Posts Tagged ‘ Google ’

Newspapers Battle for Limited Ad Spending

February 16, 2010

The Wall Street Journal is about to launch a New York City Metro section to fill a need for local news and pull advertising dollars away from other NYC papers.  As the New York...
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Why Consumers Want to Be Your Friend

January 19, 2010
Why Consumers Want to Be Your Friend

Marketing Sherpa recently released a survey about why consumers friend or follow companies on social sites. The good news is that the most popular reason is the same as it is for why...
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Dealer Locators Put Consumers in a Circle of Confusion

December 23, 2009
Dealer Locators Put Consumers in a Circle of Confusion

Mobile, GPS Twitter, Google Local Adwords and more have the World Wide Web morphing  into the Local Narrow Web where consumers are looking online for friends, movies, dinner, products and services...
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Brands Are Getting Better at Connecting Customers to Local Dealer Info Online

December 21, 2009
Brands Are Getting Better at Connecting Customers to Local Dealer Info Online

We’re seeing a major emphasis on thinking beyond brand sites to connecting consumers to local dealer information recently. We deal with great brand name companies that sell products...
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Google Gets 71.57% of Searches, Bing Drops to 9.34% in November

December 14, 2009
Google Gets 71.57% of Searches, Bing Drops to 9.34% in November

Bing sure made a big splash when they launched several months ago and had lots of people talking about Google losing their dominant position.  So far Bing has been...
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Overall Advertising Spending Down. Online Advertising, Not So Bad.

December 11, 2009
Overall Advertising Spending Down. Online Advertising, Not So Bad.

eMarketer just came out with another great report on overall advertising spending this year and their prediction for the future. First, the bad news. Ouch, 2009 felt bad but seeing this...
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Google Search Adds the"Latest" Results from Twitter and More

December 9, 2009
Google Search Adds the"Latest" Results from Twitter and More

Google recently announced that you can select to see the “Latest” results as an option when you search.  My first thought was how nice that would be for breaking stories as...
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Search Strings Get Longer, Success Rate Increases, All Good

November 30, 2009
Search Strings Get Longer, Success Rate Increases, All Good

Experian Hitwise just released one of their frequent reports on search engine usage and 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 or more word search strings increased up to 4% as compared...
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It's Time to Turn Ad Slicks and Brochures into Landing Pages and Dealer Microsites.

November 24, 2009
It's Time to Turn Ad Slicks and Brochures into Landing Pages and Dealer Microsites.

Now we’re seeing studies showing even the smallest of businesses are using digital marketing tools at a greater percentage than traditional methods. Nothing here is really...
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Baby Boomers Are As Internet Savvy As Anyone

November 17, 2009
Baby Boomers Are As Internet Savvy As Anyone

I think one of the misconceptions about the online community is that baby boomers aren’t that internet savvy.  Well here’s a study from Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing that tells a...
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