Tag Archives: Digital Marketing

How to Stretch a Small Business Marketing Budget

by Jaimie Siegle | Advertising Systems Inc. B2B marketing budgets are expected to rise in 2014, with businesses prioritizing their digital needs in order to most effectively reach their customers, according to a study conducted by Forrester Research and the Business Marketing Association. “Many B2B CMOs will struggle to make dollars stretch while protecting program […]

Digital Marketing, Search Engine Marketing, Small Business, Technology

Why Some “Best Practices” Aren’t Really “Best” for Your Business

Google defines best practices as being, ‘commercial or professional procedures that are accepted or prescribed as being correct or most effective’. In the world of social media and content marketing, we spend a fair deal of time talking about best practices. We write blog posts about best practices to help others, and we updated our social streams with […]

Digital Marketing, Social Media Marketing

B2C Businesses Find Success with Content Marketing in 2013, Survey Says

by eMarketer Will the marketers of the future look back and decide that 2013 was the year of content marketing? Maybe so, according to data from the Content Marketing Institute (CMI) and MarketingProfs. In a survey of marketing professionals in North America at business-to-consumer (B2C) companies, the overwhelming majority of respondents—90%—had used content marketing in […]

News, Small Business, Social Media Marketing

Crocs CMO to eMarketer: More Shoppers Using Mobile, Tablets

Crocs CMO Andy Sackmann told eMarketer in a recent interview that the main focus of the company’s digital strategy is to “communicate and build relationships with consumers,” which includes social media campaigns and e-commerce sites specific to certain countries or markets. According to Sackmann, the new www.crocs.com was designed with the tablet consumer in mind, […]

Mobile Marketing, News, Small Business, Technology