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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
The Secrets of Content Marketing

April 25, 2017 • Armando Roggio

Content marketers have a challenge. They’re tasked with creating content to attract, engage, and retain customers, but those marketers can never really be certain what specific content will resonate with ...
Marketing & Advertising
A Primer on Multichannel Marketing

April 20, 2017 • Gagan Mehra

Multichannel marketing is the practice of engaging with consumers across different channels, such as websites, mobile apps, brick-and-mortar stores, mail order catalogs, and even promotional events. Why Multichannel Marketing? Retailers typically have ...
Email & Text Marketing
Email Marketing Q&A: Top 4 Questions

April 19, 2017 • Carolyn Nye

Although the technology has evolved over the past 10 years, the fundamentals that make email marketing effective have not really changed. As an author and email-marketing practitioner, I’m often asked ...
Marketing & Advertising
An entrepreneur’s journey

April 17, 2017 • Boris Mordkovich

You could say that entrepreneurship is in my blood. Even as a kid I was constantly starting small businesses, trying to make a few quarters or a buck wherever I ...
Content Marketing
9 Critical Content Marketing Tasks, for Ecommerce

April 13, 2017 • Armando Roggio

Ecommerce businesses focused on content marketing have important tasks, from developing a content strategy to actually publishing content. Understanding those tasks will help you build your ecommerce content marketing team. Useful, informative,
Content Marketing
5 Content Marketing Ideas for May 2017

April 11, 2017 • Armando Roggio

Need ideas to inspire your content marketing? In May 2017, you might try covering pets, writing about The Twilight Zone, speaking at a conference, interacting with shoppers, or making a ...
Marketing & Advertising
How to Generate Leads from Social Media

April 5, 2017 • Vanessa Penagos-Pino

Obtaining qualified leads is a challenge for many businesses. Social media can help, as consumers can discover brands that interest them. In this post, I’ll review examples of how ecommerce ...
Google Ads
AdWords: Exact Match Not So Exact Anymore

April 3, 2017 • Robert Brady

You may have missed the blog post from AdWords on March 17 about the expansion of close variants. The second paragraph of that post reads, in part: … over the coming months ...
Influencers & Affiliates
7 Pointers to Attract New Affiliates

March 30, 2017 • Greg Hoffman

Major affiliate networks such as ShareASale and CJ by Conversant have thousands of active affiliate programs. I tell merchants that every one of these programs is a competitor because affiliates ...
Content Marketing
Using Product Content to Boost Conversions

March 28, 2017 • Armando Roggio

The words and pictures online retailers use to convey a product’s value have an impact on that retailer’s conversions. Merchants responding to an October 2016 Forrester survey reported an average desktop ...
Social Media
15 Social Media Updates for Merchants

March 27, 2017 • Sig Ueland

By following updates on social media platforms, brands can discover new features to run all aspects of a business. Here is a list of recent updates from social media platforms.
Marketing & Advertising
3 Ways to Use the AdWords Keyword Planner

March 22, 2017 • Armando Roggio

Successful pay-per-click AdWords campaigns begin with understanding the words and phrases your potential customers will use when searching for your products on Google. With each new campaign, invest some time into ...
Email & Text Marketing
Study: Email Marketers to Focus on 4 Key Areas in 2017

March 20, 2017 • Carolyn Nye

Years ago, the rise of social media and smartphone usage prompted many marketing professionals to believe email was dying, as consumers’ use of email was uncertain. But fast forward to 2017 and ...
Content Marketing
For Content Marketing Ideas, Try BuzzSumo

March 16, 2017 • Armando Roggio

BuzzSumo, a content and social media research tool, identifies popular content shared on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. Examining which articles are shared the most often may ...
Google Ads
‘Engagement on Facebook’ a New Custom Audience to Target

March 15, 2017 • Robert Brady

Facebook continues to develop and grow its online advertising platform. It has recently released a new way to define audiences that is based on interaction inside of Facebook. In this ...
Social Media
Pinterest: 7 Tips to Promote Your Ecommerce Business

