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In college, my roommate had her mattress mailed to our apartment—which sounded weird, because how was that going to fit in a mail truck—and it showed up in a box. A full-size mattress was folded up and squeezed into a box and dropped off on our porch.  

Direct-to-consumer businesses are changing the game. For instance, if you were only able to buy a mattress at Sleepy’s or Mattress...

Regardless of how you feel about the company personally or professionally, Amazon is too prominent to ignore. For some ecommerce businesses, selling on Amazon is simply a must.

But it’s definitely—DEFINITELY—not for everyone. It’s expensive, confusing, and competitive. Depending on what you sell...

It’s time for another round-up of the online advertising news, folks. Let’s see what’s been going on recently in the worlds of search, social, and ecommerce.

Facebook makes it easier to control ad placements

If you’re currently running—or have ever run—contextual advertisements, you understand how...

Audience targeting is just what it sounds like: the practice of using data to segment consumers by demographics or interests in order to find the holy grail that is the right person on the right device at the right moment.

With audience targeting, you’re more likely to reach consumers interested in your products or services with relevant messaging. It also decreases the odds you’ll...

The current competitive landscape dictates that to survive, you must keep growing. And so businesses employ all sorts of strategies and tactics to sustain this growth.

One of the most historically successful and proven methods for growing small businesses has been email list building. That’s because having a quality email list offers lots of advantages. An email list...

This post was co-written by Gordon Donnelly and Patrick Henry Carrera.

If you’re a reader of the WordStream blog, you may have heard of our Google Ads Benchmarks. Each year, we reach into our giant pool of client data looking for an answer to one persistent, ubiquitous question for...

This isn’t going to be a blog post about the importance of semicolons or serial commas in your content, because whether or not you use these punctuation marks doesn’t really matter.

Okay, Oakhurst Dairy would disagree—and for good reason. Last year...

Over the last few years, Instagram has become a powerful marketing tool for ecommerce. The numbers speak for themselves: The platform has over one billion monthly active users, 80% follow at least one business account, and 60% of people discover products on Instagram.

With the growing demand for ecommerce on Instagram, the platform...

Generating leads with PPC campaigns can be challenging. Generating high-quality leads is even harder. 

In ecommerce, if someone has the money to buy a product, they can make that purchase right on the site. One person’s money is just as good as the next. Once the sale is made, revenue is tracked and, if all...

With more than three billion people now using social media every single day, it’s important to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to your brand or client’s social media activities.

But this can be tricky when social media keeps changing. There...