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Best Practices for Email Marketing Success

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Do you ever feel like your email marketing efforts don’t lead to much success? Is the low open rate or no one downloading your content a regular occurrence for your sales campaigns? 

We’ve all been there. Email marketing often may feel like shooting in the dark, but what if we told you it doesn’t have to be this way?  

InsideSales.com analyzed over 18 million email marketing campaigns and today we’re going to share with you their research. We will also share useful tools to help boost your email marketing efforts in the future. 

OPEN RATES 

If you ever wonder how to optimize your emails for the best open and click-through rates, there are many tools that can help you determine best practices. Here are a few features worth checking out: 

  • Send Time Optimization for Mailchimp Users – This tool uses data science to determine when your contacts are most likely to engage, and sends it then. Keep in mind that it’s a paid feature included with all Pay As You Go, Monthly, Pro, and High Volume Plans. 
  •  SendinBlue has developed a feature that allows you to account for different variables and optimize email efficiency while avoiding long hours of research and setup. You can sing up and send up to 300 emails/day for free! 
  • CoSchedule – The best way to schedule emails is with a marketing platform built to get your team organized. With Email Marketing, you can easily connect your preferred email platform (MailChimp, Campaign Monitor, Constant Contact, and ActiveCampaign) to CoSchedule with just a couple clicks. You can also use CoSchedule’s exclusive Email Subject Line Tester to optimize and perfect every subject line to drive more opens, more clicks, and more conversions. 
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SUBJECT LINES 

To determine the best subject lines for your email campaign, we recommend looking at it from a customer perspective first. What emails do you most likely click on? A shorter title that sparks your interest and leaves you wanting more or a long run-on subject line that looks spammy and is too vague? 

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ATTACHMENTS 

Emails with attachments seem to add more importance and urgency to your message. It’s worth keeping that in mind since research from InsideSales.com shows that those emails are 10% more likely to be opened. 

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Download the full research on Sales Email Secrets HERE. 

Email marketing doesn’t have to feel like a constant trial and error. With these helpful resources and best practices, we believe your next campaign will be a hit! 

5 Ways to Skyrocket Your Email Marketing 

If you have any questions or would like to find out more about how Advertising Is Simple can help you with email marketing, contact us today! 

AdvertisingIsSimple | 302.407.0431 | info@AdvertisingIsSimple.com 

5 Reasons You Need to Start Creating Video Blogs

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Today’s customers are hungry for information and we know it. In the past, blogging and short form content has been one of the best ways to deliver useful and digestible information to many online users all at once. It not only gave your business a competitive edge but it also just simply helped with marketing. Do you know how to take it a step further these days? Consider sharing video blogs in your online articles. 

It’s a fact that online consumers prefer fast information and it’s best if they can get it in a form of a visual content over text. 70% of marketing professionals report that video converts better than any other medium. Internet users spend 88% more time on a website that has video than one that doesn’t. So why not include video blogs in your articles? Here’s a few more reasons. 

5 Reasons You Need to Start Creating Video Blogs 

  1. Video Marketing is a powerful tool for reaching customers. The best way to capitalize on video content is to integrate it with your other marketing efforts. When done strategically, videos can be used to help increase engagement with your blog posts. 
  2. Videos increase the time spent on your content. It’s important to note how your readers are interacting with your content. Is your bounce rate high? By sharing video blogs in your online articles and marketing campaigns, you may keep your customers online much longer. 
  3. Videos help break up the text in your blog posts. As a marketer, you need to understand how your consumers or audience absorb your content. It’s been proven that breaking up the text in bullet points or sharing photos and videos every few paragraphs enhance the online experience. Digestible and interactive content is key! 
  4. Videos attract Millennials. Videos are a major driving factor of Millennials’ consumer behavior, and much of their buying decisions result from watching video content.  
  5. Video Blogs can be used in Cross Promotion and/or be Repurposed. Once you create a video, always upload it to your YouTube account first. When it’s live, you can then share your website URL under the video, post the video on social media or use it in blog posts and email marketing campaigns. There are so many opportunities for cross promotion and repurposing! 

