There is a lot of confusion in the marketplace about what is the best way for retailers to advertise locally. And, the recent demise of WebVisible uncovers an unbelievable...Read More »
Local Online Marketing
SEO and SEM Vendors Churning Your Dealers and Wasting Your Money
There is a lot of confusion in the marketplace about what is the best way for retailers to advertise locally. And, the recent demise of WebVisible uncovers an unbelievable...Read More »
2012 Will be a Watershed Year
Marketing directors who are in the trenches every day realize that big shifts in consumer behavior continue to reshape the marketing landscape, but it sometimes hits us harder when we reflect on how it...Read More »
Internet or Newspaper? Search or Social? What Works Best for Local?
Pew Internet just released a study about how consumers get information about local businesses. Here is part of a chart from that study that compares Internet to...Read More »
Amazon’s Price Check App Changes Everything, Again
Amazon’s new Price Check app really changes the playing field for local retailers and therefore your brand marketing. The idea is that a consumer in a store, using their smartphone, scans the bar...Read More »
Ad Spending Doesn’t Match Consumers’ Media Time
There continues to be a disconnect, as a percentage, between where consumers spend their media time and where advertisers spend their media dollars. Not everyone is convinced that this should be a one...Read More »
Twitter Ads Out Of Reach For Most SMBs
Just to make things a little more confusing for those of us who are deeply involved with retail advertising, Twitter is selling ads and, as you can see from this screen shot,...Read More »
Newspaper Ad Sales Way, Way Down, Again
Here’s the first look at projected newspaper ad sales for 2011 from the blog, Reflections of a Newsosaur. I can’t find any good news here for newspapers. Even saying the year is over...Read More »
Consumers Prefer Postal Mail?
Here is a new study about email vs postal mail, according to a study released in December 2011 by Epsilon Targeting. Data from the “2011 Channel Preference Study”. The point of the survey is that postal mail is...Read More »
Google Catalogs Return As Brand App Catalogs
Some ideas are ahead of their time. Like the Google Catalogs idea that disappeared in 2009 and has now reappeared as an app for Android and iPad. Here is a link to Google’s...Read More »
Tablet Computer Usage Should Change Everything, Again
I don’t think we have ever seen anything like the growth predicted in the usage of tablet computers. Only 5.8% of internet users used a tablet computer in 2010, by 2014 the percentage...Read More »
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