If you’re in the newspaper business, this isn’t a pretty chart. If you’re in the business of promoting your brand through local retailers, this is a very informative chart. The lesson to learn is that newspapers just aren’t what they used to be, they are still significant but you can’t ignore a close to 50% […]
AT&T’s recent technology survey documents why small businesses (like your retailers) have a Facebook page. The number one reason is that retailers look upon a Facebook page as an advertising tool and that has a lot of ramifications. Print newspaper readership continues to drop and alternative methods for local advertising like Facebook are becoming more […]
Social media is popular, we just don’t know how important it is to the purchase process and therefore we don’t know how much time, effort and money we should be spending on social media. Here’s another report that indicates that social sites are important to online purchase decisions. Search is important by itself, I think […]
Here’s an interesting report on what advertisers think is going to happen in digital marketing in 2011 as compared to what agencies think. The first point this chart makes is that in 2011 most everyone agrees there will be an increase in spending on digital marketing. The only substantial predicted decline is in Display, where […]
Here’s another indication that your small retailers increased their usage of social media in 2010 and intend to use it even more in 2011. This report is just another in a long line of indicators that social media sites, primarily Facebook, are becoming more important to small retailers and it’s been said that their Facebook […]
emarketer.com recently published an article about auto dealers moving their advertising dollars to the Internet. They based their thesis on an interview with the head of an advertising agency that specializes in automotive dealership advertising. Here is an interesting quote from the owner of the agency, He goes on to point out the need for […]
The New York Times published an interesting article about Google Search and J.C. Penny on Sunday and it’s loaded with interesting tidbits of information. The article is about how J.C. Penny used a wide array of sites to link to their site thereby tricking Google into thinking the J.C. Penny site was worthy of being […]
This week’s release of the new Firefox browser’s Do Not Track feature might do something eventually, but for today, it’s just a checkbox you can flick on or off.
According to this article in SFGate, the city of San Francisco is trying to pass a law that stops printed Yellow Page directories from being dropped at your door without your permission. The reasoning is that printed Yellow Page directories are expensive for the city to haul away and unnecessary in the age of the […]
Hitwise reported that Google is still the overwhelming leader in online search with 69%+ share (Dec 2010) with a sample of 10 million US households. But more interesting — beyond the small changes in month-over-month market share — is the overall impact of search on our lives. Here is a brief video recapping some interesting […]