As the year comes to a close, and a new one begins, I reflect on the typical questions and trends I’ve seen and think about how best to advise our clients for 2011. Top 10 Trends of 2011: 10. Facebook’s Online Marketing Platform The adoption of Facebook’s advertising capabilities and ability to target specific segments …
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Click Forensics reported yesterday that the overall industry average click fraud rate rose to 22.3 percent, up from 18.6 percent in Q2 2010. The reported click fraud rate for Q3 2009 was 14.1 percent. Outside of North America, the countries that produced the most fraudulent traffic were Japan, The Netherlands, The Philippines and China. Why …
Many times companies see landing pages as little more than an extra page on their website tailored for a certain product or promotion. They know that if done correctly they can be effective, but rarely do people stop to think about why they’re so powerful. First and foremost a properly designed landing page is a great …
With IBM’s recent acquisition of Unica we have seen the next phase in the entry of large players in the analytics market. It was only two weeks ago that they bought Coremetrics. IBM follows Adobe’s lead in the acquisition of analytics solutions. Adobe threw its hat into the ring in 2009 with its purchase of …
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3 Analytics Predictions from the Coremetrics acquisition
1. Coremetrics will explore ways to more tightly integrate their analytics platform into the WebSphere platform, dashboard and portal.
2. Coremetrics will close the loop between pre-click analytics with post-click analytics.
3. Coremetrics will find ways to micro-personalize content and ads.
Back by request, I’m presenting our framework for developing effective online marketing strategy for business on the 3rd of June at 8:30 AM at the Greater Philadelphia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. I hope you can join us.
There are volumes written on this topic, but a lot of our clients have been experimenting with the combination between sending direct marketing pieces such as postcards with their online marketing strategies. There is tremendous interplay between catalogs and postcards and what folks do once they are ready to sit down and consider the offering. …
Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group (DTAG) deployed Omniture to create a central data hub to integrate and act on online and offline customer data, improving its ability to track, target, and measure customers’ Web activity, and increasing productivity and accuracy.
ROI: 45%
Payback: 2.35 years
Average annual benefit: 1,720,452
Pay Per Click advertising is like reconnaissance, especially for companies that are starting their online marketing strategy.