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  • Women with children at home are more likely to use Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter than average adults, according to a newly released survey. They're big on word-of-mouth, and some 15.3% maintain a blog.

  • The humor, education, home improvement, and B2B site categories experienced the biggest gains in August. The ad network with the greatest reach was AOL Advertising, followed by Yahoo! Network and Google Ad Network.

  • There's nothing we love more than solutions—top-notch insights from top-of-the-line experts that help solve common marketing problems. Once a week, this column will pose a problem, and invite a MarketingProfs speaker—past, present, or future—to help solve it for you.

  • The best kind of personal branding combines real-world communications with virtual visibility and community-building via social media. Online brand-building enables you to reach beyond the people you can connect with in person and allows you to measure the impact of your actions. Since online personal-branding efforts are easier to track and measure, you can see how your brand pervades the World Wide Web. Here are five easy-to-use Web tools to help you get a handle on how powerful and prevalent your virtual personal brand is.

  • Is the social-media explosion a "big bang" that's creating a whole new brand-communications paradigm, or is it part of an ongoing evolution whereby focused brand-building principles are not only still relevant but more important than ever?

  • In the current economic climate, many local businesses are seeking more-effective ways to market. Since their potential customers are increasingly using the Web as a way (and sometimes the first and only way) to find products and services, local businesses realize that their marketing efforts should include at least some aspects of online marketing. One of the first strategies that come to mind for many local businesses is search-engine optimization (SEO). And although SEO has proven to be a profitable marketing channel for many businesses, you should ask yourself a few questions before investing in a full-blown SEO campaign.

  • Publishers, membership-based organizations, and anyone who manages subscriptions can benefit from triggered emails by using date-based triggers to remind customers to renew. Automating this process saves time and money. Even more important, using triggered emails can significantly boost your response rates on renewals. The following case studies illustrate how three organizations applied best-practices for deploying triggered emails to drive renewals—and what tips and tricks you can use to do the same.

  • Coca-Cola is the most valuable brand in the world for the ninth consecutive year, according to the latest Interbrand/BusinessWeek brand-value ranking. Rounding out the Top 5 list are IBM, Microsoft, General Electric, and Nokia, in a repeat of last year's results.

  • Some 67% of US adults, or about 154 million people, have looked up health and medical information online.

  • In a move to shove Yahoo off its display-ad perch, Google last Thursday launched its DoubleClick Ad Exchange, which the company promised would streamline and improve how display ads are targeted at and delivered to a desired audience.

  • National magazine ad spending surpassed local TV ad spend in June, bumping local TV into fourth place, but cable TV kept its lead, followed closely by network TV.

  • Americans 65+ have suffered less in this recession than other age groups, because most have already retired and downsized their lifestyle. Hardest hit have been those on the verge of retirement.

  • More than half (55%) of gay and lesbian Americans read blogs, compared with only 38% of heterosexuals. They also use social networking sites more than their heterosexual peers.

  • Need a friend? Brisbane-based uSocial will find thousands of them on Facebook for you—at a price.

  • Fidelity.com was by far the leading online-trading website in July, followed by those of Scottrade and ING's ShareBuilder, virtually tied for second place, according to Nielsen NetView data.

  • Total measured advertising expenditures in the first six months of 2009 fell 14.3% from a year earlier, to $60.87 billion, according to TNS Media Intelligence. Q2 spending was down 13.9% from last year—the fifth consecutive quarter of year-over-year decline.

  • The reputations of several industries—car manufacturers and banks prominent among them—plummeted in the last year.

  • The financial services industry accounted for the most online image-based ad impressions in July, with nearly 36 billion. Next were Web media and telecommunications, followed by retail goods and services, according to Nielsen.

  • Social networking sites delivered 21% of all US online display ad impressions in June 2009, according to a recent comScore study, with MySpace and Facebook together accounting for more than 80% of impressions in the social networking category.

  • Yahoo News led the way among online current events and global news destinations in July, followed by the CNN's and MSNBC's digital networks, according to Nielsen NetView data.