Archive for the ‘Advertising’ Category
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Chris Marriott, of iMediaConnection haswritten a very interesting article regarding email newsletters. Marriot tests the minds of his readers by hypothesizing what would happen if the email newsletter became extinct, and what would marketers do without the platform. His ideas led me to think of not necessarily the death of the email newsletter, but [...]
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
I can’t help but roll my eyes whenever I hear ‘Email is dying’. This thought generally stems from social media experts who think they’ve stumbled onto the next big thing. I’m not downplaying the significance of social media, however email is here to stay. Judging from Campaigner.com’s latest survey, small businesses still find plenty of [...]
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
If you have any connection with web analytics then, I am sure, you have heard about the bounce rates (see Bounce Rate Demystified and Typical Bounce Rates). A lot of analysts and a few web analytics tools are obsessed with the bounce rates. High bounce rate is considered bad. If you are one of those who is obsessed [...]
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
I hope you have heard the famous words of John Wanamaker “I know half of my advertising is wasted, I just don’t know which half.”
Today the phrase should be something like “Half my Advertising is wasted because I do not advertise responsibly” or “Half of my advertising is wasted; I can stop that but [...]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2009
The graph below illustrates a point I’ve often wondered about email marketing – too many people who do it seem wholly without care about who they’re reaching out to.
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
One thing that should always be a focus of you marketing campaign is developing long term visitors and customers by creating an email marketing campaign.
I have been absent from this blog for about a bit because I have been working on a project that I have kept secret until the day it was finished. [...]
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Thursday, July 9th, 2009
This is a slightly taboo subject because with many product launches there is a launch competition not only for sales, but also for pre-launch opt-ins.
If you are offering an incentive for people to just opt-in, there is a high possibility that that lead might be worth less than a lead that has viewed some launch [...]
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Monday, June 22nd, 2009
A recent MarketingSherpa survey of email recipients found that 58% of those who stop
reading, disengage, or unsubscribe after cite “lack of relevance” as a key factor. This is hugely important because most marketers rely on email as their main lead nurturing tactic.
As B2B marketers, we should have it drilled into our brains that relevance [...]
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
The old model of interruption advertising is over. Content marketing and telling brand stories by offering interesting, useful entertaining content that engages your audience and provides information they want to read is what works today.
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
It’s always interesting to see research confirm something that your gut says is real. Ad blindness is a very real concern for marketers and it is forcing more creativity to get brands in front of the right people at the right time for THEIR right reason. A report from eMarketer shows that Internet users are [...]
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Having been involved in internet marketing for more than a few years, it’s interesting to see ideas fall out of favor only to come back in fashion, specifically email newsletters and true community building.
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