Lee Odden

Is Driving Traffic to Your Website Driving Customers Away?

Lee Odden     Digital Marketing, Integrated Marketing, Online Marketing
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The vast majority of digital marketing seems to be focused on creating content and experiences for customers with the ultimate measure of success being increased traffic to the company website, leading to leads and sales.

It’s a reasonable approach, since company websites typically provide the kinds of information that explain what a company does, the products or services they sell and some means for collecting inquiries or conducting transactions.

But here’s the problem with that in 2014 and beyond:  Consumer trends towards content discovery, engagement and interaction have evolved way beyond the common corporate website or online store.

Buyers can get the information they need to decide on a vendor or make a transaction from any combination of devices; smartphone, tablet, computer or web destination; social network, blog, microsite, industry publication, document hosting service.


Is Driving Traffic to Your Website Driving Customers Away?
Nicolette Beard

Online Magazines & Apps for Content Marketing: Brand Examples and Best Practices

Nicolette Beard     Content Marketing, Digital Marketing, Visual Marketing

Online Magazines and Apps

“Think like a publisher” has become the mantra for many marketers over the past 2 years.

While experienced marketers already recognize the value of great content, the lines are blurring between traditional publishers and brand publishers as more companies adopt more sophisticated content marketing practices.

Just as publishers are creating digital magazines and apps to better engage audiences, so too are brands who want to engage directly with target audiences as part of their owned media demand generation programs.

But what kind of content makes sense in a digital magazine? What effect does interactive digital content have on creating compelling customer experiences? And how do online magazines fit with other digital marketing efforts like social media and online advertising?


Online Magazines & Apps for Content Marketing: Brand Examples and Best Practices
Lee Odden

Strategy vs. Tactics. Does Your Digital Marketer Really Know the Difference?

Lee Odden     Digital Marketing, Social Media

Going Digital

Recently I’ve been doing a number of audits for prospective clients, surveying their presence on the search and social web, how they are “known” and taking inventory of digital assets and the overall experience across their owned, earned, paid and shared media.

This exercise has reinforced to me that digital marketing agencies like ours are going to be busy for years to come.

Why?

It’s the difference between tactics and strategy.

More often than not, it’s clear that companies are executing tactics with no cohesive strategy to tie their marketing activities together.  Blogs are often started without regular posts and those that are published: pure self promotion.

Social network profiles offer inconsistent visuals (we are guilty of this!) and in many cases, Facebook cross posts to Twitter which is cross posted to Google+ and a LinkedIn company page.


Strategy vs. Tactics. Does Your Digital Marketer Really Know the Difference?