Ice Nine Online hosted a Google Partners Connect event on May 4th. The topic of the event was using smarter customer insights to improve your digital marketing. Below is a recap of the event and some of the key takeaways from …
5 Activities to Jump-Start Your Digital Marketing
1. Perform keyword research over a minimum of 5,000 keywords to identify the ideal keywords for SEO optimizations and Google Ads targeting. Process: Log in to Google Ads > Tools > Keyword Planner > “Search for new keywords using a …
5 Important Insights from HBR’s 2016 Analytic Services Report
Google and the Harvard Business Review partnered on a fantastic white paper titled “Marketing in the driver’s seat: Using analytics to to create customer value.” The paper features excellent case studies from companies including Lenovo, Netflix, Harrah’s Entertainment, MetLife, and …
Google Analytics is Now Automatically Filtering Spam!
This is great news for anyone who uses Google Analytics. Spam traffic in Google Analytics has always been an annoying issue for digital marketers. Referral spam works like this: there are spammers out there that send out bots to crawl websites. …
Google’s Big Desktop Google Ads Update and My Tactic To Stay On Top
You may have noticed during your recent Googling that Google text ads are no longer displaying on the sidebar (also called “right rail”) on desktop computers. Google recently rolled out a significant Google Ads update with a few key features: No …
This Sentence Has Five Words
This short example from Gary Provost demonstrates what happens when a writer experiments with sentences of different lengths. It’s an exceptional one-minute writing lesson: This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. …
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Omni-Channel Marketing is a Trend You Can’t Ignore
What is omni-channel marketing? The term “omni-channel” is an increasingly popular marketing buzzword, but it refers to an important shift in marketing: marketers now need to provide a seamless experience across every customer touchpoint. At it’s core, omni-channel marketing is viewing the …
5 Awesome Websites for Free Stock Photos
5. Unsplash – https://unsplash.com Unsplash offers free (do whatever you want) high-resolution photos. They offer 10 new photos every 10 days and the ability to subscribe to have new pics automatically sent to your inbox. 4. Morguefile – http://www.morguefile.com/ This …