Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2013

One day your leadership realizes you stink at digital (all of it or just Facebook or search and display or mobile or whatever). During this stage you should also invest a lot in Search Engine Optimization. Don't do paid search. From step five on you were likely already delivering some multi-channel value for your company.

Analytics 165

Analytics Marketing Channel Metrics 165

Brandanew

AUGUST 13, 2015

And with so many digital channels, platforms, and opportunities, this is indeed a recurring worry, especially for small businesses and startups. In a world driven by social media mentions, reviews, and a Google search before you buy anything, it’s not hard to believe that your customers (B2B or B2C/ Pens or Cars) are looking you up.

Small Business 100

Small Business Marketing Software Review B2C 100

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 7, 2020

Why Paid Search Must Be Part of Your Mix written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Just because it’s an established marketing channel, though, doesn’t mean it’s lost any of its relevance. So let’s take a closer look at paid search. How can paid search assist in lead generation?

Search 71

Search PPC Kansas City B2C 71

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 17, 2023

09:24] What are the significant like channel differences even, or approaches to a B2B marketer as opposed to a B2C marketer? [12:44] But first of all, the first edition was B2B and B2C, and this edition is exclusively B2B. 12:44] Regarding brand marketing, how can I invest in that when I really can’t measure it? [18:45]

B2B 82

B2B Marketing B2C ChatGPT 82

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Our business model back then was very complex, and it included a B2C as well as a B2B business model, that wasn’t being implemented yet. For example, in terms of the B2C plan we needed to provide more details on the markets we were addressing and the channels we were using to tackle them. It was all hypothetical.

Programming 124

Programming Chile B2B B2C 124

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 19, 2019

Every business, including B2B or B2C, has to bear the financial loss in their implementing their business strategies. Google is the largest successfully trending search engine, and at just one search, you can receive a lot of help for your small scale business. You can also use your social channels for sponsored ads.

Small Business 138

Small Business Marketing SEO Social Media 138

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 15, 2018

As recently as a few years ago, brands and wholesalers only had a few sales channels to consider: they sold directly to retailers, or to distributors who in turn sold to retailers. Your B2B customers are also consumers, and B2C commerce is leading the way with companies like Amazon and Ebay way out in the front. Cost savings.

B2B 153

B2B B2C PPC SEO 153

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2014

Considering the breadth of online platforms and opportunity (search, social media, video, content marketing, etc), it’s difficult for advertisers to keep up (and keep track) with digital progress. Businesses using automated ask internal questions like: - What marketing channels produce the best return on investment? Blackhat SEO.

Architecture 180

Architecture Marketing SEO Cofounder 180

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

If you're moving out of brick and mortar into online, more and more businesses, whether you're B2B or you're b2c, are realizing that digital is a primary channel or at least equal. Semrush is your one stop shop for online marketing, build, manage and measure campaigns across all channels faster and easier.

Marketing 75

Marketing Differentiation B2C PR 75

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Critiquing the “one-size-fits-all” used by Goliath advertising on traditional channels, the authors proclaims that digital advertising allows marketers to “speak directly to the people who most want to hear what they have to say”. Determine campaign media channels. Digital Advertising and Marketing Channels. Sponsorships.

Social Media 100

Social Media Campaign SEO B2C 100

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

I recently did a webinar for the Search Engine Strategies conference (I am doing the opening conference keynote at SES London and SES New York ) and my Market Motive co-faculty member Greg Jarboe sent me this KPI via email: "Your webcast was a big success. How do you measure SEO performance on a page level? What do you see?

Analytics 90

Analytics Search SEO Metrics 90

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

They recognize the average lifespan of a client is 3-6 months, so they implement a strong sales team to consistently search for new clients. We were witnessing, firsthand, the dramatic shifts in B2C e-commerce, and the resulting incredible experiences and benefits brands were delivering their retail consumers.

Entrepreneur 115

Entrepreneur Czech Republic Retention B2C 115

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Run a bunch of search queries with the intent of looking for the company's products and services. Organic search rankings (rank, page titles, snippets). Paid search ads (title, creatives, urls shown). Search Plus Your World results. No business, B2C or B2B or here2there, can exist without a robust YouTube strategy.

Web 138

Web Analytics Technical Review Affiliate 138

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Earlier this year, at CXL Live , you asked us about voice search (a lot). How will voice search work given the human urge to shop around? Are there use cases for voice search in B2B? Not everyone will benefit from the disruption caused by voice search. Are you sure voice search isn’t just a fad? Yes, we’re sure.

B2B 100

B2B eCommerce Search Technical Review 100

Brandanew

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Both consumers (for B2C) and brand (for B2B) check the recency of your posts. How frequently you post is also a good reminder to the search engines. Any kind and of online writing is always meant for two different entities, the audience and also the search engines. Register at connect@brandanew.co . Post Regularly.

B2C 100

B2C SEO Audience B2B 100

Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

Identify gaps in our content/engagement/channel strategy on the web, 2. If I'm doing SEO for keyword cluster xyz, what am I really solving for? Why is it that SEO is only focused on our brand terms and product names, when there are 9 million additional intent-identified queries in the Do stage and 14.6

Framework 163

Framework Marketing Metrics Audience 163

ConversionXL

JULY 7, 2020

Instead, think of Pinterest as a way to build an audience or an additional distribution channel for your content. Google requires on-page SEO, technical SEO , outreach, link building , and a months- (or years-) long wait—just to discover if it works or not. Pins are going to “settle” in search results.

