Archive for online marketing

  1. Join 15miles at the Online Marketing Summit in Minneapolis and Milwaukee

    Michael Kust

    Join local search expert and 15miles’ President Gregg Stewart when he speaks at the Online Marketing Summit in Minneapolis on Friday, June 25.  This event will feature many industry experts speaking about strategies and tactics for online success.  Many topics will be covered including: Web Analytics, Email Marketing, Demand & Lead Generation, Search Engine Marketing, and B2B Blogging.  At 4:10 PM CST, Gregg will be wrapping up the Summit with a discussion of the best technology and tools that marketers should be utilizing for their online marketing program.
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    18Jun

  2. Online Marketing Virtual Summit: Analyzing Behavior to Optimize Landing Pages

    Jon Legler

    I attended two presentations last week that discussed tools that can be used to gain insight into how user behavior on landing pages can be tracked for optimization purposes; one by Dr. Tal Schwartz and another by Tim Ash.  As a psychology major, any way that analyzing how a user behaves on site and using this for optimization purposes, is very interesting to me.  They discussed various tools that allow you to analyze behavior using different means such as heat maps, conversion funnels, and form reporting.

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    07Jun

  3. Online Marketing Virtual Summit: Credit for Your Impressions

    Lindsay Martin

    Morris Martin, of Microsoft Advertising Institute, theorizes a new way to assign value to search and display conversions, arguing the “last ad standard” is an antiquated model.

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    28May

  4. A Recipe for Success: The Importance of Multi Platform Advertising

    Jon Legler

    I came across an article written by Stephanie Hobbs on Search Engine Land last week that I thought made some very valuable points.  The article addressed why multi platform advertising was so key in local search.  She touches on the different ways that consumers search for a business across multiple media channels illustrating that there is a perfect solution that fits every advertiser; but through a combination of traditional print, on-line and now increasingly mobile channels a campaign can be designed to fit any advertiser’s needs.

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    14May

  5. Google Renames Local Business Center

    Joey Woodbury

    Google decided to change the name of the “Google Local Business Center” to “Google Places.” According to Google the motivation behind the name change is to “better connect Place Pages – the way that businesses are being found today – with the tool that enables business owners to manage their presence on Google”.

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    20Apr

  6. Google Rolls Out New Feature: Remarketing

    Andrea Loar

    Thursday, Google rolled out a new AdWords PPC feature called Remarketing. Any AdWords advertiser can use the remarketing feature to reach users as they’re browsing the web on sites within the Google Content Network.

    Remarketing, a part of Google’s interest based advertising, allows advertisers to re-engage with previous site visitors based on the users’ past interactions on the site. Since rolling out the beta version last March, Google advertisers have seen a tremendous response across all industries, regardless of ROI focus. Read the full article…

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    29Mar

  7. Forrester’s Online Retail Five-Year Forecast

    Natalie Carlson

    On Monday, Forrester Research released a new forecast predicting that e-commerce sales in the U.S. will grow at a 10-percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over the next five years. Not surprising, the online retail growth rate is not as substantial as back in the days of e-commerce adaption, but the double-digit estimated growth serves as a wake-up call to any business that has still not implemented an online marketing strategy.
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    09Mar