Clarity Trumps Persuasion: 5 examples where clarity soundly beat out persuasion tactics

This article was originally published in the MarketingExperiments newsletter. When creating an ad, it’s important to remember you are not trying to sell the product, you are just trying to get a click. So if you’re trying to sell a click, you only need to tell enough in the ad to spark the right kind of directional interest that will eventually lead to a purchase. In this video replay, Flint McGlaughlin and participants from YouTube Live…

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B2B vs B2C Marketing: 5 Differences Every Marketer Needs to Know

If you have worked in the digital marketing world, you’re familiar with B2B and B2C business types. But you might not be familiar with B2B and B2C marketing strategies. Most of the time, B2B (also known as business-to-business) marketing focuses on logical process-driven purchasing decisions, while B2C (also known as business-to-consumer) marketing focuses on emotion-driven purchasing decisions. This isn’t always cut and dry—of course, sometimes there is overlap—but these differences between B2B and B2C search…

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Employee Spotlight: Haile Xiao

WordStream has some impressive employees in our ranks: from industry influencers to marathon runners, from analysts to authors. The Employee Spotlight series aims to highlight the talented individuals who work here. Each month, we’ll be featuring an interview here on the blog and on our social accounts. For this month’s Employee Spotlight, we talked with Haile Xiao. Originally from Houston, Texas, Haile moved to Boston for the technology job market and stuck around because he…

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5 Things You Need to Know About Discovery Ads

Google Marketing Live was a smash this year—and it wasn’t just because Katy Perry was in the house. In addition to doubling down on last year’s themes of trust, transparency, privacy, and machine learning, Google also used its Ads Innovation Keynote to introduce a ton of exciting new product features and announcements. From Gallery Ads, which allow advertisers to combine compelling images and copy to serve interactive visual ads on the search network, to the bumper machine,…

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Weekend Favs May 18

Weekend Favs May 18 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from an online source or one that I took out…

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