The Watermark Innovation Conference is an annual event that examines why innovation is so imperative to the success of companies across all disciplines. Each year industry leaders share cutting edge information, the hottest trends, and the latest innovations from their sectors. Below are our key takeaways. It’s Never Too Late to Embrace Innovation The constant… More »
Technology and Wisdom: Where and How Do They Intersect in Life, Work and Play? (Part 2)
Following up to last week’s post, here’s the second half of what I learned at Wisdom 2.0, a technology and wisdom conference I attended Feb. 14-17 in San Francisco. As I mentioned last week, the conference was about exploring the intersection between technology and wisdom, with leaders from Google, Facebook, Linked In and other tech… More »
Technology and Wisdom: Where and How Do They Intersect in Life, Work and Play? (Part 1)
Taking a break from my usual marketing-specific topics to do a review of a technology and wisdom conference I attended Feb. 14-17 called Wisdom 2.0 in San Francisco. The conference was about exploring the intersection between technology and wisdom, with leaders from Google, Facebook, Linked In and other tech companies with mindfulness leaders such as… More »
Google Acquisition of Nest: Stepping into the Smart Home Revolution
Google has just acquired Nest for $3.2B. That’s a lot of cash for a smart thermostat company, even if it may be an entry into the growing smart home market. I first heard about Nest, when I talked with Trae Vasallo earlier this year. They have been doing an absolutely fantastic job with their design… More »
Google AdWords: The Zen Moment When Your Messaging Hits the Road
We’ve often joked that you know your messaging is tight when you can get it all into a Google Ad. Seriously. With a 25-character headline, and two 35-character description lines, crafting a great on-message Google Ad is a Zen-like exercise in branding elegance. This is often where we find out how “tight” the messaging is,… More »
Three Easy Steps for Raising Your Google AdWords Quality Score
There is a lot of blather about creating quality Google AdWord campaigns and increasing your Quality Score, but it’s really a very simple formula: Target Keyword + Repeat Target Keyword in the Ad + Repeat Target Keyword on your Landing Page = High Quality Score So in the example we had in the prior blog… More »
Do You Know Your Quality Score and How It Affects Your Google AdWords?
Did you know that a poorly executed Google AdWords campaign will make your ads more expensive and less frequent? Yup. Google has a logical system to track and rate the quality of any advertisers campaign. It’s called a “Quality Score.” This makes perfect sense from a user experience perspective. Google is in the business of… More »
Google!
Sheesh, after over a dozen years of trying to decipher Google’s highly secret rubric for search, I think we’ve gotten darn good at it. We’ve catapulted brands to the top of the search heap and seen them maintain that position sometimes for YEARS after we finished our search engine optimization work for them. So we… More »
Social Media is Now Imperative for Business
Some of you may have missed the news last week but I think it’s really important and indicates a sea change in online marketing. If you’ve been ignoring social media for your business, it’s more than time to stop. Last week, Bing announced that it was tightly integrating Facebook, yes Facebook, likes into its search… More »