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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
SEO: 9 Tips for Writing Great Content

February 15, 2019 • Jill Kocher Brown

Textual content enables search engines to understand your site. The words you choose should engage shoppers and boost your site's relevance to the keywords and phrases that consumers search for. If creating articles, blog posts, product descriptions, and other textual content strikes fear into your heart, try some of these tips.
Email & Text Marketing
5 Steps to a Successful Email Drip Campaign

February 14, 2019 • Anna Kayfitz

Emails sent automatically and on a schedule are an effective way of communicating with your customers and prospects. Sometimes referred to as drip campaigns, automated emails target consumers based on their individual actions. In this post, I’ll discuss the steps to set up a successful drip campaign.
Marketing & Advertising
The Power of Customer Testimonials for Ecommerce

February 12, 2019 • Armando Roggio

Customer testimonials can be a powerful, conversion-boosting, profit-driving tool for ecommerce companies. You just need to collect and share them. There are many surveys and reports touting the impact customer reviews and testimonials.
Marketing & Advertising
A Survey-based Marketing Campaign for Ecommerce

January 29, 2019 • Armando Roggio

In this article, I will outline the major steps to run a survey-based PR campaign. This campaign is meant to inspire at least of few journalists to write about the survey results. The articles they produce may include backlinks for SEO. And those articles could introduce potential customers to your business.
Content Marketing
Helpful Tools to Find Shareable Content

January 21, 2019 • Armando Roggio

Curating content can be like finding a needle in a haystack, if not a stem or leaf in a haystack. Fortunately, there are many software tools to help content marketers discover good articles and videos to share.
Email & Text Marketing
17 Free Email Marketing Tools

January 20, 2019 • Carolyn Nye

There is no free lunch, supposedly, but there are plenty of free email marketing tools. In this post, I'll list 17 free tools to accelerate your email marketing program.
Content Marketing
Dos and Don’ts for Curating Content, to Grow an Audience

January 18, 2019 • Armando Roggio

Discovering and sharing useful and interesting content from sources outside of your business can be a good, low-cost, and easy way to meet content marketing goals. The content your company curates should be focused on one or more of the topic clusters. Initially, this will probably require a lot of research.
Marketing & Advertising
Best Ad Options for Smaller Fashion Merchants

January 16, 2019 • Viktoria Kanevsky

Small companies on shoestring budgets would be better off to grow organically via search engine optimization, social media, and email. Those channels, to be sure, are time and labor intensive. But the efforts will pay off. However, if you have the resources to invest in advertising, consider the following channels.
Content Marketing
How to Invest in Videos, Apps, Big Content

January 14, 2019 • Armando Roggio

Even a simple video may cost several thousand dollars to produce — with no guarantee of success. An interactive app might take a few months to develop. It, too, has no guarantee. You could take that risk, toss thousands of dollars at a video or similar content project, and hope for the best.
Social Media
12 Apps for Creating Instagram Stories

January 14, 2019 • Sig Ueland

Using Instagram Stories, businesses can attract followers with dynamic product and brand content. Here is a list of tools for creating Instagram Stories. There are templates, easy-to-use video editors, and full content production platforms. All of these tools are free, though most offer premium add-ons.
Email & Text Marketing
Want New Email Subscribers? ‘Sell’ the Content

January 9, 2019 • Armando Roggio

When a customer or prospect subscribes to your email list, that person expects something of value in return. It may be exclusive offers, special discounts, or useful, informative, and entertaining content.
Google Ads
Setting Up ‘Promotions’ in Google Shopping

January 2, 2019 • Robert Brady

The new promotion feature in Google Shopping can help an ad stand out with a blue “Special offer” link. Once clicked, the offer appears as a popup. It's a good way to move past the typical components of a Shopping ad: product name, price, brand, and image.
Content Marketing
5 Content Marketing Ideas for February 2019

January 2, 2019 • Armando Roggio

Want to increase site traffic and engage potential customers in February 2019? Consider creating articles, videos, and podcasts that entertain, inform, and just plain help out.
Marketing & Advertising
10 Outstanding Digital Marketing Campaigns from 2018

December 26, 2018 • Sig Ueland

Reviewing the year’s best digital marketing campaigns from established brands can help generate ideas for your own digital marketing efforts. Here is a list of outstanding digital marketing campaigns from 2018.
Content Marketing
The Key Requirement of Content Marketing

December 19, 2018 • Armando Roggio

The key requirement of content marketing is to be engaging. Without engagement, content cannot fulfill its potential as a marketing tool. In this article, I'll explain why.
Email & Text Marketing
Email Marketing: 2018 Developments

