Posts Tagged as ‘media’

February 18, 2010

Advertising Salespeople Could Become Extinct

I read a post this morning by Daniel Ambrose, an editor for Online Pubishing Insider where he speculates that the success of Google’s and similar sites ability to create 90% of their revenue without salespeople. I have wondered about this also. I fundamentally agree with his premise, which is that even though the industry is [...]

April 27, 2009

Should Your Company be on Facebook? Absolutely!

Targeting Facebook users offers an opportunity to build brand loyalty while targeting your message in a very effective manner. Facebook Pages are free and offer the best way for your company to establish a presence on Facebook. The main elements of a Facebook Page are Basic information such as location and hours of business, if relevant; [...]

April 23, 2009

Understanding Behavioral Targeting

Behavioral targeting is an advertising delivery technique used by online publishers and advertisers to increase the effectiveness of their campaigns. Behavioral marketing can be used on its own or in conjunction with other forms of targeting based on factors like geography, demographics or the surrounding content. Behavioral Targeting is based upon information collected regarding an [...]

April 9, 2009

Does Journalism Have a Collaborative Future?

The future of journalism is probably a pretty deep subject for a non-journalist like me to tackle but humor me for a few moments if you will. Here is my premise. Could a feature article be written from a flow of  “Tweets” submitted by a collection of writers? Could you envision a series of entries from multiple writers [...]

April 7, 2009

The Benefits of Webcasting and the Site Publisher’s Role

As a Marketer, you should strongly consider the benefits of webcasting to promote you your product. One of the most effective ways of creating, marketing, and delivering a webcast is to partner with a trade publisher that targets your desired market. These publishers are experts at delivering an audience and that element may be the [...]

March 5, 2008

How to Market to the B2B User Via E-Mail Newsletters

1. The offer. B2B email recipients were inundated last year with offers for free white papers and Webinars. Do you have to come up with something completely new for 2008? No, but your white paper or free guide better be pretty darn informative. Remember, it’s about your buyers, not you. 2. Landing pages. Without a [...]

June 11, 2007

Which Click Made the Sale?

I recently read an interesting article highlighting studies made of click conversions. The question asked in the article was what site sending you a referral gets credit for creating the sales and consequently that site receiving more of your advertising dollars? The obvious assumption is that search engines create most of your sales because they [...]