I keep my eye out for studies that give us some indication of what small and medium sized businesses are doing on the internet. This chart is from the BIA/Kelsey Local Monitor study and gives me the feeling that companies just like your independent dealers understand the value of how much time consumers are spending […]
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A recent report from the Audit Bureau of Circulation shows that newspaper publishers definitely believe that they will still be printing newspapers in five years. I agree that they still will be printing in five years. They just can’t sell those presses and there are enough people who are in the habit of holding a newspaper […]
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TMP’s recent study about how consumers look for product and service information online vs. offline has some really interesting insights into the way consumers use online vs. print. There is a lot to look at here so let’s just focus on 2009. The important news for online is that consumers use the internet earlier in […]
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TMP Directional Marketing released their annual study on how consumers find information about local businesses, do they go online or use printed Yellow Pages? The quick answer is both but there is a lot to learn from their study including this chart broken down by age. The younger you are the more likely you […]
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Here’s are the key points from a recent Microsoft sponsored study about why small dealers need help with local search: The interesting part is that if a small-business tried it, they liked it: None of this is surprising to us as the ROI for local search is simply phenomenal. And, because it’s new and most […]
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A few months ago I read a report that predicted direct mail would be the next traditional medium to fall by the wayside, at a much quicker pace than what is happening to newspapers. Now a new study is out that bolsters that prediction. Consumers moved online and that’s what hurt newspapers, now consumers are […]
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Actually, I stole my headline from this recent article from e-Marketer, “Low CPMs Stall Social Netword Ad Spend” Here’s one of the main charts from the article that dramatizes the point. The basic idea here is that there are a lot of impressions available on Social Networks but not a lot of advertisers are there […]
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The worst economy in years has taken its toll on every phase of advertising and even the total digital advertising spending has finally slowed down. Dig deeper into these numbers and you’ll find that search revenue has continued to grow in spite of everything else. Search actually grew in the first half of 2009 as […]
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At first you might think that heavy social media users would use email less because they found another way to communicate but a recent informal study from The Nielsen Company found the opposite to be true. It starts to make sense that it would increase email usage because so many of the Facebook and other […]
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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 this year is at 23.5% of all advertising spending and television came in at 21.9% of marketing budgets. They expected this […]
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