One of the significant challenges within paid advertising is prospecting while staying within your cost-per-lead (CPL) or cost-per-action(CPA) target. Your total addressable market is not always searching for what you offer through search engines, and they may have never visited your site, leaving remarketing out of the question. Waiting for your ideal customer to discover you is […]
There has never been a better time to utilize content marketing to drive business, create high-quality marketing initiatives, and provide long-term value to your customers or clients. So, how can you stand out from the crowd and create a content marketing strategy that brings in your target audience? I’ll provide nine content marketing strategies that […]
Blake Emal: Welcome to the Yours in Marketing podcast. On this week’s episode, I chat with the best and biggest YouTube content strategist on the planet. Mr. Ohio himself, Tim Schmoyer. Tim has trained hundreds of people in the was of effective YouTube content strategy and he’s worked with brands like Disney, HBO, Budweiser, eBay, […]
It’s Thursday at 3:00 pm. You’re tired, it’s been a long week, and you’re about to hop on a call with your account manager. In their agenda-setting email, they mentioned they wanted to “talk” about something, but were a little vague and now you’re a tad worried. Those of us who have been in this […]
As Erik Qualman, a #1 best-selling author and motivational speaker once said, “We don’t have a choice on whether we DO social media, the question is how WELL we do it.” In this era, if you don’t have a robust social media marketing strategy that works, you miss out on tremendous growth opportunities for your […]
Did you know that digital content marketing obtains three times more leads than paid search advertising? It’s now 2019. It’s time to invest more effort into crafting your digital content into attention-grabbing masterpieces that resonate with your audience. Why? Storytelling is a critical component of creating content that stands out and builds long-lasting relationships between you […]
If you’ve been following along with our videos, you probably noticed we had re-branded recently. Today, I want to discuss the importance of branding and positioning. As search marketers here at Directive, we focus so much on new user acquisition. This is also known as getting new visitors to our website! However, we are passionate […]
There is no doubt that B2B social media marketing has become an increasingly dominant key ingredient for a successful marketing strategy — but first, what is social media marketing? Why is it important? In this article, we’ll clearly define what social media marketing is is as well as outline three reasons why it’s essential to […]
Is There a Kink in My Funnel? | Optimizing for Your MOFU Keywords As SEO specialists, we often prioritize what we can control. We provide three blog articles a month, we acquire three links, and we can crawl our clients’ sites for technical errors. Those are all useful tactics, but we can’t forget how our […]
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