Marketing 114

Marketing Viral Campaign Search 114

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Traffic by channel: Find out where your visitors come from Where to track traffic by channel 3. Their insights support decision-making and budget management by identifying profitable channels and honing in on where to maximize conversions. Traffic by channel: Find out where your visitors come from. in an app).

Metrics 105

Metrics Analytics Marketing Acquisition 105

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Soul searching, questions to torture vendors with, comparing vendors, running a pilot and negotiating a contract, it's all in there. The best WA report, segmentation, site search, SEO & PPC analysis, email, rich media, cookies, data sampling. Especially people outside our analytics / search circle. Non-Ecommerce.

Analytics 71

Analytics Web Technical Review Metrics 71

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. That is, build a massive database of travel information that provided a white label search engine for travel sites like Expedia and Travelocity. Going B2C was daunting and not in our core DNA,” Kaufer remarked.

Part-Time VPE 54

Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

At a glance you can see all the big clusters of sources (close to the channels view in Google Analytics). If you are interested in any particular channel, Miscellaneous as an example, you can click on it and… boom! If you were an SEO, or ran all Ecommerce for your company, or were responsible for consumer experience?

Analytics 143

Analytics Sierra Leone Channel Conversion 143

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

A quick look around all the B2C startups shows that, although viral growth is often hoped for, in reality it is extremely rare. Far more common is a need to acquire customers through a series of steps like SEO, SEM, PR, Social Marketing, direct sales, channel sales, etc. that will cost the company significant amounts of money.

Acquisition 103

Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 31, 2017

1 Because of the collective push for well-curated and highly targeted content in both B2B and B2C markets, skillful young writers have ample opportunity to break into the workforce through the art of copywriting. Copywriters today are tasked with producing fodder for a machine that’s hard to please: search engines.

Demand 48

Demand B2B Curation SEO 48

Occam's Razor

MAY 20, 2013

Part of the reason is that even if you work for a multi-channel company you are likely in the "web," "interactive," "internet," or "digital" division. Digital advertising and marketing is a key part of ZQI's multi-channel acquisition portfolio. Not too shabby, right? They do everything.

Analytics 139

Analytics Aggregator Channel B2B 139

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Do the big gigantic numbers imply that your business should use these social media channels? I believe that it was erroneous not to answer the two questions above, it was erroneous to be tempted by the Big Numbers and not understand how Social Media channels actually worked (streams, home pages, personalization, rankings and more).

Social Media 60

Social Media Media B2C B2B 60

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

There is a lot any business — B2C, B2B, A2Z — can learn from Songza. Of course there is still the search box on top of the page. A really nice way to do a multi-channel strategy. Not just the online + offline part (though they all want multi-channel desperately), but the whole cart experience.

Web 164

Web Design Marketing Security 164

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Channel relationships are very hard for any small company to establish even when interests are directly aligned, but this challenge is proving even more difficult for most SaaS companies given the restricted value proposition to the SI and ISV community. Philippe Botteri. Bessemer SaaS Law #5. Bessemer SaaS Law #6.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 28, 2020

Marketing through video we use for your YouTube channel, that super nice video on your homepage, your Facebook lives, and all these other things that are for typically mass audiences. And again, I don’t care whether this is B2B, B2C. It’s very fast, it won’t mess with your SEO. Check out Zephyr.

Video 39

Video Technical Review Software Review Colorado 39

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Many of the top search results for the term are focused on what it is and whether you can make money from it. It’s nothing more than another marketing channel for you to experiment with, analyze, optimize and grow. Are you aware of your cost per acquisition on other channels? Share top performing channels.

Affiliate 48

Affiliate Programming Marketing PPC 48

VC Cafe

MARCH 15, 2016

To begin with, let’s illustrate the sales process with a simple graphic of the funnel that comes from an excellent post on Stratechery about marketing channels. In a B2C context, you definitely want to give the chat option to customers who got something in their cart but have yet to complete the purchase. Online chat.

Sales 60

Sales Marketing Sales Cycle B2C 60

ConversionXL

APRIL 11, 2016

According to Aberdeen , companies using video enjoy 41% more web traffic from search than non-video users. MarketingLand found that 62% of Google searches include video, which might explain why Brightcove found that video drives a 157% increase in organic traffic from search engines. Optimize Videos for Search Engines.

Video 48

Video Conversion Mobile Search 48

ConversionXL

AUGUST 7, 2019

Yet, according to another study , only 11% of B2B companies have ongoing influencer marketing programs, compared to 48% of B2C brands. Pick your brand channel that has the most engaged community (i.e. You know it’s exclusive when the site promoting an SEO event is a single page of basic HTML! Live stream on Facebook or YouTube.

B2B 110

B2B Marketing Social Media B2C 110

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 30, 2021

However, with every new technology, channel, and distraction served up by the internet, that journey becomes less linear, and the traditional funnel becomes less relevant. For example, person #1 is searching for “the best social media software for automation.” Generating awareness through SEO. Easy to Use.

Customer 140

Customer Marketing Social Media CPA 140