ONLINE MARKETING : Search Engine
Improve Your Homepage Performance SignificantlyIf you're in the middle of a homepage design review, you know there's a lot to consider. This week, MarketingSherpa's Anne Holland shares some things she's learned about the process. For a handy checklist of dos and don'ts, click here.... Search Engine BenchmarketingIn search engine marketing, the consumer’s attention is largely focused on three or four items at the top of a search results page. Getting into those high impact slots requires knocking someone else out… and doing it in a completely fluid environment where minute by minute adjustments and multiple factors keep the head-to-head action going 24x7.... FOCUS on
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Shop.Org's Holiday Online Sales Survey Offers Strategies for 2012
The successes and failures of various tactics used by online marketers during the holiday 2011 season offer insight into practices for 2012. A survey by Shop.org chronicles these....
Outsider's Perspective Helps Hoover’s Refine Brand
Navel gazing doesn’t come intuitively to business-to-business firms, but perhaps it should: A good, hard, introspective look at itself – augmented by voice of customers and prospects research – was key in Hoover’s Inc.’s refining its marketing message. This was not a feel-good exercise. “With everything going into social media, the world is becoming more outside in than inside out,” says James Rogers, vice president of marketing at Hoover’s. “It used to be you could design what you wanted your brand to be, and then you’d promote it.” No longer. ...
Dashboards Help The Pond Guy Keep its Analytics Head Above Water
A lack of data is not some¬thing emarketers today can really complain about. But what they can complain about is data overload, and how difficult it can be to fig¬ure out what data is most useful for their brands—without becom¬ing overwhelmed. ...
Metrics Shape Become.com's Keyword Bidding Practices
Within paid search, the Mark Twain quote "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug" is especially apt. Consider Become.com, a comparison shopping site which saw one word make a difference when bidding for a profitable paid search term. "Everybody would like to rank [highly] for search terms that have a lot of volume," says Arpana Tiwari, senior SEO manager at Become.com. "But you have to pick the keywords you can have an impact on in search." ...
Acquisition Spending, Direct Mail on the Rise: Winterberry Report
Whether the check is in the mail is debatable, but marketers are increasingly writing checks for direct mail according to Bruce Biegel, managing director of Winterberry Group. Winterberry’s Outlook 2011: What To Expect In Digital & Direct Marketing reports that mail as an ad medium has seen a resurgence of late, and will continue to do so. ...
Boost Results With Actively Managed Search
All aglow thus far, the 2010 holiday shopping season has delighted a wide range of marketers, but expectations for holiday success vary widely, just like the metrics that have already hit the newswire. ...
Choose Holiday Keywords With Care
Many shoppers use Black Friday and Cyber Monday terminology in search, expecting to find aggressive deals. Marketers should plan carefully before incorporating these keywords into their portfolios to avoid incurring unwanted costs and non-converting clicks....
2011 Planning: Three Concepts to Kick Start the New Year
It isn't even quite November yet, but already many if not most brands are finishing up planning for 2011. Here's three sometimes overlooked concepts that every CMO ought to consider...
International Expansion Through Search Engine Marketing
Search can be a powerful tool for pinpointing global market opportunity and driving high ROI customer acquisition...
Increase Accountability With Micro Strategies
As brands increasingly need to control costs and drive results, micro strategies that can make offline channels more affordable and enable smarter, smaller media buys with greater accountability deserve a closer look. ...