Here’s a few more articles explaining the power of video content in marketing: 

Think Your Business Doesn’t Need Videos? You’re Wrong 

Keys to Video Marketing and Why It Is Important to Your Business 

How to Improve Engagement with Video Marketing 

Needless to say, if you are not including video blogs in your content strategy, you are missing a great opportunity to engage your target audience, expand your brand and boost sales.  

If you would like help with creating video blogs, get in touch!  

Advertising Is Simple  is a full-service marketing agency located in Wilmington, Delaware helping small to mid-sized businesses with all their digital marketing, radio and television advertising needs.  

Advertising Is Simple | 302.407.0431 | info@AdvertisingIsSimple.com 

Does Your Business Need to Invest in Competitive Analysis? Here’s the answer.

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Imagine this. It’s a new year and you are a small business owner. You are committed to taking your business to the next level and trying new marketing tools to achieve your goals. However, you are unsure of how much you should be spending. Should you run the risk of spending too little, causing yourself to be overpowered by your competitors with larger marketing budgets? Or what about the risk of overspending and a possibility of losing your leads to those who are quicker than you? This is where competitive analysis comes to play. 

There is no exact science to what your business should be spending on marketing/ advertising, but through a thorough competitive analysis, you’ll have a good starting point. 

COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS 

You may be wondering what exactly is a competitive analysis? In short, it is a report that is a compilation of what your competitors are doing online. Such research outlines their strengths and weaknesses, but most importantly, the opportunities and potential your business has to be successful in the digital realm. 

If you’re still wondering whether your business needs to invest in a competitive analysis in 2019, here’s another good reason. Unless your competitors employ a dark web wizard who is able to hide all of their online actions (which I guarantee they do not), they are leaving a small digital footprint from which we are able to draw and interpret data from. We are also able to compile estimated search volume and bid prices for specific keywords on major search engines. Not to mention, generate an intelligent estimate as to what your competitors are spending on a monthly basis for certain keywords. 

Are you wondering how this helps you? 

Well, with this data we are able to guide your marketing investment decision based upon what available marketing dollars you have. More simply put, we consider your available budget and suggest the route that is most beneficial for your business. This saves your business from failures such as getting caught in the middle of an unwinnable pay-per-click war with a competitor with a substantially larger marketing budget than you.   

Ready to invest in your future? 

Advertising Is Simple is proud to offer a competitive analysis from now until 1/31/18 at half the cost! For $495, we will put forth our proven and tested practices towards giving your business the competitive edge it needs to take the next step in 2019.   

Advertising Is Simple | 302.407.0431| info@AdvertisingIsSimple.com   

What New Digital Marketing Trends Should We Expect in 2019?

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Can you believe it’s almost time to say goodbye to 2018? As we close in the fourth quarter, we can’t help but reflect on this part year. There was surely a lot going on in the digital marketing world! From Google Chrome security updates, Facebook and Instagram algorithm changes to rise of new smart technology, we can’t wait to see what new digital marketing trends 2019 brings! 

Speaking of the new year, do you have your new marketing strategy in place? If you still haven’t thought of new digital marketing trends that 2019 might bring, here are our predictions: 

 

2019 digital marketing trends to watch out for: 

 

  1.  Optimize Content for Voice Search – Now is the time to brainstorm new keyword strategies that will cater to all those customers who love using the latest smart technologies (Alexa, Siri) in their search queries.
     
  2. Diversify Your Content Strategy – In the past year, digital creators and marketers focused more on long-form content (+2,000 words) to rank higher in search. However, it’s been proven that blogs or articles don’t have to be long to be considered valuable. That’s why it’s good to focus on both short and long-form pieces in the new year, so you can cater to those with shorter attention spans as well.
  3. Consider Influencer Marketing – This form of marketing/ advertising will only continue to grow in the next year. Partnering with influencers and content creators to promote your products or build brand awareness is an excellent and effective way to organically reach more valuable customers.
  4. Produce More Video Content – Video is already getting a boost in search from all voice queries, so don’t neglect it in 2019. Producing video content is a great way to liven up your marketing strategy!
  5. Invest in Chatbots – According to Forbes, research “predicts that the chatbot industry will grow significantly as enterprises are enabled to substantially reduce operating costs”. Needless to say, consider investing in this kind of a 24/7 customer service representative to take your business to the next level in 2019.

