With age comes, ahem, wisdom and a little more caution - for many of us anyway. The changing face of the US consumer presents challenges to marketers wishing to target the “risk averse”
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Marketing to the risk averse
Google toys with behavioral targeting
According to the New York Times, Google is starting to make more use of the oodles of data it gains from us and is experimenting with serving up ads connected to different searches we run.
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Outlook for email marketing?
I was very surprised to read the results of a recent survey as to how many businesses are still using desktop email clients to run their marketing campaigns.
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Free FaceBook Ads
Ever wanted to try advertising on FaceBook? Here’s your chance to do so free - a $50 click credit.
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Green and cause marketing
“The Green Marketing Study” from DoubleClick Performics found 60% of respondents thought it was extremely or very important that companies exercise good environmental stewardship.
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Image blocking in email
How often do you think images in marketing emails are automatically blocked? 10% of the time? 20%? More? In fact, it appears to be much more.
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The importance of top 10 rankings
As I was reviewing traffic statistics for one of my sites today, it was again rammed home to me just how important a top 5 search engine ranking is.
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Using print coverage to drive traffic
Sometimes we forget that not all publications are online and there’s still thousands of magazines printed on that paper stuff… and getting a mention in those can drive substantial traffic.
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Email subject line length
40 characters, 50, 60.. or more? Just how many characters should you use in email subject lines for marketing communications?
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A bright future for email marketing
While it’s one of the oldest forms of communication on the Internet, email’s not going anywhere soon - for nearly two thirds of US adults, it’s the preferred method of communicating with companies.
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