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Video marketing has become increasingly competitive—there are so many ads out there that vie for consumers' attention. You can’t really blame businesses for making the most of video ads, more than 90% get new customers thanks to videos on social media alone. With that in mind, you need to find ways to make your videos stand out, so they don’t get lost among all the noise on the internet. How can you do that?  You do that by being creative and

A/B testing, also called split testing, is an age-old method of figuring out which marketing strategies work best for your business (or figuring out how to cure scurvy in 18th-century sailors—someone give those salty mariners a sack of oranges!).  Either way, it works.    You can use A/B testing on everything from website copy to paid search ads to marketing emails.  It takes some extra time, but the payoffs make it worthwhile—as long as your A/B tests are well designed.    Say you

For those who are not “in the know,” National Positions’ CEO Bernard May is a frequent contributor to Forbes.com, with over 200 articles, placements, and published contributions.  Not only does Forbes give our CEO the opportunity to share his vast knowledge worldwide (gained from his 20+ years in the marketing industry), it also gives our company the opportunity to be featured alongside other notable industry professionals, experts, and thought leaders.  So, rather than just talk about our experience over the

SEO is not what it used to be—especially when it comes to content. There is no disputing that SEO rankings—and digital attention in general—are fueled by the content you create and distribute. Your content strategy is the backbone of your blog posts, articles, product descriptions, service pages, and the list continues. But all content is not created equal in 2021—not to your customers and certainly not to Google. Just a few years ago, as long as your content had the

In the final 2020 episode of our Digital Breakthroughs podcast, we wanted to shake things up with a guest host! This week, our own Director of Marketing, Matt Erickson, took the podcast reigns and put CEO Bernard May in the virtual hot seat. To close out the year, our CEO wanted to unveil a new strategic marketing framework that we use for all our clients so you, too, can add it to your marketing toolbox for 2021.   We call

Every year, National Positions takes a look at all that’s happened surrounding digital marketing, ecommerce, and industry shifts to make our predictions as to where next year will take us.   Now, this year has obviously not been a normal year. This year all of the certainty about what we thought would happen and where we would be heading was shaken to its core—forcing us marketers to reassess what the future would hold.   This doesn’t mean that many of