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Google Analytics: How to Track Marketing Campaigns

April 6, 2017 2:02 pm Published by Comments Off on Google Analytics: How to Track Marketing Campaigns

Niche ecommerce merchants typically have limited advertising budgets and limited time to monitor their marketing activities. They need accurate data to assess the return on investment from various campaigns. Google ...


Mid-market Ecommerce Firms Need Clear Roles, Responsibilities

April 5, 2017 5:59 pm Published by Comments Off on Mid-market Ecommerce Firms Need Clear Roles, Responsibilities

Defining and documenting clear roles and responsibilities may help mid-market online retailers move projects forward, leading to better execution. Retail businesses have a variety of tasks that need to happen over and ...


How to Generate Leads from Social Media

April 5, 2017 2:09 pm Published by Comments Off on How to Generate Leads from Social Media

Obtaining qualified leads is a challenge for many businesses. Social media can help, as consumers can discover brands that interest them. In this post, I’ll review examples of how ecommerce ...


Amazon Doesn’t Do Long-tail. Why Should You?

April 4, 2017 3:14 pm Published by Comments Off on Amazon Doesn’t Do Long-tail. Why Should You?

The idea of “endless aisle” and “long-tail” retail has gained much traction since the publication in 2005 of The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of ...


10 Viral Videos from Brands, for Inspiration

April 4, 2017 2:02 pm Published by Comments Off on 10 Viral Videos from Brands, for Inspiration

Video is big and getting bigger. According to a study from Cisco, by 2021 over 75 percent of global mobile data traffic will be video, and there will be more ...


4 Types of Keyword Intent That Impact Search Marketing

April 3, 2017 6:00 pm Published by Comments Off on 4 Types of Keyword Intent That Impact Search Marketing

Keywords are the language of search engine optimization, search engine advertising, and even search on a retailer’s own website. So the better an online store’s managers and marketers understand the ...


AdWords: Exact Match Not So Exact Anymore

April 3, 2017 2:00 pm Published by Comments Off on AdWords: Exact Match Not So Exact Anymore

You may have missed the blog post from AdWords on March 17 about the expansion of close variants. The second paragraph of that post reads, in part: … over the coming months ...


Ecommerce Product Releases: April 2, 2017

April 2, 2017 3:02 pm Published by Comments Off on Ecommerce Product Releases: April 2, 2017

Here is a list of ecommerce-related product releases and updates for early April. There are updates on artificial intelligence, shipping, social influencers, behavioral marketing, and experience analytics. Got an ecommerce product ...


March 2017 Top 10: Our Most Popular Posts

March 31, 2017 5:00 pm Published by Comments Off on March 2017 Top 10: Our Most Popular Posts

What follows are our 10 most popular articles for March 2017, recognizing that articles we published earlier in the month are more likely to make the list than later ones. FedEx ...


SEO How-to, Part 10: Redesigns, Migrations, URL Changes

March 31, 2017 2:01 pm Published by Comments Off on SEO How-to, Part 10: Redesigns, Migrations, URL Changes

Periods of change in content, linking and URL structure impact natural search performance dramatically. Knowing the risks as well as the rewards involved in these site changes before you launch will help you minimize the downside and potentially procee...