Posts by Lisa Thompson
Why You Must Address Problems Before You Can Offer Solutions
You make a product, hone your pitch and then get busy prescribing the benefits of your tools to anyone who’ll listen. That’s the way it works. You know what people need, and you tailor your solutions to meet what they need. You even give your unique methodology a fancy name and construct branded processes to…
Read MoreOptimizing Marketing Resources – What to Automate and What Your Team Needs to Handle
When you work in a small marketing department with a shoestring budget, you’re often faced with the dilemma of paying for automation or investing hours in managing the work internally. Through my years in various marketing roles, I’ve gotten lucky and also learned the hard way about which processes should and should not be automated.…
Read MoreData: Mobile drives majority of Black Friday traffic, but PCs dominate sales
There were record e-commerce sales over the past weekend, as more consumers shopped online. However, the rise of mobile commerce is the larger and more interesting story. On Black Friday, mobile devices were responsible for roughly 36 percent of total revenues and a majority of online retail traffic, reported Adobe — this despite awkward and suboptimal mobile experiences across many…
Read MoreThe filter bubble: it won an election and can help you win customers
You are probably like me and don’t want to read another article about marketing lessons from the recent US election, but a number of thoughts coalesced in my head that prompted me to write one more. Since some time has passed, I hope you will bear with me. Let’s start with an idea that is…
Read MoreHow do our biases impact PPC performance?
I’ve come to believe that the essence of PPC management can be boiled down to two things: Never let one thing (keyword research, bid management, A/B testing ad copy and so on) take up so much of your attention that you let something else slip. What you did yesterday probably needs to be changed, and failing…
Read MoreGo On a Media Diet
Too many of us are chewing up hours each day in an effort to “stay informed” and “keep up” but also to waste time in between other tasks. It’s time to go on a diet. A media diet. How to Start Your Media Diet Look at the blogs and newsletters you currently receive. You already…
Read MoreWorking on my New Book
I’m writing a new book called Make Your Own Game. This book solves the challenge of “how do I get more successful at life and business?” I thought I’d share a little behind-the-scenes of how I do it. I Start With “Why Bother With a Book?” It took a while to write this new book,…
Read More3 coupon affiliate myths it’s time to stop blindly believing
It’s often assumed that coupon sites only drive value at the last click. Or they are seen as poachers of revenue that has actually been driven by other marketing channels earlier in the consumer journey. Nevertheless, shoppers now expect coupons and deals to be readily available for their online shopping. In fact, according to research…
Read MoreAd customizers just got a whole lot more powerful
I’m always looking for an edge in PPC so that my campaign’s performance will shine in a very competitive landscape. Back in 2013, I started talking about how to use programming to set up time-saving and performance-boosting automations with AdWords Scripts, at the time among the newest capabilities in AdWords. But now that we’re about…
Read MoreHow search and email acquisition campaigns benefit both channels
Search and email are good marketing partners because they make each other more productive. Add a layer of “big data,” and you have a firm foundation for digital marketing success. Take email acquisition, for example. Instead of just going it alone, email and search teams should partner up on PPC ads to build email acquisition.…
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