Categories for Digital
Content. The little seven letter word that everyone is talking about. And you should be, too. In this age of marketing, content is paramount. What is content? Content is anything you put out that people engage with. Articles, blogs, social posts, radio, TV, online advertising, anything and everything. When you begin to think about a new campaign, you have to think about the new campaign as an ecosystem. This ecosystem contains all the ways you plan to reach potential customers or clients. As the marketer, you must have a strong content ecosystem. Today’s content ecosystems look vastly different than content... Read More
You’ve probably heard it before time and time again, mobile advertising is the hot trend right now. But mobile is more than a trend, it is here to stay. This year looks to be a breakout year for mobile advertising and for a good reason. “Consumers today are addicted to instant gratification and ads need to serve up not only what they’re trying to sell, but the benefits as well,” said Tamara Green, AcrobatAnt Media Director. As mobile advertising has matured, so have the data companies. From precise geo-location data to more refined demographics, consumer data collected through mobile advertising... Read More
Since the advent of the Internet, people have always put their personal style into the websites they build. Now more than ever, user experience and how a user will interact with a website is in the forefront of designers’ minds. And recently, that also means taking into consideration how a website performs. Specifically how long it takes to load a page. In a recent study, data showed that if a page takes longer than three seconds to load, nearly 40 percent of users will leave the site. Let that sink in a minute. Your website has less than three seconds... Read More
If your business is spending time and resources to develop emails for current or prospective clients, take note of these three tips to boost your open rates. 1. Segment your list. There are many ways to segment, and the benefits of segmenting your list at different stages of the email cycle are endless. If you have demographics or other insights to segment your list from the beginning—do it. It can be as simple as changing the primary photo used to better resonate with the target of the email or vary the content of the email completely based on the... Read More
Marshall McLuhan famously said, “The medium is the message.” But what exactly did he mean? Well, we won’t get into that today; however, the quote lends itself to advertising quite well. Because the medium you end up using dictates your message. Whether you are using billboards, radio, television, print or online, each one is good for different types of messages. The image above is a best-use list of which medium is best for what messaging. AcrobatAnt Marketing & Advertising AcrobatAnt.com 1336 East 15th Street Tulsa, OK 74120 918-938-7912
Marketers who are driving growth and building stronger brand connections with their audiences are doing so by providing value outside of a purchasing need. As we’ve discussed in our last few blog posts on content marketing, consumers have crept into the driver’s seat and have virtually shut off the world of traditional marketing as we know it. It doesn’t matter whether you sell to businesses or consumers—a buyer is a consumer and vice versa; their behavior is what they’ve acquired in their retail experiences. A consumer’s brand experience begins online. Marketing’s dependence on mass promotional campaigns with goals of... Read More
Marketers have always needed to find ways of conveying important information in useful and entertaining ways and social media is the communication workhorse that can effectively and efficiently do it. Social media didn’t create content marketing. Content marketing has been around as long as people have been selling services. What started as published content on the Web, progressed from text to rich content like videos, infographics, e-books, etc. Now that there is more content out there than anyone can reasonably find and consume, we’re applying personalization technology to filter the barrage of information coming at us from all angles... Read More
Content has always been an important part of many marketing plans, but somewhere along the line, something changed old-school marketing into the data-driven digital beast we are all clamoring to master. That thing is called the internet, and it has transformed marketing communications into a completely new animal. Your customers don’t care about you, your products, your services…they care about themselves, their wants and their needs. Today’s content marketing is about creating interesting information your customers are passionate about so they actually pay attention to you. If you prefer a more formal definition, let’s use Content Marketing Institute’s version that... Read More
Traditional media may not be able to reach the younger generation you’re trying to engage, but online radio (Pandora, Spotify) and smart TV (Roku, AppleTV, Xbox, Hulu, Amazon basic, etc.) are strategic ways to supplement traditional spending with online spending. These tactics can be highly targeted, effective with high click through rates (CTRs) and you can tie them back to ROI with good reporting. Is the investment is worth the engagement? That depends on client’s goals. Keep in mind: Cover traditional media first—online, radio and smart TV are designed to supplement local media These elements can provide a direct link to your website/webpage... Read More
Evaluating your entire website from a Search engine optimization (SEO) standpoint can be daunting, but it is well worth the effort. Assigning descriptive names for pages, images and graphics can improve your ranking. And because search engines crawl your site through navigation links, creating good ones helps shorten the path between consumers and your core information and your path to success. The keys to keywords. Adding keywords to your web copy is a great idea, but using key phases is an even better way to improve searches. Density of keywords adds power to searches, but arbitrarily repeating them is not... Read More
