Committing to specific digital tactics can be difficult for marketers.
There are so many different approaches that it can be tempting to continually swipe left in search of something better.
Every digital marketer who wants to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their efforts should learn to love these seven key tactics:
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Your website is your always-on digital marketing and salesperson. Research shows that about 60% of the sales process is over before a prospect connects with your sales team. Why? Because prospects are researching online. They want to self-direct their education process. This makes having a well-designed, educational website a must.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesagencycouncil/2018/01/05/website-redesign-best-practices-for-2018/#25e110b03cbf/
Major shopping days like Black Friday and Cyber Monday can become make-or-break moments for online retailers. This year, Black Friday shopping was dominated by online sales. Americans spent a record $5 billion online in 24 hours this Black Friday, an increase of 16.9% since last year, according to data from Adobe Digital Insights. On Cyber Monday, Americans spent a blockbuster $6.6 billion online. For e-retailers, this shopping frenzy can mean soaring profits or lost customers, depending on website performance.
http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/Editorial/Industry-Insights/4-Simple-Steps-Retailers-Can-Take-to-Boost-Holiday-Sales-Through-Web-Optimization-122251.htm/
About 150 years ago, the legendary retailer John Wanamaker quipped, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.” Throughout the ensuing decades, many CEOs have echoed Wanamaker’s lament as they have struggled to quantify their return on marketing investment. Some marketers have despaired of ever being able to connect a sales impact to a specific and unique element of complex and multi-faced marketing plans – preferring instead to use their “gut” to guide marketing decisions and to rely on anecdote or vanity metrics to justify the results. However, in our era of data-driven marketing, this “know-nothing” approach has become increasingly untenable as CFOs and CEOs demand more exacting demonstrations of marketing ROI. And indeed the science of marketing attribution has come a long way since Wanamaker’s day.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmcdonald1/2018/01/23/measuring-the-roi-of-marketing-ab-tests-vs-market-mix-models-vs-multi-touch-attribution/#1e39ef2a2576/
There’s no arguing that Google still has a stranglehold on the state and future of search engine optimization (SEO). In addition to being the dominant competitor (with 63.4 percent of the market, and the next leading competitor at 22.8 percent), Google is a leading provider of software and tools to measure your site’s performance, including Google Analytics and Google Search Console (previously referred to as Webmaster Tools). When Google makes a significant change to anything, whether it’s its core search algorithm or one of its products, search marketers take notice.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaysondemers/2018/01/10/what-the-new-google-search-console-means-for-search-marketers/#6a26caee771b/
