This document provides an introduction to growth hacking strategies. It discusses what growth hacking is, which is a data-driven approach to growing a user base through testing and optimization. It outlines the lean marketing funnel framework of acquisition, activation, retention, referral, and revenue. It also provides recommendations for setting up analytics tools to measure experiments and optimize the user experience and funnel. Finally, it discusses tactics like A/B testing, creating landing pages, and inbound marketing that are part of the growth hacking approach.
Slides to the growth hacking workshop I recently gave for AAU students in Prague. We covered the Lean Canvas, getting to product-market fit, Wow! moment, growth marketing, and the analytics you should be focused on.
As far as digital marketing is concerned, attribution is unquestionably one of the major stakes in these last years. Nevertheless, the concept of attribution still seems to be a fuzzy subject. So what exactly is attribution and which model should you choose?
It is in order to answer these questions that a taskforce lead by Facebook dealt with the challenges of attribution.
An Introduction to Conversion Rate Optimization, Landing Pages & A/B TestingGeorgiana Laudi
UPDATE: The original version of this presentation was deleted from Slideshare by accident.
Slides for “Intro to Conversion Rate Optimization" talk given on May 28th, 2014 at (my former side project) Montreal Girl Geeks event.
Digital marketing ROI - An introduction to attribution modellingDifferent Spin
To help you get started in the potentially daunting realm of attribution modelling, we’ve crafted this whitepaper to explore what it is and how you can implement it for your business. We go through some of the most common attribution models and help define which of these is likely to be the best starting point for you.
How to drive great customer experiences for content ROI - government editionMelissa Wilfley
Talk I gave at WPP/Kantar next generation of digital government at Ministry of Manpower in Singapore on best practices for driving great customer experiences and maximizing content ROI for government agencies.
This presentation gives you instant access to 10 PPC tactics that are rarely used, but highly effective.
10 Proven PPC Tactics & Tips Guaranteed to:
+Drive quality buyers to your website
+Understand how PPC drives your other sales channels
+Use changes in local weather to produce more leads
+Beat competitors in Google Search
+Save time and generate more sales
The Key to Dominating Your Local Market---
Get a FREE Visibility Checkup and Discover where your business stands in relation to competitors in your area so you can start driving in More Quality Local Leads!
Get Started Here: http://www.surefiresocial.com/visibility-report-sign-up-page/
Social Media Strategies Summit Chicago - Facebook RetargetingClark Boyd
At SMSS Chicago 2017, Ximena and I led a workshop on Facebook advertising best practices in ad optimization and retargeting.
(Clark Boyd and Ximena Sanchez no longer work at Croud.)
Slides to the growth hacking workshop I recently gave for AAU students in Prague. We covered the Lean Canvas, getting to product-market fit, Wow! moment, growth marketing, and the analytics you should be focused on.
As far as digital marketing is concerned, attribution is unquestionably one of the major stakes in these last years. Nevertheless, the concept of attribution still seems to be a fuzzy subject. So what exactly is attribution and which model should you choose?
It is in order to answer these questions that a taskforce lead by Facebook dealt with the challenges of attribution.
An Introduction to Conversion Rate Optimization, Landing Pages & A/B TestingGeorgiana Laudi
UPDATE: The original version of this presentation was deleted from Slideshare by accident.
Slides for “Intro to Conversion Rate Optimization" talk given on May 28th, 2014 at (my former side project) Montreal Girl Geeks event.
Digital marketing ROI - An introduction to attribution modellingDifferent Spin
To help you get started in the potentially daunting realm of attribution modelling, we’ve crafted this whitepaper to explore what it is and how you can implement it for your business. We go through some of the most common attribution models and help define which of these is likely to be the best starting point for you.
How to drive great customer experiences for content ROI - government editionMelissa Wilfley
Talk I gave at WPP/Kantar next generation of digital government at Ministry of Manpower in Singapore on best practices for driving great customer experiences and maximizing content ROI for government agencies.
This presentation gives you instant access to 10 PPC tactics that are rarely used, but highly effective.
10 Proven PPC Tactics & Tips Guaranteed to:
+Drive quality buyers to your website
+Understand how PPC drives your other sales channels
+Use changes in local weather to produce more leads
+Beat competitors in Google Search
+Save time and generate more sales
The Key to Dominating Your Local Market---
Get a FREE Visibility Checkup and Discover where your business stands in relation to competitors in your area so you can start driving in More Quality Local Leads!
Get Started Here: http://www.surefiresocial.com/visibility-report-sign-up-page/
Social Media Strategies Summit Chicago - Facebook RetargetingClark Boyd
At SMSS Chicago 2017, Ximena and I led a workshop on Facebook advertising best practices in ad optimization and retargeting.
(Clark Boyd and Ximena Sanchez no longer work at Croud.)
How to reignite your marketing communications for the digital era - David H Deans, Principal Consultant, GeoActive Group, Austin Texas | London England
Marketing Attribution 101: Understanding Attribution and Calculating Cost of ...Kissmetrics on SlideShare
In this webinar with Ryan Koonce, you’ll learn how to utilize UTM parameters to accurately track your marketing and advertising efforts, and report on them using different attribution models to correctly calculate your cost of acquisition (COA).
Ryan is the founder of SaaS Management Group, a leading growth marketing and analytics consultancy who has founded a number of startups and was a pioneer in viral marketing and landing-page testing and optimization.
In his talk, he wants to teach you how create effective tracking links using explicit UTM parameters instead of Google Auto-Tagging and what you should look out for if you are running Twitter, Facebook, and Google advertising campaigns when calculating an accurate COA.
- What is marketing attribution and why it matters for your business
- Best practices for creating different types of links with UTM parameters
- How common online advertisers (i.e. Google, Facebook, Twitter) attribute the success of their campaigns and what this means for you
- How to build reports to understand attribution and allocate cost data
One of the crucial trends nowadays will be the growth of attribution modeling. However, many savvy marketers are still missing the opportunity to reap the benefits of attribution modeling, hence this whitepaper is aimed at providing a comprehensive overview of what marketing attribution is all about.
This deck was created to showcase some of the various tools and capabilities that our company has. The deck is segmented in to pieces so that a salesperson can select the content that is relevant to their pitch.
I designed the entire deck, based off of a template that was company approved previously. The wheel concept allows for interactivity, and serves as a link to each segment. The overall style is somewhat sterile since it is made for a corporate setting, but I think overall it has a nice and clean aesthetic.
How can you plan your content marketing initiatives? What types of content are most effective for B2B companies? And importantly, how can you actually measure the result of your content marketing?
