Retargeting

Every year, many businesses tell themselves that they’ll start working on their Black Friday promo period sales strategy early this year. However, when October comes around, they yet again find themselves scrambling to prepare for the most important sales period of the ear. This is the biggest mistake any business can make, and our Black Friday report our Black Friday retargeting campaigns report, and this article, are designed to help you understand why.

Is it worth reaching users that have already visited our website but didn’t buy anything? Of course! In the case of those consumers, there is still a way to convert them into buyers, but you need to take matters into your own hands. With retargeting, you don’t have to wait for them to come back. You can attract them to your app or mobile website yourself, by providing them with a personalized offer adequate to their needs while they are using their mobile devices – such an advertising technique is called mobile retargeting.

From the printing press to Deep Learning, the history of marketing shadows all our great leaps forward in communications technology. It is the marketer’s job to identify how these novel technologies can be used to reach potential customers, and educate them about products and services that enrich their lives.

The printing press let us create posters, radio and television enabled us to speak to people in their homes, and the internet gave us new ways to sell to people. Today, we’d like to take a moment to dive into how marketers can take advantage of the next big leap forward in technology: Deep Learning.

In an environment where customers have countless ways to engage with a product before purchasing, we need to rethink how we approach marketing activities. To achieve this, marketers often use a concept coined by Google called the “Zero Moment of Truth” (ZMOT). This represents the moment when customers engage with a product or service online before they make any commitments to purchase it.

Making the most of ZMOT is the key to a successful marketing strategy, particularly regarding retargeting, and this article will help you understand how to do just that.

Personalized marketing is about understanding the motivations and tendencies of individuals and then meeting their preferences in design, social engagement, marketing, sales channels, delivery methods, and after-sales care. Ads are, of course, one critical element of this whole, so we’re taking a look at different aged customers to show how you can deliver “a smarter dress code” for online fashion campaigns across the generation gap.

When you run a business, reaching the right customers with your offers is one of the fundamental requirements for success. All of the uncertainty around whether this will still be possible when Google switches off 3rd-party cookies is obviously a worry — especially as things are moving fast and it is difficult to keep up with the news. We can’t all be experts.

Luckily, we have experts on hand so you don’t have to be one. Laurie da Silva and Richard Johnson are hosting a new series of snackable videos on The Cookieless Future. They give a point-by-point breakdown for newcomers and more detailed explanations for those familiar with the subject. Watch the first video now, which talks about whether the end of cookies means the end of advertising. And, if not, what is set to replace them? Get to know more about advertising without cookies.