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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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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
How Will Building a (M.) Mobile Website Affect My SEO?
Mobile Websites.  You’ve heard the hype, you’ve seen the Google announcements, you know that mobile sites are not only recommended but soon-to-be mandatory on April 21st if your business wishes to maintain a successful Google search ranking
Megan Malone
March 26, 2015
Mobile Optimization- option or necessity?
I can’t even imagine a time when information wasn’t at our fingertips. When I am out with my friends and one of us has a question no one can answer, I can immediately pull out my phone (I am more attached to it than I’d like to admit), and answer their question within a minute
Kiri Tamte-Horan
March 17, 2015
Make Your Website Mobile-Friendly by April 21 or Lose Traffic
You've heard it here: mobile devices are the hottest platforms for effective digital marketing strategies.  Not sold on the mobile marketing trend yet?  This may change your mind,  because for the first time ever, not having a responsive or optimized mobile site can negatively impact your businesses' success
Megan Malone
March 12, 2015
See What A Website Looks Like On A Mobile Phone – But From Your Desktop!
If you want to know what a website looks like when called up on a smartphone, there is a way you can do this right from your desktop.  Google Chrome has a great feature that allows you to do this in a snap
Leslye Schumacher
March 8, 2015