Mark your calendar for these upcoming events with the Direct Marketing Association of Northern California.
Improving Email Marketing Response Rates: Winning email marketing strategies for acquiring and retaining customers
What You'll Learn in this Workshop:
This class presents winning email marketing strategies for acquiring and retaining customers in a world of crowded email inboxes and mobile viewers. We’ll talk about best practices for email copy, design, and implementation. We’ll cover offer strategies, writing winning subject lines, which day of the week to send and frequency, and how to design emails for mobile using responsive design. The class lays out a complete strategy on how to build your engagement score by implementing onboarding and engagement playbooks. We’ll also discuss strategies to improve your deliverability and how to avoid spam filters.
Use Social Media for Marketing | 2020 Best Practices
To show you how to manage and optimize your social media marketing campaigns in Facebook, In-stagram, Pinterest, Youtube, Twitter, and LinkedIn to get more traffic, leads, and sales. You’ll come away with actionable tactics and strategies that you can apply to your company’s social campaigns. We’ll look at examples of social media projects, both good and bad.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Fundamentals Workshop
What You’ll Learn in this Workshop
The first session opens with a review of the basics of SEO. What is SEO? Why use SEO? How does it work? This is explained with visual examples.
We then go on to keywords. You’ll learn how to find thousands of keywords (including your competitors’ keywords!) and how to use those keywords to write your meta-tags. You’ll see how to test meta-tags to find the best one.
You can easily find and test 10,000 keywords to get the best ones. You’ll see how to easily find keywords in other languages.
The course includes presentation, live demonstration, and examples. You get downloads, spreadsheets, and ebooks. Lots of opportunity for your questions.
Account Based Marketing (ABM) for Mid-Size Firms during COVID-19 & Best Practices for 2021
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Intermediate
What You’ll Learn in this Workshop
The relation between keywords, meta-tags, and search results. How changes to keywords and meta-tags can improve your ranking in search results.
Using an example of a fictional mid-size company, you’ll see how to add keywords to your page. How to edit the meta-tags, the page heading, the body text, ALT tags, and links. How to use the Excel spreadsheet to fit within Google’s limits. You’ll also see a quick way to test meta-tags so you’ll have the best ones. Which pages to SEO (you don’t need to SEO every page). How to find meta-tags in the HTML code.
We’ll also talk about the Google updates (Panda, Penguin, Hummingbird, HTTPS, and mobile) and how they affect your work. A list of what is banned at Google. Examples of beneficial Google updates. How to get Google to add your page again if it gets banned.
Testimonials
This was great, answered 99% of my Google questions in an efficient 2 hour format.
Today’s workshop was timely, relevant and clearly explained with some actionable go-forward steps. Having access to the presentation ahead of the call is also effective for implementation post-workshop.
Very relevant and timely, presented in easy to understand fashion.
It provided a lot of usable information that can be applied to our business.
Presenters were knowledgeable and presented the topic well. I like that it was given adequate time to dig into the topic and didn’t skim over the subject just to fit it into an hour. It was also helpful that the slides had actual content, and not a bunch of stock images, so they’re useful to download and reference after the presentation.
Slides were very detailed and informative.
Lots of excellent data. Great actionable information tools and guidelines.
Great technical info – very usable! Thanks!
This workshop was perfect for me – just the right amount of information at the right level. I will take it back to the company and find out how we analyze and make some suggestions where necessary.
Discussed strategy and practical tips.
Smart use of language that lined up with the presentation.
Great preso!
This workshop is a great idea and great job pulling together.
Comprehensive coverage of available tools. Examples and best practices of different tactics.
Love all the case studies shared from the panelists.
My favorite presentation. You kept it REAL. Honesty is why I came here. I didn’t want a vendor pitch. I came here for subject matter expertise.
Insightful & timely actionable information I can take to the bank – great use case examples and fresh perspective on ABM.
Provided a great start to the presentation that was though out and beneficial.
The content and information of the presentation was awesome and the instructor clearly and effectively communicated the teaching, It would be great if the actual presentations slides had less words and were a bit more designed and polished to help visually assist the concepts and learnings.
DMA always provides great speakers on timely topics.
John clearly knows his area of expertise. A very broad topic with many layers is hard to convey in a brief timeframe, and he was quite effective in doing so.
Excellent subject matter and panel. Keep them coming.
Excellent overview , this made my time worthwhile today!
Important updates and discussion on critical B2B lead generating efforts.
A great collection of information that I [will] begin to implement immediately into my direct marketing strategies.
Well prepared presentations w/real world examples and speakers.
I found the material relevant, timely & current. This is info that you can’t get anywhere else. Audience participation makes the day.
Great presentation informing about a marketing strategy tactic that I wasn’t very familiar with. Will be considering in our mix for the future.
Yes! Every time I attend a DMA luncheon, I walk away pleased w/the investment of my time. It is always worthwhile for me to carve out the time.
Very valuable info that can apply across verticles.
Really liked the forum – panel discussion. Great, knowledgable speakers, work well together.
Just a bunch of great insights & tips.
Really liked the various backgrounds of the speakers & different perspectives they brought!
Very well run, comfortable setting to ask questions in & I appreciate the different perspectives of the panelists.
Incredible presentation! Engaging and insightful until the very end!
What a wonderful way to spend an afternoon – eating a delicious lunch and learning about valuable marketing topics.
Marketing changes so quickly with new technologies & approaches. DMA helps me keep up!
Detailed, in-depth information across social platforms that you can’t find elsewhere.
The depth of information was quite good and I particularly found helpful the focus on applicable marketing use cases.
Real-world true-life tales from the frontline of B2B marketing.
My favorite presentation. You kept it REAL. Honesty is why I came here. I didn’t want a vendor pitch. I came here for subject matter expertise.
A lot of info, mostly new to me but very educational. Will look for ways to implement what we learned into practice.
Very informative & entertaining. Learned a lot in two hours.
Excellent presentation about a very interesting business topic.
DMAnc continues to provide helpful, in-depth training that is applicable, relevant, and expert driven.
This workshop gave a great overview of the insight that Google Analytics can provide. Though I have been using Google Analytics for years this course still provided new ways of thinking and reporting that I will be applying when analyzing my company’s website.
Great guidance for targeting audience and making advertising more of a conversation.
Provided the foundational information necessary to be prepared for GDPR compliance.
You answered the questions we had going into the webinar.
Thanks for taking questions and providing responses.
Nice blend of legal versus non-legal.
Very knowledgeable presenters. Clear and well prepared structure.