A Guide to Modern B2B Content Marketing from Modern Marketing Partners will answer those questions and take you through the content marketing process; including planning, implementation, and measurement. Download at http://www.modernmarketingpartners.com/Download-Whitepaper-Guide-To-Modern-B2B-Content-Marketing.cfm
Attributions are basically a tool to answer two business questions, How do people decide to buy and how do they actually buy.
Let’s cover some basic pre-requisites that you should know already and then go deeper into attribution modelling and its implementation.
The purpose of this whitepaper is to enable businesses to automate their marketing efforts. With the landscape constantly evolving, it has become critical to place operations in auto-pilot mode to streamline a variety of functions, enabling teams to laser-focus their efforts on driving revenues.
The importance of having a strategy for analytics and SEO has reached an all time high and continues to increase. Between new search engines that are becoming popular, and changes in this space, saavy digital marketers know that SEO is an on-going practice, not a "set it and forget it" task.
Did you know there are over 200+ algorithms that go into Google search engine results?
This number increases and changes are made over time, so it's always a good time to brush up on your SEO and analytics knowledge. View our slideshare to learn the current best practices for SEO and analytics!
Multi Channel Attribution - Driving Marketing Spend Planning In The Big Data AgeAbsolutdata Analytics
This presentation was given by Eli Kling, Director - Analytics, AbsolutData at The Business Analytics Conference, AmsterDam, October 2013.
AbsolutData is a global leader in applying analytics to drive sales and increase profits for its customers. AbsolutData has built strong expertise and traction with Fortune 1000 companies across 40 countries. We specialize in big data, high end business analytics, predictive modeling, research, reporting, social media analytics and data management services. AbsolutData delivers world class analytics solutions by combining their expertise in industry domains, analytical techniques and sophisticated tools
9 CRO Hacks to Accelerate the B2B FunnelDemandWave
Effective CRO can dramatically improve lead quality, lead volume, cost per acquisition, and length of sales cycle. Check out "9 CRO Hacks to Accelerate the B2B Funnel" to get started today.
This session will present a survey of advanced web analytics that will provide deeper insights into whether a strategy is working, and how to create the infrastructure to glean those insights.
Gary Angel is President and CTO of one of the leading web analytics firms in the United States. Their practice focuses on Fortune 500 companies and global enterprises.
Building a sustainable business and product is hard work. Growing your user base is even harder. Markets and opportunities are changing on a daily basis; you have to stay focused and constantly improve your tactics in a rapidly-changing world in order to succeed.
The tactics that worked even a few short years ago are now obsolete. Iterative sprints leveraging mobile, social and location-based approaches and powered by data and insights, are required in order to thrive. Through rapid experimentation, you can find yourself in a healthy loop of building, testing, measuring, learning, refining and improving.
The Beginner’s Guide to Growth Hacking illustrates over two dozen insights that will help you grow your user base, keep them engaged and ultimately grow your revenues.
How to reignite your marketing communications for the digital era - David H Deans, Principal Consultant, GeoActive Group, Austin Texas | London England
Marketing Attribution 101: Understanding Attribution and Calculating Cost of ...Kissmetrics on SlideShare
In this webinar with Ryan Koonce, you’ll learn how to utilize UTM parameters to accurately track your marketing and advertising efforts, and report on them using different attribution models to correctly calculate your cost of acquisition (COA).
Ryan is the founder of SaaS Management Group, a leading growth marketing and analytics consultancy who has founded a number of startups and was a pioneer in viral marketing and landing-page testing and optimization.
In his talk, he wants to teach you how create effective tracking links using explicit UTM parameters instead of Google Auto-Tagging and what you should look out for if you are running Twitter, Facebook, and Google advertising campaigns when calculating an accurate COA.
- What is marketing attribution and why it matters for your business
- Best practices for creating different types of links with UTM parameters
- How common online advertisers (i.e. Google, Facebook, Twitter) attribute the success of their campaigns and what this means for you
- How to build reports to understand attribution and allocate cost data
One of the crucial trends nowadays will be the growth of attribution modeling. However, many savvy marketers are still missing the opportunity to reap the benefits of attribution modeling, hence this whitepaper is aimed at providing a comprehensive overview of what marketing attribution is all about.
This deck was created to showcase some of the various tools and capabilities that our company has. The deck is segmented in to pieces so that a salesperson can select the content that is relevant to their pitch.
I designed the entire deck, based off of a template that was company approved previously. The wheel concept allows for interactivity, and serves as a link to each segment. The overall style is somewhat sterile since it is made for a corporate setting, but I think overall it has a nice and clean aesthetic.
How can you plan your content marketing initiatives? What types of content are most effective for B2B companies? And importantly, how can you actually measure the result of your content marketing?
A Guide to Modern B2B Content Marketing from Modern Marketing Partners will answer those questions and take you through the content marketing process; including planning, implementation, and measurement. Download at http://www.modernmarketingpartners.com/Download-Whitepaper-Guide-To-Modern-B2B-Content-Marketing.cfm
Attributions are basically a tool to answer two business questions, How do people decide to buy and how do they actually buy.
Let’s cover some basic pre-requisites that you should know already and then go deeper into attribution modelling and its implementation.
The purpose of this whitepaper is to enable businesses to automate their marketing efforts. With the landscape constantly evolving, it has become critical to place operations in auto-pilot mode to streamline a variety of functions, enabling teams to laser-focus their efforts on driving revenues.
The importance of having a strategy for analytics and SEO has reached an all time high and continues to increase. Between new search engines that are becoming popular, and changes in this space, saavy digital marketers know that SEO is an on-going practice, not a "set it and forget it" task.
Did you know there are over 200+ algorithms that go into Google search engine results?
This number increases and changes are made over time, so it's always a good time to brush up on your SEO and analytics knowledge. View our slideshare to learn the current best practices for SEO and analytics!
Multi Channel Attribution - Driving Marketing Spend Planning In The Big Data AgeAbsolutdata Analytics
This presentation was given by Eli Kling, Director - Analytics, AbsolutData at The Business Analytics Conference, AmsterDam, October 2013.
AbsolutData is a global leader in applying analytics to drive sales and increase profits for its customers. AbsolutData has built strong expertise and traction with Fortune 1000 companies across 40 countries. We specialize in big data, high end business analytics, predictive modeling, research, reporting, social media analytics and data management services. AbsolutData delivers world class analytics solutions by combining their expertise in industry domains, analytical techniques and sophisticated tools
9 CRO Hacks to Accelerate the B2B FunnelDemandWave
Effective CRO can dramatically improve lead quality, lead volume, cost per acquisition, and length of sales cycle. Check out "9 CRO Hacks to Accelerate the B2B Funnel" to get started today.
