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Optily joined the Conjura family in May 2024 and the Optily App for Shopify continues to be the smart ad optimizer thousands of stores have downloaded since its launch on 2022. 

Optily’s Resource Centre has been valuable support to eCommerce, marketing and business growth professions for many years. You can find all of Optily’s articles, guides, downloads and podcast episodes in the archive below. 

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Optily Resource Center Archive

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Driving Performance for Furniturebox with Conjura and Infinity Nation

Infinity Nation optimized Furniturebox’s Google Ads using Conjura’s advanced data analysis. Initially facing suboptimal results and transparency issues, Conjura enabled precise ad group targeting, leading to a 48% revenue increase with a 45% budget rise. Key benefits included improved scalability, flexibility, and reduced complexity, showcasing Conjura’s impact in digital marketing.

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Next-gen eCommerce Agency Audits: How Automation Transforms In-Depth Analysis

Conjura’s automated eAssessment tool offers eCommerce agencies comprehensive audit reports by integrating data from multiple sources. This automation ensures accuracy, saves time, and reduces costs, allowing agencies to focus on client value and new prospects. Customizable and ready for presentation, it enhances both audit efficiency and prospecting processes.

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Rising adoption of benchmarks in D2C businesses

D2C businesses are using benchmarks to improve performance analysis. Conjura’s tools help compare key metrics against industry standards, enhancing decision-making. This democratizes data analytics, making advanced techniques accessible to small companies and promoting effective use.

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Shopify

Guide: Ad Copy Best Practices for Google, Facebook, and TikTok Ads

Unlock the power of compelling ad copy with our guide for Google, Facebook, and TikTok Ads. Discover best practices for various ad formats, learn about character limits, and get inspired by examples tailored for a homeware Shopify store. Perfect your messaging to optimize sales and make an impact in the digital advertising space.

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Shopify

Building Anticipation through Content Ahead of Black Friday

“In the ever-changing digital marketing landscape, diverse strategies are crucial for Shopify store owners. These include leveraging social media and influencers, personalizing content, utilizing Facebook ads, and harnessing platforms like LinkedIn. Showcasing real customer cases and using team networks can also enhance brand visibility and credibility.”

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Ad Platforms

Understanding the gBraid Parameter in Google Ads

Google’s gBraid parameter for Google Ads helps measure conversions on iOS 14.5+ devices, complying with Apple’s ATT guidelines. It’s automatically enabled for URLs, facilitating better ad performance tracking. Leverage the gBraid parameter to keep your advertising strategies responsive to privacy changes.

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The Power of Data Analytics in Reducing the Risk of Vendor Lock in eCommerce

eCommerce retailers face the risk of vendor lock, relying too heavily on a single supplier. Conjura’s data analytics can mitigate this risk by enhancing inventory visibility and control, allowing businesses to diversify their supplier base and maintain strong relationships with multiple vendors. This approach ensures flexibility and adaptability in the supply chain.

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Ad Platforms

TikTok search is on the rise

TikTok is fast becoming the go-to search engine for Gen Z. From researching products to buy, albums to stream and places to visit to a live view of a destination to get an accurate read of the weather. How will this impact advertisers?

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From Inventory to Advertising: The Key Metrics for eCommerce Planning in 2023

Tracking key metrics like inventory turnover, customer acquisition cost, and return on advertising spend is crucial for eCommerce planning in 2023. These metrics help optimize inventory management, marketing strategies, and customer retention. By leveraging these insights, businesses can make informed decisions, enhance efficiency, and drive growth.

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Digital Marketing Tactics

6 Ad Formats to Try in 2023

Try these top 6 ad formats to freshen up your business’s advertising in 2023 and explore new ways to get your brand in front of customers!

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Shopify Audiences and Google Ads
Digital Marketing Tactics

Shopify Audiences and Google Ads

Shopify Audiences lets you connect your Google Ads account to the Shopify ecosystem expanding your eCommerce business cross-platform strategy.

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eCommerce 2022: what have we learned so far?

