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Top News: Target Shops Agencies | Experian Offloads | Gap's Digital Campaign | Cloud "Tipping Point?"

Agency News: Target Out Talking to Media Agencies Spark Wins Orbitz Media Account Dell Moves Consumer Advertising to Y&R Best Practices:  [...]
Posted: Friday, May 11th 2012

A Last-Minute Holiday Survival Checklist for Companies

eMarketer estimates US retail ecommerce holiday sales will rise 16.8% this year compared to last, reaching $46.7 billion. That is a growth rate nearly five times as fast as the overall retail industry--and a wave of spending that no brand can afford to miss. Yet missed or fumbled online sales opportunities will happen--not because of consumer frugality, although certainly that will be a factor. No, brands will lose ou  [...]
Posted: Monday, November 21st 2011

How to Optimize Your Mobile Site in Time for the Holidays

The 2011 holiday season is shaping up to be the year of m-commerce. For retailers that don’t already have a website optimized for mobile, all is not lost – there are ways to get a site ready in time for the holiday onslaught. These are tips that are applicable to any company – not just merchants expecting to make a sale via the web. Increasingly, web traffic is shifting to the mobile arena and customers expect to be able to access a site via their devices as easily as t  [...]
Posted: Monday, November 14th 2011

A Marketer's Guide to QR Code Technology

QR codes, a decades-old technology that was first used in the supply chain, are now expanding aggressively into the marketing space. QR codes were first developed in Japan by the Denso-Wave corporation for use in the automotive industry, and remained a b2b tool, not unlike RFID. However, as  of Q2 2011, QR scanning traffic was rising a  [...]
Posted: Monday, August 8th 2011

Poor Website Design a Deal Breaker for Small Business Customers

Small businesses are notoriously stingy in their use of online ad and marketing technologies - oftentimes for the very practical reason that they have limited resources to invest. One area where they shouldn't hold back, however, is in their ultimate landing page: their website. A recent survey showed how quickly visitors judge a site's creditability based on its design,   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, June 23rd 2010

Industry Calls for Standardized Email Metrics

The Email Experience Council is pushing to standardize metrics it has developed after a two-year research endeavor that included surveying dozens of email broadcast vendors. The bottom-line reason for its call for industry-accepted metrics, it says in its blog, is that it has become impossible to compare response and deliverability rates when terms are based on different calculations. The   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, February 2nd 2010

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/14/09

Account Moves: TVGuide.com has selected PubMatic to optimize its ad revenue. Strategies: Package-goods players are ramping up online spend. Email Marketing: Embedded video in e-mail slows  [...]
Posted: Monday, December 14th 2009

How-To: 5 Ways to Increase Email Deliverability

Return Path's Q2 2008 Reputation Benchmark Report (pdf) found e-mails sent from "legitimate" e-mail servers averaged a delivery rate of 56 percent. 20 percent were rejected; 8 percent filtered out of the inbox. The rest — 16 percent — were bounces. So nearly half of the time, e-mail marketers' messages don't get through. But there are ways to increase deliverability, insists George Bilbrey, Return Path's general manag  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, August 6th 2008

How-To: Gathering Market Intelligence from Social Media

Gleaning data from social media resources is daunting, but not unfeasible. Much of it comes down to knowing what you're looking for, how to search for it, and where to run the query. Opening tips before leaping in: 1. List appropriate keywords. Make it clear what you are looking for. To glean data about demographic interest in a film, don't just use the title. Consider the names of characters, and resonant scenes in the movie itself. "Bear fight" might be a good supplement  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, June 18th 2008