This session will present a survey of advanced web analytics that will provide deeper insights into whether a strategy is working, and how to create the infrastructure to glean those insights.
Gary Angel is President and CTO of one of the leading web analytics firms in the United States. Their practice focuses on Fortune 500 companies and global enterprises.
Building a sustainable business and product is hard work. Growing your user base is even harder. Markets and opportunities are changing on a daily basis; you have to stay focused and constantly improve your tactics in a rapidly-changing world in order to succeed.
The tactics that worked even a few short years ago are now obsolete. Iterative sprints leveraging mobile, social and location-based approaches and powered by data and insights, are required in order to thrive. Through rapid experimentation, you can find yourself in a healthy loop of building, testing, measuring, learning, refining and improving.
The Beginner’s Guide to Growth Hacking illustrates over two dozen insights that will help you grow your user base, keep them engaged and ultimately grow your revenues.
Inbound marketing metrics are a major struggle for marketers. Since every organization is like a snowflake, what metrics are right for you. The following SlideShare contains three universal B2B inbound marketing metrics to use as a starting point.
Online Lead Generation - Forward Vision Marketingjerianasmith
According to the 2013 Lead Generation Marketing Effectiveness Study conducted by the Lenskold Group, 63 percent of companies that were outgrowing their competitors that year were using an integrated marketing automation system.
4 Customer Success Metrics to Inform Your Product-Led (Expansion) Growth Stra...QuekelsBaro
How do you know if your product-led expansion strategy is working? Learn how to apply product acquisition, adoption, retention, and expansion metrics in PLG.
Digital Marketing tools which can work wonders for every Digital Marketer. Some tools out there are foundational -- things like email marketing, web forms, analytics, and a CRM. However, other tools are more specialized, including keyword rank trackers, or design tools.
What services we provide for growth hacking?
We a bunch of professional found growth hacking agency , Based in Bangalore, Growthvalleys specializes in Growth Hacking & Digital Marketing processes, driven from data insights and quantified through traction testing. We use various types of marketing and product iterations — content marketing, social media marketing, paid ads, email marketing, SEO and viral strategies, among others, with a purpose to increase the conversion rate and achieve rapid growth of the user base. We help in the areas that have highest impact on your growth covered like:-
Acquisition :- Test out different user acquisition channels and scale the best performing ones.
Activation :- Driving Signups or registration by pushing to use for the services.
Retention :- Tactics to pull users back to your product and ensure frequent usage.
Referral :- Incentive’s user to use your product and services by various product marketing referral activities.
Revenue :- Increase revenue by hacking the 4 stages to pull users back to your product and ensure purchase to the marketing decisions.
6 Steps to boost your prospect funnel and sales conversion rate with truly in...Helen McInnes
How to come up with a "big idea" for a PR campaign, ensure you have the right content kit to drive traffic to your website and landing page that drives conversions
Whether you’re creating a blog post or landing page, the ultimate aim is to convert your website visitors into customers
Now, the big question is: how do you ensure your website visitors take the actions you want them to take?
There are a lot of amazing (and some not-so-amazing) tips out there, but at the end of the day, it’s all about one thing: conversion optimization.
Whether you’re getting great results or poor results, conversion optimization is a must: testing, analyzing and optimizing will ultimately lead to better results – and there’s always room for improvement when it comes to sales and conversions.
To improve your conversions, you have to outline a strategy that will guide your tasks. Rather than throwing everything at the wall and hoping something will stick, using a strategy to guide you along the way can help you get more hits than misses.
This is true of all types of marketing strategies, but it’s especially important when performing conversion optimization tactics; that’s because conversion optimization requires a lot of testing and a lot different steps.
For example, if you want to generate more downloads for an e-book you’re offering on your site, then you’ll want to optimize your e-book landing page. With a clear strategy in place, you can make sure you’re testing and analysing all the different elements from your landing page, from its design to the shape and colour of your call to action button and to your copy.
Whether you’re creating a blog post or landing page, the ultimate aim is to convert your website visitors into customers
Now, the big question is: how do you ensure your website visitors take the actions you want them to take?
There are a lot of amazing (and some not-so-amazing) tips out there, but at the end of the day, it’s all about one thing: conversion optimization.
To improve your conversions, you have to outline a strategy that will guide your tasks. Rather than throwing everything at the wall and hoping something will stick, using a strategy to guide you along the way can help you get more hits than misses.
This is true of all types of marketing strategies, but it’s especially important when performing conversion optimization tactics; that’s because conversion optimization requires a lot of testing and a lot different steps.
For example, if you want to generate more downloads for an e-book you’re offering on your site, then you’ll want to optimize your e-book landing page. With a clear strategy in place, you can make sure you’re testing and analysing all the different elements from your landing page, from its design to the shape and colour of your call to action button and to your copy.
Google Grants and Beyond
What is “Google Grants”? Google Ad Grants is the nonprofit edition of AdWords, Google's online advertising tool. To be eligible for Google Grants, your org must:
• Hold current and valid charity status, as determined by your country. (U.S. – 501(c)(3))
• Agree to Grants’ required certifications regarding nondiscrimination and donation receipt and use.
• Have a functioning website with substantial content. (Your ads will be limited to the URL you submit for review.)
Google has given away hundreds of millions of dollars in free advertising to ...Bruno Rabelo
Google has given away hundreds of millions of dollars in free advertising to qualifying non- profits through the Google Grants AdWords program. While the grant is worth up to $10,000 a month in free ads, the average organization only manages to utilize about $300 a month. Whether you are managing your campaign with in-house resources or partnering with an agency, here are 8 tips to make the most of your Google Grants AdWords account.
What is Google Grants? • Program created in 2003 • Provides nonprofits with up to $10,000 per month in free advertising on Google • Supports over 8,000 grantees • Donated over $800 million in free ads
Google for Nonprofits Products
Why Google Ad Grants? Reach and engage your supporters through online advertising with AdWords With Google Ad Grants, you can: − Reach donors, volunteers, and constituents − Raise awareness − Track online donations, newsletter sign-ups, and volunteer registrations − Promote your organization's website
What is Google Grants?
