Like any company, you have a budget. So how do you know if you are putting your internet marketing dollars to good use? Unfortunately there is no secret formulate to follow that tells you what percentage of your budget you should be spending on each marketing approach. However there are ways to effectively maximize your [...]
Investing Your Internet Marketing Dollars Wisely
Posted by Mark Thompson | Under E-Mail Marketing, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization Tuesday Sep 9, 2008When To Implement a Bid Management Tool
Posted by Mark Thompson | Under Search Engine Marketing Tuesday Sep 2, 2008If you are managing pay per click campaigns, both on an agency level or as an in-house marketer, you are constantly trying to figure out the best way to maximize your ad spend. Depending on what type of budget you are working with, you may be spending a few minutes a day or several hours [...]
Professional Marketing Organizations to Think About Joining
Posted by Mark Thompson | Under E-Mail Marketing, Search Engine Marketing Monday Aug 25, 2008If you are a search marketer, you may want to think about joining a few of these professional organizations. They can provide some good exposure in the industry, as well as help get authoritative links into your site.
Here is a quick list of places to look into.
American Marketing Association
SEMPO
Direct Marketing Association
Word of Mouth Marketing Association
eMarketing [...]
Guide to Decrypting Google’s Ad Quality Score
Posted by Mark Thompson | Under Search Engine Marketing Tuesday Jul 29, 2008Have you ever wondered how Google determines where to rank your pay-per-click (PPC) ads in the sponsored search results? Google has come up with what they call an Ad Quality Score that will help explain how they go about ranking ads.
Google defines Ad Quality Score a dynamic metric assigned to each of your keywords. It’s [...]
Formulating an Internet Marketing Strategy: Asking the Right Questions?
Posted by Mark Thompson | Under Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Web Analytics, Web Content, Web Development Monday Jul 21, 2008It doesn’t matter if you are building a new website, conducting search engine optimization, PPC advertising, or a social media strategy, there are always going to be important questions that need to be answered by the client. Having detailed answers to these questions will help you formulate a much better strategy.
I broke up the questions [...]