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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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Do I need a call-to-action in my digital ads?
The short answer is “yes.”  A picture and a logo typically aren’t going to get you good results
Dana Bojcic
August 23, 2016
Top Questions Answered about Facebook’s New ‘Off Facebook’ Network
Facebook is once again going head to head with Google to win the biggest piece of the $59.6 billion pie that is the digital advertising market
Megan Malone
July 19, 2016
Top 5 Ways Your Business Can Capitalize on the Pokémon Go Craze
Everyone is playing Pokémon Go! Pokémon Go is the wildly addictive smartphone game by Niantic, Inc, which allows players to use GPS to track down and collect digital monsters in an augmented reality (AR). Pokémon originated in 1995 as a popular Game Boy video game published by Nintendo, that encouraged players to collect, trade and battle “Pocket Monsters” or Pokémon
Ellen Weiner
July 14, 2016
Location-Targeted Mobile Ad Spend Is Exploding
So what are location-targeted mobile ads?At Vici, we do location based mobile targeting with our Mobile Conquesting product.  Mobile Conquesting is targeting people on their mobile devices using a combination of geo-fencing (where someone is at that moment) combined with demographic and behavioral targeting to reach specific consumers
Dana Bojcic
June 21, 2016
Why Your Online Presence is Important
While most businesses recognize the importance of having an online presence in this technological age, new studies are showing how important it actually is, especially for small businesses. A recent survey asked internet users in the US how having an online presence can impact a small business
Laura Ostrowski
June 3, 2016
Consumers Are Not Willing to Pay to Block Ads
If you’ve heard of Adpocolypse, and actually feel like it’s the end of the world for digital marketing, you have my permission to take a deep breath and relax.  For those of you who have not heard of Adpocolypse, it is the seemingly detrimental trend of internet users employing ad blockers so they are not shown digital display ads
Laura Ostrowski
May 20, 2016
Digital Video Ad Spend is Experiencing Major Growth
If you’re looking for a new trend that isn’t high-waisted shorts or man buns, look no further than digital video.  Recent studies have found that digital video spending is on the rise, and shows no signs of slowing down
Laura Ostrowski
May 5, 2016
Emoji Use on the Rise in Marketing
Locavore, hypermiling, refudiate, selfie, and…. ‘Face with Tears of Joy?’ () One of these things is not like the others
Laura Ostrowski
April 21, 2016
My fingers are too fat to shop
Yes, mobile advertising is a must – but so are desktops and laptops. Here’s why
Dana Bojcic
April 20, 2016
Digital Marketing Roundup: March 2016
With March officially over, and with the promise of warmer weather around the corner, it seems like the perfect opportunity to take a step back and look at some interesting stats and info from this past month surrounding digital marketing. First up, a new eMarketer study predicting that digital ad spending will surpass TV ad spending next year
Kiri Tamte-Horan
April 1, 2016
Facebook Reactions: What You Need To Know
As people, we are able to react to our environment with an array of emotions. Why is it then, that Facebook only allows us to Like content in our News Feed? Well Facebook has finally done something about it
Kiri Tamte-Horan
March 3, 2016