By Mark Eting Bullseye Strategy Special Correspondent If you’ve ever managed a brand’s social media account and noticed how a humorous-to-the-outsider mistake corresponded with a big leap in engagements, we’ve got a barstool reserved for you. Being the laughing stock of the Internet is not the kind of engagement rate spike most marketers covet…most of ...
By Mark Eting Bullseye Strategy Special Correspondent Are you between the ages of 18 and 34? If so, you should feel very, very wanted. Brands and social media platforms alike are doing just about anything and everything they can to court you, ranging from the much-mocked and now-defunct Facebook LOL feed to the various cringe-worthy ...
By Mark Eting Bullseye Strategy Special Correspondent You know what’s really satisfying? Ice cream, Hulu, and additional evidence that a strategy you really believe in, A/B testing, works wonderfully. It was a sweet week for digital marketers, and these headlines, in particular, were a treat to read. A/B Testing Shows 10% Lift on Lead Gen ...
By Mark Eting Bullseye Strategy Special Correspondent This week, we have been visited by the ghosts of Digital Marketing Past, Present, and Future with news about the ripple effect last year’s holiday shopping has had on e-commerce, some breaking news from LinkedIn that should change the way this channel is used in 2019, and a shocking ...
By Mark Eting Bullseye Strategy Special Correspondent Welcome to a Valentine’s Day-themed edition of the Bullseye Buzz, where we dish about the digital marketing news everyone’s buzzing about. Conveniently this week, we were dashing out emoji heart eyes like crazy on our Slack channel over some news reports about LinkedIn and Instagram, both of which ...
By Mark Eting Bullseye Strategy Special Correspondent So…none of us were that surprised by the winner of the 2019 Super Bowl. (Though quite a few of us were thrilled, including our agency president, Maria Harrison, a Rhode Island native.) And as far as the Super Bowl ads, which is what most of us consider the real ...
By Mark Eting Bullseye Strategy Special Correspondent This week has been a wild ride in digital marketing news. We learned that Google’s organic click-through rates have taken a steep plummet since 2016. Meanwhile, video advertising skyrocketed in 2018 to hit $27.82 billion dollars. And in an announcement that any brand who does not want to ...
By Mark Eting Bullseye Strategy Special Correspondent If you’re a digital marketing news junkie like I am, this week has delivered. Facebook has launched an act of desperation to appeal to younger audiences who currently only use the platform to communicate with their elderly (aka Millennial and Gen Z) relatives. (If at all). Google has ...
By Mark Eting Bullseye Strategy Special Correspondent You’d better duck or grab a glove if you’re in digital marketing, because this week is all about the curveball. We have big news from Twitter about their new beta app. Mobile carriers including AT&T are pulling out the proverbial data location rug from underneath us. Meanwhile, Google ...
By Mark Eting Bullseye Strategy Special Correspondent Happy New Year! It’s that time again…we’re dusting off our gym shoes, our juicers…and, if we’re marketers, our crystal balls. Because this is the time of year when we get to sink our teeth into so many juicy predictions for what to expect in the 2019 digital marketing landscape. Here ...