This is an important year for newspapers. First, take a look at these trend lines, remember that the Internet includes online versions of newspapers. While the Internet numbers jump around quite a bit, they do show an upward trend, the Newspaper category is in an undeniable steady decline. Where people get their news is important […]
It’s not unusual for a pay-per-click advertising campaign to include thousands of keywords. But, the trick to making those keywords work best in your campaign is to divide them up into many small ad groups and write ad copy that it is specific to each ad group. This chart, from a new Marketing Sherpa study, […]
I think it’s time we renamed local advertising. I don’t know what we should call it but my first thought is to call it the World Wide Local. Here’s one reason why, a Massachusetts dealer’s display ad appears on the Chicago Tribune’s site to a consumer from Massachusetts, who previously visited the dealer’s site. […]
Being in the newspaper business can’t be that much fun today, they’re struggling to keep local advertising dollars coming their way, as printed newspaper readership keeps going down. Groupon is getting a lot of press as they were the first ones to break through with local group buying in a big way but newspapers can […]
Every year at this time we like to look back to see what the major changes were in local advertising techniques during the past year and from there project what will happen in the coming year. It’s really easy this year to see that mobile will be an important part of what we do in […]
As you plan your marketing budgets for 2011 it’s important to look at the trends over the past few years and here’s a good chart from eMarketer that will help you see how consumers spend their time. This report would be much better if they separated TV and video into two categories, as it’s difficult […]
Next year is supposed to be the year of mobile marketing as the number of smartphones grows dramatically. Here’s a report from Chitika that indicates most sites aren’t ready just yet and that’s something you can take advantage of. We think that the explosion of mobile devices will most directly affect the way your local […]
Now is the time of year when we evaluate the past and look toward the future. Here’s a report from Wells Fargo/Gallup that tells us our small businesses are starting to feel better about their future. And,that’s good for all of us. Since many of our retailers fall into this category and/or sell products to […]
Ad tracking is a wonderful tool for local advertisers. Occasionally we do it here, too. When you came to our site we placed a cookie on your computer, a very common practice done for a variety of reasons, you’ve got hundreds already. For the record, we have no idea who you are or where you […]