Borrell Associates has just released “Economics of Search Marketing” to specifically address the challenges of a scalable local online advertising model. The first important takeaway from this study is that local advertising is changing dramatically as small businesses in the next five years will move dollars from the old media (down 19%) to the new […]
With all of the improvements in technology, where our ability to target into more precise and more precise physical localities, are we about to dramatically eliminate the need for national advertising or at least redefine it? For the sake of conversation let’s just talk about products that are purchased locally in a store, like most […]
There is a new report from Telemetrics about the percentage of consumers who read a Yellow Page ad and then either call the store or visit the url listed in the ad. They did it by putting tracking phone numbers and unique urls in the Yellow Page ads so they could measure all the leads […]
Borrell Associates has a new report out predicting the end to another tried and true tool for advertisers. After correctly predicting the decline in Yellow Pages and then newspapers it’s direct mail this time, they’re predicting a 39% drop in direct mail spending over the next five years. As they point out in their report […]
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 […]
When buying Google AdWords locally it is important to control the landing page.
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 […]
By John Sullivan JGSullivan Interactive There was an interesting discussion yesterday on Greg Sterling’s Blog about the number of searches that have a local modifier to them and then Greg’s twist to try and determine how many searches end up with a local transaction. Interesting comments, too. Everyone has a slightly different view of why […]
By John Sullivan JGSullivan Interactive USC’s Annual Survey by the Center for the Digital Future Finds Large Increases in the Use of Online Newspapers, which should mean something to local advertisers. The long list of highlights all point to the demise of the printed newspaper as a good place to put your local advertising dollars. […]
By John Sullivan JGSullivan Interactive Borrell Associates just released a report predicting online sales spending by local companies to grow 6% in 2009. Not surprisingly the report finds that the small businesses are making the move to online out of necessity as during tough times they are searching for a more affordable way to advertise […]