- Get 'em ChatteringMarketing Analytics
When it comes to the analyzing the data you collect at your Web site, you're doing a great job. You know which of your customers visit most often, where they ...
- Seek and Ye Shall Find Our EventSearch Engine Marketing
When you plan an event, you pull out all the stops. So, too, should it be with your event promotions. Apogee Search's Brian Combs suggests in a recent MarketingProfs article ...
- I Was Merely Acting!Marketing Inspiration
Set the scene: An attractive blonde Australian sits on the edge of her bed in an all-white bedroom and awkwardly begins a homemade video produced for YouTube. After a few ...
- I'm the CEO, Dammit. Read My Blog!Small Business
If you're a hard-charging CEO with lots of vision and business acumen, you've undoubtedly wondered if you should blog. Before you take the plunge, though, Todd Defren has some advice: ...
- Frankly, You Just Scare MeCustomer Insight
Uh-oh. Just when you thought e-commerce might survive these dreary days, a new report comes along that says online merchants didn't do nearly as well last year as they could ...
- The New Paper-or-PlasticEmail Marketing
"OK, so 'digital-or-print' is the new 'paper-or-plastic,'" says Doug Stern in an article at MarketingProfs. "[So, when is it] more appropriate to stick a stamp on [a marketing message] … ...
- Know Where to Find Some Progressive Metrics?Marketing Analytics
In a post at the Marketing Interactions blog, Ardath Albee discusses an ongoing debate between "Hard" and "Soft" marketing proponents on the best way to measure ROI.
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- Tag, You're It!Search Engine Marketing
When the spiders come crawling through your Web pages, will they find what they need to index the pages properly? They will if you're using meta commands, or tags, correctly. ...
- The Cinema of SchadenfreudeMarketing Inspiration
Few of us have kind words for the Fortune 500 CEOs who lived it up while the value of their companies, and our 401(k)s, imploded. And with a trio of ...
- Cool It, Speed Racer!Email Marketing
"I am not going to go on a rant [about] adding a 'share this,' 'follow me,' 'digg this,' or another technology to your email programs in order to drive cross-channel ...
- Easy There, Mr. PopularMarketing Inspiration
"Social media is cool!" proclaims Chris Brogan in a premium article at MarketingProfs. "Blogging and podcasts are cool! We're so cutting edge! Twitter is like the future here today, and ...
- Glad You Could Join Us!Email Marketing
Smith-Harmon just released its Retail Welcome Email Benchmark Study, which examines best practices at 112 of the Internet's largest retailers. And in a recent post at the Email Karma blog, ...
- You Too Can Tweet, Part ISocial Media
Given the recent Facebook redesign, you're probably hearing a lot of yammer about Twitter. If by now you're not familiar with how Twitter can benefit your brand, walk with us ...
- Quantitative Conversion Data Isn't EverythingMarketing Analytics
"I'm finding that all too often marketers are deciding to spend either more or less money based solely on the conversion rate of how a certain search phrase, ad creative, ...
- Up, Up, and Away!Search Engine Marketing
We may be in a recession, but that isn't stopping marketers from spending on search. According to the new 2008 annual survey and forecast from the Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization ...
- You Two Wrestle Online, OK?Marketing Inspiration
You've seen others do it, and maybe you're wondering how to create your own two-person video for social-media channels. Ben McConnell, who blogs with Jackie Huba at Church of the ...
- Why Can't We Still Be Friends?Email Marketing
In a recent post at her Flooring the Consumer blog, C.B. Whittemore discusses the frustrations of transferring newsletter subscriptions from one email address to another. "It's really easy to unsubscribe," ...
- Textbook Text MarketingSocial Media
As marketers continue to see good ROI from finely tuned mobile strategies, the humble text message has acquired newfound cachet. And in a recent video posted at the CenterNetworks blog, ...
- You Need Good, Consistent Analysis. Seriously, You Do.Marketing Analytics
"It's hard to get analysis right," says Gary Angel in a post at the SemAngel blog. "[And] even when you do, it's hard to get it consistently right." You increase ...
- Words, Words, and More WordsSearch Engine Marketing
A new trend uncovered by Hitwise reveals that search queries on all major search engines are starting to get longer and longer. In a recent study, the measurement firm found ...
- Don't Make This Harder Than It IsEmail Marketing
"I am still unsubscribing from lots of emails in an email account that I no longer wish to use," writes Tamara Gielen in a post at BeRelevant!
"While doing so, I've ...
- When the Crowd AttacksSocial Media
On Friday 2/27, Skittles surrendered itself to the Zeitgeist. Visits to Skittles.com led users directly to Wikipedia (later changed to a Twitter search for "skittles," then to the official Facebook ...
- The Right Way to Join the FraySmall Business
In a post at the MarketingProfs Daily Fix blog, Mack Collier tells the story of Alison Heath, the director of marketing for a small company that received favorable coverage from ...
- Tell Me More, Tell Me MoreEmail Marketing
Under normal circumstances, Dylan Boyd believes email copy should be clear and concise. He explains his straightforward rationale in a post at the Email Wars blog: "[I]f I get 500-700 ...
- Don't Call Me AverageMarketing Analytics
In a post on Key Performance Indicators (KPI) at the Occam's Razor blog, Avinash Kaushik facetiously asks readers to raise their hands if they think they're average. "No one is ...