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The marketing of an ecommerce business is paramount to its success. Our coverage includes insights on email marketing, content marketing, pay-per-click advertising, social media marketing — Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest — affiliate marketing, video advertising, and much more.

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Content Marketing
5 Content Marketing Ideas for February 2021

January 4, 2021 • Armando Roggio

Your company's February 2021 content marketing could cover the obvious, such as Valentine's Day, and the obscure, such as Ice Cream for Breakfast Day. Content marketing is the act of creating content, publishing it, and promoting it with the goal of attracting, engaging, and retaining customers.
Email & Text Marketing
Attributing Sales to Email Marketing Is Not Always Easy

December 27, 2020 • Carolyn Nye

Attributing sales to email marketing can be difficult. A typical customer journey involves multiple touchpoints, such as email, organic search, and social media. The better we understand the impact of each channel on conversions, the better we can optimize that channel for growth.
Google Ads
Big Changes from Google Ads in 2020

December 23, 2020 • Robert Brady

The year 2020 witnessed raging Australian wildfires, a presidential impeachment, and the Covid-19 pandemic. Google Ads had some big changes this year, too.
Social Media
12 Outstanding Digital Media Campaigns from 2020

December 21, 2020 • Sig Ueland

Reviewing the year’s best digital marketing campaigns from established brands can generate ideas for your own efforts. Here is a list of outstanding digital marketing campaigns from 2020. The campaigns are mostly tied to Covid-19, working remotely, the presidential election, and social injustice.
Marketing & Advertising
5 Ways to Boost January 2021 Retail Sales

December 16, 2020 • Armando Roggio

For many retailers, January sales feel like a slump after the high-flying holiday season. But stores can still take steps to earn relatively more. Here are five tactics to try.
Influencers & Affiliates
How Influencer Marketing Drives Holiday Sales

December 13, 2020 • Armando Roggio

Influencers have the power to help drive ecommerce sales the way old school media did in years past. Advertising on 1950s television and other mass media was successful because of the audiences. Today, the same thing may be true for influencer marketing.
Content Marketing
5 Content Marketing Ideas for January 2021

December 3, 2020 • Armando Roggio

January 2021 can represent a beginning for content marketers to build communities, stream live videos, write about national holidays, report industry news, or visually expose interesting industry data. Content marketing is the act of curating or creating content such as articles, podcasts, videos, and graphics.
Google Ads
When to Apply Google Ads Recommendations (or Not)

December 3, 2020 • Matthew Umbro

The work of a pay-per-click ad specialist is seemingly never complete — more optimizations are always possible. Google Ads provides a recommendations tab to help. These include changes to core account components.
Social Media
Is Longer Copy Better for Social Media Ads?

November 29, 2020 • Kaleena Stroud

I’ve addressed the importance of copywriting for Facebook and Instagram ads. Many marketers default to short copy — a few sentences, max — thinking that their audience will not read more. But that is not accurate, in my experience.
Content Marketing
Last-minute Holiday Social Media Checkup for Ecommerce

November 18, 2020 • Armando Roggio

A quick checkup can ensure that holiday social media posts achieve a company's objectives. Think of it as a tune-up for an important journey. What follows is a holiday social media checklist. It will likely take a few minutes to complete and offer a measure of certainty about holiday social campaigns.
Email & Text Marketing
Analyzing Unsubscribes Can Save an Email Marketing Program

November 17, 2020 • Carolyn Nye

Email marketers do not typically monitor why recipients unsubscribe. But the more we understand the reasons, the better we can reduce the number. In this post, I'll explore how to analyze unsubscribes to improve email performance.
Social Media
15 Social Media Plugins for WordPress

November 17, 2020 • Sig Ueland

Here is a list of social media plugins for WordPress. There are plugins to display icons from hundreds of social media networks, schedule and automate publication, track engagement, and more. Some of these plugins are standalone, while others are bundled with larger sets of WordPress tools.
Marketing & Advertising
The 5 C’s of Ecommerce Marketing

November 12, 2020 • Armando Roggio

The 5C marketing framework provides a structured way to evaluate and describe a business's position in a market. The framework, applied consistently, could guide decisions as the business promotes its brand and products.
Marketing & Advertising
10 Inspiring Holiday Marketing Campaigns

November 3, 2020 • Sig Ueland

The 2020 holiday season is upon us. Here is a list of successful marketing campaigns from previous holiday seasons. The campaigns celebrate Yule logs, Santa, holiday music, and heading outdoors. Several of the campaigns use contests to generate content from followers.
Google Ads
Understanding Google’s Smart Shopping Campaigns

November 2, 2020 • Matthew Umbro

I’ve written many articles in the last year that address Google Ads' automation. Used carefully, automation — bidding, dynamic copy, scripts — can free up time for strategy. In this post, I’ll focus on Smart Shopping campaigns for Google Shopping.
Content Marketing
5 Content Marketing Ideas for December 2020

