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  • Agencies are increasingly charging clients for paid search services based on a percentage of spend, according to recent research from WordStream.

  • To get the maximum return on investment from their content marketing and sales teams, company executives need to create a culture that enables those teams to work together. Here's a three-step guide to creating that kind of company atmosphere.

  • Images are key to making your social media posts get noticed. But those images—whether cover photos, profile pics, or visuals in timelines or news feeds—need to be the right display size. The problem? Social platforms often change their guidelines on optimal display sizes. The solution? This infographic.

  • Marketers say that among different types of marketing technologies, automation/email/CRM products are the most effective, according to recent research from Ascend2.

  • The steady growth in the share of US adults who use social media appears to have plateaued, according to recent research from the Pew Research Center.

  • Social media long ago became the place where people voice their opinions on everything, including your brand and products. Also about company leaders, like your CEO or CMO. Which is why social media monitoring exists. But Google Alerts isn't nearly enough. Instead, here are 10 tools that work well.

  • Acquiring new customers is hard. Keeping those customers is less hard—if you listen to them about their needs and wants and preferences. Which is why customer satisfaction surveys are so important. What can you ask about in your customer satisfaction surveys?

  • Although the concept of delivering quality content to educate and build trust with customers is a sound one, actually executing on that idea—in a way that serves both the customer and the marketer—has never been more difficult. But content marketing can—and will—be saved. Here's how.

  • What annoys consumers most about content from brands? Which experiences frustrate people most when consuming content, in general? Adobe surveyed 1,000 US consumers and found the answers to those questions.

  • We marketers have been trying for years to decode the most enigmatic generation of our time, Millennials. But many of them are now marketers themselves, and they have set their sights on the next generation: Gen Z. Here are three ways we can break through to this rising generation.

  • How do you spot room for growth when the local SEO playing field looks too even? When you take a close look you'll find the opportunities for growth are there—and can have direct, measurable impact on both search engine visibility and the bottom line. A future-proof strategy exists.

  • Which brands are the most popular with teens in the United States? Nike, Amazon, Netflix, YouTube, Snapchat, and Instagram are among the favorites, according to recent research from Piper Jaffray.

  • A lot of weekend warriors tend to show up in emergency rooms on Sunday nights. Marketing teams, too, can fall into cycles of intense effort followed by exasperation and, often, failure. But you can avoid common "marketing weekend warrior" scenarios—and market like a fit athlete instead.

  • When writing for marketing, you need to connect with your audience. But first you have to understand who they are and what they care about. To understand what will motivate your potential customers, use empathy mapping. Here's how.

  • All the digital channels and bells and whistles aside, your success as a marketer today still stems from using emotional marketing that understands consumers' needs and preferences. Now, with the emergence of influencer marketing, we can combine these two approaches in our content marketing to reach deep into our desired audiences.

  • Most marketers say they now have a process in place to vet social media influencers, according to recent research from ACTIVATE.

  • If your website or blog has an abundance of posts and pages that aren't search-engine optimized, you should be thinking about doing a content audit to improve SEO. Here's a six-step content audit and optimization process that will markedly improve organic traffic to your site.

  • Social media, websites, email, SEO, videos, and content are the most popular digital marketing channels and tactics with small businesses, according to recent research from The Manifest.

  • Most B2B marketers expect to ramp up their production of social media, website, and video content in the next 12 months, according to recent research. But there are differences among senior marketers and their junior colleagues. Here's what marketers think content in the year ahead.

  • Companies that use lead scoring benefit from a 77% increase, on average, in lead generation ROI vs. those that don't. But you have to do it right. Go through this checklist to ensure your lead-scoring is sophisticated enough to work well.