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Marketo Introduces Integrated Social Marketing Automation
If customers spend little time interacting with branded social pages, the trick becomes to capture them where they spend the majority of their time; interacting with one another. Marketing automation provider Marketo claims to have solved that problem. In his keynote at Marketo Summit 2012, President and CEO Phil Fernandez announced that the company "is [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 24th 2012
Top News: MillerCoors Severs DraftFCB | Fuse DM, Video | "Twitter Pro?" | Weather.com SoMe Alerts | Spotify Arrives on iPad
Ad Technology:
Google Inside adSense Blog: Introducing Redesigned Payments Pages
Agencies:
MillerCoors Shakes Up Shops, Cuts Ties With DraftFCB
Business Strategies:
12 Reasons to [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 2nd 2012
Surprise: Consumers Want Email, But Want It Their Way
Marketers were right to worry about getting blacklisted and spam-filtered—that is until most consumers became bargain hunters. Market research from email solution provider BlueHornet (reported via eMarketer) found that as of February 2012, 95% of U.S. email users had joined email lists to receive discounts.
What that suggests is that consumers are perfectly willing to share personal information with retailers, in excha [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 19th 2012
Holiday Shoppers Take Mobile Barcode Scanning Mainstream
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Posted: Thursday, December 23rd 2010
As They Ramp up Social Commerce, Will Brands Remember the Social Piece?
Last week Proctor & Gamble began selling Pampers diapers and wipes - along with an assortment of other products such as Tide, Oral B, Olay and Pantene - through its Pampers Facebook page. P&G has sold its products before via Facebook, namely its pre-sale of Pampers Cruisers with Dry Max; this initiative, though, it [...]
Posted: Monday, October 4th 2010
Local Service Companies Intrigued by Pay Per Call
Local service companies such as attorneys, dentists and credit and debt counseling firms are primed to embrace pay per call advertising platforms next year.
Pay-per-call models in general are poised to experience explosive growth in 2010, according to Telmetrics. If 2009's activity is any guide, it will be local campaigns driving adoption next year - the number of local search pay-per-call advertising programs the company monitors tripled from January 2009 to June 2009, [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 16th 2009
Cox Keeps ValPak Now That It's Digital
Cox Enterprises has decided to keep Largo, Fla.-based Valpak in its corporate family after announcing last year that it was exploring its sale.
A number of factors no doubt went into this decision, including the likely dearth of offers during the sharp recession. However Valpak has begun to aggressively enter new forms of media - and Cox has said it believes it has a promising future [...]
Posted: Friday, December 11th 2009
Senate Sniffs Out Shady Direct Marketing
A recently released Senate Commerce Committee staff report is taking aim at the dark side of 'aggressive' online direct marketing, and has singled out shady and controversial practices by three companies - Affinion, Vertru and Webloyalty, in addition to the hundreds of retailers that have used their services.
The report details purchase procedures in which consumers rarely realize they are signing up for a monthly cl [...]
Posted: Wednesday, November 18th 2009
Netflix Model Channels High-End Fashion
A new website is now offering women the chance to rent up to 160 different designer dress styles for a fraction of their retail cost - and then return them after they've been worn.
In a model similar to that used by Netflix, Rent the Runway is a rent-by-mail service that loans expensive dresses from designers like Diane Von Furstenberg and Proenza Schouler for about one-tenth their in-store cost.
The site, which finishes testing this week, also is [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 10th 2009
Industry Buzz & Snippets: 09/21/09
Ad Networks and Analytics:
10 social media strategies from top brands.
Seven reasons to ramp up paid search.
AdMob vies for mobile advertising network leadership.
Agenci [...]
Posted: Monday, September 21st 2009
Coupious Couples With Local Merchants for On-Demand Coupons
Coupious, a mobile marketing platform that delivers on-demand, location-based coupons to smartphone users, is testing out its service at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
After downloading Coupious from the App Store (for iPhone and iPod Touch) or the Android market (for T-Mobile G1s), smartphone users browse deals in their immediate location (or up to 50 miles away), identified using the phone's GPS technology.
Once they find a [...]
Posted: Friday, May 22nd 2009
Mobile Marketing Growth Stunted by Per-Message Fees
Per-message fees may kill the business model for SMS and MMS-based marketing, concluded a panel at the CTIA Wireless 2009 Mobile Life conference.
24% of consumers who have received an mobile-based offer respond to such messages, according to a July survey by the Direct Marketing Association.
Given that more than 2.6 billion text messages are sent every [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 2nd 2009
Nike Adds SocNet Sharing Feature to Marketing Emails
Beginning with a February 12 inbox blast, Nike incorporated a ShareThis button to the bottom of email messages promoting its Lunartrainer+iD product line.
ShareThis enables users to share portions of an email -- or website -- with friends across the networks they use, giving otherwise static messages a potentially "viral" quality. It and functionalities like it are dubbed "share with your network" (SWYN) links.
News of Nike's SWYN inclusion was reported by the [...]
Posted: Monday, February 23rd 2009
Link between Subject Line Length, Email Clicks Weaker than Thought
Though shorter email subject lines correlate with higher open and click rates, subject-line word order and content may be just as important to email performance, according to research by Epsilon.
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Posted: Tuesday, January 13th 2009
Google: Checkout Icon Increases Ad Click-Thru 10%
On its Google Checkout page, Google claims a "Checkout" icon can increase ad click-through by 10%. (At least one client, Fred Lerner of e-commerce network Ritz Interactive, claims the Checkout icon increased clickthroughs by 23%.)
What's more, Google Checkout users purportedly convert 40% more than shoppers that haven't used Checkout in the past.
Google Checkout [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 7th 2009
'Best' Holiday Ads: Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy
Asked which retailer has the best holiday TV commercial, consumers ranked Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Macy's, and Kohl's as favorites, according to a survey conducted for the NRF's Retail Advertising and Marketing Association by BIGresearch.
Other retailers on the top 10 list include Sears, Kmart, JCPenney, Old Navy, and Toys "R" Us. (See [...]
Posted: Thursday, December 18th 2008
55% of CMOs Are Disinterested in Social Networks
Despite the cultural phenomenon that Facebook and MySpace have become in the past few years, 55% of top-brand CMOs said they're not too interested (22%), or not interested at all (33%), in incorporating these and similar social-networking sites into their marketing strategies, according to a survey by Epsilon, MarketingCharts [...]
Posted: Monday, December 1st 2008
News Releases Not Just for Press, Serve Wide Variety of Functions
Press releases have historically been used by PR professionals to attract the attention of journalists and media outlets, but today's online news releases are now used by many types of marketers and small-business owners seeking to reach bloggers and customers, improve SEO results and drive website traffic, according to a [...]
Posted: Wednesday, November 26th 2008
1/5 of Marketers Send Emails After Users Unsubscribe
20% of top brand marketers keep sending additional emails to users, even after confirming requests from them to "unsubscribe" from an email marketing list, according to a research study from Return Path, MarketingCharts writes.
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Posted: Thursday, November 20th 2008
MostChoice to Fork Over $4.8M for Stuffing Rival with Fake Leads
A Colorado District Court jury awarded $4.8 million to NetQuote after ruling that its rival, MostChoice, submitted over 3500 false applications for insurance quotes to its website.
After receiving multiple complaints from insurers that it was filing unqualified leads, NetQuote conducted an investigation and discovered MostChoice had hired a contractor, Brandon Byrd, to submit falls apps to its site. Byrd [...]
Posted: Friday, November 14th 2008