INDUSTRY TIPS & INSIGHTS

Thriving in a constantly changing marketing environment for over thirty years has given us plenty of insight into the work we do. Staying curious and educating our clients on best practices is part of what makes us all successful. Here are some hard-won observations and lessons we’ve learned.

Nextdoor Launches Beta Test of New Advertising Platform

Categories: Digital Marketing, Local Search, Social Media

Local community social app Nextdoor has announced an invitation-only beta launch of it’s new self-service advertising platform dubbed the Neighborhood Ad Center (NAC). The popular app is used for hyperlocal information sharing amongst neighbors, civic organizations, service providers, news and local businesses. With a quickly growing user base, 1 in 4 US households now use Nextdoor.

Structuring a High-Return PPC Account by Understanding the Customer’s Intention

Categories: Digital Marketing, Local Search, Paid Search

The first and possibly most important step of any paid search program is to define and understand your customer. It’s not only critical that you understand their demographic information, but it’s equally important to understand their online purchasing process and what search terms they use during that process.

Google December 2020 Core Algorithm Update: Content & SEO are the Recipe for Success

Categories: Content Marketing, Industry News, SEO

On December 3rd, Google announced that they released a core algorithm update. Like any other algorithm change, this one has the ability to shake things up… and we wouldn’t want it any other way. We love a challenge.

Bing Expands Visual Search

Categories: Industry News

Bing will be rolling out a feature that lets Windows users quickly upload a screenshot and search for similar images. This means a new potential touch point for e-commerce searches. How stores can optimize to appear in Bing Visual Search is TBD but it should be monitored.