-The nonprofit edition of AdWords, Google's online advertising tool
- Empowers nonprofit organizations, through $10,000 per month of in-kind AdWords™ advertising
- Allows nonprofits to promote their missions and initiatives on Google.com
Eligibility for Google for Nonprofits Organizations must:
● Hold current 501(c)(3) status, as determined by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service
● Acknowledge and agree to the application's required certifications regarding nondiscrimination and donation receipt and use. These organizations are NOT eligible:
● Governmental entities and organizations
● Hospitals and health care organizations
● Schools, childcare centers, academic institutions, and universities (philanthropic arms of educational organizations are eligible). To learn more about Google's programs for educational institutions, visit Google in Education. Description of the Application Process Fine text: Google reserves the right to grant or deny an organization's application or participation at any time, for any reason, and to supplement or amend these eligibility guidelines at any time. Selections are made at Google's sole discretion, and are not subject to external review.
Google Grants (AdWords)
● Google Grants AdWords accounts have a daily budget set to $329 dollars, which is equivalent to about $10,000 per month of advertising on Google.com
● This is a big deal
● Easy to set up, but the more time you spend on it the better you can fine-tune it and get better results ● At the very least, set it up!
SMM Cheap - No. 1 SMM panel in the worldsmmpanel567
Boost your social media marketing with our SMM Panel services offering SMM Cheap services! Get cost-effective services for your business and increase followers, likes, and engagement across all social media platforms. Get affordable services perfect for businesses and influencers looking to increase their social proof. See how cheap SMM strategies can help improve your social media presence and be a pro at the social media game.
SEO as the Backbone of Digital MarketingFelipe Bazon
In this talk Felipe Bazon will share how him and his team at Hedgehog Digital share our journey of making C-Levels alike, specially CMOS realize that SEO is the backbone of digital marketing by showing how SEO can contribute to brand awareness, reputation and authority and above all how to use SEO to create more robust global marketing strategies.
For too many years marketing and sales have operated in silos...while in some forward thinking companies, the two organizations work together to drive new opportunity development and revenue. This session will explore the lessons learned in that beautiful dance that can occur when marketing and sales work together...to drive new opportunity development, account expansion and customer satisfaction.
No, this is not a conversation about MQLs and SQLs. Instead we will focus on a framework that allows the two organizations to drive company success together.
When most people in the industry talk about online or digital reputation management, what they're really saying is Google search and PPC. And it's usually reactive, left dealing with the aftermath of negative information published somewhere online. That's outdated. It leaves executives, organizations and other high-profile individuals at a high risk of a digital reputation attack that spans channels and tactics. But the tools needed to safeguard against an attack are more cybersecurity-oriented than most marketing and communications professionals can manage. Business leaders Leaders grasp the importance; 83% of executives place reputation in their top five areas of risk, yet only 23% are confident in their ability to address it. To succeed in 2024 and beyond, you need to turn online reputation on its axis and think like an attacker.
Key Takeaways:
- New framework for examining and safeguarding an online reputation
- Tools and techniques to keep you a step ahead
- Practical examples that demonstrate when to act, how to act and how to recover
Core Web Vitals SEO Workshop - improve your performance [pdf]Peter Mead
Core Web Vitals to improve your website performance for better SEO results with CWV.
CWV Topics include:
- Understanding the latest Core Web Vitals including the significance of LCP, INP and CLS + their impact on SEO
- Optimisation techniques from our experts on how to improve your CWV on platforms like WordPress and WP Engine
- The impact of user experience and SEO
The What, Why & How of 3D and AR in Digital CommercePushON Ltd
Vladimir Mulhem has over 20 years of experience in commercialising cutting edge creative technology across construction, marketing and retail.
Previously the founder and Tech and Innovation Director of Creative Content Works working with the likes of Next, John Lewis and JD Sport, he now helps retailers, brands and agencies solve challenges of applying the emerging technologies 3D, AR, VR and Gen AI to real-world problems.
In this webinar, Vladimir will be covering the following topics:
Applications of 3D and AR in Digital Commerce,
Benefits of 3D and AR,
Tools to create, manage and publish 3D and AR in Digital Commerce.
The Forgotten Secret Weapon of Digital Marketing: Email
Digital marketing is a rapidly changing, ever evolving industry--Influencers, Threads, X, AI, etc. But one of the most effective digital marketing tools is also one of the oldest: Email. Find out from two Houston-based digital experts how to maximize your results from email.
Key Takeaways:
Email has the best ROI of any digital tactic
It can be used at any stage of the customer journey
It is increasingly important as the cookie-less future gets closer and closer
Digital Commerce Lecture for Advanced Digital & Social Media Strategy at UCLA...Valters Lauzums
E-commerce in 2024 is characterized by a dynamic blend of opportunities and significant challenges. Supply chain disruptions and inventory shortages are critical issues, leading to increased shipping delays and rising costs, which impact timely delivery and squeeze profit margins. Efficient logistics management is essential, yet it is often hampered by these external factors. Payment processing, while needing to ensure security and user convenience, grapples with preventing fraud and integrating diverse payment methods, adding another layer of complexity. Furthermore, fulfillment operations require a streamlined approach to handle volume spikes and maintain accuracy in order picking, packing, and shipping, all while meeting customers' heightened expectations for faster delivery times.
Amid these operational challenges, customer data has emerged as an important strategy. By focusing on personalization and enhancing customer experience from historical behavior, businesses can deliver improved website and brand experienced, better product recommendations, optimal promotions, and content to meet individual preferences. Better data analytics can also help in effectively creating marketing campaigns, improving customer retention, and driving product development and inventory management.
Innovative formats such as social commerce and live shopping are beginning to impact the digital commerce landscape, offering new ways to engage with customers and drive sales, and may provide opportunity for brands that have been priced out or seen a downturn with post-pandemic shopping behavior. Social commerce integrates shopping experiences directly into social media platforms, tapping into the massive user bases of these networks to increase reach and engagement. Live shopping, on the other hand, combines entertainment and real-time interaction, providing a dynamic platform for showcasing products and encouraging immediate purchases. These innovations not only enhance customer engagement but also provide valuable data for businesses to refine their strategies and deliver superior shopping experiences.
The e-commerce sector is evolving rapidly, and businesses that effectively manage operational challenges and implement innovative strategies are best positioned for long-term success.
Monthly Social Media News Update May 2024Andy Lambert
TL;DR. These are the three themes that stood out to us over the course of last month.
1️⃣ Social media is becoming increasingly significant for brand discovery. Marketers are now understanding the impact of social and budgets are shifting accordingly.
2️⃣ Instagram’s new algorithm and latest guidance will help us maintain organic growth. Instagram continues to evolve, but Reels remains the most crucial tool for growth.
