{"id":1176,"date":"2017-02-04T14:47:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T14:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wensmedia.com\/ens-on-sales\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2017-02-04T14:47:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T14:47:34","slug":"what-digital-experts-dont-tell-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/uncategorized\/what-digital-experts-dont-tell-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What Digital Experts Don&#8217;t Tell You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have an advertiser who is infatuated with their digital &#8216;expert&#8217; or agency?<\/p>\n<p>We suggest you ask your client to ask their digital consultant or advisor, &#8220;What is the most common word internet searchers use to find your business?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If they&#8217;re honest, the answer won&#8217;t be a key word or other SEO tactic. They&#8217;ll have to admit that the most common word used for consumers to find them through search is their name or their business name.<\/p>\n<p>You can bet that until they were asked, they did not tell your advertisers about the role of branding &amp; creating pre-search name awareness in driving more online traffic.<\/p>\n<p>There is no substitute for name recognition when consumers search for a business online. And there is no disputing the intrusive power of broadcast advertising in creating top of mind awareness and name recognition.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not to say there is no value to some of the online tactics implemented to capture more leads. But if the advertiser&#8217;s marketing has been effective, nothing will trump name recognition.<\/p>\n<p>Our local TOMA (Top-of-Mind Awareness) Surveys consistently validate the power of broadcast advertising to create top of mind awareness and drive more online traffic, leads, and sales.<\/p>\n<p>In his Monday Morning Memo, Roy Williams wrote, &#8220;I&#8217;ve long suggested that radio stations fund a TOMA study every two years. Few things are as valuable in the eyes of advertisers as these revealing market snapshots.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h4>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"mailto:wayne@wensmedia.com;angela@wensmedia.com?subject=Please%20contact%20me%20to%20arrange%20a%20TOMA%20overview&amp;body=Please%20supply%20your%20name%2C%20position%20%26%20market\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to arrange an online meeting to discuss how conducting a TOMA study in your market will increase your local revenues.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have an advertiser who is infatuated with their digital &#8216;expert&#8217; or agency? We suggest you ask your client to ask their digital consultant or advisor, &#8220;What is the most common word internet searchers use to find your business?&#8221; If they&#8217;re honest, the answer won&#8217;t be a key word or other SEO tactic. They&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[258,289,299,298,297],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-branding","tag-leads","tag-market-snapshots","tag-name-recognition","tag-pre-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}