2022 has been challenging for eCommerce, with shifting consumer behavior, geopolitical tensions, and supply chain issues. Key trends include increased clustering of purchases around Cyber week, varied revenue growth across regions, and a return to physical stores impacting online sales differently by sector. Strategic marketing and inventory decisions are crucial for navigating these changes.

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How Saint + Sofia Used Data to Optimize Customer Acquisition

Saint + Sofia optimized customer acquisition using Conjura’s data analytics platform. By gaining visibility into customer, marketing, and product performance, they identified key acquisition products and channels, improved customer satisfaction, and maintained ROAS. This led to a 20% increase in AOV year on year and a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over 50%.

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Facebook CBO
Ad Platforms

What is Facebook CBO?

Learn how to use Facebook Campaign Budget Optimization (CBO) effectively to optimize your Facebook marketing campaigns today.

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Digital Marketing Tactics

Cody Wittick: Influencer Marketing

Are you seeding products out to influencers to get UGC that you can repurpose across social media? If not, check out why should start according to Cody Wittick.

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Content Creation

Giving you the Edge: Copywriting

Writing ad copy is completely different from your website content, blogs, or product descriptions. We’ll give you the top industry tips for copywriting for conversions.

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How data will transform your eCommerce business

Operational analytics can transform your eCommerce business by providing detailed data to better understand customer needs and market trends. This helps in optimizing marketing, improving decision-making, and adapting quickly. Conjura uses data science to streamline processes, identify target audiences, and enhance eCommerce performance through multi-channel data collection.

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Scale faster with multi-channel data analytics

Multi-channel data analytics is essential for scaling eCommerce businesses. It helps understand how customers find your site, track their journey, and optimize marketing strategies. Conjura’s multi-channel funnel collects data from all digital channels, offering insights for better performance. This approach ensures data-driven decisions, reduced risks, and enhanced business growth.

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Unlock the value in your LTV data

Unlocking LTV (Lifetime Value) data enhances eCommerce by focusing on increasing average order value (AOV), improving gross margins, boosting repurchase rates, and reducing customer acquisition costs (CAC). Conjura’s tools analyze these metrics, offering insights to drive profitability and efficiency through data-driven decisions.

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Is it time to internationalize?

Expanding internationally requires addressing new payment processors, warehousing, and customer expectations. Key readiness indicators include strong Average Order Value (AOV), positive reviews from various regions, higher repurchase rates, and consistent international orders. Ensure AOV covers delivery costs and have localized websites.

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eCommerce

Osa Gaius: SMS for Sales

Mobile sales are only increasing in the world of eCommerce, but are you leveraging SMS as a channel for direct sales? Osa Gaius chatted with us to discuss this underused direct channel.

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eCommerce

David Perry: Growth through Partnerships

By not partnering with complementary brands on your Shopify store, you’re driving people off your page to shop elsewhere. David Perry chatted to us about how brands and influencers can benefit from a novel approach to partnerships.

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eCommerce

Kathleen Booth: Looking Beyond ROAS

ROAS, while an important metric, isn’t the end-all be-all of marketing success. A more holistic view of overall profitability is what matters, according to Kathleen Booth.

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Digital Marketing Tactics

Ciarán Harris: UX Matters

The experience a user has with your brand can make or break your reputation and bottom line. On last week’s show, we chatted with Each&Other’s Ciarán Harris on all things UX.

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Shopify Audiences
eCommerce

What Are Shopify Audiences?

Shopify Audiences are a new concept to marketers, however, we’ve gathered all the essential information you need to successfully utilize them for your business!

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How Wild Cosmetics Revolutionised Their Stock Forecasting with Data

Wild Cosmetics optimized their stock forecasting using Conjura’s analytics platform. By integrating product and fulfillment data, they gained daily insights into SKU performance, improving their stock forecasting accuracy and pricing strategy. This enhanced their pick and pack operations, sped up fulfillment, and informed a data-driven discounting strategy, leading to better customer acquisition and retention.

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Analytics Essentials

Founded in 2015, Legology is a beauty business built around a passion for looking after and celebrating great legs. The brand is dedicated to providing inclusive support for leg shape, comfort and health for all!

