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Digital Marketing Basics

Foundational tips, strategies, and explanations to help you understand and succeed in the digital marketing landscape.
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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
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
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
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
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
Digital Leads Traditional Media In Average Time Spent Per Day
According to a recent article in eMarketer, digital media continues to surpass traditional media in amount of time spent with major media by US adults.  In 2015, the average adult will spend 5 hours and 38 minutes with digital media each day!  To put that growth in perspective, that number was just 3 hours and 40 minutes in 2011
Leslye Schumacher
April 20, 2015
Who Is Your Social Media Audience?
As a business, you may have asked yourself many times, how do I connect with my audience?Social media is an effective way to help businesses connect on a personal level with their customers. Social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter allow contact directly from business to customer and essentially puts a face to the business and encourages upfront communication about new business offers, products and day to day functions
Megan Malone
April 17, 2015
Mobile vs Desktop. Is one better than the other?
It’s no secret that desktops and mobiles rule consumers’ online experience, but when are these devices most prevalent? In a recent study done by Chitika, peak times are examined for mobile vs. desktop usage in the US and Canada
Kiri Tamte-Horan
April 16, 2015
How Do I Install My Mobile Redirect on My WordPress Site?
Your mobile optimized site is complete!  You’ve beat the April 21 Google deadline and your mobile site is ready to ensure your customers the most user-friendly website experience of their lives, right?  Not so fast.  Now it is time to make sure your site visitors are properly redirected from your desktop site to the mobile optimized site
Megan Malone
April 3, 2015