Digital Marketing

Digital Marketing

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

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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Requirements for Digital Marketing Certification Updated 2022

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

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

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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Digital Advertising Skills by Location

Which country has the best digital advertisers? Most would say the ad agencies in the United States have cornered the market on digital advertising skills. Or France. Or the UK. But they’d be wrong. In a first release, OMCP is sharing digital marketing skill levels by region as derived from a subset of exams served to thousands of candidates over the last 12 months. OMCP is an independent industry association that verifies digital marketing hard skills via online exams. Certification is awarded by verification of experience, education, exam scores, and

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Digital Marketing Skills by Location

Where are the best digital marketers located?  In a first release, OMCP is sharing digital marketing skill levels by region as derived from a subset of exams served to thousands of candidates over the last 12 months. OMCP is an independent industry association that verifies digital marketing hard skills via online exams. Certification is awarded by verification of experience, education, exam scores, and training from over 900 providers.   The overall results are first by country and then by US time zone. Navigate to SEO results for that subset. We will add

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Digital Marketing Skills by Country 2021

Conversion Optimization Strategy: Mapping Customer Journeys

How customer journey mapping can help your conversion optimization strategy By Yaron Cohen, OMCP Most digital marketing efforts nowadays focus on attracting traffic to websites, and only a small percentage of marketing budgets is spent on conversion optimization. The numbers presented in a survey conducted by Adobe show that only 5% of marketing budgets  are allocated towards conversion optimization (CRO). We can assume this number is growing (the survey is from 2013), but there is still a misconception among many companies that conversion optimization is a one-person role that involves

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Conversion Optimization Practices with Talia Wolf

What does a conversion optimization professional need to know?  Talia Wolf, Founder and Chief Optimizer at GetUplift discusses thank you pages, AB testing, persona mapping, and how to understand what makes our customers take the next step in the buying journey.  The OMCP Podcast is where top authors and industry leaders share authoritative practices in online marketing which are covered by the OMCP standard, competencies, and exams.  This is an OMCP pilot program that may continue based on member interest and support. Stay subscribed to the OMCP newsletter to get

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OMCP Digital Marketing Conference November 2020

First OMCP Virtual Conference, November 18, 2020  OMCP members participated in the first OMCP Digital Marketing Conference where we learned, shareed, and discussed grass-roots, in-the-trenches digital marketing best practices with those who implement it every day. Surprise guests included resident author experts Brad Geddes, Philippa Gamse and Debra Mastaler. Format: short presentations from OMCP certified followed by Q&A. Tone: Informal, smart, generous. This is a community of practicing professionals who are committed to improving the practice of digital marketing. Most of us are working from home, so pets, kids, family

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Best Practices for Digital Advertising PPC with Andrew Goodman

What does it take to write effective ads? What are methods to measure performance in e-commerce or B2B? What do we look for when hiring a PPC agency? Andrew Goodman, author, speaker, and founder of Page Zero Media shares best practices with OMCP: Transcript: What are some best practices for writing effective digital ads? Well the place to start is to understand that this is a test, in a testing environment. You’re rotating the ads, and so it’s not about just the ideas that go into the ads, its about

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