November 1, 2020 • Armando Roggio

In December 2020, online retailers and B2B sellers can focus their content marketing on getting things done during Covid, launching a YouTube channel, profiling the Nobel Prizes, teaching skills, and raising AIDS awareness. Content marketing starts with creating or curating content such as articles, videos, graphics, or podcasts.
Content Marketing
CopySmiths Founder on Content Marketing by the Numbers

October 30, 2020 • Eric Bandholz

Kat McKinnon's agency, CopySmiths, produces hundreds of blog posts per month for, mainly, ecommerce clients. She's developed a formula of sorts for getting those posts ranked in Google's search results. "You need between 1,000 and 1,500 words for a blog article," she told me. "Definitely not 600. Avoid 800, unless you're literally just answering a short question."
Social Media
Optimize Facebook Ads with Better Images and Copy

October 28, 2020 • Kaleena Stroud

Despite the chatter around its dwindling reach, Facebook remains hugely popular. It has twice the number of users than Instagram, for example, according to Sprout Social. But gaining users’ attention on Facebook via advertising can be difficult.
Marketing & Advertising
The Value of Personalized Marketing for Ecommerce

October 22, 2020 • Armando Roggio

A well-executed personalized marketing program may resemble person-to-person conversations like those a shopper could experience in a brick-and-mortar retail store. It is easy to recognize a genuinely good customer experience when you have it.
Email & Text Marketing
Designing Emails to Drive Clicks and Conversions

October 22, 2020 • Carolyn Nye

Email design has evolved to reflect changes in technology and consumer behavior. The goal is to elicit the desired action from the recipient, such as a click or conversion. In this post, I'll address tips on designing high-performing emails for ecommerce.
Content Marketing
Content Marketing Should Mimic Publishing, Broadcasting

October 12, 2020 • Armando Roggio

The best content marketing is so good, so useful, so entertaining that it holds an audience's attention like a good newspaper, magazine, or TV show. The process, however, can require a substantial commitment.
Content Marketing
Privacy Concerns Will Increase the Value of Content Marketing

October 7, 2020 • Armando Roggio

Increased emphasis on personal privacy, particularly with changes to Apple's Identifier for Advertisers and the probability of cookie-less browsers in the near future, could increase the need for content marketing.
Social Media
How 20 Leading Brands Use Facebook to Engage Audiences

October 6, 2020 • Sig Ueland

According to its March 31 quarter-end results, Facebook has 2.60 billion monthly active users and 1.73 billion daily active users. For brands, Facebook can be a place to engage and inspire. Here is a list of brands that have successfully grown audiences on Facebook.
Business
5 Content Marketing Ideas for November 2020

October 5, 2020 • Armando Roggio

The U.S. presidential election, family-oriented observances, blogging, and even entrepreneurship are all good topics for your business's content marketing in November 2020. Content marketing is the act of creating or curating content, publishing that content, and promoting it with the aim of attracting, engaging, and retaining customers.
Google Ads
Google Ads Decreases Search Terms Visibility

October 4, 2020 • Matthew Umbro

In early September, Google Ads announced that the search terms report would disclose fewer user queries. The explanation from Google is to "maintain our standards of privacy and strengthen our protections around user data." The search terms report allows you to see the actual queries from users.
Social Media
14 Tools for Selling on Facebook and Instagram

September 28, 2020 • Sig Ueland

Shopping on Facebook and Instagram is finally here. With the recent launches of Shops on both apps and Live Shopping, Facebook is facilitating easier commerce across its platform. Here is a list of tools to help you sell on Facebook and Instagram.
Social Media
9 Pointers for High-converting Instagram Ads

September 27, 2020 • Kaleena Stroud

Instagram ads appear in users' feeds. The ads look like a regular post but with a sponsored label and a colored call-to-action button. What follows are nine tips for high-converting Instagram ads.
Influencers & Affiliates
Amazon Live: 12 Shows from Influencers, Sellers, Brands

September 21, 2020 • Sig Ueland

Amazon Live combines streaming video with online shopping, letting influencers, sellers, and brands engage and interact with consumers in real-time. Here is a list of shows using Amazon Live from influencers, sellers, and brands. Episodes range from 30 minutes to two hours, though most are roughly one hour.
Email & Text Marketing
Email Marketing: Optimizing ‘From’ Lines, Subject Lines, Pre-headers

September 20, 2020 • Carolyn Nye

Email marketing remains a cornerstone of most ecommerce companies. But optimizing "from" lines, subject lines, and pre-headers is challenging for even the savviest marketers. I'll offer tips in this post.
Marketing & Advertising
2020 Holiday Shopping Is a Tale of 2 Consumers

September 17, 2020 • Armando Roggio

Covid-19 has throttled the U.S. economy, dropping the nation's gross domestic product 31.7 percent in the second quarter of the year. The economic effect, however, has impacted folks differently.

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