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Foundational tips, strategies, and explanations to help you understand and succeed in the digital marketing landscape.
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Digital Buzzwords and Acronyms
What’s the Buzz, tell me what’s happening!” All these words and phrases can make your head spin.We not only live in a world where things change daily, but we abbreviate and shorten everything
Allison Gibson
December 15, 2021
How To Use Digital Ads To Target Travelers For Tourism & Travel Businesses
I’m leaving on a jet plane, don’t know when I’ll be back again. (Did you just reread that so you can sing it?)  OK, I’m not currently taking a trip, though that sounds amazing right now, but a lot of people are
Greg Swiszcz
November 18, 2021
OTT & On-Site Visit Tracking: Two Great Strategies Come Together
In my last blog OTT/Connected TV AND On-Site Visit Tracking has ARRIVED, I referenced the Jetsons and Saturday morning cartoons, which I know showed my age. If you are old enough to have experienced Saturday morning cartoons and the Jetsons, you may also recognize this next reference as well! During those Saturday morning cartoon marathons, we also had awesome commercials
Dana Bojcic
October 27, 2021
Are You Using Digital for Recruitment?
Update: Facebook shuttered Jobs on Facebook (February 2023) and Instant Articles (April 2023)R-E-C-R-U-I-T- Find out how to do it dig-it-tal-ly! It seems like no matter where you’re going these days, you’re constantly seeing signs hanging in the windows or in the ground outside a business stating, “We’re Hiring” or “Apply Here” or “Join Our Team.”  I’ve seen it everywhere; the grocery store, local restaurants, trucking companies, drug stores, and hair salons
Katie Pray
September 29, 2021
OTT/Connected TV AND On-Site Visit Tracking has ARRIVED
When I was younger, ok MUCH younger, I used to watch the Jetsons during Saturday morning cartoons. If you are not familiar, the Jetsons was about a futuristic family that premiered in 1962 and it was set 100 years in the future, so 2062
Dana Bojcic
September 24, 2021
Age is not important unless you’re cheese, or an advertiser
Helen Hayes was very wise to compare age to cheese. She additionally said, “Childhood is a short season” and isn’t that the truth
Dana Bojcic
August 23, 2021
How do you help the Real Estate Industry with Digital Advertising?
If you’ve been looking to buy a home recently, or bought one, you’ve probably overpaid, just like I did earlier this year.  If you’ve sold a house this year, you probably made a great return on your initial investment
Greg Swiszcz
August 12, 2021
What are the most common objections to using digital advertising?
More and more companies are including digital advertising as a critical component to their marketing strategies. However, there are still some companies out there who have not yet jumped in, or maybe have jumped in and didn’t like the results
Dana Bojcic
May 11, 2021
Want Google To Feature Your Job Posting For Free On Search Results Pages?
I’m guessing the answer is yes? Have you noticed that Google has started featuring job listings in the organic section of the search engine results page when you put in keywords related to a job? For example, if you searched “digital media jobs Elmira NY” you could get a results page like this:The listings at the top aren’t paid search ads.  They are organic (free listings) that appear because those companies have added something called Job Posting Structured Data to their job listing on their website – a GREAT Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tactic that you can do too!Finding qualified candidates is always a struggle
Katie Pray
March 8, 2021
What to expect for advertising budgets and products in 2021?
2020 has come to end.  How can we possibly know what to expect to happen in 2021?!   I’m no psychic and don’t claim to be
Greg Swiszcz
January 7, 2021
What Are Universal IDs Or Unified IDs And What Happens When Cookies Go Away?
Cookies, line of code used to track users across the internet and target ads to them, are going away.  Apple’s Safari browser already uses Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) to limit companies’ abilities to track users by blocking third-party cookies that collect this type of data
Leslye Schumacher
December 18, 2020