Digital B2B Marketing

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Stop Advertising and Give Them Content! [The Numbers Prove It]

Digital B2B Marketing

The sponsorship included advertising as well as custom integration of the sponsors content into the site, and allowed a comparison of the performance of various components. Social media links: Even though it is below the fold, the click rate on a link to the client’s Twitter account is 2x the top banner ad.

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Everyone Hates Your Most Effective Online Ads

Digital B2B Marketing

Banner ads work. Banner ads don’t work. Banner ads are just wallpaper. It doesn’t matter what your opinion is of banner ads, someone out there has a study that will agree with your position. The results from these ads can be misleading. People Hate Interruptive Ads.

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It’s 10:00 PM. Is Your Content Where It Belongs?

Digital B2B Marketing

Comscore recently issued a release showing 31% of banner ads from a sample of advertiser had no opportunity to be seen. The problem is, advertisers often do not know where their ads are running. Increasingly, marketers don’t know where their content is either. Monitor your content. Hey, It’s Free!

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The Trick to Seeing Through Marketing Statistics

Digital B2B Marketing

But is 46% a lot more, or a lot less, than the same metric for other types of content? Here is a comparison, from the same study: 41% purchased a product because they saw a banner ad on a tablet. When compared to a banner ad on a tablet, watching a video is just slightly better. Content marketing.

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The B2B Marketing Guide to Paid Content Distribution

Digital B2B Marketing

Forrester recently released a report pointing out the failure of most content marketers to plan for adequate content distribution. Marketers are slaving over content today, but almost no one sees that content. Start incorporating content into your advertising. Facebook Ads. And they’re right.

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A New Way To Connect Twitter To Lead Generation

Digital B2B Marketing

Retargeting From Social Media Like many B2B marketers looking to drive engagement, you share content and drive conversation around other people’s content. But when you focus on promoting other people’s content, you don’t have an opportunity to capture a potential lead. Newsletter or email marketers.

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An Inconvenient Truth: Your Advertising is Invisible

Digital B2B Marketing

According to recent research from ComScore , 31% of banner ads don’t ever have the chance to be seen. So how many banners really go unseen? trillion online banner ads were served in 2011. The average person online in the US was served 19,000 banners in 2011. Every channel has similar issues.