The shift in ad spending from traditional advertising to digital continues to grow according to data from a May 2012 survey of senior-level marketers and agency principals by business development company RSW/US . According to a blog on eMarketer.com Overall, digital is commanding an ever-growing piece of the marketing pie—44% of respondents spent at least half of […]
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I always thought that consumers would have a product or brand in mind when they started their search for coupons or special offers online, according to this study I was wrong. Consumers searching online for coupons and savings are far more likely to be looking for store-centric deals than product-specific promotions,according to [pdf] a ShopAtHome.com analysis of […]
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There are lots of reasons to connect your local print advertising to local digital landing pages. The biggest reason is that consumers want more information than what a newspaper ad or direct mail piece can give them and they are already inclined to go online for more information, so it makes sense to make […]
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Most brand managers are interested in social marketing even though the actual value of social is still difficult to document. One of the missing metrics is how many social site visitors head for a local retailer to buy the product they saw on a social site. Well, here is a study that starts to […]
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As print newspaper advertising continues its downward trend there are lots of questions about where to move those local advertising dollars. The simple answer is to go online but online is a big place. Here’s a good chart from the IAB that may help you think through what it means to go digital locally. The […]
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Google is fun to watch. Yesterday at the click of a button somewhere in the Google Complex they changed over 80 million Google Places pages to Google+ Local pages worldwide. So what does that mean? There is a good article on Search Engine Land that gives us this, Here’s a brief overview of what’s new […]
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There is a lot of interest recently in whether or not advertisers will flock to Facebook in the coming years to make them worth their current market valuation. BIA/Kelsey thinks that advertisers will spend more on social in the coming years as they are referenced in a recent blog post at MarketingCharts.com US social media […]
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Local marketing in the digital age is constantly changing for the better and simultaneously getting more confusing. What you thought was true yesterday may not be true today. As a case in point, there is a recent study out that shows that consumers use their tablet computer in the home 74% of the time. […]
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Winning the last three feet at retail has always been a difficult challenge for marketers. Things maybe getting more exciting according to this report from BabyCenter. This shows some dramatic growth from last year to this year in the percentage of mothers who use their smartphone or tablet while shopping, and how they use it. […]
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If you’re responsible for a brand where your dealers have defined markets, Google Adwords has just made your life a lot better. Google Adword campaigns can now be restricted to appear in specific zip codes, to match the exclusive markets you’ve given to your dealers. Above is a screen shot from Google’s blog entry explaining […]
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