I’ve spent almost 15 years of my life helping companies to get their visitors to fill out and submit forms online. Forms to request information, to attend events, to sign up for a service, to complete an order, all sorts of forms. Web forms are a transaction. You need to look at them as an [...]
Continue Reading →Social media is about creating engagement. One way a consumer can become engaged is by telling a compelling story. And then it is not just about the content; it is about how you tell it, and how you leverage the content. Here is a concise checklist of 10 key elements to help you tell your [...]
Continue Reading →he statistics are compelling. Here’s an example: “Poor online user experience, coupled with a lack of insight about why customers are abandoning websites, is costing businesses billions of dollars / pounds. Companies able to quantify site abandonment estimate they are losing the equivalent of 24% of their annual online revenue due to a bad online [...]
Continue Reading →Have you ever seen one of those signs that points to all of the different directions at one time? Sometimes, that is what I start to picture when I think about how a content publisher is going to remain successful 10 years from now. This is why: Today’s world has four active generations of media [...]
Continue Reading →Where am I? › Home › Column › Search › SMB Business Listing Management Gregg Stewart | May 5, 2011 | 0 comments Click here to find out more! 4Share There is one fundamental element that connects your ability to tap local, mobile, and social advertising: your business listing. That’s right, the simple name, address, [...]
Continue Reading →So you’ve read about location. You’ve sat through many presentations with the cliché “Location, Location, Location” somewhere in the title, and you’re still clueless about how to get started in tying location-based services (LBS) back to your marketing efforts. Here’s a quick introductory guide to get you on the right path: Register Your Stores The [...]
Continue Reading →Over the 12-plus years I have spent in the Internet and online marketing industry, I have found one constant with all my interactions – that is the career. I hear these questions all the time: how do I break into the industry? What area should I focus on, search or social media? Should I be [...]
Continue Reading →Probability theory is a branch of mathematics that deals with the description and analysis of random events. The key building blocks of this framework are as follows: A random variable is a quantity whose value is random or unpredictable, and to which we can assign a probability distribution function. The probability distribution function determines the [...]
Continue Reading →Back in 2007, I decided to write about paid direct links, a form of paid search that is altogether different from the forms of paid search we manage through AdWords, adCenter, and a few other platforms. In that column, I warned readers to “venture forth with your eyes open, understanding the rewards and risks.” Rewards [...]
Continue Reading →Do you remember the days of explosive CPMs? Many people long for those times – before rates for traditional banner ad plummeted just as the market crashed from 2000 through 2002. These banner ads couldn’t support those rates because low click-through rates (CTR) and conversions didn’t justify the spend. To find ways to make online [...]
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