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Valentine’s Day Marketing Statistics 2017

Valentine's day is a peak selling season for multiple different industries. Businesses that sell or distribute products such as flowers, candy, jewelry, dining, lodging and other products are experiencing one of the best shopping seasons of the year, having some overlap with the Superbowl. Many of these businesses can start ramping up their marketing about 2 weeks before February 14. For those who may be thinking of creative ways to leverage the holiday to increase sales, here are some Valentine's...

What (the heck) does “SEM” mean?

The acronym "SEM" is one of many found in the digital marketing alphabet soup. (SEO, PPC, CPC and SERPs are closely related). SEM stands for "Search Engine Marketing", which actually has a history of what it means. Traditionally, the word "marketing" is a blanket term that covers any activities that are used to promote your brand and business, including public relations (PR), advertising and sales. So naturally one would think that the phrase "search engine marketing" or SEM would also be...

February 9, 2017By Mirex MarketingAdvertising, Digital Marketing, Marketing Tips, Pay Per Click/ Cost Per Click Advertising (PPC/CPC), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Search Engine Optimization (SEO)CPC, paid search advertising, pay-per-click advertising, PPC, SEA, search engine advertising, search engine marketing, search engine optimization, SEM, SEO, SMA, SMM, SMO0 CommentsRead more...

SEM stands for Search Engine Marketing or Search Engine Marketer

For all the “SEM”s out there, “Marketing” is a BLANKET TERM!

Newbies may read the title of this article and wonder why the statement even needs to be made, but those in the industry probably understand right off the bat. If you're unfamiliar with the acronym SEM, it stands for Search Engine Marketing or Search Engine Marketer. Some correctly interpret this to mean any marketing activities to promote a business, brand or product through search engines OR a marketer who performs any activity to promote a business, brand or product through...

January 24, 2017By Mirex MarketingAdvertising, Digital Marketing, Marketing Tips, Pay Per Click/ Cost Per Click Advertising (PPC/CPC), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Search Engine Optimization (SEO)CPC, paid search advertising, paid search marketing, PPC, search engine advertiser, search engine advertising, search engine marketing, search engine optimization, search engine optimizer, search marketing, SEM, SEO0 CommentsRead more...