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Search Engine Ads Need Help

July 7, 2009
Search Engine Ads Need Help

It’s very easy to document that consumers are spending more time online before they go into a store to make a purchase.  For durable goods it’s safe to say that 70% of consumers go online...
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Go Green, Go Online

June 29, 2009
Go Green, Go Online

I received a robo-call today from Best Buy. It stated that in order to use less paper and increase security that “The Reward Zone program is making some changes” beginning in October.  From the Reward Zone...
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Take Advantage of the Increasing Interest in Coupons

June 26, 2009
Take Advantage of the Increasing Interest in Coupons

Not surprisingly but online service coupons site visits are increasing at a significant rate. Here’s a link to comScores May report for the Top 50 U.S. Web Properties.  In there you’ll find...
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Another One Stops Using the Yellow Pages

Another One Stops Using the Yellow Pages

Just a few day ago a client removed the Yellow Page functionality from its Adbuilder website for its dealers.  That makes two that I know of since January.  It’s not that the print yellow...
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Yahoo's New Ad Builder Still Leaves the Landing Page in Limbo

June 23, 2009

Yahoo recently announced their new online ad builder for SMBs. They’re trying to make it easy for more SMBs to spend money online in their local market with Yahoo....
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How Much to Manage Your Retailers' Local Online Ad Campaigns?

June 22, 2009
How Much to Manage Your Retailers' Local Online Ad Campaigns?

Borrell Associates recently did a study on Local Search an developed this chart which shows the percentage of the advertising spend that goes to overhead and how much goes into...
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It's not the recession, local advertising is really changing.

June 19, 2009
It's not the recession, local advertising is really changing.

As a former advertising agency person I understand how recessions really have an impact on an advertising business as advertising budgets dry up no matter how much we argued that a...
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What will retailers do with all that extra money?

What will retailers do with all that extra money?

I don’t have to stare at the media spending reports too long before a striking conclusion hits me.  Traditional (i.e expensive) media down; online media (not expensive) up.  What will retailers...
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AdBuilder RFPs Aren't Demanding an Internet Component

June 12, 2009
AdBuilder RFPs Aren't Demanding an Internet Component

I’ve seen quite a few Request for Proposal for AdBuilders lately which is a good sign in these economic times.   Advertising must go on and taking costs out of the process with...
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That Elusive Dealer Decision

It’s one of the hardest things to get.  Manufacturers create strategies to generate it.  Software and services are designed to elicit it.  Anyone in channel management lives and dies by it.  What is it? It’s a...
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