Managing pay-per-click (PPC) advertising can prove time-consuming, but paid search is often a major part of a marketing strategy. Here are tips and tactics to help SMEs save time with their PPC advertising by leveraging technology.
Be not afraid! Instead of a revolution that routs and destroys, artificial intelligence is driving a marketing revolution that will make our industry more intelligent and empowering. It will free-up marketers from the mundanity of day-to-day tasks, enabling ever deeper analytics and insights and creating finer personalisation and customer service. Here’s how:
Consumers demand immediacy – they want their chosen product/service promptly and they want brands to respond to their demands NOW! That means real-time marketing is essential. But how and when is it appropriate? Anthony Botibol has advice on speedy personal service.
Correctly analysing customer data is part of modern marketing strategy. But understanding marketing data and viewing it clearly is not always achievable. Author Steve Wexler explains how to simplify the task.
Social media listening can have a monumental effect on your business – garnering customer insights and improving engagement, building brand loyalty and, thereby, increasing revenue. Learn how and why to do it well:
Whether B2B, B2C, Enterprise, SMB or a start-up, sports sponsorship is important to marketing strategy, says Ishveen Anand. Here, she explores how sponsorship has primarily been viewed as a channel reserved for the biggest brands with the biggest budgets – but she calls for a recount, showing how smaller brands can successfully take part in sports marketing.
Ten years on from the first airing of the hit TV series Mad Men, about a ‘golden age’ of advertising – a world of sexism, racism, hard drinking and even harder smoking – Dale Lovell looks at how the ad world changed after Mad Men and why the modern era of technology, appropriate data targeting and creative must coexist in order to maximise today’s advertising campaigns.
Storytelling – specifically, video storytelling – is the ‘big thing’ when it comes to content marketing, says Bob Dearsley – who cuts through the noise to bring advice on when and how to add video to your content marketing strategy.
One was a masterclass and one a bit of a mess: Burger King and Walkers, their risk-taking personalisation strategies and their campaign results, are explored here. But marketers, be warned: learn from these experts, but be cautious – assess all potential outcomes (and don’t underestimate the quick-witted public) – before rolling out risky advertising.
Nearly half of online ads served aren’t delivered to the audience that advertisers intended, with campaigns particularly struggling to target women. So what can marketers do to improve targeting and digital campaign accuracy?