Here’s another report, this time from The Kelsey Group that documents how local advertisers are adding to digital media as traditional advertising spending declines in the next several years. In this report they define digital as mobile, internet Yellow Pages, local search, online verticals and classifieds, voice search, e-mail marketing and digital revenues generated from […]
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Wow, this is an interesting report from Internet Retailer about the effectiveness of landing pages. If a consumer comes into an e-commerce site from a paid search ad they are 50% more likely to purchase than if they click on the organic results to get to the site. The reason they think is that […]
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According to Nielsen Google lost share of searches last month from 66.1% in June to 64.8% in July. That sure makes a good headline and most everyone thinks that Bing must be having a major impact on the numbers. However, digging a little deeper into the story you’ll learn that Nielsen changed their methodology to […]
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Nothing on the Internet can stand still, you have to change, adjust, improve or become irrelevant. Google is getting pressure from Bing but I think Google is way ahead and now I see trying to get even better. Here is a recent blog entry from Google that links to a faster, better version of Google. […]
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In light of all the changes brought about by the Internet for marketing and advertising and reading so much about how newspapers, radio, television and direct mail dollars are being shifted to the Internet I wondered how printers are doing. I quickly found sites that tell me they too are experiencing the exact same shifts […]
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Here’s a recent press release from TelMetrics and we’ve seen similar reports from other providers such as Call Source. The trend they’re talking about is how many more advertisers are now tracking phone calls to better determine the effectiveness of their ads. The Internet is so trackable other forms of advertising need to prove their […]
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From the Google Blog on July 24, 2009 This is just another advantage to local retailers advertising on Google. We’ve already seen in our studies that by adding the local dealer’s name to a keyword ad the click-thru-rates improve over a national ad and this will help even more. As a brand manager with a […]
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One of the the things that it seems to take awhile for people to understand is how local search advertising is different from local newspaper advertising. Many people new to writing a keyword ad for Google Local immediately relate it to newspaper advertising and think you need to have a promotion going or it won’t […]
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A recent report by Harris Interactive documents how advertisers are relying less on print advertising and more on Internet and Digital. This just reinforces our view that great brands that have built or are thinking of building marketing communication portals for their retailers should include an Internet component. Or, if you have a portal add […]
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A savvy client just forwarded me excerpts of the 2009 digital future project release highlights from the Center for the Digital Future at USC Annenberg School for Communication. He is trying to coax his Fortune 500 company to into the 21st century as it relates to how they use the Web with their retailers. He […]
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