Social Media

Spending on Internet Advertising Outpaces Television

October 1, 2009
Spending on Internet Advertising Outpaces Television

Ok, it’s in the U.K. and not the U.S. but it is still a major milestone when Internet advertising spending exceeds television advertising spending, even if it is in another country. The Internet spend...
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Social Media Revolution

Social Media Revolution

This new video was posted Sept. 7th and referenced at the QuantumDigital Marketing Innovation & Discovery Summit last week by Jeffrey Stewart.  “Social Media Revolution“ puts all the buzz about social media into perspective.  It moves fast and is...
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Cost-per-Lead Benchmark Study

September 15, 2009
Cost-per-Lead Benchmark Study

The better our metrics become the more we realize how precious each lead is.  Here is a benchmark study from Pontiflex that you may find helpful when measuring your own program. They define basic fields as first...
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CTR for Facebook

September 11, 2009
CTR for Facebook

I was on a speaker’s panel earlier this week and the hot topic was social media.  I was surprised at the number of people in a room full of mature marketing, technical and manufacturing people who had...
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Twitter Adds Location Sharing

August 25, 2009
Twitter Adds Location Sharing

Twitter just announced that as an option you can now share your location on a tweet-by-tweet basis.   And, at www.twitterfall.com we can watch tweets by location. On a news front it would be interesting to watch...
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Growth of Online Video Sharing Site Usage is Astounding

August 5, 2009
Growth of Online Video Sharing Site Usage is Astounding

A recent Pew Internet Report (.pdf) shows an astounding growth in the use of video sharing sites across all age brackets with the totals nearly doubling since 2006.  Fully 62% of...
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Social Networking and Business

July 31, 2009

Permission marketing guru Seth Godin spoke out recently on social networking and businesses interest in it.  The video is linked here. Godin echo’s a sentiment I often tell those I connect with on LinkedIn:  “This LinkedIn...
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Twitter's Not Ready for Advertisers

July 30, 2009
Twitter's Not Ready for Advertisers

As advertising, especially local advertising, is being reinvented right before our eyes it’s fun to watch new things come into view and then either morph into something worthwhile or go away. Recently in a meeting...
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8th Annual Internet Survey Highlights (Are you Ready?)

A savvy client just forwarded me excerpts of the 2009 digital future project release highlights from the Center for the Digital Future at USC Annenberg School for Communication.  http://www.digitalcenter.org/pdf/2009_Digital_Future_Project_Release_Highlights.pdf  He is trying...
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Local Advertisers Find Social Network Sites

July 15, 2009
Local Advertisers Find Social Network Sites

A recent study by Borrell Associates entitled Local Ads Moving to Social Networks found that 20% of the ad spend on social networks was from local advertisers. They were surprised as most of us...
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