Are you planning an upcoming event? Online? Offline? Or maybe even a combination of both? If you, your team, or your clients are working on promoting an event, you want your efforts to be worthwhile. You need to drive awareness and attendance, to bring in leads and revenue, and to help you accomplish your overall business goals as they relate to your event. Whether that’s an upcoming conference, meetup, workshop, concert, open house, grand opening,…

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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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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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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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Pop quiz, y’all: Which Google Ads network enables you to build your brand with compelling visual imagery—search or display? Trick question! Although the Display Network is generally considered the hub of visual-based advertising in the Google Ads universe—I’m conveniently disregarding Shopping for the moment—this year’s Google Marketing Live keynote included the announcement of gallery ads. Whether you’re aiming to drive sales or generate leads, gallery ads—by combining the intent of search with the creative of…

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To get the maximum return on investment from their content marketing and sales teams, company executives need to create a culture that enables those teams to work together. Here’s a three-step guide to creating that kind of company atmosphere. Read the full article at MarketingProfs

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Getting the word out about your business is hard. We get it. Between running your business or serving a dozen clients, you’re one little hiccup away from feeling completely overwhelmed. Under all that pressure, it’s easy to either fall back on last year’s outreach plan or just do nothing and watch your competitors snap up all your potential leads. But don’t sweat. Let’s chat about the Google Display Network (GDN). The power of images The…

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