One of the many benefits of online advertising is the ability to target your ads to the audience you're interested in reaching.  AdWords is an advertising service by Google which enables businesses to advertise their goods and services in a very targeted way.  By using keywords that are chosen by you, whenever someone searches using those keywords, your ad will appear in the search results.  In this way you are able to effectively target the people that are looking for what you have to offer.  Better yet, when using AdWords, you only pay when someone clicks on your ad.

Everyday millions of us receive emails that are marked as spam or tossed in the trash. Often time these emails aren’t personalized, however, personalization can improve clickthrough rates and increase trust and connection with members. If you want to learn more about personalization, check out my blog from last week, “The Perks of Personalization”. In short, personalization is rather simple but its benefits are plentiful. By personalizing a message, members are more likely to open and engage with emails, even if just out of curiosity. After all, it should be a no brainer for your platform to pull an individual’s name and insert it into an email. Along with personalization, creating compelling content is also important as it engages members and furthers them through the buyer’s journey.

Marketing agencies are an associations secret weapon to success! Here at HighRoad we are a team of educated marketers that immerse ourselves in the latest trends and best practices of all things digital maketing. Having marketing enthusiasts like this by yourside will take your association to the next level and here is why: 

There is no doubt that in 2017 we have some pretty powerful technology at our fingertips to send out email marketing messaging. From marketing automation like HighRoad Marketing Cloud and HubSpot, to user-friendly email marketing platforms like Adestra Message Focus, we get asked often why video and email are incompatible. While the platforms may support inputting a video file, it’s not always the best practice; and here’s why.

“…The ongoing evolution of technology has catapulted us into a new phase where there is a shift from broad connectivity to personalized connectivity. "The Internet of Me,” a term I recently discovered and that you may have already heard, highlights the growth and prevalence of personalization across the internet and marketing efforts as a whole.”                                                         

- Jill Grozalsky, Strategy Director at Verndale