All the digital channels and bells and whistles aside, your success as a marketer today still stems from using emotional marketing that understands consumers’ needs and preferences. Now, with the emergence of influencer marketing, we can combine these two approaches in our content marketing to reach deep into our desired … Read the full article at MarketingProfs

When writing for marketing, you need to connect with your audience. But first you have to understand who they are and what they care about. To understand what will motivate your potential customers, use empathy mapping. Here’s how. Read the full article at MarketingProfs

We all make mistakes from time to time. It happens. We’re only human. With ad copy writing, we’re given a number of open-ended text fields with no real guidance from the search engines as to what to put in there. Sure, there are some technical boundaries, like punctuation and symbol usage, but for the most part, it’s really one of the areas in a search account we’re given the most leeway. It’s easy to see…

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 Lauren Gentile. Lauren’s originally from Florida, but she made it to Boston by way of Georgia and to marketing by…