Not surprisingly but online service coupons site visits are increasing at a significant rate. Here’s a link to comScores May report for the Top 50 U.S. Web Properties. In there you’ll find this chart which indicates a 19% increase to Services – Coupons during May. The largest increase in any category. It makes sense that […]
Quick tips to get started in social media marketing.
Just a few day ago a client removed the Yellow Page functionality from its Adbuilder website for its dealers. That makes two that I know of since January. It’s not that the print yellow pages don’t have any readers. They still do, but it’s less and less each day. Yellow page spending continues to go down […]
Yahoo recently announced their new online ad builder for SMBs. They’re trying to make it easy for more SMBs to spend money online in their local market with Yahoo. Based on what we’re seeing in newspaper readership and profit it’s a good bet that small businesses are looking for someplace else to put their […]
Borrell Associates recently did a study on Local Search an developed this chart which shows the percentage of the advertising spend that goes to overhead and how much goes into buying the keywords when you use a reseller. It’s not clear in this chart whether or not the reseller also hosts, maintains and monitors the […]
As a former advertising agency person I understand how recessions really have an impact on an advertising business as advertising budgets dry up no matter how much we argued that a recession is the best time to advertise. What’s different about this recession is that it is masking a major shift in the way advertising […]
I don’t have to stare at the media spending reports too long before a striking conclusion hits me. Traditional (i.e expensive) media down; online media (not expensive) up. What will retailers and SMB’s do now that they don’t have to feel hostage to traditional media to promote their business? What will they do with all that […]
On Saturday, 11 people from JGSullivan participated in Chicago Cares 2009, the 16th year of the event, which is Chicago’s largest day of service. After our team checked in and participated in the opening rally, we gathered together and rode on school buses to Henry O. Tanner Elementary School. Once we arrived, we met with […]
I’ve seen quite a few Request for Proposal for AdBuilders lately which is a good sign in these economic times. Advertising must go on and taking costs out of the process with an online AdBuilders is still a really good idea. What surprises us the most is how few of the AdBuilder RFPs are […]
It’s one of the hardest things to get. Manufacturers create strategies to generate it. Software and services are designed to elicit it. Anyone in channel management lives and dies by it. What is it? It’s a dealer decision. What are my retailers doing in their local markets to promote my products? Not much really happens […]