The Coronavirus Recession: How to Address Changes In Consumer Buying Habits

The Coronavirus Recession: How to Address Changes In Consumer Buying Habits

For the past few months, the marketing landscape has been overrun by the Coronavirus pandemic. Businesses have spent countless hours making changes to their marketing…

Automated Lead Generation on Facebook Messenger

Automated Lead Generation on Facebook Messenger

In August 2019, Facebook released a new feature that makes it easier for businesses to chat with customers in Messenger. Facebook claims that their new…

Weekly Emsights: COVID-19 Edition

Weekly Emsights: COVID-19 Edition

Can’t make it to one of our Weekly Emsights Q&A sessions? We’re recording as many of these as possible so that you can have them…

How to Update Your Email Strategy During a Pandemic (or Any Crisis)

How to Update Your Email Strategy During a Pandemic (or Any Crisis)

Good news for email marketers: according to a 2019 Twilio study, email and SMS are customers’ preferred methods of communication. The survey, which covered about…

How to Diagnose and Address Declines in Your Organic Search Traffic

How to Diagnose and Address Declines in Your Organic Search Traffic

You must be able to understand why organic search traffic (Google traffic, Bing traffic, etc.) declined before you can implement the best strategy to improve…

A Guide to HIPAA for Email Marketers

A Guide to HIPAA for Email Marketers

Marketing departments within healthcare organizations face a unique challenge: balancing the need for personalized communication without running afoul of HIPAA guidelines. Often, the challenge isn’t…

5 Marketing Tips for Traversing the Coronavirus Landscape

5 Marketing Tips for Traversing the Coronavirus Landscape

There’s truly no need for us to restate the details of the current coronavirus conditions we find ourselves in. With many businesses feeling like they’re in…

How COVID-19 Is Impacting SEO

How COVID-19 Is Impacting SEO

Date updated: 4/17/2020 Since the onset of the coronavirus crisis in the U.S., we have had multiple clients approach us with uncertainty and questions. How…

Using Paid Media During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Using Paid Media During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Writing this from my home in Prairie Village (Kansas) rather than the emfluence office in the Crossroads (Kansas City, Missouri), I can only muse that…

Email Marketing for Manufacturers

Email Marketing for Manufacturers

Congratulations, you’ve taken the first steps to taking your manufacturing business to the next level with the use of email marketing! That’s right, email is…

Content to Conversion: What Works for B2B Marketers

Content to Conversion: What Works for B2B Marketers

B2B purchase decisions are typically high value and expensive decisions. These decisions develop over a longer period of time than B2C and require relevant and…

Marketing Leadership: Top Trends for Marketing Leaders in 2020

Marketing Leadership: Top Trends for Marketing Leaders in 2020

Is the role of the CMO over? In Fall 2019, Forrester predicted that CMOs must broaden their view of their role or see their responsibilities…

What’s in a Menu: Minimalist Website Navigation

What’s in a Menu: Minimalist Website Navigation

The core component of running a successful website in this day and age can be succinctly summarized in one word: content. This should come as…

Social Media Content Guide: What You Can (and Can’t) Say on Social

Social Media Content Guide: What You Can (and Can’t) Say on Social

As marketers, we are all aware that there are restrictions when it comes to the types of content you can post and advertise on social…

How to Prep for a Customer Journey Mapping Session

How to Prep for a Customer Journey Mapping Session

Customer journey mapping can help to identify strengths and weaknesses with your sales, marketing, and customer support tactics so that you can improve the experience…

13 Digital Marketing Trends to Watch In 2020

13 Digital Marketing Trends to Watch In 2020

Welcome to 2020! New decade, new you. There are dozens of new trends in digital marketing every year, so I wanted to take some time…

How to Build Your Martech Stack

How to Build Your Martech Stack

It’s easy to get caught up in a dog and pony show for the next great piece of technology and the fabulous ROI that it…

Put a Pin in it: A Guide to Advertising with Pinterest

Put a Pin in it: A Guide to Advertising with Pinterest

Looking for your next social media advertising opportunity? You might be surprised at the power of Pinterest—and how you can leverage it to boost your…

Google’s BERT Algorithm Update Explained

Google’s BERT Algorithm Update Explained

It’s been a few weeks since Google began rolling out its latest major search algorithm update, BERT, and many members of the SEM community still…

Social Video Is Growing Massively

Social Video Is Growing Massively

Video is king…. or at least queen. If you haven’t started incorporating videos into your social media strategy already, now may be a good time…

Top Down or Bottom Up? How to Build Your Marketing Budget

Top Down or Bottom Up? How to Build Your Marketing Budget

How much do you need for marketing next year? Depends. How many customers do you want?   Budgets. Such an ugly word. So… constricting. There…

Tips for Facebook B2B Advertising for Beginners

Tips for Facebook B2B Advertising for Beginners

Let’s face it, you will not be the only skeptic reading this post.  Knowing that when it comes to multi-touch B2B marketing efforts – where some industries…

How to Begin Your Next Email Marketing Program Assessment

How to Begin Your Next Email Marketing Program Assessment

So you’re thinking it’s time to evaluate your email marketing program. Maybe you’re concerned that trends have changed, your content is outdated, or that you’re…

What’s Not to Like: Measuring Social Media Success Beyond the Like

What’s Not to Like: Measuring Social Media Success Beyond the Like

If you’re basing your marketing successes on the number of likes your social posts receive, it’s long past time to rethink how you’re measuring success…

What’s the Difference between CSAT, NPS and CES Surveys?

What’s the Difference between CSAT, NPS and CES Surveys?

If you’re looking for a way to truly understand how your customers are feeling about their experience with your brand, it could be time to…

How to Find Old URLs and Create a 301 Redirect Map

How to Find Old URLs and Create a 301 Redirect Map

Does your site have a history of revisions like adding, removing, or editing pages or updates to the site architecture or menu structure? Or did…

Take Email Content to the Next Level with Engaging Visuals

Take Email Content to the Next Level with Engaging Visuals

Still using standard, static header images in your emails? You’re allowed to have more fun than that.   In email marketing, personalization is one of…