The following excerpt is from Perry Marshall, Mike Rhodes and Bryan Todd’s book Ultimate Guide to Google AdWords. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iTunes | IndieBound How much should you put out on the table to start the Google AdWords game? That’s a vital questionRead More

Back to Podcast John Jantsch: Everybody loves to set new goals for the New Year. Depending upon when you listen to this show, I have got a very systematic approach, that might help you not only create meaningful goals for the new year, but also break them down into monthly,Read More

Marketing Podcast with Colin GrayPodcast Transcript My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Colin Gray. He is a speaker, teacher, podcaster, and founder of The Podcast Host, among other things. He and I discuss his effective approach to goal setting. Gray creates and produces hisRead More

2017 marks the 8th year we’ve published a list featuring “women who rock” in the digital marketing space. I started the list in 2010 with social media specifically and after 5 years handed the reins over to Ashley Zeckman for a few years when the focus has broadened to digitalRead More

It’s no secret that subscription businesses are hot, but Hitwise’s 2017 whitepaper on the subscription industry measures just how popular they are: The U.S. subscription market grew by 831 percent between April 2014 and April 2017, according to the report. Clearly, the competition is anything but slim, no matter which audience aRead More

Pre-internet days, it didn’t take a lot for local businesses to notify a prospect that they are located in the same city. Handing them a flyer with business details and an address was pretty much a giveaway as to where you did business. Running an ad in the local dailyRead More

Everything gets easier when your clients consider you an expert. That’s when they allow you the leash to work to the best of your abilities — when you can focus on making the best long-term product and not something rushed or shoehorned into someone else’s vision. That’s why it’s importantRead More

Content makes the Marketing world go ‘round, especially with our work here at TopRank Marketing. While content has been a steady drumbeat in the marketing mix over the past 7-8 years, marketers are still hungry for best practices, examples and the latest trends. Lucky for our readers, we have excellentRead More

In the last decade, a lot has been made of the “demise of traditional media.” While newspaper readership is down, media consumption in general has skyrocketed. In fact, in the United States, adults spend almost half of their time on some kind of electronic device, watching, reading and listening to mediaRead More

[embedded content]It’s that time of year again, where here in Minnesota the snow is falling, the temperatures are dropping and hearts are warming with thankfulness and appreciation. 2017 has been a year of change, evolution and innovation for the digital marketing industry and at TopRank Marketing, we are incredibly gratefulRead More