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Creating an Interactive Experience: Trends in Email, Mobile, and Social Marketingby Len Shneyder
Today's customers often rely on social networks to interact with brands. Marketers need to adapt to a customer-centric model and understand consumption patterns across social networks and the total digital ecosphere.
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Five Steps to Interactive Marketing Success With Behavioral Analyticsby Akin Arikan
Many organizations struggle to capture, organize, and effectively act on Web data to drive marketing programs. Here is a five-step path to help marketers develop their capabilities and expand the use of Web analytics to deriving behavioral-insights that fuel interactive ...
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Six Reasons Print Belongs in Your Media Mix (or Why Digital Popularity Brings Print Opportunity)by Gordon Plutsky
Just because marketers are jumping on the interactive-marketing bandwagon doesn't mean things on the interactive side are all rosy. The decreasing numbers for print don't necessarily mean a particularly high ROI for all digital initiatives. Still, there is opportunity—but you ...
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Marketers: Don't Just Buy Media—Earn It!by Ben Straley
Want to get started with an effective earned-media marketing program? Here are three tips for launching, measuring, and monetizing a low-cost earned-media program that will drive a surge in online word-of-mouth traffic about your brand.
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Five Ways to Maximize ROW (Return on Webinar)
by Kimberly SmithHow can your webinar receive a standing ovation? In a follow-up to last week's article, here's a guide to the technical steps for ensuring your webinar becomes a smash hit... as much within your own organization as among the intended ...
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Top 10 Challenges Interactive Marketers Faceby Aaron Kahlow
The top 10 challenges facing the interactive marketing community are very much the same as those facing the entire marketing community... in that almost every marketing professional must address the interactive/online marketing medium.
When they are asked about top challenges, many ...
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Blurring the Lines Between Advertising and Entertainmentby Ted Mininni
Since many traditional advertising platforms are static in nature, and consumers are becoming increasingly interactive in their preferences, companies must become increasingly adept at using a mix of new interactive tools to reach their audiences. We are living in an ...
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The New Rules of Internet Marketingby Nilofer Merchant
Understanding how the Internet changes the rules of marketing is a huge challenge for CEOs: Which practices are obsolete? What new opportunities should be pursued? How do we define success in this new scenario?
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The Death of the PR Handler in a Viral Environmentby G.A. 'Andy' Marken
At a time when business and marketing strategy changes at the speed of light, and competitors, partners and customers have instant access to information, the days of the handler the publicist are numbered.
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New Interactive Tools and Tactics for the B2B Marketerby Joe Rizzo
In an online sales environment that is both increasingly competitive and cluttered, B2B marketers must be able to perform two critically important tasks: They must communicate a unique brand identity, and they must be agile enough to quickly customize lead ...
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Wanted: Catalysts for Co-Creationby Earl Cox
In today's ever-changing, increasingly interactive media world, marketers are captivated by a new business buzzword: "consumer-generated content."
While word-of-mouth has always been powerful, consumer-accessible technology (the Internet, podcasting, video production, social networks, etc.) puts it on steroids. Success in this new ...
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The New Market Power: A Democratic Exchangeby Nilofer Merchant
Market power used to be much like a big castle surrounded by high walls and a moat to control access.
If the old-school world was the castle and the moat, the new model is more like an aerial view ...
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How To Create a Video Campaign Conceptby Jerry Bader
If you want to be cutting edge, the way to do it is with audio and video.
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Value Creation in the Age of Collaboration (Part 3)—David vs. Goliathby Nilofer Merchant
The Web enables an entirely different way of doing business. Collaboration on a scale previously impossible now occurs on an ongoing basis. Mass sharing ideas globally is easy using wikis and other software.
Here's what it means for companies today.
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A Second Look at Second Lifeby Joel Cere
How long will the Second Life media frenzy last? And if not for PR, what is the value of investing time and money with avatars when marketing budgets are under renewed pressure to deliver real returns from real consumers?
Joel argues ...
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Why a Killer Videogame Is the U.S. Army's Best Recruitment Toolby David Verklin
Before it was released on July 4, 2002, many expected the $7.3 million game would join the ranks of the $436 hammer and $640 toilet seat as a study of excess. Few predicted "America's Army" would become the artillery's most ...
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Bridging Real and Virtual Worlds Through Marketingby 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 ...
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IBM Marketing Champion Uses Online Marketing to Boost Divisional Revenue and Share of the SMB Marketby Roy Young
Sandra Zoratti, vice-president of worldwide marketing of the soon-to-be-formed InfoPrint Solutions Company, a Ricoh/IBM joint venture, added interactive marketing to the InfoPrint Solutions Company marketing mix to multiply the reach of the sales force in pursuit of the coveted small ...
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Virtual World Transition: What Second Life Business Model Works Best?
by Bill Nissim
Some very successful companies have made the transition from the Real World (RL) to a three-dimensional realm called Second Life (SL)—a virtual world where millions of dollars are spent. The rationale behind these transitions ranges from attracting press coverage to ...
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How to Market on YouTubeby Stephan Spencer
Now that YouTube is more popular than all the sites of the TV networks combined, some wonder whether broadcast TV's days are numbered.
It may well become more important for your brand or company to be on YouTube than to ...