Russ Henneberry

Russ Henneberry is founder of theCLIKK.com, a free daily email newsletter about digital business. He has trained and certified thousands of professionals in SEO, social media marketing and content marketing through his coaching, courses, and stage presentations.

Articles & Books From Russ Henneberry

Digital Marketing For Dummies
Get digital with your brand today!Digital Marketing for Dummies has the tools you need to step into the digital world and bring your marketing process up to date. In this book, you’ll discover how digital tools can expand your brand’s reach and help you acquire new customers. Digital marketing is all about increasing audience engagement, and the proven strategy and tactics in this guide can get your audience up and moving!
Article / Updated 03-11-2017
What do you do with the results of your split test to ensure success for your digital marketing campaign? After you run your split test, you either have a successful, a failed, or a null test result. After you’ve concluded the test, you can dig into the data to analyze what happened during the test period and determine your next steps.
Article / Updated 03-11-2017
Split tests are helpful tools in digital marketing. When you have your hypothesis, your variations, your KPIs, and your test schedule outlined, you’re almost ready to begin your split test. Complete the following steps to take in preparation for your test and then you'll be ready to click the Start button in your testing tool!
Article / Updated 08-16-2020
As a digital marketer, you’ve likely put lots of work into finding out who your audience is. But, what do you do with the information? You put it to work. Google Analytics enables you to break down your audience into segments based on the following: Channel Traffic source Completed actions Conversions In the context of analytics, a segment represents groups of visitors with shared characteristics or behaviors.
Article / Updated 03-10-2017
Knowing your audience is important for any digital marketing campaign. Although analytics programs like Google Analytics track the origin of your site visitors using their default settings, you'll likely find that these default settings are too broad to ascertain meaningful data. To get more granular (and thus more useful) data, you can append UTM parameters to the links you share around the web.
Article / Updated 08-06-2020
Everything you know about digital marketing is moot if your emails aren’t reaching your subscribers’ inboxes. Did you know that 21 percent of emails worldwide never reach the desired recipients? A whole lot of work, effort, and brilliance are being wasted on emails that end up floating around in cyberspace.How do you make sure that all your work isn’t wasted?
Article / Updated 03-10-2017
The first thing you should do as a business owner or digital marketer after you decide to start an email marketing strategy is come up with a promotional calendar. That way, you’ll know when to send the messaging your customers need when they want to receive it. Using a promotional calendar gives you the opportunity to elicit action.
Article / Updated 03-09-2017
Digital marketing evolves rapidly, and you often find yourself trying out new tools and tactics daily. When you're constantly venturing into uncharted territory, you're bound to make mistakes. Don't sweat it; making mistakes is how you learn.That said, not all mistakes are made equal. The mistakes listed here are more about your mindset than they are about a tactical error, such as sending out an email without testing the links.
Article / Updated 03-09-2017
Three main players make up the search marketing landscape, each with a different motivation. Understanding who the players are and what they want gives you a better understanding of how to make search marketing work for your business. The important players in search marketing are Searchers: People who type search queries into search engines Search engines: Programs that searchers use to find products, services, content, and more on the Internet Marketers: The owners of websites and other channels that publish content and make offers to people on the Internet As a marketer and business owner, you want to maximize the amount of traffic, leads, and sales you get from search marketing.
Article / Updated 03-07-2017
At the heart of digital marketing is useful content. When people do research, they search for useful content on the Internet. They look for how-to guides, case studies, and resources that can help solve their problems, inspire them, or point them in the right direction. Writing content that is both free and useful endears you to your market and establishes you and your business as the authority in your niche.