ClickZ Experts

Commentary, opinion, advice, and thought leadership from interactive marketing's leading practitioners.

09/03/2010
Setting Expectations With Your Copy

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Are the marketing messages on your website as clear as they can be? Consider these examples.


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09/03/2010
Corporate Blogs in a Social World

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Google, Adobe, and Intuit's Mint.com demonstrate that corporate blogs can thrive.


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09/02/2010
How to Help Your Business Prosper: 3 Questions to Ask

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Digital marketers have access to insights that can help their business weather tough economic times.


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09/02/2010
Best Sites, Best Advertising Opportunities

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The best websites of 2010 all offer a unique take on their respective content category and the ability to attract millions of engaged Internet users.


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09/02/2010
3 Things That Will Jumpstart Mobile Advertising

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Before marketers allocate bigger budgets for mobile advertising, there are lessons to learn from "traditional" online advertising.


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09/02/2010
Click-to-Open Ratio and Its Shortcomings

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Is click-through rate a better success metric for e-mail marketing campaigns?


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09/02/2010
Personally Personalized Ads

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Mass customization does not spell certain death for analytics. Quite the opposite.


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09/01/2010
Moving Beyond Behavioral Ads

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Ad networks and exchanges offer ways to reach qualified consumers and gain consumer insights. Consider these three ways.


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09/01/2010
A Deliverable E-mail Address Does Not a Relationship Make

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Mailbox providers don't think of "engagement" the same way that marketers do. Consider these six approaches to better connect with your subscribers.


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09/01/2010
SEO Versus PPC: Where's Your Budget Going in 2011?

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Some businesses blindly spend money on paid search advertising without giving any thought to search engine optimization. Here's why they are throwing away money.


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08/31/2010
Facebook Ad Network - Is It Coming?

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Exploring new Facebook possibilities – unprecedented targeting to a massive audience and a new ad network layered over the social graph.


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08/31/2010
Asking the Right Questions

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Questions from the search industry and how to shift their focus in the right direction.


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08/31/2010
Acquisition Marketing - Where Is the True Value?

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Measuring the cost per click or cost per acquisition is not good enough any more. Here's another approach.


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08/31/2010
Walk the Line

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Industry partners and marketers walk a fine line between leveraging data for more effective audience targeting and ensuring consumer privacy protection.


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08/30/2010
30 Do's and Don'ts for E-mail Rock Stars

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The simple ways you can ensure your e-mail marketing expert status.


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08/30/2010
Limitations of Personas in Landing Page Testing

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The elements, advantages, and drawbacks of personas used in usability testing.


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08/30/2010
Do's and Don'ts for Your Search Campaigns

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25 things to remember to do and not do for your PPC and SEO campaigns.


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08/30/2010
The Great Click Debate

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Do people need to click on your ads for them to matter? Or is there value to getting exposure to the brand?


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08/27/2010
Why You Need to Really Care About Touchscreens

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Touchscreens are the most welcome of all technologies, in that they don't make things more complex or force us to try to learn how to use them.


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08/27/2010
Is Your Corporate Metabolism Killing You?

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Companies that don't choose to be authentically customer-centric and learn to quickly communicate, iterate, and adapt to change will struggle.


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08/27/2010
The 'Chaos Scenario': Will You Be Ashes, or Green Shoots?

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Part 3 of a series on building marketing information assets.


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08/26/2010
Marrying Media Buying and Social Marketing

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Ford, Clorox, and Arby's use their media buys to support their social media marketing efforts - and vice versa.


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08/26/2010
Facebook - Places to Go and People to See

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Advertisers would do well to take advantage of Facebook Places to reach consumers where they're searching and sharing.


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08/26/2010
Back to (E-mail) School Tips and Tricks

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Fifteen back-to-school ideas to ensure you ace your year-end report card.


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08/26/2010
SEO (Almost Always) First

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A look at why SEO should come first from a chronological, priority, and budgeting perspective.


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08/25/2010
Social Media Is Not Free: Here's Why

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Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare are free. TweetDeck is (still) free. So, social media is free, right? Wrong.


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08/25/2010
SEO and Integration With Social Media

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Why does social media matter to search marketers?


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08/25/2010
Time to Revamp Your B2B Newsletter

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Design a B2B newsletter that informs your subscribers and helps them improve their job performance with these three steps.


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08/25/2010
The Rise of the Demand Side Platform

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A close look at the evolution of automated bidding systems that place the right ads on the right pages for the best price. Last in a three-part series.


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08/24/2010
6 Reasons Why Retailers Must Adopt Mobile Marketing

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Retail needs mobile. And mobile needs retail. Consumers expect solid service and integration between digital platforms, with mobile at the center.


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08/24/2010
User-Generated Content Becomes Front and Center With Google

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Google Caffeine and Rich Snippets gives user-generated content a lot more weight.


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08/24/2010
Branding - The Next Frontier of SEM

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The companies that leave a burning impression on their prospects will be the ones who will be the leaders in this next period of growth.


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08/24/2010
The Backdoor to Social Media

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Five tips for easing advertisers into social media advertising.


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08/23/2010
5 Ways to Integrate Stories Into Your Social Media Marketing

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Marketers need to create powerful stories that your audience wants to hear, engage with, and share.


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08/23/2010
Remarketing 101

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Not only can remarketing help increase your conversion rate but it will also leave a branding impression on your consumers.


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08/23/2010
It's Not About the Send

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The next time you're rushing to meet a send deadline, step back and ask yourself if the audience you're sending to is going to be moved to action because of your e-mail.


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08/23/2010
Search and Display: Has Convergence Arrived?

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A Q&A with Dax Hamman, VP display media at iCrossing.


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08/20/2010
What's the Next Game Changer in Digital Marketing?

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Marketers and researchers size up geo-location services, mobile, and the blurring of lines between search and display advertising.


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08/20/2010
Of Mice and Change

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We are so concerned with moving the online consumer to the mobile channel that we forget we're assuming that consumers are online/Web customers first.


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