Future-Proof Your Marketing: Advertising in a Cookieless World

The use of browser cookies and ad tracking, in general, are fundamental to our web experience. Ad tracking provides two important advantages within the advertising landscape:

  1. Ad tracking facilitates better-targeted ads to consumers (meaning that consumers should see ads that are more relevant).
  2. Ad tracking provides feedback to the advertisers on the effectiveness
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The Whole Working-From-Home Thing

I don’t buy Apple products, but I’m generally a fan of their ads. Their newest video-ode to the “Work From Home” (WFH) culture is a sequel to their “Underdogs” spot from last year (see below). 

As a reflection of the 2020 working reality, the protagonist crew is collaborating remotely. This is a compelling product … Read the rest

Product Deep Dive: The New Google Analytics

Google Analytics 4 is released and it’s built upon machine learning and the customer journey, which means it facilitates analysis across multiple platforms and devices.

The idea is that by applying Google’s machine learning models, this new Google Analytics will automatically alert users to important data trends. An example could be highlighting a rising … Read the rest

YouTube vs TV: Business Promotion with Gordon Ramsay

For some business owners, particularly those who may be new to video, there’s a certain formality they may ascribe to the medium, even though YouTube is famous as an informal media — as well as everything else. That’s not to suggest that informality is, or is not, the best way to present your brand … Read the rest

“Offer Service” (For Free?)

The concept of giving away something valuable for free, to gain business attention, has been ongoing grist for argument, within internet marketing circles for a while. The obvious point of contention is that giving away something free, to get your product or service into the hands of potential paying customers (who would not otherwise … Read the rest

Black Hat SEO Examples

These days, Black Hat SEO can have the effect of pushing your content into a black hole of the internet, effectively making it non-existent.

Black Hat” search engine optimization (SEO) is a term used to refer to techniques, or companies, that use tactics to deceive search engines in order to push search rankings … Read the rest

Should You Create an Infomercial for Your Product?

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After 1984, when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) eliminated regulations to govern the commercial content of television, infomercials began to proliferate the late-night airwaves because they were cheap to broadcast and proved to be a highly profitable media, selling anything that could be easily shipped.

In fact, infomercials became so profitable that more and more … Read the rest

“Testing” Your Way To Internet Marketing Success

What is Direct Response Testing? (3 minute video)

Advertising performance testing is the ongoing comparison and refinement of marketing elements and campaigns to maximize the impact of copywriting, sales offers and marketing messages to optimize the return on investment of advertising dollars.

Inadequate market testing will not only generate inferior results for your advertising … Read the rest