Take My Picture! Image is everything. Your hard work, your history, and your reputation are stored in the images you share in traditional and digital…
Take My Picture! Image is everything. Your hard work, your history, and your reputation are stored in the images you share in traditional and digital…
As with any PPC/Display advertising campaign, there are no magic bullets to guarantee success. The best ad-campaigns are crafted through strategic audience targeting, identifying KPIs…
In part of one of this three-part series about social video ads, I reviewed the social media industry’s shift towards promoted video ads. The focus…
Facebook and other leading Social Platforms have been placing an increased focus on what’s known as the “Visual Language.” This digital content phenomenon has grown…
More and more, audience members want to spend their time and money with brands that create a relationship. Companies offering valuable content for consumers, in…
I’m a big fan of Drupal, possibly the biggest in our office. Over the past seven years, I’ve been thoroughly indoctrinated into all things best…
As Google relies on a wider variety of link and social sources, content marketing has taken the cake. Yet another Google algorithm was released in…
Chances are that you’ve heard of Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), but what is it and why do you need it? Conversion rate optimization is the…
Link building: what is it? Link building: people know it’s important, but they don’t exactly know why. Link building can be thought of as a…
An Introduction AngularJS is the proclaimed “superheroic JavaScript framework.” I was turned onto Angular a little over six months ago with mild curiosity. I found…
The desire to merge Facebook business pages stems from a variety of reasons. Perhaps, you want to consolidate separate location pages into a main page….
Humans are visual. It's science. Our brains process visuals 60,000x faster than text, which explains the rise of interest around infographics. Forms of infographics have…
Gone are the days of trying to wow your website visitors with over-the-top visuals that look nothing like anything their eyes have seen before. The…
If pictures are worth 1,000 words, what are videos worth? Shorter attention spans, more digital platforms and an increased demand for information has driven the demand…
Every year, emfluence hosts our Marketing Platform User Conference to share valuable marketing knowledge, best practices and tools. We have found that when marketers all get…
Last week, emfluence and our wonderful clients won 13 KCDMA AMBIT awards for excellence in targeted, measurable marketing – 2 more than last year! emfluencers…
It’s no secret that meta descriptions don’t carry official weight when it comes to search engine algorithms, but that doesn’t mean you should stop caring…
In a digitally reliant society with screens on screens, are you sure you’re paying attention to the right information? As marketers, making sure the data…
When your customers are already fans of your business, how do you turn them into fans online, too? How do you turn your offline brand…
The emfluence crew loves any occasion to celebrate great work, but was especially excited to attend the first-ever AMPS Awards — an awards show put on by the Social Media Club of Kansas City, where awards were judged by fellow social media professionals on those points that mean the most when you’re really in the business. emfluence and our pals (client) SPIN! Pizza were thrilled to have gotten a few nods from people we admire.
Thanks to the National Speakers Association Kansas City chapter for hosting me as their February presenter. I get to do a lot of social media…
Facebook announced it will be implementing some major changes to their News Feed in 2015. Marketers for brands of all sizes will need to adapt…
October was positively stuffed full of marketing knowledge and valuable insights, thanks in large part to two conferences brought to the Kansas City area. The…
Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising is a great way to target those searching for solutions and products like yours. In fact, at emfluence we often recommend PPC…
In my eight years in email marketing, there are a few questions I hear about once a week: 1. What works in email subject lines?…
Jason White from DragonSearch.net provided a great synopsis of earning authority via link acquisition at SMX East 2014. Below is a collection of the actionable insights I took away from his presentation. They make a great basic checklist for getting into link building!