3️⃣ Collaboration will help us unlock growth. Who we work with will define how fast we grow. Meta continues to evolve their Creator Marketplace and now TikTok are beginning to push ‘collabs’ more too.
The digital marketing industry is changing faster than ever and those who don’t adapt with the times are losing market share. Where should marketers be focusing their efforts? What strategies are the experts seeing get the best results? Get up-to-speed with the latest industry insights, trends and predictions for the future in this panel discussion with some leading digital marketing experts.
Short video marketing has sweeped the nation and is the fastest way to build an online brand on social media in 2024. In this session you will learn:- What is short video marketing- Which platforms work best for your business- Content strategies that are on brand for your business- How to sell organically without paying for ads.
How to Run Landing Page Tests On and Off Paid Social PlatformsVWO
Join us for an exclusive webinar featuring Mariate, Alexandra and Nima where we will unveil a comprehensive blueprint for crafting a successful paid media strategy focused on landing page testing.With escalating costs in paid advertising, understanding how to maximize each visitor’s experience is crucial for retention and conversion.
This session will dive into the methodologies for executing and analyzing landing page tests within paid social channels, offering a blend of theoretical knowledge and practical insights.
The Pearmill team will guide you through the nuances of setting up and managing landing page experiments on paid social platforms. You will learn about the critical rules to follow, the structure of effective tests, optimal conversion duration and budget allocation.
The session will also cover data analysis techniques and criteria for graduating landing pages.
In the second part of the webinar, Pearmill will explore the use of A/B testing platforms. Discover common pitfalls to avoid in A/B testing and gain insights into analyzing A/B tests results effectively.
10 Video Ideas Any Business Can Make RIGHT NOW!
You'll never draw a blank again on what kind of video to make for your business. Go beyond the basic categories and truly reimagine a brand new advanced way to brainstorm video content creation. During this masterclass you'll be challenged to think creatively and outside of the box and view your videos through lenses you may have never thought of previously. It's guaranteed that you'll leave with more than 10 video ideas, but I like to under-promise and over-deliver. Don't miss this session.
Key Takeaways:
How to use the Video Matrix
How to use additional "Lenses"
Where to source original video ideas
AI-Powered Personalization: Principles, Use Cases, and Its Impact on CROVWO
In today’s era of AI, personalization is more than just a trend—it’s a fundamental strategy that unlocks numerous opportunities.
When done effectively, personalization builds trust, loyalty, and satisfaction among your users—key factors for business success. However, relying solely on AI capabilities isn’t enough. You need to anchor your approach in solid principles, understand your users’ context, and master the art of persuasion.
Join us as Sarjak Patel and Naitry Saggu from 3rd Eye Consulting unveil a transformative framework. This approach seamlessly integrates your unique context, consumer insights, and conversion goals, paving the way for unparalleled success in personalization.
The digital marketing industry is changing faster than ever and those who don’t adapt with the times are losing market share. Where should marketers be focusing their efforts? What strategies are the experts seeing get the best results? Get up-to-speed with the latest industry insights, trends and predictions for the future in this panel discussion with some leading digital marketing experts.
5 big bets to drive growth in 2024 without one additional marketing dollar AND how to adapt to the biggest shifting eCommerce trend- AI.
1) Romance Your Customers - Retention
2) ‘Alternative’ Lead Gen - Advocacy
3) The Beautiful Basics - Conversion Rate Optimization
4) Land that Bottom Line - Profitability
5) Roll the Dice - New Business Models
Most small businesses struggle to see marketing results. In this session, we will eliminate any confusion about what to do next, solving your marketing problems so your business can thrive. You’ll learn how to create a foundational marketing OS (operating system) based on neuroscience and backed by real-world results. You’ll be taught how to develop deep customer connections, and how to have your CRM dynamically segment and sell at any stage in the customer’s journey. By the end of the session, you’ll remove confusion and chaos and replace it with clarity and confidence for long-term marketing success.
Key Takeaways:
• Uncover the power of a foundational marketing system that dynamically communicates with prospects and customers on autopilot.
• Harness neuroscience and Tribal Alignment to transform your communication strategies, turning potential clients into fans and those fans into loyal customers.
• Discover the art of automated segmentation, pinpointing your most lucrative customers and identifying the optimal moments for successful conversions.
• Streamline your business with a content production plan that eliminates guesswork, wasted time, and money.
The Secret to Engaging Modern Consumers: Journey Mapping and Personalization
In today's digital landscape, understanding the customer's journey and delivering personalized experiences are paramount. This masterclass delves into the art of consumer journey mapping, a powerful technique that visualizes the entire customer experience across touchpoints. Attendees will learn how to create detailed journey maps, identify pain points, and uncover opportunities for optimization. The presentation also explores personalization strategies that leverage data and technology to tailor content, products, and experiences to individual customers. From real-time personalization to predictive analytics, attendees will gain insights into cutting-edge approaches that drive engagement and loyalty.
Key Takeaways:
Current consumer landscape; Steps to mapping an effective consumer journey; Understanding the value of personalization; Integrating mapping and personalization for success; Brands that are getting It right!; Best Practices; Future Trends
Consumer Journey Mapping & Personalization Master Class - Sabrina Killgo
Growth Hacking
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The beginner’s guide
to growth hacking
A guide to growing your user base
and revenues with lean marketing
By Christopher Carfi Frederik Hermann
2. Building a sustainable business and product is hard work.
Growing your user base is even harder. Markets and opportuni-
ties are changing on a daily basis; you have to stay focused and
constantly improve your tactics in a rapidly-changing world in order
to succeed.
The tactics that worked even a few short years ago are now
obsolete. Iterative sprints leveraging mobile, social and location-
based approaches and powered by data and insights, are required
in order to thrive. Through rapid experimentation, you can find
yourself in a healthy loop of building, testing, measuring, lear-
ning, refining and improving.
On the following pages we want to share some insights with you
that will help you grow your user base, keep them engaged and
ultimately grow your revenues.
WHAT TO EXPECT
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05 what is growth hacking
07 the lean marketing funnel
09 setting up your analytics
11 a/b and multivariate testing
13 creating landing pages
15 the many ways of inbound marketing
17 mastering email marketing
19 paid channels remarketing
21 public relations
23 building viral mechanisms into your product
25 activating your audience
27 retention – keeping your customers happy
29 organic search
31 conclusion
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The term growth hacking describes a data driven test and measure
approach to reaching, converting and retaining customers on a scalable
basis.
Growth hacking is about the creative use of scalable and repeatable
methods with the goal to optimize every digital touchpoint in order
to get prospective customers to take action.
