Brand Loyalty Remains High
Brand loyalty remains high at 89%, driven by product and price rather than service. Last year, Yotpo found that 90% of consumers surveyed considered themselves brand loyal, in contrast to the conventional thinking that loyalty was dead. That number hasn’t changed, according to this year’s survey of 2,100 U.S. adults; 89.1% of consumers said they were brand […]
Instagram’s new shopping bag icon
Instagram is giving a select number of e-commerce brands a new feature to help with their e-commerce efforts on the platform. Starting today, certain advertisers can add a shopping bag icon to their Instagram Stories that will display more details about the featured product. Clicking on the shopping bag icon can display various types of […]
The year of influencer marketing for B2B
Think influencer marketing is only for B2C brands? Contributor Michael Brito explains how the principles of this highly effective technique can be applied to B2B markets. Total brand spending on influencer marketing was $81 billion in 2016 and is projected to reach $101 billion by 2020, according to a 2017 study from the Association of […]
Get your content discovered
Contributor Kristopher Jones outlines seven tried-and-true content promotion strategies that will drive traffic to your content and website. It’s no secret a well-executed content marketing campaign can deliver a solid return on investment. According to Demand Metric, content marketing generates three times more leads than most outbound marketing strategies at 62 percent less cost. As […]
Website Speed & SEO Routine
Monitoring webpage performance is key to avoiding setbacks when algorithms change. Contributor Bobby Lyons points out ways to adapt everyday SEO activities so a website will thrive regardless of algorithm updates. Success in search engine optimization (SEO) requires not only an understanding of where Google’s algorithm is today but an insight to where Google is […]
For email, experience is everything
Through email, you individually address people who have different wants, needs, habits and relationships with your company. When you put it in this context, as opposed to thinking of email as a lever to drive more money from a homogeneous existing customer base, it becomes more of a human medium. This is not to say […]
Better email subject lines this holiday season
With kids back in school, email marketing campaigns have moved away from end-of-summer deals and backpack wish lists and switched over to the holidays. The holiday season seems to get earlier every year, so it’s important for email marketers to get a head start on what is going to resonate with consumers. During the last holiday season, […]
SEO 101: URL's in Google Search Console
Google Search Console serves as an excellent (not to mention free) source of technical data about your website’s organic visibility and performance. To maximize its usefulness, it’s important to properly set up your website in Search Console by adding all versions of your domain as properties that you manage. Let’s assume the domain name of the […]
Hyper-Personalized Messages
How do we reach hyper-personalization? Columnist Scott Heimes believes building an email-based app, along with great content and timing, is key to earning email readers’ loyalty.”For years, email marketing has been circling around an ideal center without ever reaching it. That center has become known as “hyper-personalization.” Yes, the sought-after email “segment of one,” the […]
Integrating workplace wellbeing into performance management
Integrating mental and emotional wellbeing into performance management is helping brands create environments where engaged and resilient teams feel able to thrive. Wellbeing in the workplace is an area of increasing focus for companies keen to improve their culture, working environment and employee performance. However, to make a real difference businesses must take a holistic […]
