Tips & Tactics
If you’re a marketer, or know even the slightest bit about what it takes to run anything online, you know that showing off just one facet of the business is never enough. It’s important to stay up to date with current events that affect your world.
And for anyone involved in online marketing, that involves constant research.
The AIM Team remains on the front lines of what’s going on in the many areas of direct response marketing. So when there’s a big Google announcement, a social media conference underway, another SEO finding, or you’re up late at night trying to figure out why your Facebook ads suddenly got disapproved, we are reading up on the same information, dealing with the same snags in the online channels, and working to digest it all.
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HUGE Google Announcement: 4 Biggest Takeaways for Direct Marketer
On Tuesday, May 24th 2016, Google held a ground-breaking Live Performance Summit; a keynote streamed via YouTube. The topic: Google’s latest mobile-first innovations…
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3 Ways to Turn Your Website Into a Conversion Machine
“This operation is not being planned with any alternatives. This operation is planned as a victory, and that’s the way it’s going to be. We’re going down there, and we’re throwing everything…
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Anti-Brand-Building With Passion: The Secret to Facebook Passion Pages
Passion pages may be the best kept secret on Facebook. They’re a great way to build some organic buzz around your product idea or franchise, for next to nothing. You could almost look at them as free hot list builds…pretty interesting, right?
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Get First Mover Advantage Now with Instant Articles and AMP
In the coming years we’ll look back on the first Quarter of 2016 as a ground breaking one for how we consume information on mobile devices.
In late February, Google launched their Accelerated Mobile Pages while…

Behind the Velvet Rope
In just one week, AIM will be celebrating its 6-month anniversary. What started as a spark of an idea on a warm, sunny day at Bar de la Poste on Rue Fortin in Courtomer, France, quickly turned into…
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Create Image Display Ads Like a Boss (No Designer Required)
You’re probably already making use of Google’s Display Network (GDN) and seeing fantastic results. High volumes make it a really scalable solution and with the right bid amounts, can often be cheaper than…
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Managing Facebook Negative Comments: Don’t Feed the Trolls
If you’re like some online marketers, you may be concerned about bad Facebook juju – negative postings. In fact, we know that some marketers are so wary of dealing with negative postings that they…
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Dominate the Google Search Results Page With Featured Snippets
You’ve almost certainly seen Google featured snippets when performing a search online. Usually it’s a short two or three sentence answer to a “how to…” or “what is…” type question. The content that shows is…
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Facebook Custom Audiences: Convert Readers and Acquire New Leads
Wouldn’t it be great to understand exactly who your customers were…turn your free readers into paying subscribers…and to narrow down over one billion people to new…
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Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages: What You Need To Know
Smartphones and tablets have revolutionised the way we consume information online. Publishers around the globe use the mobile web to reach their readers, but the experience can often leave a lot to be desired. The expectation is…
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Secret to a Lower CPA, Higher Conversion Rate, and Ultimate Beach Body
Recently we discussed how Google had removed right-hand ads for good. And that led us to question what exactly that would mean for advertisers now? Were our ads less likely to…
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4 Ads At The Top… The Sky Is Falling!
Everyone knows the story about Chicken Little, or Henny Penny, as he is more commonly referred to outside the United States. Chicken Little has an acorn fall on his head and runs around to tell his small world that the…
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Lead Generation Marketing – The Lead Gen Success Blueprint
Free name acquisition, sometimes known as 2-step or lead generation marketing, is an important component of many business models. But for some business, I think it’s fair to say that it’s truly …
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Un-Marketing: The Art of Not Showing Your Ads to Lower Cost
Remember the pair of shoes you browsed on Amazon that followed you around the web for the next month? Or the shopping cart you abandoned and have since been flooded with emails and ads urging you to…
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Four Ways IFTTT Can Help Automate Your Working Day
Today I’m going to briefly introduce a technology to you that will help make your working day a lot more automated. It will allow you to get the tasks that consistently end up at the bottom of your ‘to-do’ list done with …
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GSP Ads: What You Need To Do With Gmail Sponsored Promotions
As direct response marketers (see ‘lead hackers’, ‘demand generators’), we are always looking for the next best way to drive traffic, convert leads and bring in new names to…
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