With just a click of a button, your paid media campaign will go live for everyone to see. It’s that simple, right? Well, not quite.  What you and your target audience see is a tailored, well-designed message about your product, service or brand. However, what you don’t see is the extensive work behind the strategy, creation, development, and ongoing optimizations…

A relatively small government technology services provider was looking to increase its visibility with buyers and influencers within the federal government. Though contract season runs from late summer through the beginning of fall, we conducted a longterm marketing effort beginning in March to reach more purchasing agents and internal technology professionals while maintaining a brand presence over a long period of time.…

Retargeting Ads: What Are They? It’s happened to you before: you visit a website in search of a new gadget and all of a sudden, you start seeing ads for the gadget all over the Internet. You see the ads when you’re reading the news, when you’re scrolling through your newsfeed on Facebook, even when you’re researching recipes for the…

When running a digital advertising campaign, there are several critical stages to achieving a conversion.  First, your ad must be shown to a member of your target audience at the right time. After you determine buyer personas, you can target users who match certain features of your ideal audience using different types of targeting: geographic, demographic, interest-based, etc. “The right…

In this day and age, we are all well aware of how important it is to market your business on the good ol’ world wide web. Whether or not you should be utilizing digital advertising is rarely the question, but you may be wondering, “How the heck do I do it?” Well, one of the most popular ways to run…

I got my start in the technology industry, so I’m no stranger to the industry’s conferences, but it’s been close to a decade since I left and began helping companies generate growth through digital marketing. Needless to say, I’m a little out of the loop on the latest and greatest in tech hardware. Integrated Systems Europe is a conference for…

A Case Study The Background For a business owner, where and when to invest development funds is a crucial decision. When companies come to us for marketing and business solutions, they are often still deciding how to allocate their budget. They may be considering questions like, “Do I need to replace my old website?”, “Would a new website be worth…

One of the first questions business owners must ask themselves when considering a new digital marketing campaign is how much money they have to allocate towards the campaign. Solidifying the answer to this question is so critical that it will determine whether or not it’s a wise investment to continue with a pay per click (PPC) advertising campaign at all.…

Running a successful digital marketing campaign involves much more than designing ads and deploying them across social channels. To execute an effective campaign, we must first conduct research on who a business’s target audience is, which social channels provide the most effective means of reaching them, and how they prefer to interact with ads. Second, we must develop a research-based…

Why are companies spending so much money growing their website traffic while ignoring a key ingredient in the recipe for success in digital marketing? It starts when someone says, “Hey, let’s buy some ads and drive a little traffic to our website.” Before you know it, the ads are up and running and traffic starts coming in. Then the phone…