The amount of data that advertising campaigns produce is enormous and can be entirely overwhelming. It may seem completely insurmountable and if it’s not analyzed properly, the insights will get lost, and render all of your efforts worthless. A key to any successful advertising campaign for a marketer is to gain an understanding of the data and apply it to the other campaigns waiting in the wings. For all of you forward-thinking, enthusiastic marketers out there - here are six steps to getting the most out of all of your campaigns and how to use your data purposefully. 1. Take off those rose-tinted glasses Hopefully you’ve approached all of your campaign launches with certainty and confidence. But when the data comes in, it’s time to take off those rose-tinted glasses and get ready to see the sometimes raw reality. That’s not to say that it’ll be bad, it might just not be exactly what you imagined. There probably won’t be any entirely unexpected surprises, but you should be prepared to see facts and figures that aren’t completely aligned with your initial positive outlook.

Recently the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) and Edelman Berland conducted a study (Getting In-Feed Sponsored Content Right: The Consumer View) to understand how consumers perceive and feel about in-feed sponsored content on news related desktop sites. Focus groups with news site consumers in New York City and Washington D.C. informed the official nationwide user study. Participants were presented with real world in-feed sponsored content, which was ranked as the most appealing and least intrusive form of native advertising, on three categories of desktop news sites: general news, business news, and entertainment news. The results provide a glimpse into the how consumers perceive native advertising.

Salespeople tend to try to do too many things within e-mails. In this post, we’ll be talking about e-mails that can help you get an introduction to a customer that you’re trying to prospect to.

6. They'd consider paying your agency's fee in order to get access to your service.

Calling all media buyers who are tempted to apply a severe demo-targeting requirement to their next buy, is described by media sellers as "targeting to death." Can you achieve your goals without micro-managing the targeting requirements? From a high level, targeting on a publisher site may appear to be the safest choice. But, in actual practice, it may work against your own best interest.