One of the most efficient types of targeting in Facebook (second to retargeting, of course) is lookalike audience targeting. Lookalike targeting is basically a targeting type that allows you to use first party data (e.g. customer lists, remarketing lists, etc.) as a seed audience to find new users with very similar characteristics, behaviors, and traits.
It’s no secret e-book launches are usually boring, and oftentimes dreadfully so. This is because, well, it’s hard to be creative with yet another PDF launch — especially if you’re in a saturated market
A former colleague at Forrester Research recently published a study that described his view of the future of online marketing. The study is available to Forrester clients only, but the crux of the argument is laid out in a blog post: Why Google – Not Facebook – Will Build The Database… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article
In the last Business Intelligence track session of the day, Keith Messick, VP of Marketing at Topsy, and Jon Morris, Founder and CEO of Rise Interactive, spoke about moving beyond the simple desire for “likes” to focus more on how tracking, testing, and targeting can help you create more influential social media campaigns.
If you asked a major brand ten years ago if consumers would share their life’s details, regardless of how mundane, online and, as a result, become the biggest producers of online content and wielders of influence, you would have gotten a firm “no” and likely a confused stare. In the past, major news and entertainment The post Top Trends for 2013: Marketing Moves On appeared first on Search Engine Journal .