What is Paid Search Advertising in 2024? A Guide From An Expert

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Insights from Ted Huffman, President of Addion, startup advisor, CMO and former Director of Technology at GoTo.com 25 years ago I lead the team that built the very first paid search engine. Nobody has a longer history in paid search than myself and the other experts at Addion. I’ve been running agencies and managing millions…

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What is the Single Most Effective Marketing Tool?

Building an effective email list is probably the single most effective tool that a business owner has to both increase their customer base and lower their cost per acquisition at the same time.  This is because these are prospects that have already raised their hand and asked for more information from you.  Also they are…

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One Formula to learn when creating blog content

I ran across a post that could immediately help you. One clear takeaway is to write your headlines to any blog piece in a formula designed to increase clickthroughs which will then improve your rankings and traffic. Here’s the full article. Key takeaways: – find your bottom 10% blog posts in terms of Click Through…

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What Is A Social Media Calendar?

Our friends at Hootsuite have build out an excellent draft of the importance of having a calendar around your social media messaging. Whether you use Hootsuite, Buffer, or other tools, we strongly recommend using a social media calendar for both scheduling and planning your social media for maximum effectiveness.   What is a social media…

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Modern Keyword Research

Finding the right keyword, either for SEM or SEO, is still the basis for almost any campaign. Neil Patel has a great writeup of how keyword research tools have evolved. Over the decade plus that Addion has been an agency, we’ve tried a number of off-the-shelf tools (anyone remember The Permutator?) and built a number of…

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The Perfect Homepage

Another common question that we get is what do I need to do to improve my homepage. Fact is, 90% of people asking this have never stopped to think about WHAT their visitors are looking for. They are too busy thinking about HOW to persuade them, or HOW to position their company best. But until…

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The Idiots Guide to Online Marketing

One of the most common questions I get from small business owners is “how does online marketing work”?  They don’t even know enough to ask about SEO, or Paid Search, or whatever tactic. They are still stuck on the core essentials of how the strategy works. And one of the best sources that I refer…

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