Lots of different ideas around about how powerful Social will become and what it may morph into. Let’s put to rest any idea that it’s going to replace Search, at least for now. This research was conducted by PowerReviews and the e-tailing group and it tells us that online shoppers don’t think too much of […]
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Google search just keeps on winning the monthly search engine game even though Bing has had a major marketing push and comes as the default search engine for Windows 7. So, it still makes sense to us to make sure you’re using Google to it’s potential before worrying too much about the other search engines.
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Facebook continues to grow and continues to show a lot of potential for advertisers and, we think, a lot of that potential is for local display advertising. There are several reasons for this rapid growth. The obvious one is that Facebook continues to be popular and surprisingly popular with the older crowd, the crowd that […]
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If you’ve been keeping an eye on social media, knowing that it is something big but not knowing how it will change and what a reasonable ROI is, you’re not alone. First, is it working for anyone yet? Ok, this tell us that some companies think it’s working but still most can’t find a way […]
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We keep a close eye on search engine usage, especially since Bing came online a few months ago with quite a big media splash. Before Bing Google was getting roughly 70% of all searches. Now, Google is still the big winner with 65.7% of the searches going through them. And, it’s been rather steady […]
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The traditional competition for local advertising dollars between radio, TV and newspapers has morphed to a new arena with the rise of the Internet. It’s been happening for quite awhile where the local rep offers your dealer a TV or radio spot, a newspaper ad and then bundles in a banner ad on their site. […]
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Several unrelated studies have come out recently trying to determine where consumers get information before going into a store to make a purchase. Billions of local advertising dollars are at stake as SMBs are looking for the best place to spend their precious advertising dollars and brand managers want to control their brand message locally. […]
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We say “only” 28.1 billion videos were watched online in February because in January Americans watched a staggering 32.4 billion according to comScore Video Matrix Service. Here’s the breakdown for February. This dovetails nicely with the articles I’ve been reading and what we are hearing from clients about the need to add videos to their […]
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We don’t often blog about financial rreports but if you’re involved with local advertising and how it’s changing so rapidly, it’s important to keep a close eye on Google. I especially like the part where paid clicks rose 15%, which to me is another indication that online spending is back.
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A few months ago I read where Google was testing adding images to Google AdWords. Well, today I saw it in action for the first time. Notice the two images of riding mowers at the top of the right hand column. In my opinion, at least in the case of someone looking for a riding […]
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