- You Spent How Much on Lunch?Marketing Inspiration
Prices on the lunch menu at Maloney & Porcelli are typical of restaurants in its segment: You can start with appetizers like the $14 tuna-and-avocado tartare or the $20 crab ...
- Somebody's Watching MeEmail Marketing
In March 2008, Amber Duick began receiving email messages from a criminal fugitive who identified himself as Sebastian Fowler. "Amber, mate!" read one missive. "Coming 2 Los Angeles. Gonna lay ...
- [Your Name Here]Email Marketing
Marketing messages with personalized subject lines usually fail to impress DJ Waldow. "[Most] of those emails use my first name as the 'hook' to get me to open," he writes ...
- Fear Not, NumerophobicsHigh-Tech Mktg & Sales
Speculate all you want about how successful an online marketing campaign has been. But once someone brings hard data to the table, all bets are off: The answers are plain ...
- So, It's Like a Barn?Marketing Inspiration
"It's certainly not unusual that a stand up comedian like Tim Washer would be producing absurdist viral videos," notes AdAge. "What is surprising is that the IBM communications executive is ...
- Come Tweet With MeSocial Media
Hoping to position Lufthansa as bigger than just a German airline, digital agency Profero has helped it create MySkyStatus—a tool that has brought Lufthansa's branding catch-phrase, "passion for precision," to life ...
- Who Invited You?Email Marketing
Last summer, Morgan Stewart of ExactTarget quizzed 2,400 people on their attitudes toward marketing and made an interesting discovery. "70% of consumers who visit Facebook at least once a month ...
- ¿Habla Español?Marketing Analytics
Not all Spanish speakers want the same thing from a website—many more factors than just language are at play.That's why, Tamara Barber explains in a post at the Forrester blog, research on ...
- Talk to the HandSmall Business
If you blog, you've certainly encountered your share of bizarre, offensive or spammy comments. It comes with the territory. Each of us has our own standard, and you've probably developed ...
- Getting Hot, Hot, HotterSearch Engine Marketing
Does the URL to your Web page sizzle? In a recent Bloggapedia post, online marketer Bill Hartzer reports on the Alexa Toolbar's popular Alexa Hot URLs list. According to Hartzer, ...
- Outside the Box, Inside the PocketMobile Marketing
Mobile marketing isn't the unicorn it used to be. Most folks in your demo probably have a real, live phone within immediate reach for most of their waking days. And ...
- Enjoy Some Good Holiday CheeseSocial Media
As the goblins and ghouls out there munch away on their Halloween bounty, fond memories arise of one apparition we saw a lot of this season—the Monster Mash JibJab "sendable."
The ...
- Is He a Searcher or a Sleaze?B2B Marketing
As B2B companies boost their search-marketing efforts, SEO experts are in greater demand. And why not? With search one of the few bright spots in advertising these days, it stands ...
- So, the Recession Is a Good Thing?Marketing in a Downturn
While acknowledging the damage this recession has done to the personal and professional lives of so many people, Freddie Laker also argues that our dark economic cloud has brought with ...
- Polish Your Brand With Co-CreationCustomer Insight
"A revolution in both marketing thought and practice is at hand," say three researchers in an interesting new report on brand marketing.
In their research, these authors examined "consumer co-creation in ...
- Oh, so That's How It WorksMarketing Analytics
It's happening less often these days, but you probably still encounter executives or colleagues who have trouble wrapping their heads around newer technology—how something works, for instance, and what it ...
- I Prefer a Smooth BlendSearch Engine Marketing
To be free or not to be free? That is the question many content providers are asking these days.
Says SEO Book author Aaron Wall in a Search Engine Land article: ...
- You Lie!Marketing Inspiration
A recent viral video opens on a pretty blonde, who sits at her desk while cradling an infant son. "Hi, my name is Karen and I'm from Denmark," she says. ...
- Yes, It's Viral, but I'm not AfraidB2B Marketing
This time of year, the word "viral" strikes fear in the best of us. Images of flu viruses ready to attack spring to mind. (Shudder.)
But that word holds a scary ...
- No Escapin' ThisSmall Business
Ask 100 people for their opinion of social-media tools like Twitter and you'll likely get 100 different responses—ranging from extreme enthusiasm to extreme derision. However you feel about social media, ...
- Yeah, but What Does It Mean?Marketing Analytics
"With free programs like Google Analytics," says Corte Swearingen in a post at the SmallBiz Marketing Tips blog, "acquiring data is not the issue—the challenge is finding a way to ...
- Don't Rev the Search Engines YetSmall Business
As more and more customers use the Internet to research purchases, you might assume that any online marketing strategy requires a significant level of search engine optimization (SEO). But if ...
- Good Design Doesn't Just HappenSearch Engine Marketing
Ever wonder how great search results end up that way? Well, in a recent post at the User Interface Engineering blog, Jared Spool says there are no shortcuts to search-result ...
- What Would We Do Without You?Mobile Marketing
You've probably heard a lot that the days of "push" messaging—a mythical golden age when marketers could feed passive viewers whatever rigmarole the ad department pleased—are dead.
So true. But for ...
- Cheer-in the Holidays!Email Marketing
"The pumpkins come out, the days grow shorter, the weather cools, and there's no mistaking that the holiday season is upon us," says Karen Talavera in an article at MarketingProfs. ...