What does this mean for marketers? In recent years, there has been widespread abuse of Google’s search algorithms, and now, the old SEO tricks no longer work. Or, if they do, they don’t work for long. That’s because Google and other search engines now prioritize human signals and social proof over sheer quantity of backlinks […]
How well do you really know your customers? Consider how Netflix, for example, has thoroughly embedded itself into our cultural zeitgeist. It has earned the business of more than a third of U.S. households, while Amazon Prime comes in at a distant second in the streaming world, claiming just 13% of U.S. households, and Hulu […]
For years, word-of-mouth marketing has been the most trusted form of advertising. In a Nielsen study across 58 countries, 84 percent of recipients said they put the greatest trust in recommendations from friends and family. Social media hasn’t changed that. But what the proliferation of blogs and social platforms has done is create a megaphone […]