We talk a lot about how important split testing is. Split testing (or “A/B testing”) allows you to test multiple variations of your ad campaigns to see your audience responds to, and from there you can start to work out why. Before you actually test your theories, after all, they are just that– theories. But how exactly should you split test your campaigns? How many factors of your ads should you be testing, and how do you budget for it, …
Author: Ana Gotter
Ana Gotter
Ana Gotter is a business writer specializing in social media and content marketing, though she writes on a variety of other niches and subjects. She can be contacted at anagotter.com.
So much of what we do is marketers is hyper-focused on our specific, niche audiences. This ranges from copywriting strategies to interesting targeting to choosing what times we post on social media. It’s complex, but it’s tailored to our audience, so it works. While audiences all want vastly different things in products and services, the good news is that buyer behavior overall is relatively consistent. We’re all driven by similar psychological principles that affect when we buy, why we buy, …
Video marketing is so commonplace now that it’s hard to imagine a world without it. No commercials, no YouTube ads, no brand awareness campaigns or vine-styled content going viral on social media. And yet there was a time when the very first video advertising was actually the first and all brand new. In this post, we’re going to take a look at some of the most significant videos that left their mark on us, changing the world of marketing as …
Facebook Ads has long been used to attract cold audiences and usher them along the digital sales funnel with the hopes of turning them into leads and then customers. Retargeting made that process easier, but lead generation, in particular, was sometimes still difficult because mobile users didn’t want to take the time to fill out all those forms on their phones. Facebook’s lead generation ads changed that. About two years ago, Facebook rolled out a mobile-only ad format (which now …
If you’re looking through your Facebook feed, what’s one of the first things that might actually get you to stop scrolling? For many people, the answer to that question is “video.” Auto-playing video– even without sound-– pretty much demands attention long enough that it gets users engaged and wanting to watch. That initial ability to get a user to stop scrolling is important, and video ads have it in spades. A lot of brands, however, still struggle when it comes …