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The practice of optimizing your website to rank higher in organic search results for relevant keywords. It's the long game everyone claims to play but few actually execute.
The tally, result, or numerical outcome of counting things—the what-you-got after the tallying is done. In marketing metrics, count is your basic unit of measurement: impressions, clicks, conversions, or whatever you're obsessing over this quarter.
The limit on how many times an individual user will see the same ad within a given time period. Preventing your target audience from developing homicidal thoughts about your brand.
A comprehensive document dictating exactly how a brand should be presented, from logo placement to approved adjectives. It's the brand police manual ensuring global consistency while crushing the creativity of anyone who dares color outside the lines.
A psychological pricing tactic where an initial high price makes subsequent prices seem more reasonable by comparison. It's why software shows you the $999/month enterprise plan first, making the $99/month option feel like a steal.
A media scheduling approach where advertising runs in bursts with gaps between flights, as opposed to continuous presence. Perfect for brands that want intermittent relevance and confused consumers.
Creating elaborate diagrams showing every touchpoint a customer encounters with your brand, from blissful ignorance to purchase and beyond. It's like stalking, but with Post-it notes and the pretense of empathy.
The art and science of promoting product sales through strategic in-store presentation, placement, and marketing activities—basically making stuff look so good you forget you don't need it. This retail wizardry combines psychology, aesthetics, and logistics to maximize revenue per square foot while creating an irresistible shopping experience. When done well, you walk in for milk and leave with a cart full of impulse purchases.
The video-sharing behemoth that transformed from a humble startup into the verb we use for watching literally anything online. Originally just a platform for uploading cat videos and people hurting themselves, it's now a critical marketing channel where brands desperately try to 'go viral' and influencers hawk protein powder. Every marketer's presentation now includes a 'YouTube strategy,' which usually means posting their TV commercial and hoping for the best.
An advertising model where advertisers pay each time someone clicks their ad, rather than for impressions or placement. It's the 'you only pay for actual interest' model, assuming clicks indicate interest rather than accidental taps.
Visual representation of user behavior showing where people click, scroll, and hover, typically revealing that nobody reads your carefully crafted copy. The marketing equivalent of finding out which parts of your outfit actually get noticed.
The corporate equivalent of getting a makeover and pretending you're a completely different person—changing a company's name, logo, or image to distance from past failures or chase new markets. It's what happens when focus groups decide your perfectly good brand needs $2 million worth of "refreshing." Sometimes transformative, often just expensive window dressing on the same old product.
The single, unified, supposedly accurate version of a customer's data after merging information from multiple sources. In reality, it's the Sasquatch of data management—everyone talks about it, few have actually seen it.
Creating a virtual perimeter around a physical location to trigger targeted ads or notifications when people enter the area. Digital stalking made respectable through technology.
A product or campaign so remarkable and unique that it stands out in a sea of mediocrity and naturally attracts attention. Based on the principle that ordinary brown cows are boring.
In marketing, a magical word that justifies charging triple the price for produce that bugs have nibbled on. Organic growth or reach means you didn't pay for it directly, making it the social media equivalent of 'all-natural' or 'chemical-free.' When used in digital marketing, it means your content succeeded without ad spend, which is about as rare as finding actual organic products in a regular supermarket.
Paying people with large social media followings to promote your product, operating on the principle that strangers trust other strangers more than they trust brands. It's word-of-mouth marketing for the selfie generation.
In digital advertising, an audience segment created by finding people who resemble your existing customers like some kind of algorithmic clone army. It's Facebook's way of saying "we found more people just as gullible as your current buyers." Marketers love these because stalking one customer base apparently wasn't enough.
A physical advertising placard used to display products or promotions in retail environments, back when 'going viral' meant your display was visible from multiple aisles. The analog ancestor of today's digital signage, typically featuring aggressive fonts and starburst shapes screaming about sales. Still surprisingly effective at catching the attention of customers who've developed immunity to banner ads.
Serving different content or ads based on where someone is located, from country-level down to 'currently standing in your competitor's parking lot.' It's location-based marketing that's only slightly creepy.
The button/link/desperate plea begging users to do something—click, buy, sign up—basically the entire point of your ad compressed into two words.
The actual cost to acquire one customer after all is said and done—the metric that separates marketing theater from marketing accountability.
Fear Of Missing Out, the primal anxiety that everyone else is having more fun, getting better deals, or attending cooler events than you. Marketers exploit this emotion like a villain in a Disney movie, using countdown timers and "only 2 left" warnings.
Marketing activities designed to create interest in a product or service where none previously existed, rather than just capturing existing demand. Building the haystack before finding the needle.