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Online Coupons vs. Offline Coupons

April 23, 2012
Online Coupons vs. Offline Coupons

Here’s are some interesting survey results from a recent eMarketer.com blog post. For years coupons were the exclusive property of the print world and old habits are hard to change. Now, according to this research, it...
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Google Adword Campaigns by Zip Codes

April 9, 2012
Google Adword Campaigns by Zip Codes

If you’re responsible for a brand where your dealers have defined markets, Google Adwords has just made your life a lot better.  Google Adword campaigns can now be restricted to appear in specific zip...
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Shift in Ad Budgets to Earned/Owned Media

April 6, 2012
Shift in Ad Budgets to Earned/Owned Media

Advertising  is in the middle of a huge evolution/revolution.  Traditional advertising expenditures are taking a hit as marketers move to digital, this according to an article on eMarketer.com: According to a February report from...
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Newspapers and the Local News

April 5, 2012
Newspapers and the Local News

As a company that is very interested in local marketing automation, we keep an eye out for information that indicates where things are heading.  We especially watch newspapers because traditionally local retailers have relied on...
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Host It or…Nothing

April 3, 2012
Host It or…Nothing

Here is a study that asked over 300 digital marketers what they think of the information they have at their disposal to measure the effectiveness of their digital marketing efforts. Overall, this research tells us that these...
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Local Digital Advertising Spending Growing in Double Digits

April 2, 2012
Local Digital Advertising Spending Growing in Double Digits

Local advertising spending will grow, according to local advertising research firm BIA/Kelsey, from $136.2 billion this year to $151.3 billion by the end of 2016.  Most of that growth will come from local...
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Social Media Spending is Growing Rapidly

March 27, 2012
Social Media Spending is Growing Rapidly

Here is a graph from a recent CMO study about the predicted growth in social media spending. This is pretty impressive even before you realize that it’s difficult to spend a lot of money...
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Good News for Newspaper via Paywalls?

March 26, 2012
Good News for Newspaper via Paywalls?

Near the one year anniversary of The New York Times paywall implementation, The Times has announced they will continue the paywall and limit the number of free articles to 10 from the previous level of...
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Integration of Big Data is a Big Deal

March 20, 2012
Integration of Big Data is a Big Deal

As we move more and more to digital channels for advertising and marketing, the more data we have and the more we see how important it is to integrate, in near real-time...
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Lost Decade for Newspapers

March 19, 2012
Lost Decade for Newspapers

Recently there is a lot of analysis around what is going to become known as the lost decade of newspaper revenue.  Here is a  helpful chart in that it separates the print from the online revenue....
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