Email Marketing: Avoiding Spam and Other Harmful Practices

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Email marketing is considered one of the most effective strategies for reaching customers with an estimated ROI of $36 for every $1 spent.  Many marketers use strong email marketing strategies to engage with approximately four billion daily email users to reach that target audience. Some, however, either deliberately or unknowingly choose to follow the proper guidelines around compliance with best practices.   Email marketing compliance guidelines encompass a wide range of behaviors and guidelines starting with the emergence of “spam” email.  History of Spam Emails As email marketing evolved in parallel […]

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SEO Cheat Sheet: How to Prioritize Your Focus Based on Current Page Rankings

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To make your brand stand out online, simply focusing on creating more quality products or services isn’t typically enough to get noticed. You also need to make sure you’re able to be easily found when potential customers use search engines to find the solutions they’re looking for. SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is where most people start when trying to improve their website traffic. But whether you’re just exploring SEO techniques or have been applying best digital marketing practices for some time, it can sometimes be an intimidating exercise when trying

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Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) – Your Roadmap to Marketing Success

Blog, Digital Marketing / 4 minutes of reading

One of the best practices for a successful digital marketing campaign is setting tangible, reachable goals for success. Although metrics and data analysis provide insight into the success of a given campaign, they only provide partial insight into campaign progress. One best practice for digital marketing campaigns is establishing solid Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that thoroughly document and mark progress toward those goals.  What are KPIs and Why Do They Matter Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are key quantifiable indicators of progress towards an intended result. Companies frequently use KPIs to

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Google, AI, and Their Marketing Implications

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In May 2024, Google announced that it was integrating its Gemini artificial intelligence engine into its various platforms. One prominent integration was the use of “AI Overviews” in its search engine, providing a quick summary of search results for Google users. Criticism over erroneous results and “hallucinations” resulted in both workarounds for Google search and Google “reworking” search results.  Although Google acknowledges concerns about integrating AI into its product suite, this integration has deeper implications for online marketing professionals around paid and organic outreach. Despite the fact that Google’s early

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Keyword Research – The Basics

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Whether crafting web content, running a PPC campaign, or driving search optimization, keyword research is a critical first step toward success. Knowing which words and phrases drive search traffic to your website and integrating them into your online marketing efforts (including social media) facilitates being discovered and indexed, and fosters higher SERP rankings.  Although it sounds simple, keyword research is a critical skill required for digital marketing in the 21st century. Evaluating your organization’s keyword research needs can positively impact  your marketing strategy. Reasons to Engage In Keyword Search Knowing

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Condensing Your Site Can Kill Your SEO. How to Make Sure You’re Not Shooting Yourself in the Foot When Cleaning Up Your Site

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A clean and organized website is essential for building a reputable online presence while providing an engaging user experience. However, even the best-designed websites can become cluttered as content grows or changes. When this happens, sometimes the practical solution may be to start fresh by condensing content, pages, or entire sections of a website. That being said, there are some important considerations to make before deleting or condensing content. If you’re not careful, you could unknowingly shoot yourself in the foot regarding your SEO, inadvertently tanking your rankings and losing

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OMCP is Becoming Part of a New Family

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An Exciting Announcement We are thrilled to announce that OMCP has been acquired by the top social media education and certification company in the world: National Institute for Social Media (NISM).  As you know, we at OMCP work hard to verify the skills and knowledge of online marketers. We do this to help marketing professionals grow their careers and help employers know that they are hiring top marketers with only current, verified credentials. Being newly acquired by NISM will enable us to take our verification and accreditation services to a

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Requirements for Digital Marketing Certification Updated 2022

Digital Marketing, News / 2 minutes of reading

New Option for Experience and Education for OMCA OMCA candidates with over two years of verified marketing experience may waive the requirement to prove secondary school (“High School”) graduation. In addition, OMCA candidates who have completed an accredited training program with six months of application do not need to provide evidence of a secondary school graduation. This change is effective as of March 12, 2022. OMCA Updated Requirements The requirements for OMCA digital marketing certification now include: A passing score on the OMCA exam PLUS one of the following: 4,000

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Digital marketing standards changes for OMCA certification 2022

The Top 10 States for Digital Marketing Skills in the US 2021

Digital Marketing, News / 7 minutes of reading

Which state in the US has the highest-skilled digital marketers? OMCP is sharing digital marketing skill levels by US State as derived from a subset of online marketing exams served to thousands of candidates over the last 12 months. OMCP is an independent industry association that verifies digital marketing skills via online exams. Certification in digital marketing is awarded by verification of experience, education, exam scores, and credit for training from over 900 accredited providers and platform courses.  The overall results are first and then specific placement for SEO Skills, Digital Advertising Skills, Social

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Digital Marketing Skills in the US by State

Digital Analytics Skills by Location

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Which country has the best digital analytics skills? The ability to turn data into decisions is not the domain of any one country. However some regions stand above others with digital analytics skills. You might guess it’d be a country famous for arithmetic. It could be a region associated with chess champions or even for programming skills. But instead you’d find the top country for digital analytics skills–actually the two top countries for digital analytics skills–are also famous for dance, for food, and for.. . siesta. Think you know? The

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