The term does not describe one specific method, but is rather a
philosphy, an approach at the intersection of marketing tactics and
product development, inspired by analytics and data – constantly
testing, measuring and refining.
Growth hackers are often a hybrid of marketer and coder as the
discipline of marketing is shifting from people-centric to API-centric
activities. A growth hacker is a person whose true north is growth.
“Growth is not a one time gimmick.
There is no silver bullet.”
James Currier, Co-Founder at Ooga Labs
what is growth hacking?
6. “The principal objective of growth hacking is to create a user
acquisition coefficient that is higher than one. For example,
a company should aim to have more people using their product
over time than it loses from attrition. By experimenting with
different growth hacking methods, companies can determine
the optimal means to increase that coefficient dramatically.”
– Andy Johns
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The marketing process is often metaphorically described as a funnel
illustrating the theoretical customer journey towards the purcha-
se of a product or service. This results in one of the most critical
questions:
How do you move users from one state to the next?
Your efforts need to be focused on optimizing the conversion from
visitor to customer. Here we want to break up this user flow into five
discrete stages (inspired by Dave McClure's startup metrics for pirates,
short AARRR, and Mattan Griffel's corresponding blog post):
Acquisition People come to your homepage or other landing
pages from various channels (owned, earned, paid).
Activation This means converting visitors who are having a
good first experience on your site through a call-to-action to sign
up for your service or give you their email address for more
information.
Retention Once people become active users of your product,
coming back to use it multiple times and staying engaged
each time will be crucial for the long-term success of your service
and your revenue pipeline.
Referral Your goal is to achieve a viral coefficient greater than 1,
meaning your customers referring your service and inviting their
friends results in at least one of these referrals to sign up as well.
Revenue Growing your revenues as a company either through
advertising, subscriptions, or by simply charging for your products
and services.
the lean marketing funnel
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Asgrowthhackingisaverydatadrivenapproach,itisessentialthatyou
have the analytics tools in place that allow you to measure the effec-
tiveness of the experiments and tactics you are deploying. Google
Analytics in combination with Google Webmaster Tools are a good
way to start, but then there is a whole range of useful tools:
Like Optimizely and Unbounce for A/B testing, Mixpanel and KISS-
metrics for funnel metric tracking, Qualaroo and SurveyMonkey
for user feedback as well as Crazyegg and UserTesting.com just to
name a few.
Before you get started with any experiments create a time stamp
with Moz's www.opensiteexplorer.org and save some of the basic
metrics (your page authority, domain authority, page mozrank,
page moztrust) as well as your Google PageRank, Alexa rank, current
traffic sources, etc simply to have a reference point in the future.
You are now aiming to measure user engagement throughout the
funnel and user acquisition cycle, like what are your users clicking
on, where did they come from (traffic source), where are they drop-
ping off, how much time are they spending on your site, how much
did it cost to acquire this user and much more.
Google Analytics Signing up is free and all you need to do is drop a
few lines of code into all the pages you intend to track. I recommend
event tracking on buttons and links and to create “goals” mapping
paths through your website and their goals (eg. sign-up or download).
Facebook Insights Facebook has some good insights about your
Facebook profile, demographics and usage at https://www.face-
book.com/insights and I also recommend claiming your domain via
the green “Insights for your Website” providing you further insight
on actions where people have posted a link to your site, how often
posts with a link to your site have been viewed and how many
people have clicked through to your site from Facebook.
Twitter, App.net, Pinterest and others also allow you to claim your
domain to receive more detailed analytics and insight on engagement
and traffic generated through those platforms.
Google Webmaster Tools Make sure to add your website, blog
and corresponding XML sitemaps to the webmaster tools for fas-
ter and more accurate site crawling and detailed search analytics.
Search engine Bing provides a similar webmaster tool as well.
setting up your analytics
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A/B testing, also referred to as split testing, is a method of website
optimization in which the engagement and conversion rates of two
different versions of a page, A and B, are compared to one another
by splitting live traffic onto both versions. A multivariate test uses
the same core mechanism but compares a higher number of varia-
bles and how these variables interact with one another.
We often test more than just two versions and currently use
Google Experiments as a great free A/B and multivariate testing tool
(it is part of Google Analytics and you can find it under the “Behavior”
tab on the left). Make sure you set up your “Goals” (e.g. sign up) in
advance and create the different pages you want to test against one
another (6 different landing pages, for example, with different web-
site copy, button colors or imagery). Then you provide the original/
control page plus its variations to the tool and paste a few lines of
Javascript code into the control page (standard landing page), Google
Experiments will now route incoming traffic to all 7 pages (control
+ 6 variations) and allows you to measure which one converts better
than others. Your goal is to optimize the conversion rate.
Highrise (37signals) is a popular example as they tested a lot
of different landing pages against one another, gradually and
successfully improving conversions. Make sure you run your
changes/tests against a control group (A/B test) to measure the
difference. Small changes in copy or design can drive huge differen-
ces in conversions. Don't be afraid to throw a drastic change into
the mix (a super simplistic landing page with few words and a big
button for instance), be creative and measure the results.
a/b and multivariate testing
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A “landing page” is a purpose-built web page for lead capture or
customer conversion. Typically, a landing page has a singular goal:
to provide enough value to the visitor that they take the next step to
becoming a customer or lead.
Focus – keep it simple and don’t distract your visitors.
Create a headline that effectively gets your message across (be
descriptive, you already got this visitors attention) and follow up
with short and compelling copy describing your most important
attributes (benefits, problem you’re solving, features).
Create a clearly visible call-to-action, don’t distract with lots of other
requests – the best pages accentuate only one CTA.
Shine with visually clean and simple design; more white space keeps
people trained on your call to action. Big fonts make it easy and
compelling for them to read and understand what your site is all
about. An additional video can summarize a lot of information into a
small space and can increase conversions dramatically.
Make sure the most important information is displayed without
having to scroll (above the fold), works in many different resolutions
and systems as well as mobile screens!
Keep in mind that you don’t need to know it all in advance, that’s
what A/B testing is for. You can test multiple different headlines and
simply measure which one resonates the best with your visitors and
yields the best conversion rate.
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Inbound marketing is a highly effective way to generate awareness,
convert customers and give advocates something to talk about. In a
world where advertising is increasingly “tuned out,” the creation and
sharing of media and publishing content is paramount to achieving
business goals.
Inbound marketing focuses on online channels and their usage. By
providing value in the form of information and making that information
findable via search (SEO) as well as distributing it through social
channels, prospective customers learn about the brand driven by
their interests, rather than as a result of interruption marketing or
outbound cold calls.