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Rosie Bailey CRO and AOV on Shopify
eCommerce

Rosie Bailey: Boosting AOV and CRO

Discover how conversation automation and psychology are coming together in the form of Nibble, a negotiation chatbot built to increase conversions on eCommerce sites.

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Shopify Analytics Explained
Digital Marketing Tactics

Shopify Analytics Explained

Shopify Analytics is an essential data-driven tool designed to help Shopify store owners efficiently grow with valuable business insights. Learn how to effectively utilize this data below!

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What is Google Performance Max?
Ad Platforms

What is Google Performance Max?

In digital marketing, we always have to stay on our toes. New changes have been rolling for Google Ads called Performance Max and we’ll explain what it’s all about.

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Keeping up With Customers

This petcare subscription business was founded in 2019 to help UK pet owners to care properly for their furry little friends, providing a range of products to help with pets’ well-being.

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Unhealthy Amounts of Data

A responsible retailer on a mission to help customers consume more consciously with sustainable, traceable and natural products to support their health and wellbeing.

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Risky Business

Europe’s only retail and consumer investment and innovation firm with expertise in understanding and anticipating how digital technology changes consumer behaviour.

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Studying Your Audience

An online school supplies retailer that does exactly what it says on the tin – sell school books and other scholastic materials needed to make learning run smoothly.

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Digital Marketing Tactics

Agency Growth Tactics for 2022 (Video)

Earlier this week, our CEO Brendan Hughes was joined by experts from Justuno, Builder.io, and Sendlane to present ways that agencies can ensure success for their clients in the new year.

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TikTok Shopping
Ad Platforms

TikTok Shopping: #TikTokMadeMeBuyIt

TikTok has been growing in leaps and bounds throughout the pandemic, so it’s no surprise that they’re focusing on building up their merchant infrastructure. If your business isn’t on TikTok yet, you might want to jump on it for 2022.

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Is Instagram engagement dying
Content Creation

Is Instagram engagement dying?

Have you noticed a drop in Instagram engagement for your business in 2021? You’re not alone, read this article to find out why and how to combat it.

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Can Smartly.io optimize ads against multiple KPIs?
Digital Marketing Tactics

Can Smartly.io optimize ads against multiple KPIs?

A day in the life of a typical digital marketer seems like it’s more analytics and tedious budget management, than advertising strategy and creativity. While there are plenty of tools out there to help us automate the more repetitive tasks, it’s important to know what each can do for you ahead of time. Can Smartly.io use more than one metric when optimizing?

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Instagram updates: Links for everyone & desktop publishing
Content Creation

Instagram updates: Links for everyone & desktop publishing

After years of being a mobile-only platform catering to big accounts, the cries of many a busy social media marketer have been heard. Finally, Instagram will allow users to publish to their accounts from desktop directly and to include links in stories!

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Digital Marketing Tactics

The Black Friday 2021 Toolkit Webinar

Panelists from FactFinder, FordeBaker, Outfund & Optily give their expert advice on making the most of your online marketing ahead of this Black Friday and holiday season.

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#FacebookDown: A wake-up call for businesses to go multi-channel
Digital Marketing Tactics

#FacebookDown: A wake-up call for businesses to go multi-channel

Monday’s nearly 6-hour Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram outage caused a huge disruption to individuals and businesses alike. If you’re only using these platforms for your marketing and communication with your customers, it’s time to rethink your approach.

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Daniel Lipinski: Funding your eCommerce Marketing
eCommerce

Daniel Lipinski: Funding your eCommerce Marketing

Marketing can oftentimes be the bit of a business that suffers most with ups and downs in cash flow. But ultimately, this pull back can really stifle a business’s growth. So, how can you continue to run your amazing ad campaigns when budgets are tight? Enter revenue-based financing.

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Justuno's 3 Most Successful Pop-Up Designs
Content Creation

Justuno’s 3 Most Successful Pop-Up Designs

The eCommerce landscape is rapidly evolving, with record growth combined with changing privacy regulations, the rising need for first-party data, and ever increasing customer acquisition costs. One thing that hasn’t changed? The need for email capture pop-ups.

