Archive for the 'Marketing Theory' Category

Travel and sneakers, together at last.

March 21st, 2008

“It’s a business trip. And probably the kind of trip being taken by an ambitious, competitive, high energy “peak performer.” Much like these same travelers probably felt when lacing up a pair of Air Jordans back in 1985.”

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Marketing Roundtable Workshop - How to effectively market your business online and offline

February 29th, 2008

If you’re looking for ways on how to effectively get more customers and boost your profits, this is a workshop that you need to attend.

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Is SEO really marketing, or just the opposite of advertising?

February 20th, 2008

The concurrent top placement in organic and paid search results creates a synergistic appeal which makes users more likely to click on either link…as if the pairing generates an additional dose of authority for your website.

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Freebies are the cash cows of Web 2.0

February 13th, 2008

A small business should not set up and run a website as a carbon copy of its offline business…the digital channel is by its nature a different medium, implying different customers and different methods of engagement.

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Video: Using Google AdWords to Grow Your Business

February 10th, 2008

A lot of small business owners have tried advertising on Google, only to find out that they were throwing money away. With a fundamental understanding of the search engine ad model, and an appreciation of the opportunity provided by advertising in digital channels, you are almost certain to do better the second time around.

Coming [...]

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The digital annuity: our next great marketing asset

February 8th, 2008

With several internet channels reaching near-ubiquity and others growing very rapidly, it’s almost impossible that your content won’t cross one of these channels sooner or later.

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How offline advertising can keep a marketing campaign stuck in first gear

February 5th, 2008

Just because online marketing requires a certain kind of expertise not always congruent to traditional marketing, that doesn’t mean we should abandon the basics!

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What grocery chains can teach small business owners about consumer marketing

January 22nd, 2008

But really, how many store managers would instinctively know which of their top sixteen savory snack brands to position on the front end of Aisle 2 during September? An entrepreneur can arrive at the same kind of insights, by leveraging local search on the Internet.

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Promoting A Film Festival For The Long Tail: A Digital Marketing Case Study

January 13th, 2008

Since the birth of the moving picture, film has played an important role in the way people experience culture worldwide. This is apparent at the 400 film festivals which take place around the globe each year. These events give talented artists a venue to promote their work in front of a qualified, interested [...]

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Search Engine Marketing - Defender Of The CEO’s Leisure Time

January 9th, 2008

Once upon a time, a wise contemporary American made a bold proposition: let’s make November 7th a national holiday.
Why November 7th?  Because on this date, the average American will have worked as many hours as his or her European counterpart works in an entire calendar year.  That’s a solid 15% more time spent on the [...]

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Social Networking: A New Generation Of Business Development

January 5th, 2008

“According to eMarketer, the number of U.S. adults participating in social networks will grow to 69 million people in 2008 (a 21% increase over 2007)…businesses which invest in this innovative form of interactive marketing have a much better chance at success.”

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Only three types of businesses should bother starting a company blog

January 3rd, 2008

I recently had a discussion with a client about the finer points of Clicksharp Marketing’s elements of a comprehensive internet marketing campaign, citing blogs as the most powerful of all the social media. (Sorry, Youtube and Facebook — I suppose in this day and age, words still have more power to change the world than [...]

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What blog bars tell you about feedback and customer engagement

December 29th, 2007

According to a recent observation by Trend Central’s Intelligence Group, a new concept is beginning to emerge in the digital marketing space. You’ll start to see a lot of “blog bars” in 2008, defined in the article as “computer terminals which give the public the ability to post in real time and on location.”
Time [...]

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SEO and Marketing Basics: the ticket to success in 2008.

December 5th, 2007

A recent report published by eMarketer summarizes the findings of a survey of 600+ marketing executives run by Anderson Analytics.
Choosing from a wide range of marketing trends which included viral campaigns, innovative branding, new media and green marketing, the first and second most important marketing trends are Marketing Basics and SEO (Search Engine Optimization).
Or, to [...]

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Push vs. Pull: Internet shoving match, or marketing tug-of-war? (Part 2)

December 2nd, 2007

In Part 1 (“Push vs. Pull: Internet shoving match, or marketing tug-of-war?”), we discussed push vs. pull strategies in the context of traditional marketing theory. The next question is, which digital marketing resources apply? Here are some examples.
For a PUSH strategy:

Email marketing. Using email, you effectively sidestep a lot of the filters that [...]

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