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Guides

How to Optimize Your Google Ads Budget From KPI Metrics

How much should your department be spending on Google Ads? There’s more that goes into the budget-planning process than...

Foundational Elements of a Successful Digital Marketing Strategy

Are you focused on the foundational elements of marketing success? Some of the previous “best” digital marketing ideas have started...

5 Stages of Consumer Decision Making

This guide breaks down how to meet consumers wherever they are as they move closer to making purchasing decisions.

Comprehensive Conversion Rate Optimization Guide

Use this guide as a reference to understand what CRO is and why it's essential to meet your potential customers right where they are.

B2B Marketing & Demand Generation Guide

This e-book will give you actionable tactics to execute a B2B marketing and demand generation strategy over a six month period.

Search Marketing Roles

Use this as a reference to identify the search marketing roles you’ll want filled to achieve your goals.

Search Marketing Breakdown

Investing in search marketing is essential for your organization to increase website traffic and expanding your company’s growth.

19-Point Checklist for Restarting Your B2B Search Marketing Efforts

Good search marketing doesn’t just happen. Utilize this checklist to ensure that your search marketing efforts are set up for success.

Reports

Directive Search Marketing Benchmark Report | SaaS Edition

Gain valuable insights into the effects of search marketing from statistics based on results from SaaS companies.

Strategies

Discover How We Increased Bottom-of-Funnel Conversion Rates by 336% in One Quarter

Dive into the strategy we utilized with cloud-based, incentive compensation solutions provider Xactly, to increase search engine visibility to their ideal customer persona at the bottom of the funnel.

Discover How Adding a Mid-Funnel Offer Increased Conversions by 122%

Read the strategy behind how eSUB, a cloud-based project management platform, successfully optimized their entire digital approach – starting from the very beginning with a foundation built on strategic keyword research.

Discover How One Piece of Strategic Content Leads to 27 Demo Requests in Five Months

Uncover the strategy behind an HR software leader's success in increasing overall search visibility, driving more organic traffic and bottom-of-the-funnel leads.

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Your Website Won’t Rank in 2020 – The New Search Engine Reality

The proliferation of digital information has created a new buying environment. Most buyers do their own research on companies consider...

Hannah Mans In Perspectives SEO

Directive Launches First Comprehensive Database for Search Marketing

AUSTIN, TEXAS (November 18, 2019) – Directive, a leading enterprise search marketing agency, launched the first database for search marketing,...

Ashton Meisner In Media & Press Tools