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Giving You the Edge: Amazon Ads
Ad Platforms

Giving You the Edge: Amazon Ads

Amazon is pay-to-play, so we’ve compiled a guide to ads that will help increase your brand awareness and, ultimately, bring in more sales for your business both on the platform and off.

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eCommerce

Tom Baker: Growing on Amazon

Amazon is a massive marketplace that’s almost become synonymous with the eCommerce industry as a whole. If you choose to sell or advertise on this platform there are a number of things to keep in mind to ensure success.

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Digital Marketing Tactics

Michel Guillet: Leveraging Data Visualization

Oftentimes there is a bit of a disconnect between marketers and data analysts, but given the increasing importance of data-driven marketing it’s more crucial than ever for them to learn to speak the same language. On this episode of Optily Radio, we talk all things data visualization.

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eCommerce

Navah Hopkins: CRO Toolkit

Are you focusing too much on discounting and not enough on exclusivity as a conversion rate optimization tactic? On this new episode of Optily Radio we covered off this and more ways you can ensure people on your site complete a checkout.

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Digital Marketing Tactics

5 Free Ways to Upskill in Digital Marketing

Digital Marketing is a field that is constantly shifting–some might say shifting under our feet almost! You’ve got to keep up with all the changes to have the edge over your competitors.

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Ecom World Highlights 2021
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Ecom World Highlights 2021

A look back over the highlights of the largest eCommerce event in history! Here we’ll summarize Ecom World’s most inspiring and influential guest speakers.

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Content Creation

Top 3 Content Formats for Boosting Organic Traffic

Ads can get quick results, but content marketing is playing the long game. Investing in building up your brand as an expert people turn to for answers, not just to buy, can really pay off in the long term. But which kinds of content are typically the best at boosting traffic?

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Content Creation

Kelly Vaughn: Excel with Shopify

How do you make your Shopify store stand out? Kelly says the main thing you should do is make sure your images are uniform and clean–don’t worry too much about a custom theme.

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eCommerce

Book Review: Accelerate eCommerce Growth

Launching your ads is easier than ever before, yet somehow it seems like managing your ads keeps getting more and more complex. How can SMBs succeed in online advertising when the Big Guys don’t always make it easy?

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eCommerce

Greg Sterling on Shopping Local Online

Ultimately, shopping of any kind is about making it as easy for as many people to buy your stuff. We chatted with Greg Sterling about the ways in which eCommerce SMBs can stand out and make the necessary changes to adapt to a melded physical and online shopping experience.

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News

Winning in Digital Ads

Optily Debuts Industry’s First Single-Click Ad Spend Optimizer for Small, Midsize Online Stores and Declares “stop wasting your time and ad spend.”

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Case Studies

Cleaning Up with Optily

case study results achieved Optily enabled the client to +169% ROAS Increased their returns within just 2 weeks Prioritization Allocated budget to the best performing

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Ad Platforms

Kirk Williams on Next Level Google Shopping

Kirk really likes the term “black hole” when it comes to the data (or lack thereof) you get out of Google Smart Shopping analytics, so tread carefully when starting out. Where’s our data Google???

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Ad Platforms

Say goodbye to Facebook Analytics

Did you get an email earlier this month from Facebook telling you they’re phasing out their Analytics? What does that mean and where can you find your Page data?

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Giving You The Edge Tracking Pixels
Digital Marketing Tactics

Giving You The Edge: Tracking Pixels

Tracking pixels are a must for all advertisers, but soon we won’t have this luxury. With Optily, you can ensure your ads function as expected in a pixel-free world.

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Content Creation

Barry Schwartz on the Future of Search

Barry’s observed something a bit ironic when it comes to Google’s advice to content creators: they want us to write great, in-depth articles for humans, but those humans don’t actually read very much beyond the snippets they’re served up on the search engine results page.

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Digital Marketing Tactics

What happens to our ads when the cookies go away?

