Third-time presenter and BU’s Google Analytics Instructor Jay Murphy shared his tips on how to use Google’s recently overhauled Google Analytics. Here are the highlights of the presentation. Why Use Google Analytics? With information about your visitors you can better decide: How to improve your website How to spend time and money of specific topics […]
Google Agency Partner Matt Roche’s presentation at May’s Newport Interactive Marketers focused on how businesses can utilize Google AdWords/PPC. Matt explained why businesses should consider advertising with Google and shared his secrets for success. Here are the highlights of the presentation. AdWords is a Keyword Action AdWords is Google’s brand name for their pay per click ad […]
Former Eloqua CMO Thor Johnson’s presentation focused on what strategies and tactics businesses can use to better gather and grow leads into sales. Here are the highlights of the presentation. Truth One: No Processes to Manage Leads Idealized Lead Management Process Reality: Data Flows Broken or Non-Existent Truth Two: No One Understands their Customer Why they buy […]
WhichTestWon publisher Anne Holland’s quiz-show-style presentation at February’s Newport Interactive Marketers focused on how to use simple tests to improve website sales, signups, and conversion rates. Holland provided copious examples of how small – often nontechnical – tweaks can result in huge improvements. Here are the highlights of the presentation. Why Synchronous Testing? Create two versions simultaneously Traffic […]
Newport Interactive Marketers partnered with the URI Business Engagement Center (BEC) to explain the valuable resources available for businesses at URI. Leading the new Business Engagement Center, Katharine Hazard Flynn, serves as the University of Rhode Island’s connector to the private/nonprofit sectors, helping brands leverage URI’s resources for the betterment of the state. A Brown alum, she […]
Go Epic with Content! with Joe Pulizzi Vocus hosted a webinar with Joe Pulizzi, Founder of the Content Marketing Institute, to discuss how the incorporation of a content marketing strategy can position companies ahead of their competition. In 2014, the ability to produce engaging content that provides value to customers will make or break a […]
Laurie Hood, Vice President for Product Marketing at Silverpop, hosted a marketing webinar, “What to Expect in 2014 and How to Stay Ahead of the Curve.” Hood provides insights on what marketers have learned in 2013 and gives advice on how to best approach marketing in 2014: The Main Takeaways for 2013 “The customer is […]
Newport Interactive Marketers took a broader approach to its usual new-media focus to welcome Harvard Business School’s approach to developing a strategy for your brand. NEW STRATEGY GROUP Founder P. Lawrence Fagan earned an MBA from HarvardBusiness School, where he spent 11 years researching corporate and organization strategy, six years as a member of the HBS research faculty. […]
On Tuesday September 24th, Dan Shure spoke to the Newport Interactive Marketing audience at Salvation Cafe about how to create content and engage in effective search engine optimization (SEO). Here are the highlights of his talk: Seven Challenges to Content I don’t know what to write about I keep talking about the same thing There’s […]
NIM Founder and Designated Editor Founder Suzanne McDonald and Dacia Daly from the Tick Encounter Research Center, have put in a proposal to speak at SXSW Interactive 2014. Their talk, “Ticks vs. Humans: Can Social Media Crush Pathogens,” discusses how college interns and professionals in social media and public health collaborated on a pilot research […]
