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Six Ways to Connect with Hard-to-Reach Business Buyers

Webbiquity

Banner ads? Sure, those work great—if you’re happy with a click-through rate of 0.05% (yes, that is five clicks for every 10,000 people who see your ad). The range of ways they can help, and their structures for providing that assistance, are similarly diverse. Amplify Your Content Through Vertical Websites.

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Why our thought leadership is broken

Chris Koch

All of our talk about marketers becoming publishers is incomplete. We can’t just become publishers, we also have to become advertisers. For centuries, publishers had an uneasy, co-dependent relationship with advertisers. A wall existed between publishers and advertisers. Let me explain. But it happened.

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Ignite Your Company To Create Content That Rocks

Marketing Insider Group

And this is causing battle for customer attention between brands, agencies and publishers. So how do brands, agencies and publishers reach the audiences of today and tomorrow? Hosted by WPP , one of the largest agency brands in the world, it was called one of best conferences in the world by Wired Magazine.

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The Battle For Customer Attention

Marketing Insider Group

We receive more marketing messages than we can handle and the battle for customer attention has moved from being mainly about the medium to technology to content. If “content is king,” then customer attention is the “Holy Grail.” But now, the consumer marketplace is fragmented almost beyond recognition.

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Digital Asset Management: What It Is and Why You Need It

Content Marketing Institute

Editor’s note: The following is adapted from the author’s book, Digital & Marketing Asset Management: The Real Story of DAM Technology & Practice , published by Rosenfeld Media and copyright by Real Story Group. of digital systems that marketers use to gather, cultivate, and nurture leads and customers.

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Inbound versus Outbound Marketing

TrustRadius Marketing

Inbound and Outbound marketing offer different approaches to achieving the same goals of generating leads, driving sales, and improving customer relations. Inbound marketing centers on a new way of thinking about customer relationships and sales. In comparison, outbound marketing is a much more classic “sell to the customer” approach.

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The State of Native Advertising: Are Pinterest’s Paid Promotions a Bad Idea?

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

The term “native advertising” describes any ads that mimic the visual format and content of its environment. The classic examples are advertorials, usually full-page ads in magazine that are meant to look like articles – you know, the ones with “ADVERTISEMENT” or “PROMOTION” written discreetly in one corner. Intentional?