Online privacy, data protection, and consent are the buzzwords when it comes to online advertising policies in the past few years. Things are changing and cookies are on their way out. So how will the end of cookies change advertising?

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Does my business need influencers
Content Creation

Does my business need influencers?

The influencer marketing industry grew to almost $9.7B in 2020 by businesses using them to build brand awareness and reach new audiences. Are you still missing out?

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Bing Ads: All You Need To Know
Ad Platforms

Bing Ads: All You Need To Know

Bing Ads (officially known now as Microsoft Ads) are a smaller player in the advertising world, but a savvy marketer will realize its huge potential.

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Developing User Personas
Digital Marketing Tactics

Developing User Personas

Develop effective user personas with this short 4-step guide and take a critical step towards a more informed marketing strategy.

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Digital Marketing Tactics

GDPR Explained in 7 Minutes

Just starting out at a new company and want to be sure you’re on top of your data procedures? We’ve got you covered.

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Ad Platforms

The Big 7 Platforms’ Ad Revenue 2020

Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Twitter, Snapchat, and Pinterest ad revenue all summed up with an infographic and expert commentary from Optily’s digital marketing pros.

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Case Studies

6-pack ads for the Bottles app

case study Results achieved Optily enabled the client to Optimize ads Automated bidding, budget reallocation, and pausing of underperforming ads Serve up top ads Improved

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Digital Marketing Tactics

Major Social Media Statistics 2020

These mind-blowing social media statistics in 2020 will help you optimize your digital marketing strategy for 2021. Find out how to get your year off to the best possible start right now!

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eCommerce

Understanding Your eCommerce Sales Funnel

Improving your sales funnel is one of the most important tasks for your business. No matter what your business sells, your potential customers will go through these five stages in their buyer’s journey. Learn more now!

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Ad Platforms

How to Increase Your Google Ads Conversion Rate

Would you believe if someone tells you that an average business spends around $10,000 to $15,000 on Google Ads? This is how advanced and important Google Ads are. In the last few years, more and more companies are spending their hard-earned resources and time in mastering this marketing strategy. 

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Ad Platforms

Facebook Attribution vs. Google Attribution

With the recent change in Facebook’s attribution window, we decided to analyze the differences between Facebook’s Attribution and Google Analytics’ Attribution models to see which is better for your business.

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Ad Platforms

5 Ways You Can Improve Facebook Engagement

Engagement is key to running a successful Facebook page. You need to know how and when to engage with your targeting audience. For more effective and cost-efficient tips learn the 5 best ways to improve your Facebook engagement.

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Ad Platforms

How Do Facebook Targeted Ads Work?

Choosing the right audience has always been a challenge. And a big mistake that businesses make is not targeting their audience correctly. Why do businesses fail so often with Facebook advertising? Is there a way to master the Facebook advertising system? Read our blog to find out more.

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Content Creation

SEO Essentials For All Businesses

Do you want to learn more about the complex world of SEO? Are you making your first steps into the lucrative online advertising scene? SEO can be complicated, so our experts broke down how you can easily implement SEO strategies into your business and instantly see the benefits.

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eCommerce

eCommerce Advertising: 10 Proven Strategies to Improve ROAS

There is some virtue in the advice to ”never waste a crisis.” Regardless of how your business is performing within the current context, the need for evermore cost-effective marketing is pressing. Efficient marketing is the fuel to scale our businesses.

Updated: July 2022

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Ad Platforms

Facebook Ads vs. Google Ads 2020

Facebook and Google are two of the biggest PPC advertising platforms. Both offer a range of techniques that can enhance your online marketing campaign and increase your advertising ROI. But which platform is right for your business?

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Ad Platforms

Should Your Business Have An Instagram Account?

Instagram is one of the fastest-growing social media platforms in the world, and it’s a marketing opportunity that you can’t miss. With 850 million users, it’s the perfect platform to express your brand’s uniqueness to an engaged audience.

