Events

SEO Algorithm Best Practices from Barry Schwartz, OMCP

Barry Schwartz CEO of Rusty Brick and author at Search Engine Roundtable and Search Engine Guide shares with OMCP best practices on following the SEO algorithm changes. Barry suggests following specific communities/SEO luminaries and where to check when validating how your site might be affected by algorithm updates. Thanks Barry! Much of what Barry shares here is useful for preparation for your team’s OMCP exams. For example: OMCA certified must be able to explain what a search engine algorithm is and how it could affect search engine results for a web […]

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Barry Schwartz Shares SEO with Michael Stebbins OMCP

GTB Earns OMCP Agency Of Excellence Award for Innovation in Training

The OMCP 2016 Agency of Excellence Award for Innovation in Training Methodology goes to GTB. GTB is an agency that prides itself on inspired thinking, fact-based decision making and execution, delivering true ’integration’ within the speed, diversity and potential of modern communications.  The agency is known for bringing together best of breed data, media, advertising, technology and creative under one roof in multiple markets worldwide and as part of the WPP Group. GTB’s L&D team of three deployed OMCP-approved training from Simplilearn’s Market Motive worldwide, conferring with managers to set

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MediaCom Earns OMCP Agency Of Excellence Award for Exam Pass Rates

The OMCP 2016 Agency of Excellence Award for Online Marketing Exam Pass Rates goes to MediaCom.     MediaCom, a leading agency based in the UK, already had the digital marketing expertise to service clients within the agency. Always looking to improve their service, they identified an opportunity to broaden overall digital capability across and between departments by increasing individual digital knowledge at all levels. Their training goal was to create better internal communication and deliver more effective and creative marketing solutions to meet their client objectives. 96% Pass Rate Results

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David Szetela Shares Paid Search Best Practices with OMCP

Author/expert David Szetela of FMBmedia.com was kind enough to share some PPC best practices with OMCP at SMX West.  Many of these practices are well-aligned with the OMCP competency standards and are covered on the readiness tests and the certification exams.  In this video, David talks about a practice than can ruin results in Google’s display network and suggests solutions.  He also reveals surprise drawback of using negative keywords in the display network (and remarketing as well).   Follow David at @Szetela and PPC Rockstars Podcast and of course, at his PPC agency

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Eric Enge Shares SEO Best Practices with OMCP at SMX West

Eric Enge, SEO author, speaker, and CEO of digital marketing agency Stone Temple took some time to share SEO best practices with OMCP while at SMX West in San Jose. Many of the practices Eric  shares in this video are well-aligned with the OMCP competency standards and will be present on the OMCP exams. In this video interview, Eric shares a site architecture practice that can repel or cooperate with the search engines.  Some pages can be too detailed for the index and Eric shows us how to keep those pages for users,

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Ayat Shukairy Shares Conversion Practices with OMCP

Author/Expert Ayat Shukairy of Invesp took some time to share B2B conversion best practices with OMCP while at SMX West in San Jose. Ayat advises that the one of the important B2B conversion practices starts with getting to know your customers through surveys and  qualitative tests in order to cater the site to their needs. Then she recommends combining this with analytics and quantitative data to validate which areas to focus on.  One key: Follow the funnel, follow the money. Ayat also shares practices for deciding ‘what to test’ and

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Andy Atkins-Kruger Shares International SEO Practices with OMCP at SMX

Author/Expert Andy Atkins-Kruger shares insights on best practices when building multinational online campaigns in this 16-minute video. Andy shares insights on social behaviors that necessitate multinational campaigns and SEO and aspects of keyword phrases that surprise even the most confident marketers. Using native speakers to build out keyword lists is a generally accepted practice, but Andy teaches a preliminary step that improves the outcomes.  This video also shares the pivotal components of landing pages as they apply to multinational SEM campaigns.    Andy touches on geo-targeting practices using CCTLD and

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Upcoming Conferences for Digital Marketing

We’d like to see you at at least one of the next two conferences where OMCP instructors or committee members will be teaching.  Earn PDUs for attending or speaking.  Come join us? February 27-28, 2017 in San Francisco:  IEN’s Digital Marketing 101&102 features OMCP Certified Trainers and is approved for OMCP PDUs for certification renewal. OMCP Certified Trainers at this conference include Jennifer Evans Cario, Philippa Gamse, and Lyena Solomon. Opening remarks will come from OMCP Director, Michael Stebbins.  Topics at this conference cover SEO, Social Media, PPC, Web analytics, Email

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Educator Meetup: Social Media Curriculum Comparison, November 17, 2016

What will tomorrow’s graduates know about online marketing? On Thursday November 17, 2016, five educators will share their social media curriculum and how it complies or differs from OMCP standards. Presenters include Bryant & Stratton,  Duke University, Colorado Technical University, Simplilearn Training,  and Broward College.   OMCP will be facilitating this grass-roots meetup with the following goals in mind: Create a non-competitive connection among academic program managers to share best practices for online marketing training programs Capture new trends and requirements for consideration by the OMCP Standards Committee Solicit comments from hiring managers as to the efficacy

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