Posts tagged marketing
Will advertisers of the future need to pay consumers to see ads?

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A major concern facing digital advertising today is how to balance privacy concerns with sending consumers messages that are relevant to them. While relevant messages are important, many consumers are simultaneously becoming increasingly concerned about the use of merged databases.

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Five ways marketers can gain an edge with machine learning

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It’s hard to escape the buzz around machine learning. Practically every industry is talking about it. Today’s marketers are striving to deliver a relevant message to their customers. And while humans can’t communicate with large volumes of customers individually at scale, machines can.

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How internet popularity killed authenticity

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The social influence market is just like any market. It uses currency (taste) to build capital (social status). This capital eventually gets monetized, and we inevitably discover that our internet “friends” may be making thousands and thousands of dollars for selling us brands, products, and ideas, just like celebrity pitch people did before them.

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The power of segmentation

With the advent of social media and analytics, the old one-size-fits-all approach to marketing has been utterly discarded, in favour of targeting your marketing at different audiences. As a business owner, you too can learn how to speak meaningfully to a broad customer base by segmenting your approach.

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What exactly is native advertising?

You may have heard of native advertising over the last year. The digital marketing world is buzzing, declaring that native advertising is the next big thing. Native advertising is paid content that appears in a consumer's feed. Unlike traditional advertising mechanisms, native advertising is designed to be non-disruptive to content consumers

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Should you use pop-ups on your website?

This last year, website pop-ups have started to make a comeback as an effective online marketing strategy. In the past, they were used to advertise third-party products and would interrupt the user’s online experience. However, now they are integrated into site content to offer discounts, initiate subscriptions, and direct site traffic.

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