How much should you spend on paid social media campaigns? One of the questions we get asked most often is “How much do I spend on paid social media?” Meaning mostly Facebook and Instagram. There are a couple of things to understand about how we charge and why we charge the way we do. Traditional media costs vs. social media
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Is Your Marketing Mix Missing This?
Are you missing one of the most powerful tools in your marketing mix? There’ s a really powerful tool that people like to leave out for a really dumb reason. What I’m talking about are programmatic banners. We’ve all seen banners on websites that we go to, they’re at the top, they’re on the side [that’s called a skyscraper] , we
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What is lead generation?
What is lead generation? What is lead generation, what do I mean by that? In short, it’s sales. Let me give you a quick example. One of our clients is the Yale School of Management. They have a course that only requires 90 students. But we generated last year 5035 leads for their admissions funnel. That allows them to be highly
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Data-Drive your business – think like Amazon
Did we tell you this was coming, or what? https://digiday.com/marketing/amazon-advertising-working-directly-brands-now-cutting-ad-agencies/ Data-driven marketing is the new normal for CMOs. But few in the C-suite grasp the opportunity the ownership of data represents. Jeff Bezos, as usual, is defining the curve. Sure, as the New York Times reports, the disruptive power of Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods has the investment world in
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The new second opinion: How digital engagement is changing healthcare
Evolving digital capabilities allow healthcare providers to develop better, more personalized care for patients. While the fascinating technological advances are fun to talk about (care to implant a microchip of your medical history?), the more pressing side of technology is how it changes human behavior: how technology reframes the process of finding and using healthcare as patients find new ways to
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Insights in Education Marketing – Is Summer the new college year?
Once upon a time summer school was viewed as remediation. Now summer is becoming the hottest option in college education — in more ways than one. According to a long-term tracking study by the US Department of Education, 63% of all undergraduates attended school during summer terms.1 Beyond the two-semester tradition Colleges increasingly see summer as an opportunity for
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How to make marketing technology choices when there are 7000 options
When we started TEMPO in 2010, our mission was to help clients make the marketing technology decisions that fit their business goals. That’s still the mission, but in eight years, the marketing choices clients are faced with have exploded. If you’re a marketer, how in the world do you choose the right technology? Let’s see if we can help
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Responsive websites explained and why your business needs to have it now!
If you’ve been putting off updating your site to make it a responsive website, we’re here to incite you to make the change NOW. UPDATE: Google shared a new testing tool. They also shared with the world that mobile friendliness will impact your search ranking. So even if your site gets 70% desktop traffic it will probably not rank as well
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Budgeting for Small Brand Marketers needs Marketing Effectiveness
2015 is coming. Time for ambitious brands with limited budgets to make really tough choices. We’ve just won our second award for Marketing Effectiveness, for a project that came in under $350,000. So we hope you’ll find this helpful: Two things to know about changes in Social Media Be aware that an algorithmic change will drastically reduce your Facebook exposure: Facebook
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The Fifth “P”: Selling in the Era of the Maximizing Mindset
You built your brand on the four P’s – product, place, price, and promotion. Now you need to think about how your company approaches the fifth ‘P’ – Personhood. Anyone who’s read Groundswell, the seminal text on how social media changed business forever, is familiar with the new reality – that the ‘fourth wall’ has come down. Corporations used to
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