Here at Vision Advertising, one of the many hats I wear is “the SEO Guy” – upgraded to “the SEO Guru” when I get brought up in sales. And it’s true: while I came into marketing via writing, I soon learned that successful blog writing is part knowing how SEO works, from keywords to metadata. […]
Ever since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, people have grown more aware of the sheer volume of private data that platforms from Google to Facebook share to their ad creators and sell to third parties. This, combined with measures passed in the US and abroad (such as the GDPR), have lead to major concerns on just […]
Many businesses enjoy using social media marketing because it is free (big asterisk here, but we’ll touch more on this later). Because of this, for many paying for advertising on social media is antithetical to their marketing plans. This is understandable, as all businesses look for the greatest ROI for all aspects of their business, […]
Marketing is about using all the tools at your disposal to promote your company and bring in business, so why would you ignore one? This blog is for all the businesses that want to market themselves but are gun-shy of paying for online advertising. An important note is this isn’t a blog on if online […]
It’s been about two months since The New York Times and The Guardian published articles about a joint investigation on Cambridge Analytica, a thereto mostly unknown political data consultancy, and their collection and exploitation of Facebook user data to influence elections and other political activities. Since the data scandal leaked, Facebook’s drawn-out silence and lack […]
We get the confusion when it comes to understanding the difference between marketing and advertising – after all, while our name is Vision Advertising, we’re a digital marketing agency. We’ve even considered a name change, though the SEO issues with a name rebrand is a blog for another time. However, while these terms are not […]
Over here at Vision Advertising, we’ve run our fair share of Google AdWords campaigns. On campaigns that I’ve worked on personally, we’ve had ones that worked fantastically, ones that have worked satisfactorily, and ones that we paused and moved clients over to other forms of online advertising. The simple fact is that AdWords isn’t going […]
Okay, so you’re ready to put down some money to advertise your product or service on the internet. Modern online advertising on most platforms allows you to advertise immediately to whoever you want, without having to wait for the printer or the publisher. But now that you’ve made the decision to advertise, what platform to […]
Let’s go into hypothetical mode: Let’s say you own a company. Let’s say that company that sells tires, and you’ve got a website on a domain you’ve had forever. Let’s call this website “weselltires.com” and say you’ve had it for 10 years. However, when you’re typing in keywords into Google, from “where to buy tires” […]
Search engines are the gateway to the internet. This is especially true when it comes to companies and their services. If you want people to find you, you have to show up in their search results, first page, and preferably higher than your competition. To do this, you have two major tools at your disposal: […]