Can We Trust View-Through Conversions? An Experiment Reveals!

Because display ads tend to have low conversion rates, many advertisers (or their clients) are quick to question their effectiveness and profitability. The truth is, display ads can have a strong positive impact on your conversion rates—but oftentimes indirectly, making it hard to track or measure. One metric designed to help us out with that is view-through conversions. Even still, many question the validity of this metric. Can we trust it? In this post, we’re…

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NEW Paid Search Advertising Benchmarks for 2021

In today’s day and age, when we want to buy something, our knee-jerk reaction is to head to Google (or whatever search engine we use). Whether we know exactly what we want, are looking for nearby businesses, or want to do more in-depth research, 71% of buyer journeys begin with a search engine. In other words, consumers have the highest purchase intent when on search engines. This is why paid search ads are so highly effective—and yet…

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Finding New Customers In Untapped Places

Finding New Customers In Untapped Places written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Pamela Slim In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interview Pamela Slim. Pam is an author, community builder, consultant, and former corporate director of training and development at Barclays Global Investors. Pam is best known for her book Escape from Cubicle Nation, and she recently wrote a new book called – The Widest…

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