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"How To..." Take Advantage of a New Digital Marketing Trend
Do you know how to survive a shipwreck?  What about tie a tie, change a tire, apply makeup, dance the Whip/Nae Nae, or cook the perfect poached egg?  You can  learn these skills and more through step-by-step instructional videos on YouTube.  And consumer's love these handy tutorials
Megan Malone
July 23, 2015
Optimize Your Campaign with Google Analytics
Are you ever curious what leads people to your website? Well there’s an easy way to check the keywords people are searching to find you. By using Google Analytics!Never checked this out before? Don’t fret, here’s how:Once you sign into your Google Analytics, look at the left hand column and click on Acquisition
Kiri Tamte-Horan
July 21, 2015
Google AdWords Announces Cross Device Conversion Tracking
Remember the days when the only place you could access the internet was through a clunky, heavy desktop computer?  Those clunky computers may seem like a distant memory compared to the dozens of choices tech users have when they want to explore the internet.  Today’s tech users juggle multiple devices like laptops, mobile devices, tablets and now even watches that all suffice as mini, on-the-go computers
Megan Malone
July 16, 2015
How To Reach Millennials With Your Digital Advertising
With over 171.5 million people owning a smartphone worldwide, it’s almost irregular not to have one
Kiri Tamte-Horan
July 15, 2015
“Above The Fold” Digital Ads – It Matters!
The average drop in viewability between above the fold ads and below the fold ads is 84%.  In one eyetracking study the difference was found to be as high as 102%!Above the fold positioning of ads means that the ad appears before someone has to scroll
Leslye Schumacher
July 12, 2015
Why We LOVE Canva
Have you ever struggled to make ad creative for your campaign? Well you’re in luck because there is a fabulous and free service called Canva. Canva is a great option for business owners or those who want to do-it-themselves to create quality graphics to market their company
Kiri Tamte-Horan
July 10, 2015
Digital Advertising for Mobile: Game On
Angry Birds, Candy Crush, Trivia Crack, Bookworm, Gym Streak.  At any given time, there are millions of smartphone users with their noses glued to their screen using gaming apps or lifestyle apps like these
Megan Malone
July 9, 2015
Change Your Business Hours on Google
When you Google yourself, what do you see? Your customer's are doing searches everyday looking for business information, and if they aren't seeing your address, business hours, aggregated reviews, and directions to your location you are missing valuable leads.  Nothing is more frustrating then driving to business that is closed- or even navigating to the wrong address because your online presence is not updated!  This is particularly important if your business hours change with the season
Megan Malone
July 2, 2015
Fat fingers? Never fear! Accidental clicks just got a lot harder to make.
How many times have you been scrolling along on your mobile phone and accidentally clicked on an advertisement? Well, you’re not alone. To address it, Google has implemented several changes to reduce accidental clicks on mobile display ads
Kiri Tamte-Horan
June 30, 2015
Credit Union and Banks Turn to Digital to Reel in New Customers
Banks and credit unions are businesses that have served their customers' financial services and needs for centuries.  As many traditional industries are still learning to adapt to new technology, financial services are leading the change in the digital evolution as they attempt to keep up with our new fast-paced lifestyles
Megan Malone
June 26, 2015
The Future of Digital Advertising 2015 vs 2019
Digital marketing is expected to have a bright future. As consumer behavior migrates online, so will advertiser spending
Kiri Tamte-Horan
June 23, 2015
Tips for Your Digital Marketing Strategy
Who doesn’t want the best, especially when it comes to your digital campaigns? Well, good news because there are simple things you can do to optimize your campaign right now. These strategies are simple and easy to implement and will help your campaigns so you can see results
Kiri Tamte-Horan
June 18, 2015
100 Posts Later...Check Out Vici's Most Read Blog Posts!
Today is an exciting day for us at Vici Media, we are celebrating our 100th blog post!  We take pride in providing you with digital marketing education, campaign strategies, and trends in the ever-changing online marketing world.To commemorate 100 blog posts about effective digital marketing strategies, check out our five most popular posts ever
Megan Malone
June 16, 2015
Panic Over Click-Through Rates? Google Can Help!
Some of the most frequently asked questions in digital advertising revolve around click-through rates (CTR).  So what is a good CTR and what is a bad CTR?  The national average click-through rate for display ads as a whole is 0
Megan Malone
June 11, 2015
Is Mobile Eclipsing Desktop?
All around the cyber world, especially in the digital marketing universe, people are insisting that mobile usage will soon exceed PC usage. Although mobile usage has grown over the past few years, it has not eclipsed desktop usage
Kiri Tamte-Horan
June 10, 2015
Do Cookies Work on Mobile Phones? (Example)
A cookie is is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser while the user is browsing that website.  A cookie can track everything from the websites the user visits afterwards, their behavior, purchase decisions, etc
Kiri Tamte-Horan
June 3, 2015
How the Millennial Smartphone Addiction Can Benefit You
Do millennials ever put their phones down?No.  In fact, 24% of millennials attached themselves to their smartphones less than 5 minutes after waking up
Megan Malone
May 28, 2015
Explaining the "View Through"
Think click-through rates (CTR) are the only way to manage engagement with your digital ads? WRONG!  View-through rate (VTR) can make a huge impact on your advertising strategy by showing what digital elements are working for your campaign.  A view-through measures someone seeing an ad, and then returning to your homepage through another channel, without clicking on the ad itself
Kiri Tamte-Horan
May 26, 2015
Just What Is An Effective CTA?
CTA is Call-To-Action!  You can have the greatest digital strategy implemented but if your ads don’t have an equally great CTA – a compelling reason for the person to click or convert - then your campaign will not get the results you want.So, just what is an effective CTA?  Something that reaches out and grabs your potential customer and causes them to WANT to engage with you
Leslye Schumacher
May 23, 2015
Shop 'Til You Drop: Digital Influence on Retail Sales Hits $2.2 Trillion
Could this be the end of coupon mailers and Sunday ads?The year 2015 has shown an immense positive correlation between digital advertising and in-store retail sales.  Digital advertising is expected to influence 64 cents of every dollar spent in retail stores, or $2
Megan Malone
May 21, 2015
Digital Ad Spending Approaches 60 Billion This Year!
Digital Ad Spending is expected to reach about $60 Billion this year, and retailers will comprise 22% of that, or $12.9 billion
Kiri Tamte-Horan
May 19, 2015
Does My Business HAVE to Blog? Yes.
As a business owner, you may have asked yourself- What is the point of blogging?  What do I blog about?  Do I HAVE to blog?Yes. Not only do you have to, but you want to
Megan Malone
May 14, 2015
Call Tracking With Digital Advertising
Call tracking is very beneficial to not only your campaign, but your business as well. It gives you a unique opportunity to track which marketing efforts are generating phone calls
Kiri Tamte-Horan
May 13, 2015
Mobilegeddon 2015: What Happened and What Happens Next
The weeks leading up to Mobilegeddon put many businesses into a frenzied panic as they tried to make their website mobile responsive or optimized by April 21st in order to avoid the wrath of Google’s new algorithm.Now that April 21st is behind us, many companies might be asking, “so what happened?”  According to Google, there was a 4
Megan Malone
May 8, 2015