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Google AdWords Enhanced Campaigns: The Benefits, Drawbacks and Implications

Today Google announced enhanced AdWords campaigns, a significant upgrade that gives local businesses more flexibility and control in how they reach consumers. It also highlights Google’s desire to make mobile advertising more appealing to small businesses. What’s new? The new enhanced campaigns essentially offer businesses the ability to streamline and fine-tune their AdWords campaigns to…

Study: Location Targeting Doubles CTR for Mobile Ads

Location targeting provides a huge boost to the click-through rate (CTR) of mobile ads, according to a new report from Verve Mobile. The study also found that restaurants and retail businesses are ahead of the curve when it comes to location targeting. Types of location-based mobile advertising According to Verve, there are four main types…

Back to School: Time for CMOs to Learn a Second Language

By Debbie Qaqish, principal partner and chief strategy officer for The Pedowitz Group This is the first in a series of articles taking the CMO back to school to learn how to drive repeatable, predictable, scalable revenue performance from marketing. We call this "Revenue Marketing."

Consumer Social Media Trends Marketers Should Know About

Marketers are in the business of communicating with consumers, so it’s important to know how consumers are using social media. Using a report from Edison Research, Social Media Examiner highlights nine findings, including: –

How to Properly View PPC Metrics

Data is the lifeblood of search marketers, which means when the data is misleading, bad decisions are afoot. Justin Fried, director of search engine marketing at CMI Media, offers a look at nine of the most misleading PPC metrics, including: Impression share: This metric, while sometimes valuable, doesn’t take optimization efforts into account. Time on…

What Twitter’s Acquisition of Bluefin Labs Means

Twitter is in the process of acquiring Bluefin Labs, a social TV analytics company based in Cambridge, Mass., and founded in 2008. In other words, Bluefin measures social media buzz

3 Underused Visual Tactics for Inbound Marketing

Inbound marketing will continue to be a significant tool for any business selling things online. However, in 2013 traditional techniques will need to be supplemented by more creative tactics in order to help businesses stand out from an ever-growing crowd. Here are three underutilized visually charged tactics marketers should consider: 1)