Blog posts 1-3 times / week, with content useful to your customers
Social media distribution Share content to Facebook, Twitter,
Google+, LinkedIn, Slideshare, Medium, Reddit, Quora, Tumblr,
StumbleUpon, etc., based on which channels are most relevant to
your prospects and customers
Other blogs Participate in conversations relevant to your brand
and industry without being spammy
Email newsletters Twice a month, not too long, ONE call-to-action
Guest posts Write them first then offer to others
Ebooks Visually appealing, on-topic, with designated landing
page for lead generation
Videos Short video (less than two minutes) almost always wins
Others Infographics, how-to guides, case studies, whitepapers
the many ways of inbound marketing
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Although email has been much-maligned over the years, it is still
one of the most effective channels for engaging with your customer
community and nurturing your prospects. A few things to keep in
mind:
Make it easy to get on your list Don’t bury your subscription
box in a sidebar. There are plenty of site and blog plugins that do
a great job of asking folks to join your list and then getting out
of the way. The best plugins will allow you to configure how often
they are shown to visitors, which enables you to ask newcomers
to join, while not overly inconveniencing your regular site and blog
visitors.
Start the flywheel right away When someone joins your list,
send them a welcome email. Include a short note of thanks, but
also include a link to a bonus piece of content for subscribers
of your list. They just went through the effort to sign up as a result of
interest in your brand, reward them with another bit of insight that
can help them achieve their goals.
Keep the drumbeat going Regular but not-too-frequent emails
keep engagement up and keep your brand top of mind without
beeing spammy or annoying. Twice-monthly is a good frequency
to start with for newsletters, which can be scaled more-or-less
frequently based on the information you can deliver and its time-
liness and value to your readers.
Plan and execute Keep an editorial calendar for your emails,
just like you do for your social channels. Know what items are going
to be in which edition and get the writing done early, if you can.
Test relentlessly If you have the luxury of a large list, don’t
be afraid to A/B test different subject lines to small subsets of
your list to see which ones get the best open rates. Once you have
your message dialed in, then you can send the newsletter to the
broader group. If your list isn’t large enough to allow segmenta-
tion of the list to do this type of testing, make it a habit to write
15–25 possible subject lines before choosing one. (Little known fact:
The Onion writes all of its headlines first, and then writes the articles
for the best ones. You can do the same.)
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The available media channels are often divided into three main
categories: earned, owned and paid. We have already covered many
of the “owned” inbound marketing channels and will talk about the
“earned” channels in the next chapter but an important catalyst can
be efficiently deployed with “paid” media campaigns.
Paid channels are often referred to as “traditional advertising” like
the various forms of online advertising (display ads, text ads, video
ads, sponsored search, affiliate marketing, email advertising) but
also sponsorships, print ads, television, radio, direct mail and retail.
With the resources and budget of a startup I recommend focusing
on the online rather than any offline channels as they are usually
much more cost effective and targeted.
Start off by testing different channels with a small budget (e.g. $100–
$1000), measure the conversion rate and double down on the ones
that perform well for you.
This is also a great way to test different messaging (how you
describe yourself as a company and your services), creative (images
and photos), regions (countries and languages) as you can measure
what resonates best with your potential customers.
Popular channels are: Google AdWords, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn,
Bing/Yahoo!, YouTube, StumbleUpon, BuySellAds, Flurry and Tapjoy
(for mobile apps). Using a new platform earlier and more effectively
than others can give you great competitive advantage (usually at
lower cost too), so make sure you keep some of the newcomers in
mind like Instagram, Tumblr, Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit and others.
You can use AdStage to manage campaigns for multiple platforms
within one dashboard.
If you are selling a product (software or hardware) you should think
about retargeting. Retargeting means to re-market your services
and products to users who have previously visited your website.
Retargeting helps you bring back the visitors who haven’t converted
yet. A popular player in this category is AdRoll.
paid channels remarketing
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Public relations has changed a lot over the years, but can still play
an important factor in getting your story in front of the right people.
Nevertheless, at the early stages of your company I recommend
focusing your efforts on your product and execution, measuring,
learning and adapting instead of investing too much time and money
into public relations or even hiring an agency. You will be better off
being able to showcase market validation and traction than early
promises you might fall short on.
If you have found product/market fit, identified your target audiences
and want to invest into public relations you can start building a list
of journalists, bloggers and influencers in the industries that align
with your target audience. This can vary greatly depending on your
product or service, eg. marketing and advertising outlets versus a
lifestyle and entertainment audience.
1) To identify key reporters and influencers in a certain vertical
you can use a Google search but also services like Little Bird, Klout,
Kred, Traackr, Quora, WeFollow, Alltop, PeerIndex and others.
2) Build your own list of influencers in a Google spreadsheet with
their name, outlet, contact details and social profiles. Rapportive is
a great tool to find the right email address.
3) Read, listen and engage on social media first. Start building a re-
lationship over time.
4) When you have something to say (like traction, funding, a large
trend emerging, launch of something new, the disruption of a market
or industry) make sure to start the conversation in advance (weeks
ahead). Most journalists need some time to schedule an interview
and some time to research and write their story.
5) Maintain the relationship and be a great contact. Maybe you have
some news to share that are simply industry-related but are not
necessarily about you.
6) You can also comment on stories or trends by signing up for
HARO (Help a Reporter Out) as journalists are often keen to get
industry insight (a quote attributed to you) for a specific story or topic.
public relations
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You might create the next great viral marketing video. You might not.
However, the odds are stacked against you that your brand will create
the next Gangnam Style. Instead, it’s better to build viral mechanisms
into your product and strategy itself instead of hoping that marketing
lightning will strike.
The fact that people actively share is itself an area worthy of con-
versation. With all of the other demands on our time, why do
people bother to actively share to Twitter or Facebook or Pinterest
or a blog? Research from the New York Times indicates that the key
reasons are:
» To bring valuable and entertaining content to others
» To define ourselves to others
» To grow and nourish our relationships
» Self-fulfilment
» To get the word out about causes and brands
Make sure your product or service addresses aspects of those five
motivators.
There are actually two key types of viral components that can be
considered as part of product design, according to Harvard resear-
chers Sinan Aral and Dylan Walker. Both active and passive sharing
can be built into a product.
Active sharing Users of your service actively share the product
or content with their networks (e.g. Facebook Likes, Twitter shares,
etc.). Active sharing is more persuasive.
