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According to research from the Content Marketing Institute, 85% of B2B marketers say lead generation is a top priority, but 44% rate their efforts as neutral when it boils down to effectiveness.

That’s not to say content marketing isn’t a valuable tactic—it is. But it...

Recently, Google made an announcement that should prove immensely impactful for online retailers who sell to shoppers in the US: You can now include user-generated images in the Google Shopping reviews submitted by your happy customers. For now, prospects will only see your customers’ photos when browsing on...

Since 2011, WordStream’s award-winning Google Ads Performance Grader has been helping time-crunched business owners and digital marketers figure out how to most efficiently optimize their paid search campaigns. Used by hundreds of thousands of advertisers to analyze over $3 billion in aggregate spend, the Grader is a free, fast, and...

Starting with a blank page is never a good idea. For me, it’s the quickest way to realize I need to check my inbox one more time. Or finally organize the files on my desktop. Or run to grab a coffee so that I can focus. (I don’t think I need to tell you that these coffees don’t do much for focus.)

The bottom line is that, whether I’m writing an email or a blog post or a tagline, if I...

Machine learning and automation can seem pretty terrifying for PPC: These technological advances could lead to the end of human-run campaigns in favor of robots that will never have the adaptability to scale a campaign and will certainly never have that “human touch.”

A big part of these fears come from the inevitable lack of control delegating tasks to machines represents. Digital...

Most of us love holiday rituals and traditions like gift-giving, so it’s no wonder that 40% of consumers begin shopping before Halloween.

For brands, this means that the holiday shopping season is already here. To satisfy holiday shoppers, most brands start working on their holiday sales campaigns in advance and brands get...

Picture it: Your boss just gave you permission to go to a conference in, say, Hawaii. Amazing! What a dream come true that your company will pay for your flights and hotel to paradise. So you google the event and try to find where to sign up—and when it's happening again and which hotel they recommend booking. But instead of finding a one-stop shop full of answers, you have to click and click...

LinkedIn is the best platform for B2B targeting in the PPC space, bar none.

In recent years, LinkedIn has become a more popular destination for users to consume content. Rather than seeing what your great aunt ate for lunch on Facebook or hearing someone yell about politics on Twitter, you can check LinkedIn to see what your contacts are up to and what topics are trending in your...

When it comes to your website, you need to give your customers a terrific experience to get them hooked on your brand.

Imagine you launch the perfect website for your business. Everything is flawless—the layout, the performance, the navigation, the copy. It all creates the dream experience for your users, and people rave over it.

Well, you’ll only be able to make that happen if...

Best practices. Man is that a buzzword or what? Personally, I hate saying the phrase. I hate assuming there is always one, standard way to do a certain task or strategy in a PPC account. Not every account is the same, and I will never look at any two accounts as the same.

But sometimes there are tactics or strategies that just work. No matter how much you embrace the testing mentality...