Want to expand your Facebook ad targeting to more qualified audiences? Wondering how to build effective Facebook audiences that deliver results? In this article, you’ll learn the six types of warm audiences you can target with Facebook ads and how to scale to many different lookalike audiences. You’ll also discover how to find cold audiences […] The post How to Expand Your Facebook Ad Targeting to New Audiences appeared first on Social Media Examiner | Social Media Marketing .

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30-second summary: Exponea created a Knowledgecard, CDP vs DMP vs CRM, which serves as a handy cheat sheet to help clarify the definition and purpose of each martech solution. Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) collect first-party data from online and offline sources in real-time, creating a unified view of each customer that enables ultra-personalized targeting for marketing campaigns. Data Management Platforms (DMPs) segment anonymous third-party data from other websites that can be used to create audience segments for marketing campaigns. Customer Relationship Platforms (CRMs) are utilized by customer-facing teams, including sales, customer support, and client/customer advocates to facilitate managing a company’s relationships with existing or potential customers. CDPs, CMS, SaaS… the world of marketing technology (martech) is punctuated by acronyms representing a host of technologies that can be confusing to parse through, particularly when companies are evaluating what they need to add to their tech stack. Chiefmartec’s infamous graphic, the Martech …

30-second summary: Data-intelligence provider Infogroup published a guide that contains five use cases that agencies can use to better serve the changing needs of brands and clients. The use cases cover a variety of topics from creating new client pitches to developing personas using intelligence, and improving campaign performance. You can download the free guide, How Consumer Data Can Deliver the Ultimate Competitive Advantage for Agencies, from ClickZ. Infogroup is an intelligence company that offers a variety of data-driven products and services for agencies, marketers, and brands. The company—soon to be renamed Data Axle —provides data solutions to enterprise-level companies, SMBs, nonprofits, agencies and more. Headquartered in Texas, Infogroup was founded over 45 years ago. During that time, they’ve built two of the industry’s most robust business and consumer databases. Some of their top-tier clients include Aetna, eBay, Allstate, and March of Dimes. Infogroup recently published a paper aimed at …

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Your website is bustling with activity. Visitors are constantly interacting with it. But are you taking full advantage of everything that’s happening on your website for your paid marketing? Every interaction a visitor has with your website… a pageview, a click… can be used to better understand your audience . And when you understand your audience you can target them in a smarter way, and get more bang for your buck from your paid campaigns on Facebook and Google. Both Facebook and Google refer to these user interactions as Events . They allow you to track them using a tracking code installed on your website. What Are Events ? Events are user interactions that don’t involve loading another page on your website. In e-commerce, the prime example of an event is Add to Cart. Another event can be filling out a field in a form, as opposed to a form …

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30-second summary: Apple announced that it will phase out IDFA, an advertising ID that allows it to track user behavior within the app environment. Advertisers will lose the ability to target narrow audience segments, cap frequencies, launch retargeting campaigns, and get granular reporting. It is still hard to predict how many users will decide to opt-out and become untargetable or which new attribution models will prevail. Advertisers will need to rely on Apple’s network API SKAdnetwork or one of the in-app ID solutions that will emerge in response to the IDFA phase-out. iOS devices offer lucrative audience segments for advertisers, with over 720 million users with above-average income concentrated in Tier 1 countries. There’s only one pitfall, it is a closed ecosystem and a single-handed decision by Apple can send entire industries built around iOS into chaos. This is precisely what happened when during WWDC, Apple announced that it would …

When I first started out in marketing, I thought traffic was everything. I wanted to be as big as companies like HubSpot . Just look at the image above and you’ll see how many visitors they are getting. They generate 29.61 million visitors a month from 11.74 million people. And those visitors produce roughly 10 billion dollars of market cap . Now, let’s look at NeilPatel.com. Can you guess how many visitors I’m getting each month? I’m generating roughly 8.717 million visitors a month from 3.616 million people. When you look at it from a unique visitor perspective, HubSpot is getting 3.24 times more unique visitors than me. So, in theory, I should be worth roughly 3 times less than them, right? Well, technically I’m not even worth 1/10th of them. Not even close. Why is that? It’s because I didn’t go after the right target audience, while HubSpot did. …

30-second summary: Too often we self-silo because it’s hard to control and attribute the breadth of potential revenue-generating sources back to each and every activity. But if you want to survive, it’s the job. The ultimate goal for marketing, sales and your entire organization is to achieve predictable revenue growth. Now, with an AI-driven account engagement platform, we have the means to measure our effectiveness, not for attribution credit or as a goal in and of itself, but as a way to optimize our campaigns and budget to maximize predictable outcomes. It’s much easier to predict revenue from a campaign aimed at a small segment of highly targeted accounts than it is from 1,000 leads who filled out your contact us form. Look at account engagement as a critical measurement for your account based segments with respect to timing, specifically how to identify and pursue “in market” accounts. Start with …