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Leveraging UGC to Increase Organic Traffic

| Zarina Lam Stanford

Shoppers use social media for inspiration, and Google for research and product comparisons; sometimes, it’s a product description page. In every case, UGC helps increase brand and product visibility wherever shoppers are searching. It boosts SEO in a multitude of ways. Here are some tips to help you leverage it effectively.

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5 Branding Truths That Never Go Out of Style

| Maureen Plowman

There are a few branding truths that never go out of style when building a new brand story. The identity of your company and the experience you are providing for your customers and potential customers have never been more important in today’s competitive markets. To help you succeed, here are the top 5 truths about branding.

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Total Information Awareness: Why It Matters for Marketers

| Gerard Daher

Marketers who make sure their team – in fact, their entire organization – has easy access to critical first- and third-party data can achieve total information awareness nirvana. They can use data-driven insights to personalize their marketing strategies, acquire new customers, reduce churn, launch new products and mitigate risk.

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Ad Fatigue, and the Cure

| Justin Ohanessian

Are your ad campaigns receiving fewer clicks than they used to? Are you having trouble generating leads? Are you dissatisfied with your current lack of engagements? If so, your digital marketing may be suffering from ad fatigue. The good news: It’s fixable.

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Facebook Remarketing For Beginners

| Melissa Harmon

Facebook remarketing can be effective as your audience already knows you or your brand. With this prior knowledge, you can run ads that show what they want, like the stuff left in their shopping cart. And as you’ll know later on, you can use retargeting on Facebook to recapture your audience’s attention.

Ecommerce Returns and Their Role in Marketing

| Dan Nevin

If a retail marketer’s current customer segmentation is made without taking ecommerce returns data into account, then it’s hard to know what the real value of customers are, and segmentation and targeting decisions are thrown into question. Ultimately, this could mean that marketing effectiveness ends up well below its potential.

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Private Label Growth: Empathetic Marketing is Key

| Jennifer Kenyon

If you really want to take your private label brands to the next level, embrace empathetic marketing in all that you do. This is especially true when it comes to creating a meaningful digital presence that builds relationships and drive sales. Shelf placement and pricing strategies alone won’t get private label products into shopping carts.

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Setting Up Product Recommendation Quizzes for Success

| Jan Soerensen

Product recommendation quizzes allow merchants to grasp the holy grail — zero-party data — information that customers intentionally share with you. Shoppers will gladly provide their information when your quiz is helpful and respectful. They won’t if it’s too complex or if it stands in the way of their shopping journey.

Full-Funnel Optimization: Cultivating Success

| Mark Aronoff

Instead of examining their funnel from a sales or marketing-focused perspective, marketing and sales need to work together to examine how both of their activities contribute to conversions. This perspective, called full funnel optimization, is essential to maximizing your business’s revenue.

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CPG Brands, Know the New Ad Playbook

| Jordan Rost

Long before DTCs and DNVBs rode social, mobile, and ecommerce to steal mindshare and market share, the earliest, largest CPG brands were built with broad reach on television. Ever since, a digital divide has separated winners and losers. Now, with streaming hot, TV has joined the upstarts in the CPG digital marketers’ basket.