March 13, 2017 • Armando Roggio

Pinterest is a powerful social media channel for online retailers. It’s worth the time to build a good Pinterest profile, create active boards, and engage with some of the platform’s ...
Content Marketing
5 Content Marketing Ideas for April 2017

March 7, 2017 • Armando Roggio

In April 2017, content marketers can find topics in the month’s well-known holidays, spring activities, and even poetry. Content marketing is the act of creating, publishing, and distributing content with the ...
Content Marketing
Build Your Content Marketing Stack

March 5, 2017 • Armando Roggio

A content marketing stack is a collection of software tools and technologies gathered for the express purpose of helping a business use articles, graphics, podcasts, videos, or similar to attract ...
Influencers & Affiliates
For Affiliate Marketing Success, Know Your Affiliates

March 2, 2017 • Greg Hoffman

Finding the right affiliates to build an affiliate-marketing program means understanding their traffic sources before they are approved. Affiliates come in all shapes and sizes. Once a manager can identify ...
Social Media
12 Tools for Snapchat Marketing

February 27, 2017 • Sig Ueland

Snapchat, the disappearing messages app, may have started as a novelty for millennials. But with over 150 million daily users, and innovative new ad tools like Geofilters and Sponsored Lenses,
Social Media
13 New Social Media Tools for 2017

February 21, 2017 • Sig Ueland

Social media platforms and tools change quickly. Here is a list of new social media tools to try in 2017. There are tools to generate and curate content, launch and measure ...
Email & Text Marketing
To Optimize Email Marketing, Test These 3 Elements

February 16, 2017 • Carolyn Nye

One of the best things about email marketing is the ability to test elements in a campaign and quickly receive actionable data. Moreover, the results of email tests can apply ...
Email & Text Marketing
Using Triggered Emails for B2B Ecommerce

February 14, 2017 • Lori McDonald

Email marketing is a powerful tool, one that many B2B companies do not take advantage of. Triggered emails are a good way to get started. They are event-driven, based on a customer’s ...
Business
17 WordPress Plugins to Create Content

February 13, 2017 • Sig Ueland

The right set of WordPress plugins can help create content that engages readers and drives traffic. Here is a list of plugins to help create content for your WordPress website. There ...
Marketing & Advertising
2017 Ecommerce Marketing Checklist

February 12, 2017 • Armando Roggio

As your business’s ecommerce marketing starts anew in 2017, focus on a measurable strategy that will help you succeed. For many ecommerce marketers, the promotional year doesn’t really start with the ...
Marketing & Advertising
Innovative Marketing Relies on Guessing

February 9, 2017 • Armando Roggio

As shopping behaviors change, ecommerce marketers should change how they reach new prospects, deepen relationships with customers, and measure results. For at least some online retail businesses, this means experimenting with ...
Content Marketing
5 Content Marketing Ideas for March 2017

February 8, 2017 • Armando Roggio

Whether your business is starting a podcast, launching a magazine, or just celebrating St. Patrick’s Day, March 2017 is full of opportunities to use content to promote your company and ...
Social Media
Designing Pinterest Posts That Encourage Clicks

February 3, 2017 • Armando Roggio

Pinterest provides online marketers many opportunities to engage potential customers, including encouraging clicks to products or content. While the act of creating pins is an art, there are practices that ...
Marketing & Advertising
User-generated Content Drives Awareness, Sales

February 2, 2017 • Vanessa Penagos-Pino

Exposing products and services to prospects is a challenge for many companies. With user-generated content, your customers do the selling for you. Whether it’s through online reviews, social media posts,
Influencers & Affiliates
Affiliate Marketing: Time to Adopt Attribution Rules?

February 1, 2017 • Greg Hoffman

Deciding who should receive affiliate-marketing commissions is increasingly important. Ecommerce merchants have watched as the affiliate channel evolved and coupon and loyalty sites quickly became the dominant publishers with little ...

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