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About Optily Optily is the only single-click ad spend optimizer for eCommerce. Our plug-and-play online platform quickly links all of your Google and Facebook ads together and helps you easily determine which campaigns are working. With just one click, you can apply our optimization recommendations–like moving budget from a lower performing Google ad to a better performing one on Instagram. Optily saves you time and money by instantly optimizing your ad spend.
Ad Platforms

How To Reduce Cost Per Lead On Facebook

Facebook is one of the best platforms to generate leads for your business, but only if you know how to optimize the process. Spending more money on ads doesn’t mean more sales, optimizing your ad campaigns does. Find out how to do so right now!

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Digital Marketing Tactics

Digital Advertising in the Eye of the Covid-19 Storm

It is clear that right now for many organizations, advertising and marketing are very low on the priority list. However, for those who can still invest in marketing, now is a good time for several reasons to maintain some level of spend.

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Optily Radio Episodes - Archive

Listen back to past episodes of Optily Radio and hear from expert voices within the eCommerce, digital ads and growth technology industry. 

Quizzes and Zero-Party Data in eCommerce: Personalize marketing with ease with Gen Kurukawa

Quizzes and Zero-Party Data in eCommerce: Personalize marketing with ease with Gen Furukawa

Product Launch Success: Email marketing and SMS tactics for sales with Jacob Anson

Creative for Conversion: Tactics to make eye-catching ads for social media with Lauren Schwartz

Audio Content for Growth: Leveraging podcasts to scale online with Nora Sudduth

Influencer Marketing: Growing your sales with creators with Cody Wittick

Scaling with Email Marketing: Keep customers engaged and shopping Erica Salm Rench

SMS for Sales: Repositioning this medium for direct conversions with Osa Gaius

David Perry Optily Radio

Growth through Partnerships: Scaling with complementary brands with David Perry

Kathleen Booth

Looking Beyond ROAS: A more holistic view of success in eCommerce with Kathleen Booth

Customer Value Optimization: Methods for increasing CLV with Valentin Radu

UX Matters: Keeping your earned traffic on site and shopping with Ciarán Harris

Mia Bobak Optily Radio

Customer Service as Marketing: Increasing CRO and customer loyalty with Mia Bobak

Keith Matthews Optily Radio

Starting off Right with Shopify: Tactics for launching strong with Keith Matthews

Kevin Miller and Bridget Reed Optily Radio

SEO and Content Marketing to GR0 your Shopify Store with Kevin Miller and Bridget Reed

Rishabh Jain Optily Radio

Reimagining Affiliate Marketing: Growing your audience through content creators

Boosting AOV and CRO: Chatbots, cart abandonment, and haggling with Rosie Bailey

Boosting AOV and CRO: Chatbots, cart abandonment, and haggling with Rosie Bailey

Scaling your Store with Magento: Choosing the right platform for your needs with Robert Rand

Marketing your Shopify Store: Red flags, product/market fit, and analytics with Chase Clymer

Marketing your Shopify Store: Red flags, product/market fit, and analytics with Chase Clymer

Funding your eCommerce Marketing: Revenue-based finance explained with Daniel Lipinski

Amazon Copy that Sells: Differentiation, keywords, & knowing your audience with Emma Schermer Tamir

Building Customer Personas: Expanding on demographics with mindtyping

Growing on Amazon: Customer service, ads, & smart pricing with Tom Baker

Leveraging Data Visualization: Insights, tools, & communication with Michel Guillet

CRO Toolkit: Maximizing cart value & minimizing abandonment with Navah Hopkins

Beyond the Keyword: Automation, audiences, and localization with Jon Kagan

Beyond Facebook and Google: Selling on YouTube, Reddit, and Quora with Joe Martinez

Grow with Facebook & Instagram: Adapt, experiment, and measure with Akvile DeFazio

Excel with Shopify: Be organized, stay authentic, and take good pictures with Kelly Vaughn

Shopping Local Online: Know your customers, engage, and make it easy with Greg Sterling

Next Level Google Shopping: Smart Shopping, data, and resurrected funnels with Kirk Williams

The Future of Search: Writing for robots who read and humans who don’t with Barry Schwartz

Funnels & Attribution: Right time, right place, and right person with Brendan Hughes

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