
5 Things to Look for in a Digital Advertising Agency
As marketing shifts further and further into the digital world, having an experienced digital advertising agency and a sound digital strategy is more important than ever. Finding the right digital agency can be challenging, but these five considerations may help you narrow your options and select the digital partner that’s right for your brand.

Adapting Your Retail Marketing Strategy for Customer Technology Preferences
Before the era of data-driven marketing campaigns, retail brands needed to work much harder to convince audiences to give them a try or validate their loyalty. In today’s modern retail marketing environment, integrated marketing strategies (including all aspects of paid, organic and owned media) are influenced by customer digital behaviors and preferences.

Digital Marketing Channels and When to Use Them
When planning a digital marketing campaign, marketers are often faced with tough questions. To help make your job a little bit easier, we’ve broken down the top digital marketing channels and how you can best use them to help your business grow.

How To Guide: Content Activation
You’ve set your business goals and objectives, now it’s time to activate strategies and tactics to meet those goals. But, where do you start?

The Three A’s of Social Engagement
When is the last time you heard back from a brand after giving it a shout out on your social media? Have you been acknowledged by a company on social media after you had a bad experience with them? To be an active participant in social media is extremely important for a brand.

Website Copywriting 101: Writing for How People Read Online
Writing user-friendly website content requires you to understand your users, front-load important content, use plain language, check your tone of voice and consider metadata.

Increasing Meaningful Interactions with White Space
Would you rather hear a bedtime story read by a master storyteller or a master auctioneer? Pauses, variance in speed and dynamic inflection can help captivate an audience during a story.

Drupal vs. WordPress: Choosing the Best CMS for your Website
WordPress and Drupal are both content management systems (CMS) that have been around since the early 2000s. Both are open-source (meaning that the source code is made freely available and can be modified and redistributed) and have a strong community of developers who help extend the core functionality with additional modules/plugins. While WordPress has a lot of name recognition, the lesser known Drupal has some benefits over WordPress worth considering.

Common SEO Traps & How to Avoid Them
Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is key for ranking high on search engines and driving organic traffic to your website. Incorporating SEO strategies can make a huge difference for your brand’s online presence, but if you take shortcuts, Google will notice and your ranking will drop. Avoid these SEO traps to make sure your website doesn’t get docked.

Tools to Optimize Customer Engagement
Customer engagement is the connection between customer and brand. It encourages customers to interact and share their experiences with the brands they support. Positive and strong customer engagement can grow a brand substantially, while lackluster or negative customer experiences can potentially deal businesses a fatal blow. Let’s look at a few different tools you can use to enhance the quality of your customer engagement.