 For more on the future of marketing, please read this WSI article. 

Can you see these digital marketing trends to grow in popularity in 2019? What are your predictions? We would love to hear your thoughts! 

 

Do you want to take 2019 by storm?  

Contact Advertising Is Simple! We help small to mid-sized business owners who are too busy running their businesses to focus on their marketing and advertising efforts. We specialize in internet, television, and radio advertising, and are particularly vested in search engine optimization, website design, mobile website design, pay-per-click campaigns, and original content management in order to help our clientele claim their share of the marketplace. 

 

Advertising Is Simple| 302.407.0431 | info@AdvertisingIsSimple.com  

 

5 Tips on Protecting Your SMB from Cybercriminals

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5 Tips on Protecting Your SMB from Cybercriminals

Just because you are a small to medium-sized business (SMB) does not mean you are not a target for online criminals phishing attacks.  In fact, it’s the opposite.  Being a small to medium-sized business makes you an easier target for cybercriminals.  While targeting a larger corporation may lead to more lucrative payouts, these larger corporations typically have IT departments that catch these attacks.  Typically smaller businesses do not have full-time IT help that assists them in their cybersecurity.  Cyber-attacks will mostly be initiated through email, here are 5 tips on protecting yourself from cybercriminals.

1.    Attention to Detail:

You may receive an email from what appears to be a co-worker or even superior.  This email may have some odd request like requesting an invoice or for you to send the company’s credit card information to pay a vendor.  In this situation, check the email address for any characters that are out of place.  Cybercriminals will attempt to mimic the email addresses of your co-workers to try to deceive you into releasing valuable company information.  In the event of this happening, contact to the supposed sender via telephone or in person to question their request.

 2. Download a Free Anti-Phishing Toolbar To Your Browser.

There are plenty of free Anti-Phishing browser extensions available.  Some are only available for certain browsers, causing you to have to download multiple extensions to different browsers and learning how each one works.  If you are looking for an Anti-Phishing browser extension that is compatible for Firefox, Chrome, and Safari we suggest Bitdefender Trafficlight. This extension protects from phishing attacks, filters out malware, identify trackers, and scans links.

The Danger of Using PHP 5 into the New Year

3. Be Careful With Your Browser Updates.

While It is always important to update your browser, you must be cautious with your updates.  These updates are created to protect you from online phishing and malware, and phishing predators are fully aware of these.  You may receive a notification telling you it’s time to update your browser or a new version of your browser is available for download.  Do not blindly trust these and automatically download them.  Simply take the time and perform a simple internet search to see if it is, in fact, a true browser update.  If it is not, I can almost guarantee you are downloading a nasty malware onto your computer.

4. Frequently Back up Your Data!

In a world with cybercriminals attacking small businesses with ransomware, backing up your data has never been more important.  A ransomware attack encrypts your hard drive, locking you out of your computer and work files.  The cybercriminal will then ransom access to your files in the form of a crypto currency like Bitcoin.  If you have backed up your data to a remote hard drive this attacks will leave you unaffected.  Simply back up the existing backup files and wipe your primary hard drive clean.

5. Question Authority.

Cybercriminals may attempt to target you by posing as an authoritative figure in the digital world.  This could be them pretending to be Google or Microsoft telling you an update is available for your Gmail or Outlook account.  Much like browser updates, do your due diligence to conclude the authenticity of the requests.

Phishing in the USA – Why SMB Need to be on Red Alert

Navigating the cyber world can be a difficult and intimidating task, especially when it comes to your cybersecurity.  Not only is Advertising Is Simple here to build and spread your digital brand, we are here as a source of knowledge for protecting your digital property, allowing you to spend the time necessary to run your business.

At Advertising Is Simple, we have prepared ALL of our client’s websites for the coming new year. We actively backup, maintain and update all our websites to keep them secure and running seamlessly. If your website was designed years ago and it has not been maintained, it is a ticking time bomb.

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