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When Traffic Dips: Measuring the "Invisible" ROI of Brand Authority
Peter PlattA sudden dip in organic traffic often feels like a warning light on the dashboard. For years, traffic was the primary tape measure for digital...
Analytics & Reporting
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Scaling Smart: What Startup Founders Get Wrong About Digital Marketing
When it comes to digital marketing for startups, ambition is rarely the problem. Founders are often eager to make noise, build momentum, and flood...
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How AI Is Reshaping Search—and What That Means for Your Marketing Metrics
Search is no longer what it used to be. What was once a list of blue links has transformed into an interactive conversation—one powered by artificial...
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Why Your 2025 Marketing Dashboard Is Lying to You (And How to Fix It)
If your marketing dashboard looks cleaner and more impressive than ever, but your actual business outcomes feel disconnected from those charts, it...
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It’s time we became consenting adults.
(A guide to digital consent requirements) As digital privacy concerns mount, understanding the intricacies of consent has never been more crucial. In...
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Do You Have a Marketing Dashboard or a Kitchen Sink?
Marketing metrics can be highly addictive – there are so many metrics to report on and there’s a natural tendency to want to see them all. However,...
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The 5 Metrics That Really Matter
Since its inception, digital has been perceived as being the most measurable media. But most of that measurement has been meaningless. It’s time...
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Analytics blindness and false expectations
The other day I was thinking about how digital marketing programs often get caught-up chasing a metric that doesn’t fully take into account the full...
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6 trends that will shape digital in 2013
Digital marketing has already had its share of watershed moments. 2013 is not going to be “the year of the [fill in the blank].” Instead, 2013 is...
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“Where” may be more important than “who”
Finally, we can now safely say that the year of mobile has arrived. According to Nielsen, 50% of US mobile phone users now have smartphones. Looking...