Attribution: it’s what keeps the modern marketer up at night. It’s important to understand where your leads are coming from to understand the entire customer journey and all the influences that drive conversions through the funnel. And in today’s digital world, consumers are engaging with you across a myriad of inbound channels – whether phone calls, text…

There’s no better way to learn about your customers than through conversations. Your phone calls tell you what products/services your customers purchased, their questions or objections, what stage of the sales cycle they’re in, and more. But mining calls for these valuable insights has historically been difficult, not to mention time-consuming. That’s why we’re excited…

Bad leads. The bane of any PPC marketer’s existence. You’re seeing conversions flow freely at a profitable rate and you think everything is great. All of a sudden – you receive an email from the client saying they’re getting a lot of phone calls, but they’re not the right kind of phone calls. Client number…

Legal and attorney advertising has relied on traditional media channels for a long time — think TV, radio, billboards, and YellowPages. But that’s all set to change within the next few years, with the field experiencing disruption after disruption as it transitions towards an increasingly digital-first marketing ecosystem. In today’s legal marketing world, digital channels…

Marketing in the dental space is highly fragmented and specialized, especially when compared to other industries. There aren’t yet an industry-wide set of universal best practices for digital marketing in this arena, so many dentists have to take a piecemeal approach to advertising: They’ll hire one firm to handle their web design, another for direct…

A 2016 survey by the National Association of Realtors confirmed what many agents have long suspected: Technology is driving some big changes in the real estate market. While agents and personal referrals helped 34 percent of home-buyers find the house they eventually purchased, just over half of all buyers (51 percent) instead used the Internet…

SEOs and Keyword Research: A Complex Relationship A recent Advanced Web Ranking survey (AWR) of digital marketers across industries found that SEOs believe keyword research is one of the top three most difficult SEO tactics to implement (just behind link building and content creation). This might be because 88% of digital marketers perform keyword research in-house,…

Should you include trade show sponsorships in your budget? In short, yes. But how do you know if your investment was worth it?  Managing your marketing dollars is already a challenge in itself, and the last thing you want to do is question whether those dollars were spent on the right trade show tactics. Among…

Running the marketing department of a marketing technology company puts you in a unique position; not only are you trying to sell to your target market, you’re also a part of it. The role generally means testing marketing strategies that would influence you, as a marketer, to take an action while also learning about new…

Giving More Control to Google In line with a string of changes that don’t necessarily take control out of your hands in AdWords (as long as you’re aware of them), but put more control into Google’s hands (see our posts on Google automatically showing phone numbers in ads, sometimes pulling numbers from GMB instead of…