Search
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Digital
Search Sophistication on the Upswing
Big-budget search marketers are entering the search channel, and they’re bringing sophistication in the shape of more intensive use of Web analytics and bid management tools. Those are some of the top-line findings of the latest survey by JupiterResearch of leading company marketers and agencies with responsibility for search marketing.
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Agencies
Integrating Search and Traditional Marketing
The Boston Red Sox; “American Idol”; “Lost”; “The Amazing Race”. Wednesday is a busy night on TV! To avoid this viewing traffic jam, I record “Lost” so I can view it another time, minus the ads. During the course of watching these programs, what messages reach me? Which ones resonate? What do I absorb? As a marketer, you actually have a good shot at finding out. How? With search.
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Agencies
Caught Up, or Just Caught?
ANYBODY ELSE AROUND HERE miss Walter Cronkite? How about Huntley and Brinkley, or Harry Reasoner? Or, for that matter, who misses the 7 o’clock network
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Agencies
On-the-Job Marketing
MOST JOB-STAFFING services put marketing dollars into brand advertising. But Allegis Group is running in the other direction, building awareness almost
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Agencies
Click Fraud Has Radiator.com Boiling
CLICK-FRAUD TROUBLES HAVE given industrywide prominence to a handful of small search marketers unaccustomed to the spotlight: Lane’s Gifts & Collectibles,
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Digital
Catching Up with UpSnap
When SearchLine last spoke to UpSnap Networks, back in November 2004, the Davidson NC-based company had just introduced a free SMS-based mobile business directory service. Fast-forward a year and a half, and pay-per-call ads have been added to the ad mix.
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Digital
Inventing the Circle
There’s no shortage of companies trying different ways to get small local businesses to make the jump to online advertising. Google, Yahoo!, MSN and A9 are all out there beating the bushes to set up business profiles for local enterprises that don’t now have their own Web sites. And the Internet Yellow Pages directories are putting their sales forces into motion to convince Mom and Pop concerns that they, too, can have a prominent online presence with a minimal investment of time, if not of money. So what’s so special about Merchant Circle?