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Why Business Marketers are Jumping into Snapchat
I’ll be honest. I had no idea how to use Snapchat until a month ago. Yes, I live and breathe digital marketing on a daily basis, but I had no idea how or why I would want to use it. Snapchat is a mobile app that allows users to send doodled upon photos to contacts;…
5 Key Statistics about Digital Offers and Couponing
Growing up, I remember going to the grocery store with my mom. She’d bring a wrinkled, worn out envelope with her, every time. Inside were several crumpled, half-torn thin pieces of newspaper or magazines—items cut and saved to be used on household essentials; things like fabric softener, peanut butter and apple juice. Couponing has changed…
Responsive What, Responsive Who?
I’ve been speaking with several people in the higher education market, and a topic that keeps coming up is mobile marketing and a need to reach a mobile audience. Whenever I have this discussion, one of the first questions I ask is whether the website is “responsive.” Sometimes, they don’t know what that really means….
3 Myths of Facebook Advertising
In the months before its disastrous IPO, Facebook faced a lot of tough questions about the viability of its advertising business: Is the social network valuable for ecommerce? Could Facebook truly leverage its database in the face of growing consumer privacy concerns? Could it convince marketers of its continued relevance in an increasingly mobile world?…
Forget the Fold. Embrace the Scroll.
Back in the olden days of the Internet—the mid 1990s—the average user did not know how to scroll down a web page to access additional content, but times have changed. Almost 20 years later, users are now extremely familiar with scrolling, so much so that in 2011, Apple removed the scrollbar from their operating system,…
What a Centuries-Old Boarding School Can Teach You about Education Marketing
Founded by Henry VI, Eton College—England’s 574-year-old boarding school where George Orwell and Princes William and Henry once attended—is embracing technology. How do your efforts stack up? At Eton College, uniformed boys between 13 and 18 years of age walk the school grounds much the same way as others have for almost 600 years. At…
3 Tips for Leveraging the Application in Higher Education Marketing
The Application as a Marketing Strategy to Attract Students Higher education marketing tends to rely on generic, cookie-cutter brochures and mailings to attract students. Take, for example, the application. The college application is one of the most valuable tools available in higher education marketing — and one of the least frequently leveraged. Use the application…
Direct Mail & Digital Marketing: Do You Have a Balanced Strategy?
The Titanic was supposedly unsinkable and so, for a time, were American catalog companies — brands as enshrined in the mythology of American business as capitalism itself. Montgomery Ward, Sears, JC Penney: pioneering companies such as these were instrumental in shaping modern consumers’ expectations for selection, convenience and service. And today, while the golden age…
Facebook Trumps Yahoo as No. 2 Digital Ad Seller
Facebook is the No. 2 digital ad seller in the U.S.—what can we credit Facebook’s success? Mobile. Market forecasters predicted Facebook would finish third behind Google and Yahoo in the digital ad-seller foot race. But the social media giant managed an upset, of sorts, topping Yahoo as the No. 2 digital ad seller in the…
5 Digital Trends For 2014
It’s December, and 2013 is fast coming to a close. If you haven’t started thinking about 2014, it’s time. Next year is going to be another big one for digital marketing, with big, fast changes in the way people use and interact with the Internet. But don’t fret, we have you covered: #1. Converging Boundaries…
Google Introduces Hummingbird
This Hummingbird algorithm helps Google serve answers in the search engine results page through its Knowledge Graph, and helps Google attribute further meaning behind words. …
iOS 7 Safari: 3 Improvements, 4 New Hurdles
Apple recently released iOS 7, its latest operating system for the iPhone, iPad and iPad Touch. iOS 7 is the default for the new iPhone 5S and 5C models, but owners of some older Apple devices can also download it and update their older operating systems. So, what does this mean for web development? Like…