in this digital world. However, it’s only one piece of the marketing puzzle. It won’t return the results you need unless you optimize and integrate a what I’ve long been referring to as a total online presence. Below are the remaining pieces you need…
Read MoreEmoji appear in Google AdWords ads titles
Emoji have been spotted in the wild in Google AdWords ads titles, giving rise to speculation that this option may be rolled out globally for all advertisers soon. We have seen this before, although prior instances of emoji in AdWords seemed to be caused by a loophole that allowed certain character combinations to pass through Google…
Read MoreHow to Perfect Your Content User’s Experience
When it comes to the ways in which your users experience your site and content, you can’t afford to make any rookie mistakes. Follow the following guide in order to truly perfect your content user’s experience A good marketer always remembers to keep in mind that loyal customers are worth up to 10 times as…
Read MoreHow to Use LinkedIn Groups to Generate Quality Leads Continuously
If you’re a professional or job seeker (which, if you’re on the DTM blog, you obviously are), you’ll know that LinkedIn is the biggest, baddest kids on the block. With over 400 million users to date, a recent acquisition by Microsoft, and a revamped user interface, LinkedIn seems poised to be the best platform…
Read More3 Types of Content That Gets More Traffic, Links and Shares Than All the Others
Why waste time creating content that doesn’t get you traffic, links, and shares? The problem for many content creators is they aren’t sure what type of content to focus on, so they try creating everything and anything they feel like creating in the moment. That works for some, but not for all (especially not for…
Read MoreTop three programmatic trends in 2017
Top three programmatic trends in 2017 Programmatic is a game-changing technology in the advertising industry. According to ZenithOptimedia Programmatic Marketing Forecasts, it will grow by an astounding 31% in 2017 – and that’s faster than social media (25%) and online video (20%). At the same time, marketers using automation is on the rise: Dun &…
Read MoreHoliday e-commerce sales crushed expectations, NRF says
New data from the National Retail Federation (NRF) paints a rosy picture for holiday e-commerce. The organization estimates non-store sales of $122.9 billion in November and December, a 12.6 percent gain over 2015. And it’s significantly higher than the NRF’s predicted growth of 7-10 percent. The NRF’s numbers are in line with what others have…
Read MoreFour trends that will reshape marketing in 2017
I’ve been a marketer and entrepreneur for more than 20 years, and each year seems to bring a new whirlwind of change. In 2016, social media grew even more powerful, dictating the news and shaping our public discourse. Chatbots and artificial intelligence started to gain traction and are opening entirely new avenues for brands to…
Read MoreFetch and Horror: 3 examples of how fetch and render in GSC can reveal big SEO problems
In May 2014, some powerful functionality debuted in the “fetch as Google” feature in Google Search Console — the ability to fetch and render. When you ask Google to fetch and render, its crawler will fetch all necessary resources so it can accurately render a page, including images, CSS and JavaScript. Google then provides a preview…
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