E-Commerce

How to use prototypes in online marketing
Prototyping in online marketing
  • Online sales

Good ideas are a dime a dozen in the start-up scene. Only a few of these are actually realized as many founders fail and lose the money they invested. So why not test before you invest to see whether an idea has a potential future? Prototyping in online marketing is a valuable technique for analyzing a business idea’s market potential in advance, and therefore testing the project’s perspective...

Prototyping in online marketing
Cohort analysis – understanding user behavior
Cohort analyses – a quick insight into user behavior
  • Web analytics

Tools like Google Analytics provide store and website operators with extensive data about customers and visitors. Performing an analysis of this information is crucial if you want to accelerate the success of your web project. Examining the database isn’t as easy as it sounds. Cohort analyses are becoming more and more frequent in online marketing to help companies define user behavior and succeed...

Cohort analyses – a quick insight into user behavior
Web Page tagging—a tried and true web analysis method
Web Page tagging: gathering data through code
  • Web analytics

Those who use Google Analytics know how valuable the data is that this web service is able to deliver. In order to hold your own against the likes of your competition, monitoring your website visitors is an indispensable task. But which techniques make these data gathering tools so useful? We’ll introduce the concept of web page tagging and let you know how it works.

Web Page tagging: gathering data through code
E-commerce in America: flourish online
How e-commerce conquered America
  • Online sales

With online shopping becoming ever more popular and convenient, more and more industries are flourishing in the world of e-commerce. This is partly due to the fact that it’s easier than ever before to build and run a professional web store. But what are most important things to remember when getting into e-commerce? And how can you be successful with little or no experience?

How e-commerce conquered America
What is mobile advertising?
Marketing to go: mobile advertising
  • Online sales

To reach potential customers, any time or place: that’s the vision of all the advertisers who want to get on board with the mobile generation. These days, most of us have our smartphones on us all the time, and savvy marketers can take advantage of this fact to zero in on their target audience and increase the success rate of their adverts. But for every advantage mobile advertising presents,...

Marketing to go: mobile advertising
The basics of trademark law
The main points on trademark law and brand protection
  • Digital law

It makes sense for companies to protect their brand as early on as possible. This is how they safeguard themselves and their legal department from any troubles, and stop their competition from profiting from their good image and reputation. It’s also worthwhile for young online companies to do the same because the brand name doesn’t just carry prestige, but also security and money. Read on to...

The main points on trademark law and brand protection
Display advertising vs. real-time advertising (RTA)
Display advertising/display marketing vs. real-time advertising (RTA)
  • Search engine marketing

Banner ads and other forms of display marketing have been proven to be effective marketing strategies for products and services online. The new practice in this field is real-time advertising (RTA) and its real-time bidding (RTB) approach. This new strategy carries out an automated bidding war in milliseconds to decide which ad will be displayed. But how does it differ from traditional display...

Display advertising/display marketing vs. real-time advertising (RTA)
How does a supply-side platform work?
Online marketing basics: what is a supply-side platform (SSP)?
  • Online sales

Real-time advertising plays a central role in the world of display marketing. This process gives website operators or publishers looking to sell their free ad space the chance to trade advertising inventory in a fully automated bidding process. The goal of this is to sell the inventory to the highest bidder for maximum profit. The supply-side platform thus represents an important interface between...

Online marketing basics: what is a supply-side platform (SSP)?
How do demand-side platforms work?
Online marketing basics: demand-side platform
  • Online sales

These days, online advertising is a bidding war, played out in real time. In just a few seconds, complex algorithms decide which banner or advertising medium is to be displayed to your target audience. This being said, everybody wants to show their ads where customers will see them, making ad impressions highly sought-after commodities. They are thus subjected to a competitive bidding process. The...

Online marketing basics: demand-side platform