Passive sharing Your service automatically shares your activities
on your behalf to your networks (e.g. Spotify “now listening to” type
updates). Passive sharing generates more hits.
building viral mechanisms
into your product
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There are three ways your audience can take action:
» They can buy from you
» They can tell others about you
» They can be defenders of the brand
It’s great when a prospect buys from you, obviously. As it’s been
noted, “nothing happens until a sale is made.” That said, a truly
engaged community member can become a key member of your
organization’s ecosystem in a number of ways in addition to simply
handing over some cash.
The terms “influencer” and “advocate” get used quite often,
sometimes interchangeably. However, they are quite different.
An influencer is an individual who shares their opinions with their
(large) networks. In contrast, an advocate is someone who feels
so strongly about the brand that she chooses to participate in the
public conversation about the brand, and will even defend the brand
itself. Apple “fanboys,” CrossFit enthusiasts and drivers of the iconic
MINI who participate in cross-country road rallies are all examples
of advocates. These individuals don’t just talk about these brands,
they make the brands part of their personal identity.
Activating the influencers can amplify and accelerate the spread
of your message. Give your influencers sample posts that they can
modify and share, ensure that they know about your offering and
run awareness campaigns to keep them in the know.
There are a number of ways to activate your advocates.
» Give them advanced knowledge of new products and
features –keep them in the know
» Give them ways to include the brand into their personal identity
» Involve them in product definition and give them access to
company executives
» Perform actions that enable them to develop trust in your brand
» Give them a sense of belonging, make them part of the “club”
Engaging in these five advocate-building behaviors at an organizational
level can reap huge rewards. While influencers can help spread the
word, they can be fickle at times. Advocates, on the other hand, include
the brand into their own identity. As such, an advocate who sees or
hears someone degrading the brand in their day-to-day travels will be
more likely to defend the brand, as the brand is part of them.
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Small improvements in retention have huge impacts on profit. (e.g. in
a low-margin business, reducing defections by 5% can increase profits
anywhere 25% – 125%). In other words, customer retention is critical.
One overlooked aspect of retention is to start with the right customers.
Force-fitting customers into a solution that doesn’t help them achieve
their goals might help your sales team meet their initial quarterly
revenue goal, but will come back to bite the business in later months as
those customers churn out. Every customer lost needs to be replaced
just to stay where you are. Ensure that the customers you are marke-
ting to are a good fit for your business, and vice versa.
Once the customer has agreed to do business with you, aim for a stellar
onboarding experience. Ensure the customer knows how to get the
most value out of your product or service. Additionally, take a measured
approach to training and the overall onboarding process. You may
have a hundred great whiz-bang features, but learning to use a new
product always involves some level of learning curve, even in this age
of downloadable apps. Making sure your customers can walk before
they can run will reduce their frustration as they ramp up their skills
with your product, which will enable them to start seeing immediate
value. Simplify.
Products, services and markets inevitably change. Minimize surprises
with frequent communication with your customers through news-
letters, social channels, surveys and regular check-ins. Transparency
and dialogue are the watch words here.
No product is flawless, and neither is any customer experience. Ensure
direct support, whether through call center, email support or chat,
is timely and helpful. Strive to create a customer community, where
customers are helping customers. (Not only does a robust community
help your customers get service faster in many cases, they can often
self-serve the solutions to their questions, actually driving your support
costs down while improving retention. That’s a win-win for everyone.)
Last but not least, ensure that your social channels are monitored
regularly. Listen and respond to customer issues and, where appro-
priate, direct customers who are having challenges to a higher-touch
channel if necessary.
Develop a culture of inquiry. Take the time to survey your customers
on a regular basis. Interview those who stay... and those who go. Both
groups will provide insights that will help you to understand what fac-
tors are keeping customers around, as well as the factors that may be
contributing to attrition.
retention – keeping your customers happy
28. Customers are 40% more likely to tell others about a bad
customer experience than a good one. An unhappy customer
will tell 9 to 15 people about the negative experience.
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Optimizing your website for organic search is an art and bu-
siness of itself but there are a few easy things that you can
do right away that will set you up in a good position. Try not to
game the system (as Google might punish you for it), rather think
about the ways potential customers might be looking for you or a
service like yours and what words/keywords would they choose.
The key thing you should optimize is the page’s content itself (head-
lines and copy), so avoid masking text within an image as a search
engine won’t be able to read and analyze it. Apart from the page’s
content, pay attention to the page title, URL and image names (give
all images a descriptive title like paid_marketing_channels.jpg
instead of IMG364.PNG).
Make sure all the pages you want to be crawled are linked to from
within your website and linked to one another, search engines
usually come in through a popular entry point and then follow all
links within that page, ranking them accordingly. Choose relevant
words for the anchor tag itself especially when linking to content
within your blog’s archives for instance.
Create an XML sitemap (most Wordpress SEO plugins do this auto-
matically) and submit it to Google Webmaster Tools as well as Bing
Webmaster Tools.
Use descriptive URLs, avoiding URLs lik yourdomain.com/11789/
s201.htm and rather use something like yourdomain.com/resour-
ces/guides/email-marketing-field-guide/ instead.
Reduce the use of Flash and frames.
Your content needs to be fresh - updating regularly and often is cru-
cial for increasing traffic. A blog is the perfect tool to do this.
Share links through social media channels and especially make sure
your links are posted on Google+.
Backlinks are still majorly important for your Google PageRank, so
start building relationships and linking to others in your blog. Media
mentions with a link back to your website can be very helpful here.
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The new marketing is all about agility and experimentation, built on a
foundation of the basics of branding, product and story. Analytics and
testing are paramount — since customer abilities and expectations
are changing on a monthly, or even daily basis, we must constantly be
evolving and improving our abilities to connect with customers in an
ever more complex marketplace.
While analytics and testing will tell us what is working, the means
we use to obtain permission for even engaging in a conversation
with a prospective customer has changed as well. No longer can
we rely on the interruptive techniques of the Mad Men era. Instead,
we must challenge ourselves every day to create content that helps
our customers achieve their goals, and not just blow our own horn.
While outbound marketing still has its place, especially early in the
lifecycle of a new organization or product, the benefits of embracing
inbound marketing are exceptional.
The ultimate goal, of course, is to obtain a deep understanding
of product/market fit, and synthesize product design, marketing
and engineering in such a way that, once the product achieves
critical mass in the marketplace, self-reinforcing loops and customer-
to-customer conversations propel the product forward.
We hope you have found at least one new thing, or one new insight
in this e-book. As always, we would love to hear your feedback.
Thanks!
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