Total advertising money spent locally is increasing in spite of the fact that traditional local advertising spending is down. During a recession local retailers think harder about every advertising dollar they spend and it’s becoming clear that they are seeing the value of online advertising according to this survey. We’ve seen this happening in the […]
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There are lots of reasons why a brand wants to have an online ad builder. Controlling the brand message all the way down to retail is the best reason. Followed closely by saving production costs. Well, now there’s a third and it’s just as important as the other two. Brand managers need a tool
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The latest numbers are out on who is winning the search wars and it’s still Google. What’s important about this month is that it is the first time that Bing has beaten Yahoo. As you can see Bing’s growth has been at the expense of Yahoo and the floundering AOL sites. Google has been strong
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We’ve seen survey reports that show 80% of web users use at least two channels to evaluate a product purchase decision. And, nearly 90% of marketers according to a survey by Alterian say that it’s vital or extremely so to have campaigns integrate between channels. While integration is important it’s not easy to accomplish according
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According to a recent report from Borrell Associates, overall ad spending in 2011 will grow by less than 5% but local online ad spending will grow by 18% in 2011. They further go on to explain where the growth is coming from: It’s clear that ad dollars continue to move from the old media to
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Here are the results from a study by Harris Interactive that asked marketers what works best in reaching local markets. These results are right in line with what our clients are asking for in the ad builders we build for them. More than ever brand managers want digital outputs in addition to the more traditional
What Works Best to Reach Local Audiences? Local Websites! Read More »
Here’s a study from CrossView that indicates that consumers prefer to get retailer promotion information from an e-mail and surprisingly web site, newspaper and social media are way down the list. I think the key word here is “delivery” of retailer promotions. Not to be confused with how a consumer learns about a promotion. So
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Here’s an interesting report from WebVisible documenting how much small and medium size businesses are spending on search advertising. You can download the full report here. We have to remember that these numbers are taken from a wide variety of SMBs and include florists to doctors. However it’s inescapable to conclude that the idea of
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Local advertising has been all about technological change these past 10 or 15 years as the Internet has become the place where consumers spend their time. Recently we read where White Page phone directories are becoming a thing of the past and yesterday we saw where Amazon sells more e-books than hardcover books. In the
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There are several different ways to measure market share for search engines and here’s another view and another data point that indicates Google, while losing some share to Bing, is still the number one search engine choice by a wide margin. The point here is that if you’re trying to help your retailers choose the
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