Digital Marketing Budgets Growing as Percent of Revenue – SEO/SEM Winning, Social/Video Stalled?

One of my favorite industry documents is the CMO Survey .  I always look at it as a decent indicator of where the industry is going and what seems to be driving trends, so I can help clients wisely adjust their own programs with good information.  I always look at it from an SEO/PPC point of view, as well as budget related insights.

Scott Clark Awarded Google’s “Best of the Best” Specialist Partner Status

Scott Clark of BuzzMaven, Inc. has been granted the elite “Google Partner Specialist” status by the Mountain View, CA-based online marketing giant.  The program required completion of rigorous exams in Google’s Search, Display, Mobile, Video and Shopping ad networks as well as demonstrated high levels of client historical performance. Google considers the Specialist Partner status…

15 Actionable Thoughts About Content Marketing, Social Media Distribution and SEO

Content marketing is the new SEO.  It is centered on irresistible content and amplified by social media.  It includes blog posts, articles, white papers, videos, podcasts, and infographics.  87% of marketers use social media to distribute the content. Search engines use hundreds of signals to decide who ranks for a given query.  The most important…

The Multi-Screen Challenge and Opportunity in Online Marketing – New Research

We are a nation that carries tasks from screen to screen, using desktop PCs, laptops, TV, smartphones and tablets.   According to new research from Google, 90% of people move between devices to accomplish a goal.  Google’s research set out to understand this inter-device reltionship. There are 2 primary ways we “Multi Screen” “Sequential screening”…