What is a lead generation funnel? And how to build one
Learn what a lead generation funnel is and how to build one that drives qualified leads.
General Marketing
Whether you‘re new to marketing or a seasoned pro, our General Marketing category offers tips, tools, and expert advice to boost your marketing efforts. Learn from top experts and enhance your marketing skills.
ToFu, MoFu, BoFu: A practical guide to the conversion funnel
Learn tactics + content suitable for each stage, including how to reverse engineer your competitors’ conversion funnels.
10 Best PR Tools for Outreach, Distribution & Monitoring
The best PR tools include Semrush‘s AI PR Toolkit, PitchFriendly, GlobeNewswire, and Media Monitoring.
How to measure brand awareness: 9 methods that matter
Measure brand awareness online by tracking brand mentions, monitoring AI search visibility, and more.
What In The World Is API? (Part 2: Knowing Your Limits and How To Use Data)
This is a continuation of the previous article, What In The World Is API and How Do I Use It? If you have read the first API article, you have a general idea of what API is and how to use it. But now, you will want to understand how to make sure when enough is enough and how to organize this data. It is important to know this information so that you do not run out of API units and that you know what to do with your raw data.
Confessions of a Marketing Intern: 6 Tips from a Recent Grad
You have just graduated from college and are pumped to be out of school. However, after applying to hundreds of jobs, you only get a few interviews and continue to be unemployed. What can you do?
7 Ways To Ensure Your Website Makes a Good First Impression
You’ve heard it before from your parents and your employers and — as annoying as it may be — the mantra, “You only get one chance to make a first impression” isn’t going anywhere. The worst part is that the mantra is actually incredibly true. Whether you like it or not first impression really do matter. However, businesses seem to be forgetting that first impressions are not only for people — it applies to a website as well. While creating a cool-looking design is an excellent start, this shouldn’t be the stopping point if you really want to make the best impression on your readers in seconds or less. Unfortunately, this is usually where businesses do stop so they can move on to something else.
How To Create a Strategic Dashboard in Excel Using Semrush Data [Excel Template Included]
Human brain processes images faster than text — 60,000 times faster. That makes dashboards much more effective communicators than spread sheets full of numbers. Still, pretty dashboards alone will be of little help, with no analysis, proposed actions, or a picture of a better future.
7 Easy Steps To Create a Web Analytics Framework and Improve Your Marketing
Amel will join Semrush on March 4 for a free webinar, “How to Increase Your Website Revenue Using a Data-Driven SEO Campaign.“ Learn more about the webinar after the jump! “Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.” — H. James Harrington.
The FCB Grid: What It Is and How It Works
If you’ve only used keywords to understand how to market your product, you’re not tapping its potential. Lists of keywords tell us what people want. They don’t tell us why. Boredom, fatigue, illness and hunger ... people buy for a reason. Maybe you think of these ideas willy nilly as you type, but how can you engineer them without fail? With the FCB Grid. Also called the Vaughn Grid, it’s a tool that was designed by the Senior Vice President of Foote, Cone and Belding way back in 1980. Since then FCB has grown to a more than $9 billion dollar company with clients like Cox Communications, Seaworld, AmTrak and Air New Zealand; they’re responsible for the Lord of the Rings on-board air safety video, and the Bilbo Baggins luggage carousel. To understand the FCB grid, I spoke with creative director Bruce Bendinger, who is the author of the Copy Workshop Workbook, and who has introduced concepts to students of copywriting and marketing the world over.