What Is Retargeting?
(And Is It Right For Your Brand?)
What Is Retargeting? (And Is It Right For Your Brand?) What a wonderful world it would be if every time someone visited your website, they straight away made a purchase. That’s what’s called a linear buyer’s journey. And, let’s face it, it’s pretty rare. The reality looks more like someone visiting your site, then leaving it. A few months later, they come upon one of your blog posts, read it, and leave your site again. Weeks later, they reach out to your sales team. Then, after several more discussions with sales, they decide to buy. While it’s the same result,…
From the Back End: How to Give Your Visitors What They Want
From the Back End: How to Give Visitors What They Want Your customer’s expectations are ever-changing. There are over 1.5 billion websites on the web, so it’s safe to say “just having a digital presence” no longer cuts it – your visitors crave authentic content hosted in an intuitive and user-friendly style. So how does one compete? Start by understanding what your visitors are looking for, and in case you missed it – we tell you in our What Your Visitors Want Infographic (download it here). The premise is that your customers want a seamless and instinctive user experience. Which…
PPC Google Ads Explained
We heard from you. You want more “give it to me straight” explanations of this ever-changing landscape we call digital marketing. Now that you better understand Google Analytics KPIs, you’re ready to tackle PPC Google Ads. So here’s your cut-to-the-chase guide. What Are PPC Google Ads, Anyway? PPC (aka Pay-Per-Click) is paid online advertising. Google Ads is Google’s version of PPC. It’s all part of a larger category of digital marketing called Search Engine Marketing. (aka SEM, if you want to impress your friends.) PPC is mostly used in Search Engine Results Pages. (aka SERP. See? You’ve already learned three…
Tuna’s Well-Formed Teams: Helping Your Business Reach the Finish Line
When you think about high-performance racing, you probably envision the racetrack, the cars, and especially the person behind the wheel – the driver. But believe it or not, there’s more that goes into winning a race than just the talent and expertise of the driver. In fact, a single race car driver has a High-Performance Racing Team made up of hundreds of people behind them that all hold agile values. There’s more that goes into winning a race than just the talent and expertise of the driver. The same is true for your business. The driver (the business owner) is…
How to Drive Traffic to Your Website Explained with Delicious Flapjacks!
Whether you’ve used a pre-made mix (a templated theme) or made it from scratch and it’s just the right shape, size and consistency, once your website is “cooked” and ready to launch, the recipe doesn’t always account for what’s next – but your business should. Once your website is ‘cooked’ and ready to launch, the recipe doesn’t always account for what’s next – but your business should. We pondered this over breakfast one day, and we got to thinking. Often times, businesses overlook what comes after the “flapjack” (their website) is done and miss so many opportunities to learn these…
10 Things You Can Do Right Now to Improve Your Digital Marketing ROI
If you could give your business’ digital marketing strategy a grade, what would it be? Let’s face it, every organization has areas to improve and optimize. But with limited resources, why prioritize marketing? Consider this: only 29% of people want to talk to a salesperson to learn more about a product, while 62% will consult a search engine. (HubSpot, 2016) If your website isn’t properly optimized, the likelihood of being visible when your customers are looking is going to be low. Not only this but if your customers want to learn about your product or service before speaking with you,…
The Top 5 Ways to Boost Your Company’s Online Reputation Management
Online reputation management may be one of the most important actions your company can take in 2019 whether you are B2C or a B2B. People trusting word of mouth recommendations for purchasing decisions is a tale as old as time. But we now live in a world where consumers no longer have to know someone personally who has used a product or service to learn about it. Online reviews are the word of mouth of the digital age. In fact, 85% of consumers trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations (BrightLocal). So when was the last time you checked…
Tuna Brown Bag Series: About Content Planning
By Erin Ramczyk, Senior Content & Marketing Strategist Introduction Recently, Tuna Traffic relaunched our Brown Bag “lunch and learn” sessions once a month, to fulfill our internal mission of strengthening our well-formed teams. Lucky for you, we decided we couldn’t keep all the new content strategy and tactics to ourselves. Here is the latest installment of our Brown Bag series: Content Planning. First and Foremost: What Is Content Planning? According to the MarTech Dictionary, “Content planning refers to the process of determining the subject matter, format, timing and frequency, and delivery channels for information that is intended to help and build rapport with (a) target audience(s)….
The Power of Digital Marketing and Hype of Bird Box
When you think of marketing, you generally think of a cohesive message from a business to an audience — not the Netflix thriller Bird Box, however […]
8 Great Reasons to Celebrate Tuna’s 8th Birthday
It’s Tuna Traffic’s 8th birthday! From exciting growth and some incredible projects for clients to overhauling our space, adding new Tunas to our team, and more, we’ve got a lot to celebrate. Here are 8 things we’re celebrating, and while it may be OUR birthday, we’ve got some gifts for YOU! 1. It’s all about our clients. Our clients are the reason we get to do the incredible work that we do. These cool client projects are living, breathing examples of the kinds of work we live for: 2. NEW Tunas: Meet Angela, Senior Marketing Strategist. We simply could not do…