crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! ” – crowdspring.co/19fkE20.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

To craft a PPC ad that’s so compelling people are happy to click it. If PPC has been around since 1996 , why doesn’t it happen more often? The Current State of PPC. Not only 78% of marketers feeling “really good” about their PPC success in 2015, but 60% believe the PPC market has improved over 2014.

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PPC Matching Campaign San Francisco 48

ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2021

You’ll get an inside look into some of the most successful marketing campaigns of all time. This post contains video, click to play]. This post contains video, click to play]. This post contains video, click to play]. Everybody Writes by Ann Handley (2014). Obviously Awesome by April Dunford (2019).

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

2014 is almost here. Here are my 10 rules for #winning in 2014. This is nothing compared to 2014 and beyond. So yes – companies spend ALL that money to get traffic to their site via SEO, PPC, social media and what not. Please stop being stupid in 2014. What about PPC? Barack Obama. Jeremy Lin.

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PPC Analytics Conversion SEO 123

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2016

Video thumbnails’ that show up in search results. Like the mobile friendly ranking update that was launched in 2014, Google is now starting to give some pretty strong hint that schema will become a direct ranking factor. Aggregate Star Review Ratings in search results. Product ratings in Search results. Schema Helps SEO, Big Time.

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SEO Kansas City Software Review HTML 28

ConversionXL

MARCH 10, 2017

Amelia Showalter of Pantheon Analytics , who led digital analytics for Obama’s 2012 campaign, agrees… Amelia Showalter , Pantheon Analytics: “Eventually the novelty wore off, and we had to go back and retest.” (via Here’s an example from the 2012 Obama campaign… Image Source. via Bloomberg). via MailChimp).

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Email Campaign Audience Mobile 93

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2016

Other 2016 design trends include simple animations (including cinemagraphs – live animated images/video), bigger images, illustrations, more scrolling, and bigger fonts. But SEO and/or SEM campaigns can provide great leverage to small businesses and as a result, should not be ignored.

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Web Small Business Design SEM 48