Kayak Marketing Blog (13)

Digital marketing insights.

Sales, Marketing, and Business insights from Randy Milanovic, a Buzz Sumo Top 100 Digital Marketing Influencer.

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Why My Contact Form Is Not The Best Place to Pitch Me
Here at Kayak, we have a pretty open stance about ethics when it comes to sales and marketing – we prefer an inbound, attraction-based approach where prospects seek us out based on our being helpful and valued. We’re simply not in the habit of thrusting ourselves into the faces of prospects.
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12 Ways to Spot the Snake Oil in your SEO
Imagine for a moment that we travelled back in time to the 1800s, into the dusty centre of an old Wild West town and transported the local snake oil salesman right off his wagon, forward into 2015. How hard would it be for him or her to adjust to the present day? Possibly not that challenging actually, for there’s still plenty of decent (though uninformed) businesses searching for SEO answers.
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What You Need to Know about Local Search Results
Recently, I found myself Googling for “big island real estate” as part of a new client project. Imagine my surprise when a trio of business listings appeared near the top of the page as local search results. Otherwise known as the Local Pack, this group of listings – presumably – is intended to display local (nearby) business listings.
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Marketing Persona Lessons from a Simple Bag of Tea
Sometimes, the most important lessons you can learn about online marketing – and indeed, dealing with people – aren’t the ones you get from blogs, surveys, or brainstorming sessions. In fact, I was recently reminded how important things like perspective and insight are from a simple cup of tea.
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Will Colour Choice Affect Your Website Visitor Experience?
Colour is a part of everything we do. From selecting our clothing for the day, to picking out the vehicle we choose to drive, colour makes a continuous impression on us each and every day, but does it have any impact at all on the websites we choose to visit, and if so, why?
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Copycats, Pigeons, Puppies and Great Thinkers Posts by Yours Truly
I had the great fortune of writing and posting some of my best articles around online marketing ideas over on Social Media Today last year as one of their Best Thinkers. In case you missed my articles there, here is a roundup of a few of my favs, in no particular order:
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Slave-Free Since Always: No Unpaid Marketing Interns
One thing you’ll notice if you stop in to see us at Kayak, is that our team is quiet eclectic. From young people to industry vets, we run the gamut. What you won't see though, are unpaid marketing interns.
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Does Social Engagement Affect Search Results?
Is the most valuable part of your content, the discussion it generates? Can social comments add more authority and semantic search value than many marketers truly appreciate? These were among the questions on my mind when I sought advice from a handful of connections in GPlus (who just happen to also represent some of the top minds in Semantic Search).
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50k Views and 2k Shares From One LinkedIn Pulse Article?
Wouldn’t it be nice if every article was the source of tens of thousands of views, thousands of social shares, and a long list of engaging comments? What a wonderful bit of exposure that would be! Could it happen for you? It happened for me, and I think I know why.
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Doubling Down on Duplicate Content
Not long ago, I shared my opinion that marketers were being overly worried about duplicate content, specifically for sharing their articles and posts in a variety of places.
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Reach Your Audience Wherever They May Be
We all know by now that social media is an important part of building engagement, staying in touch with contacts, and for building our credibility. But can the mechanics of posting to multiple social destinations can get a little bit sticky?
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What LinkedIn Pulse Isn’t Sharing With You
I love LinkedIn Pulse – it’s a great forum for publishing and re-publishing content for a new or different audience that your other platforms. I’m all for anything that connects people on the Net with great content, and Pulse does that well.
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8 Tips About Social Posting for Engagement
Most marketers realize that announcing and sharing their posts on social media sites like Twitter, Google+, or Facebook is an important part of attracting interest. Doing so allows you to alert your connections that you have new content to check out, and could even help jumpstart a conversation with the people you want to get to know.
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7 Tongue-in-Cheek Marketing Predictions for 2015
What will be the future of the Internet and online marketing in 2015? This is a question asked around this time every year. Most of the answers coming from the “experts” are often either vague or completely obvious. So what’s a marketer to do?
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Did the Penguin 3 Update Put Your Website on Thin Ice?
If you are a pro, this might be so last month, but if you are still figuring out the SEO puzzle you’ll want to pay particular attention. It’s likely you’ve already heard of the recent Penguin 3.0 update to Google’s search algorithm (which was first introduced in October but is being rolled out in stages)... What you might not know, however, is what changed and whether you should be worried for your website rankings.
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