This recent article on local retail advertising: “FSI’s need more localized approaches” is interesting because it reveals the true weakness of print messaging: “one message for all” in large volume give the best print pricing, but it isn’t effective. This article urges retailers to break away from one-size-fits-all and use more customized approaches in print – […]
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Just a few day ago a client removed the Yellow Page functionality from its Adbuilder website for its dealers. That makes two that I know of since January. It’s not that the print yellow pages don’t have any readers. They still do, but it’s less and less each day. Yellow page spending continues to go down
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I don’t have to stare at the media spending reports too long before a striking conclusion hits me. Traditional (i.e expensive) media down; online media (not expensive) up. What will retailers and SMB’s do now that they don’t have to feel hostage to traditional media to promote their business? What will they do with all that
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It’s one of the hardest things to get. Manufacturers create strategies to generate it. Software and services are designed to elicit it. Anyone in channel management lives and dies by it. What is it? It’s a dealer decision. What are my retailers doing in their local markets to promote my products? Not much really happens
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JGSullivan Interactive Recently GM and Chrysler announced terminations of 1,100 and 789 dealerships respectively.They had been trying to reduce their number of dealerships more gradually for years given that domestic auto market share has dropped in recent years from 60% to 40%.The toll on the local economies from this rapid reduction will be significant
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By Brett Knobloch JGSullivan Interactive I was reading an article in Customer Relationship Management’s May issue with the same title as this blog entry. It was citing research from 2005 and 2009 with a set of companies revealing how much their salespeople had adopted the CRM system implemented by their company. Despite years of hype
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By Brett Knobloch JGSullivan Interactive Today an Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) report cited the average sales of newspapers overall declined 7.1 percent between October and March compared to the same six-month period the previous year. Of the 557 U.S. newspapers reporting their Sunday numbers, average circulation fell 5.4% in the March
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By Brett Knobloch JGSullivan Interactive, Inc. Now we all know that economic cycles go up and down. Now we are in a down cycle hopefully on our way up. While painful, recessions do force organizations to rethink how their money is spent and prompts cost cutting and greater efficiency. “We’re all trying to do more
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