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Landing Pages

What is a Landing Page?  “...a landing page is a standalone web page, created specifically for a marketing or advertising campaign. It’s where a visitor “lands” after they click on a link in an email, or ads from Google, Bing, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or...

Defining Moments

Defining Moments... memories… experiences that stand out in our memory.  I am busy reading the most incredible book called, “The Power of Moments”, by Chip & Dan Heath.   In our lives, we all experience defining moments.   Some are of ELEVATION.  Those moments...

Looking Back As We Move Forward

As we close in on this year, as well as this decade, it does tempt us to reflect on the last 365 days... and for those with a better memory, the past 10 years.  From World Cup triumphs to dam levels rising, there has been a lot of positivity that has prevailed in...

Gear Up For 2020

It’s that time of the year again. Ok, so while it may only be October, I’m sure you’ve seen all the Christmas décor and specials, shining and sparkling in all its wonderous glory! It’s also that time of the year where people tend to slip into vacay mode, early, and...

Industry Tips & Insights: B2C

To close off our series of Industry Insights & Tips, we delve into Business 2 Consumer marketing. In this month’s edition we will be bringing special focus to those businesses that service the end consumer. Typical businesses that fall into this category would be...

Industry Tips & Insights: B2B

As our path to purchase is longer for a business-to-business transaction (when we compare it to retail or other business-to-consumer transactions) we need to consider our approach when it comes to marketing. Here are a few tips we have learnt from running campaigns...

New PPC Manager Wanted

CTRs, CPCs, CPAs, Smart this and Smart that. The world of PPC has become a complex beast with the platforms & features constantly changing. And let’s not forget our User who has become more demanding of a great User Experience over the last few years. At Metis...

Industry Tips & Insights: Retail

We promised that we’d share some Industry Tips & Insights into Retail, so here it is! 🙌   CcB attended the Google Retail Summit 2019 last week, so we’ve got some frikking cool stats & tips just for you.   We’ve conveniently marked all Tips with a ✅ (tick - so...

Sales + Marketing = Smarketing

What is Smarketing?  Simply put, “Smarketing is the process of integrating the sales and marketing processes of a business.”   In other words, your sales and marketing teams should work together in order to optimise your sales and marketing strategy and increase...

Google Marketing Live 2019

OMG! 😱😬  Which in this case, stands for:  Oh... My... Google! Yup, that’s right, Google has done it again!  “What did Google do?”, you may ask.  Valid question.  Well, we’re about to fill you in! In case you missed it, Google announced some massive changes coming to...
Your Organizations Why

Your Organizations Why

Simon says: “Imagine a world in which the vast majority of us wake up inspired, feel safe at work and return home fulfilled at the end of the day.” Well, it’s actually Simon Sinek says, but let’s be honest, how many of us can relate to the above statement?

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What Is A Sales Funnel?

What Is A Sales Funnel?

Hello you wonderful people of the world and welcome to our first official blog post of 2019. With the New Year in full swing and well underway, we thought it vital to start off the year with an insightful post that delivers on value. Thus the “What Is a Sales Funnel?” blog was born.

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2018 in Retrospect

2018 in Retrospect

We are in the final few weeks of the year now, 2018 is packing its bags and getting ready to leave us all behind. Pretty soon we will all be on holiday spending time with our family & friends, celebrating Christmas and welcoming in the New Year. So before we say our final goodbye to 2018, we thought we’d take a look back at some of the awesome moments & achievements of the past year.

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Digital Marketing Trends 2019

Digital Marketing Trends 2019

It is a well known fact that the digital industry is constantly evolving at super speed with new technologies and innovations. It may seem daunting to try and keep up, but in this industry, you have no choice but to do just that! With the end of 2018 fast approaching, we thought we’d get a head start on 2019 and let you know the latest trends to lookout for come next year.

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Your Marketing Calendar

Your Marketing Calendar

In our previous blog post we spoke about Spring Cleaning Your Marketing, so we thought the next best thing to follow on from that would be...dun dun dun…Your Marketing Calendar. So for example, now would be a good time - if you haven’t done so already - to plan ahead...

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Advanced Tracking

Advanced Tracking

If you are part of the Metis family, then you will know how much we LOVE Google Analytics as the website tracking and analysis it provides are mind-blowing. But just because Google Analytics is already such powerful tool, it doesn't mean we are not looking at ways to...

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Machine Learning

Machine Learning

Ah, a new month and a new theme, which just happens to be all about Machine Learning. Did you know that Machine Learning is all around us in our daily lives and more often than not has a big influence on the decisions we make? So what is it and why do we need it?...

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Advanced Tracking

Digital Gap Analysis

As you may or may not already know, our theme for this month is Digital Gap Analysis. “What is that?” you might ask. Let’s refresh your memory just in case you missed our introductory post on Facebook last week.A Digital Gap Analysis assists companies in understanding...

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