Strategic Planning

Learn how to conduct an effective SWOT analysis for your business with this guide (plus download templates you can use right away).

How many times did you find yourself behind a competitor move? It happens to everyone: it’s very hard to be effective at tracking your competitors. In this article, we'll guide you toward a solution that empowers you to outmaneuver the competition confidently and precisely.

So you’ve checked out your competitor’s email newsletters, website, and ads–that’s enough, right? However, you’ve missed a crucial piece of their funnel: landing pages. 

In this article, I’ll explain how these competitive analysis tools compare so you can choose the one that fits your business needs and takes your marketing efforts to the next level.

Are you an e-commerce marketer feeling overwhelmed by the chaos of planning and executing your marketing strategies? Fear not because there's a solution that can revolutionize the way you work. In this comprehensive guide, we'll walk you through the step-by-step process of creating a marketing calendar. 

Is there a way to collect all this data automatically, without having to do this manually, ever week/month for every single competitor, on a lot of different networks? Let’s find out!

Feeling stuck? Running out of content ideas? Do you struggle with keeping up with trends and channeling them into your marketing? In this article, we'll show you how to take advantage of Google Trends for your ecommerce brand so you can stop flying blind and start creating from a place of informed strategy.

Marketers think of SEO and PPC as two boxes that should be separate and not muddy each other’s waters. However, combining both strategies is becoming more prevalent. That’s because organic and paid search are two halves of the same whole that when used together, will earn more traffic and conversions. In the following sections, we’ll discuss the reasons for using SEO and paid search together, how to find a good mix of both, and how to combine them for better ROI. 

Your competitor’s online activity will give you a deeper understanding of their marketing strategy, that is if you know where and how to look. Tracking emails, ads, and other creatives is just the start. The more important task is leveraging this data to strike where your competition is weakest and find opportunities to seize. We’ll talk about how to spot these opportunities and use them to improve your marketing. You’ll learn the benefits of competitor tracking and why every business should get started with it.

Measuring the success of your campaigns is straightforward when you have metrics and data. However, assessing the effectiveness of your competitor’s campaigns is a different ballgame–you don’t have and cannot have access to their performance indicators. The good news is there are ways to know if a competitor's campaign is successful. In this article, I’ll talk about the signs that point to the success of your competitor’s campaign so you can learn from them and apply that knowledge to your campaigns.