December 18, 2018 • Carolyn Nye

The power of email marketing has endured over the years with few major changes. But 2018 produced important email developments that affect online retailers. I'll address those developments in this post.
Social Media
10 New Social Networks for 2019

December 10, 2018 • Sig Ueland

New social networks help merchants reach customers and team members. Here is a list of new social networks — building on our comprehensive list from 2017, "105 Leading Social Networks Worldwide." Several new networks are from established social media companies, while others offer independent, open-source, and ad-free alternatives.
Google Ads
Google Ads: ‘Exact Match’ Keeps Getting Less Exact

December 6, 2018 • Robert Brady

Google recently announced another change in “exact match” keywords to include close variations with the same meaning as the keyword. I was not a fan when Google first altered the “exact match” policy in 2017. And I’m not a fan of the latest change because keywords are no longer an “exact match.”
Content Marketing
5 Content Marketing Ideas for January 2019

December 5, 2018 • Armando Roggio

This list of content marketing ideas for January 2019 is built around the theme of "national days." In each case, try to come up with a creative way to connect a particular national day to the products your business sells and the keywords you target.
Marketing & Advertising > Merchant Voice
What to do now for 2019 holiday sales

December 4, 2018 • Richard Stubbings

Most ecommerce retailers are now fulfilling the holiday order rush. The vast majority of merchants depend on sales in November and December. It can be the difference between a good year ...
Content Marketing
Creating a Content Marketing Strategy for Ecommerce

November 29, 2018 • Armando Roggio

A clear content marketing strategy defines its purpose, who it serves, and its format. For small and mid-sized ecommerce businesses, a content marketing strategy may be the documented and thoughtful answers to several questions or thought exercises.
Marketing & Advertising
Success with Google Shopping, Part 4: Tracking Sales

November 27, 2018 • David Rothwell

Google Shopping ads appear in search results above or beside text-based ads and organic listings. Setting up sales tracking for Google Shopping campaigns is vital — before you launch. This is the fourth article in my “Success with Google Shopping” series.
Google Ads > Merchant Voice
I should have used Google Shopping ads sooner

November 25, 2018 • Elizabeth Hollingsworth

If you’re a nationwide retailer — or even statewide — you may advertise on Google Shopping, if not Google Ads, or both. As a small online-only retailer, I wish I had ...
Social Media
20 New Tools from Social Media Platforms

November 19, 2018 • Sig Ueland

By following the launches and updates of social media platforms, merchants can discover new ways to reach customers and prospects. Here is a list of recent updates from social media platforms. There are tools for interactive video, customer service, analytics, artificial intelligence, visual search, and shoppable images.
Email & Text Marketing
Top 10 Email Marketing Metrics for Ecommerce

November 18, 2018 • Carolyn Nye

Key email metrics have changed over the years. Many subscribers now receive and respond to email on their smartphones. It has altered multiple aspects of email marketing — content, subject lines, pre-headers, and more. In this post, I'll rank the top 10 metrics to evaluate email performance.
Social Media
An Email List Isn’t Just for Emailing

November 13, 2018 • Michael Stancil

An email list is one of the central components of many marketing campaigns, beyond email marketing. Having email addresses is the difference between a targeted message versus scatter. The best email lists contain more info than just the address.
Content Marketing
16 Quick and Free Grammar and Usage Resources

November 11, 2018 • Marcia Yudkin

At 3 a.m., while polishing an email blast for your customers, you get a brain freeze about a grammar question. Use these free online resources to answer questions on grammar, punctuation, spelling, writing errors, and more.
Marketing & Advertising
5 Ecommerce Marketing Trends to Watch in 2019

November 8, 2018 • Armando Roggio

The way you market your ecommerce business today may not work tomorrow. Here are five ecommerce marketing trends your business should consider in the coming year. None of these are new, but they should be effective.
Content Marketing
5 Content Marketing Ideas for December 2018

November 5, 2018 • Armando Roggio

Connect with potential customers in December 2018 with humor, a history of eggnog, and holiday happenings. What follows are five content marketing ideas your business can use for December 2018.
Content Marketing
8 Content Tips to Drive Organic Search Traffic

November 4, 2018 • Jill Kocher Brown

Content marketing can drive natural search performance. Shoppers engage with the content and share it. Or so we hope. The more links from high-quality sites, the more likely your site will rank. These eight tips will help you generate more links to the content you create.

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