What the California Consumer Protection Act Means for Marketers

What the California Consumer Protection Act Means for Marketers

Do you market to consumers in California? You probably need to get to know CCPA. Even if you don’t, the new law could be the…

emfluence Joins Microsoft Advertising Partners Program

emfluence Joins Microsoft Advertising Partners Program

Who still uses Bing these days? We do!   We’re pleased to announce that emfluence has been invited to join the Microsoft Advertising Partners Program!…

How to Use Your Marketing Automation Platform in Your Account-Based Marketing Program

How to Use Your Marketing Automation Platform in Your Account-Based Marketing Program

Looking for ways to make your account-based marketing program a bit easier on your sales team? Look no further than your marketing automation platform.  …

5 Steps for Handling Negative Reviews

5 Steps for Handling Negative Reviews

You’ve put together a solid review strategy to improve local SEO and build your online reputation, and now you’re seeing a few subpar reviews come…

5 Ways to Uplevel Your Digital Marketing Strategy for Healthcare Providers

5 Ways to Uplevel Your Digital Marketing Strategy for Healthcare Providers

So you’ve gotten your five HIPAA rules under control and your marketing budget is at least 10% of your company’s overall budget. Now you are…

Convincing Customers to Switch Banks with Digital Marketing

Convincing Customers to Switch Banks with Digital Marketing

Switching Banks is Hard. Luckily, it’s not impossible.   Switching. Banks. Is. Hard. Like – getting-a-toddler-to-sit-still, opening-a-pickle-jar-on-your-91st-birthday, changing-political-views-on-social-media hard. Yet as financial institutions, we all…

A Marketer’s Guide to Buying a CRM

A Marketer’s Guide to Buying a CRM

If you’ve heard my position on CRM systems before, it should come as no surprise that I firmly believe marketers should have at least a…

How to Define KPIs that Measure Success

How to Define KPIs that Measure Success

Our KPIs are better than yours. I believe that most of the time this statement is true (although there are the occasional times where I…

No Industry Is Too Boring for Social Media: How to Get Innovative with Content

No Industry Is Too Boring for Social Media: How to Get Innovative with Content

There are certainly some industries ripe to produce the razzle dazzle social media content that we love to see in our newsfeeds—the beautiful models, game-winning…

Drafting ADA Accessible Statements for Websites: What to Include and Some Examples

Drafting ADA Accessible Statements for Websites: What to Include and Some Examples

Improving website accessibility can seem like a never-ending and always-challenging process. Mostly because, it is. It’s the collision of two complex worlds – legislation and…

4 Tips for Using Marketing Automation to Enhance Your Paid Search Strategy

4 Tips for Using Marketing Automation to Enhance Your Paid Search Strategy

Running successful, effective paid media strategies across Paid Search (Google/Bing), Paid Social (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest, etc), and online display can be a challenging task…

Social Media Strategy for Multiple Location Businesses

Social Media Strategy for Multiple Location Businesses

The digital landscape for how you market your business and connect with customers at a local level is extremely important. As more local businesses create…

Mastering KPIs in B2B Email Marketing

Mastering KPIs in B2B Email Marketing

“If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s use mine,” former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale emfluence partners with…

How to Turn Students into Influencers: A Higher Education Marketing Story

How to Turn Students into Influencers: A Higher Education Marketing Story

If you work in higher education marketing and your job requires any of the following: new student recruitment current student interactions graduate student communications  …

A Beginner’s Guide to PPC Ad Extensions

A Beginner’s Guide to PPC Ad Extensions

You’ve done it! Your campaigns are scheduled and targeted, and ad groups are aligned to your offerings with carefully crafted keywords and ad copy. Time…

Four Ways to Engage Your Audience with Email Animation

Four Ways to Engage Your Audience with Email Animation

GIF usage continues to flood every corner of the Internet, and while their popularity can be attributed to the fact that they inject more fun into our content, marketers can also utilize them to better engage their readers.

The Top 7 SEO Trends to Watch in 2019

The Top 7 SEO Trends to Watch in 2019

Latest Ranking Factors and Organic Search Trends How to appear organically in Google search is a constantly evolving process. New features appearing directly in search…

How and Why to Run a Content Inventory

How and Why to Run a Content Inventory

Want to make your content marketing tasks a bit easier in 2019? Start the year off fresh with a content inventory.   Wait, What’s a…

emfluence Earns a 5-Star Rating on Clutch

emfluence Earns a 5-Star Rating on Clutch

As a digital marketing agency, our mission is to provide our clients with the tools they need to effectively reach their audiences online. We specialize…

Audience Targeting Guide for Google Ads, Facebook, CRM, & More!

Audience Targeting Guide for Google Ads, Facebook, CRM, & More!

Early on in my career, my peers and I focused a lot on individual keyword bids. If Cost Per Action was too high, lower your…

Gmail’s Promotions Tab Gets a Visual Lift

Gmail’s Promotions Tab Gets a Visual Lift

If you have Gmail, then your inbox just got more visual! You may have noticed that Google has made some updates to their Gmail Promotions…

10 Ways to Integrate Your Website and Email Strategies

10 Ways to Integrate Your Website and Email Strategies

Your website and email strategies support each other. One of your website tasks is growing your email list – with email signup forms, gated content,…

Email Design by the Numbers

Email Design by the Numbers

We’re all about easy—this running list is designed to be your go-to cheat sheet for the latest email designs by the numbers. Bookmark this page…

Using Your CRM to Prove Your Worth as a Marketer

Using Your CRM to Prove Your Worth as a Marketer

You know the stereotype: in a number of organizations, Marketing is a cost center. It’s the department of pretty pictures and branding campaigns. The department…

How to Use LinkedIn Sponsored InMail in Your Next Campaign

How to Use LinkedIn Sponsored InMail in Your Next Campaign

Don’t have email addresses for everyone on your marketing list? Try adding LinkedIn Sponsored InMail as a touchpoint to your next campaign. How Does LinkedIn…

17 Ways to Measure Website ROI

17 Ways to Measure Website ROI

Re-building websites costs money and time. The trick to approval is justifying the expense. It has been my experience that rarely is the decision to…

9 Quick Tips for Enhancing Your Paid Search Campaigns

9 Quick Tips for Enhancing Your Paid Search Campaigns

On November 1st, I will be a part of a 3 person panel at SEMPO Cities KC on the topic of Exploding ROI with Paid…