There is an article on eMarketer.com that must be meant to shock us, and it does. According to this report, grocery store executives expect to abandon print advertising at a devastating rate in the next five years and move their efforts to social/internet marketing. I can’t think of an industry that has relied on print […]
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If you’re involved with retail advertising and you’re spending most of your time, money and effort helping your dealers spend money on newspaper advertising you should rethink your strategy. Look at this chart from a blog post at Reflections of a Newsosaur. From the blog post: Thus, print sales in the first half of this […]
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I’ve been watching for statistics on the effect social media has on product trials, here are the survey results recently published at MarketingCharts.com Retailers’ social media activities influence a significant proportion of fans to try new products and make unplanned purchases according to a September 2012 report from Ryan Partnership. Some 36% of US consumers surveyed […]
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Local advertising is changing so fast and so dramatically it’s hard to organize a strategy around the chaos. I think one way to step back and take a look at what is happening is to think about the different kinds of media we have today. Here’s a drawing from a very good article on Search […]
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There are some very interesting statistics in this 2012 Research on the F100’s use of social media from Burson-Marsteller. For our clients in the Fortune 100 – benchmark where you are compared to your peers. For those aspiring to the F100, note how quickly usage has grown across and within specific platforms. Burson-Marsteller Global Social […]
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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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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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Social media is still a work in progress and most marketers responsible for retail advertising are taking a wait and see attitude. Here is a chart from eMarketer.com that demonstrates how popular social is with moms. That moms are big-time social network users is demonstrated in study after study. eMarketer’s latest forecast shows that this year […]
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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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Someone put out a graphic recently that demonstrates how confusing it is to deal with all the intricacies of planning and executing a social marketing campaign. Not to be outdone, BusinessInsider.com published this graphic on mobile marketing from Luma Partners You are certainly welcome to click this graphic to enlarge it but it won’t help you in the […]
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