White River Marine Group has dozens of retail locations, from Bass Pro Shops to a growing roster of independent dealers. As the new year arrived, they decided to try something new. Forrester calls it Through Channel Marketing Automation (TCMA). The goal: When local boat buyers researched a very considered purchase online — a $20,000 to $100,000 fishing boat — they found a White River dealer first...
However, the challenge with traditional advertising is simple: you’re trying to reach a mass audience, a majority of whom are not in the market for your products or services today. As a result, most of your marketing spend is wasted with only anecdotal data to verify your return on investment...
At the end of my freshman year at Washington & Lee, I was mired in the all-consuming question: what do I want to do with my life? There are infinite possibilities, and in our rapidly evolving world, it’s near-impossible to predict the job market. I began investigating opportunities in the local tech sphere, and Netsertive quickly caught my eye. The company, one of Inc. 5000’s fastest-growing private companies...
As a business owner, it’s critical to understand how your digital advertising budget is being spent. Determining the value behind your subscription costs will help you better understand the value you’re receiving from your marketing vendor. Professional digital vendors will know that it takes technology, expertise, and a real investment to win the auction for new customers...
The move to multichannel marketing is no longer a question; it’s evident that it's a necessity. Shoppers are everywhere, utilizing multiple channels across digital devices over a period of days or weeks. Businesses need to be visible where shoppers spend a majority of their time...
A study conducted by eMarketer.com projects that ad spending on digital video will see substantial growth over the next few years while ad spending on TV will decrease for the first time since 2008. While the earlier decrease in TV ad spend was likely linked to the 2008 financial crisis, the current trend seems to indicate a true shift toward digital video as an advertising channel...
In part three of our "How to Thrive in the National Retail Evolution" webinar, Tim McLain, Segment Marketing Manager at Netsertive, walks attendees through a trio of national retailer case studies, showing how new through channel marketing technology that drives localized and personalized digital messages to new customers that drive them in-store to buy...
It’s been a few weeks since the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica news erupted around the collection of personally identifiable information of up to 87 million Facebook users that Cambridge Analytica began collecting in 2014. In response to this situation, Facebook has announced a handful of new initiatives that will give users more control over how their information is shared and used for advertising purposes. But what do these new initiatives mean for advertisers? Here's a simple guide...
It’s a hot day outside. Just as you are wishing you had an ice cream cone in your hand, a flashing notification pops up on your phone screen. It’s an offer from the Ben & Jerry’s shop two blocks away. This is the potential of location-based marketing...
When running ads on Facebook, you have many options on where those ads are served. The locations where your ads can be served are called “placements.” While the placements you can use will be dependent on your campaign objective, in this blog we will give you an overview of your options across each of Facebook’s four advertising platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Audience Network, and Messenger...