- Achieving Relevance in Direct Digital Marketing: An Introduction by Bryce Marshall
There are five keys to making a relevance-centered approach a reality in your direct digital marketing programs(such as email, websites, mobile, and so on).
- Boost Your Business With Seven Easy Digital Marketing Techniques for Lead Generation
by Yael K. PennGrowing your in-house database should be at the top of every marketers list. Why? When done correctly, it will house your most-qualified and responsive prospects. Though organic list growth may take time and effort, you will love the rewards. Consider ...
- E-Marketing: Greening the Digital Process by Chet Dalzell
For those of us who were brought up e-marketing, e-shopping, e-dating, e-gossiping—and all things e—we may feel smug that we are truly paperless (are we really?), and thus we are so green in our behavior that who would dare cast ...
- Reading Your Buyers' Digital Body Language: A How-To Guide by Steve Woods
Today's buyer is in control. This transition means that our sales teams are no longer required as a conduit of information. Industry websites, vendor sites, blogs, social media, and search all make the required information readily available and, by doing ...
- Pushing One-to-One Marketing Beyond Email by R.J. Talyor
You get it. Email needs to be relevant, timely, and personalized, and it has to arrive in the inbox—not the spam folder. When an email renders, it should load images perfectly, guide the eye through stunning, effective design that drives ...
- Social Media's 'Gee-Whiz Factor' Must Die: Time to Get Down to Business
by Chris BroganSocial media is cool! Blogging and podcasts are cool! We're so cutting edge! Yeah, whatever.
The people looking at social media long and hard fall into a few camps, and this article is for those who are scrunching their noses up ...
- The Top 4 Ways Smart Marketers Use Digital Branding Applications to Operate More Efficiently by Allen Adamson
As part of the research I did in preparation for my recent book, BrandDigital, I interviewed some of the best and brightest people in the fields of marketing and digital technology, and they provided incredible insight on how digital tools ...
- Digital Alchemy: How to Get Gold From the Fusion of Digital Marketing Elements by Karen Talavera
Digital marketing isn't just an ever-growing collection of components anymore (if it ever was). Don't limit your perception of it to adding the latest Web 2.0 gadget to your site or playing in the newest online community. It's not simply ...
- Special Report: How the 'Obama for America' Campaign Used Digital Media to Turn Ordinary Citizens Into Campaign Evangelists
by Kimberly SmithHow did the Obama for America campaign do it? By its adherence to several game-changing strategies.
- How to Target Your Prospects With Military Precision by J. Woody Meachum
Predicting where your prospects are online is tricky—and often expensive. And it's not always about where they are but also what are the best ways to reach them.
How should you decide where to start?
The military has utilized a system called ...
- Digital-Marketing Series: 9 Ways to Reach Digital Natives (and the Rest of Us, Too) by Ann Handley
New media and technology have inherently changed the way the newest generations experience the world: how they learn, live, play, and communicate.
So what's this mean for marketers, specifically, who want to reach digital natives... and the rest of us, ...
- When the Media Becomes the Marketing: Q&A With CC Chapman by Mack Collier
While blogs and social networks seem to get most of the attention when it comes to social media talk, podcasts and videos also remain viable channels to reach and connect with an audience.
CC Chapman should know, as he's been active ...
- Direct-to-Consumer PR Reflects Power of Do-It-Yourself by Gail Martin
With the rise of search engines, Wi-Fi, and a Do-It-Yourself mindset, today's consumers are more empowered than ever before. They not only believe that they're entitled to information but also have unprecedented access to information on a global scale.
An increasing ...
- How to Keep Up With Social Media: 'Think Liquid' Applied by Geoff Livingston
Marketers are better served by liquid fluidity in their thought processes and approaches. That way they can adapt to sudden changes and new, hot technologies as social media continues its march forward. As this natural process continues to unfold over ...
- Four Keys to Developing Digital Marketing Strategies to Meet Your Audience's Needs
by John Lakey, Jon Borg-BreenNew technologies are becoming increasingly harder to ignore. Today's strategies must address the full spectrum of channels, as they offer unique opportunities for differentiation and for developing real competitive advantage. Mind these four key points to develop a winning digital ...
- 30 Tips for Creating a Digital Press Kit
by Gail MartinGiven the ease of online publishing, there's no excuse for a company not to have a current, effective press kit. But why are press kits missing from so many Web sites? What's their real value? What must absolutely must be ...
- Under Pressure: Moving From Traditional to Digital Media by Michael Emerson
By now you've all heard—Internet ad spending is up, spending on traditional media is down.
With so much attention given to Web 2.0 and its technology-enabled marketing tactics, marketers using traditional approaches are under increased pressure to become more digital and ...
- Navigating the Emerging 'VirtuReality' Market by Ray Podder
Last month, Kwik-E-Mart's opened around the country. You know, the one from the imaginary world of The Simpsons? What's more, the Geico Cavemen have their own sitcom, and fictitious TV-character blogs like Monk's are things that real viewers can comment ...
- Bridging Real and Virtual Worlds Through Marketing by David Schendowich
Marketing within social networks and Virtual Worlds is becoming a viable means for reaching and influencing the attitudes and behavior of consumers in ways that was never before believed possible.
In fact, marketers who have dabbled in Virtual Worlds recognize ...
- Going Mobile: Portable Media Market Finally Getting Traction? by Howard Greenfield
Last year, MP3 player sales totaled $4.23 billion. Half of all US teens now own a player (with video capabilities increasingly becoming the norm). And of the two billion cell phones in use worldwide, 236 million now contain 3G technology ...