In a moan heard around the world, Google — and soon thereafter Safari — launched aggressive ad blocking techniques into their popular browsers, prompted by the Coalition for Better Ads. The premise is simple: users should know when advertisers are gathering their personally identifiable information, and make an informed decision about whether or not they allow the advertisers to track them online. To this …
Online discoverability and getting new customers in the door are two of the biggest challenges faced by local businesses today. How do you fit these needs together in one simple package? One of the best options is to create an optimized local presence for your business through the use of geo-targeting. Geo-targeting has been a major marketing buzzword for the past decade …
Last month, Google announced some of their latest advertising features and tools. One stuck out particularly: Responsive Search Ads. While this feature is still in beta, it has the chance to truly revolution digital marketing. According to Google, click rates are already between 5 and 15% higher than they are on their normal search ads. Responsive Ads are made possible by machine …
Do you remember the days when making a video for your brand involved actors, sets, scripts . . . and a massive budget? Fast-forward just a short while to today when a video doesn’t have to be overproduced and overblown in order to be insanely effective for your brand. The emphasis today is allowing your audience to have an authentic engagement …
Most digital marketing professionals have a love/hate relationship with A/B testing. Some love it. Most hate it. The rest of us — we know it’s a necessary evil, but there’s got to be a better way!!! At least in the world of AdWords, that “better way” is coming very soon in the form of Responsive Search Ads. Currently, A/B testing feels like a …
You know we love some PPC marketing here at PBJ Marketing, and we’ve talked a fair bit about Google AdWords in the past. We realized it was time to give a little extra love to AdWords’s stepsister: Bing Ads. While Google AdWords is the rock star of the PPC world, Bing Ads have been slowly yet steadily becoming more relevant …
Marketing is one of the most important tasks a business faces, no matter how big or how small it is. Without a successful marketing strategy, you’ll never be able to find enough new customers to sustain growth. For small businesses, this is especially important. Whether you’re new and trying to dig out a niche in your industry, or well-established and …
A message from our [proud] CEO… Our team at PBJ Marketing works with companies of all sizes and across dozens of sectors to create and develop a market strategy that will help you grow your company. Our marketing tactics are data-driven and focused on long-term growth. We make recommendations with your audience, business objectives, and interests in mind. With the …
One of today’s most trendy tech phrases is The Internet of Things. We all have a vague idea of what it means – our devices today are all connected to the Internet and to each other, whether they’re smartphones, cars, or refrigerators. As consumers and manufacturers, we’re just starting to scratch the surface of what this means and what we …