Succeed with Virtual Conferences
Everyone is scrambling to do virtual trade shows, but how do you make them work? To understand what's happening and how to leverage virtual events we'll: Share our experience in an early-on virtual show [...]
The 5 metrics that really matter
Updated Mar 2020: Originally published in iMediaConnection.com on October 31, 2012. Since its inception, digital has been perceived as being the most measurable media. But most of that measurement has been meaningless. It’s time digital [...]
Analytics blindness and false expectations
The other day I was thinking about how digital marketing programs often get caught-up chasing a metric that doesn't fully take into account the full picture and I was reminded of the parable of the [...]
Using Social Media Targeting to Find Needles in the Foster Family Haystack
Presented at the 2018 AMA Nonprofit conference in Washington DC With nonprofit marketing’s tight budgets, audience targeting can be dismissed as prohibitively costly despite its importance in ensuring solid results and high ROI. Hillside Family [...]
Driving Credit Union Membership with Digital Marketing
Peter Platt presented the latest trends in how to use digital marketing to drive credit union membership at the CUNA M&BD conference in San Francisco. His presentation included: Financial Digital Trends Measurement Techniques Digital User [...]
6 Ways to get the most from your Google Grant AdWords Account
You start off with great news…your nonprofit organization just got accepted into the Google Grant program and you’ve got up to $10,000 a month of free advertising! But then you start your campaigns and [...]
Millennial opportunities for local financial services organizations
There's a common misconception millenials don't want or care about having a local bank...they can do everything they need online. However, the data suggests a different story. In a study released by the Harris [...]
The power of frenemies
The AOR has been replaced with a composite team of in house resources, agency partners, solutions providers and publishers all working together. So how do you make these complex teams work well together?
The 5 superpowers of banner ads we’ve overlooked
Banner ads have gotten a bad rap over the years -- and it's mostly our own fault...
5 things great bosses always do
The digital industry is comprised of an odd bunch of characters...