According to several industry watchers, the global ad market appears ready to stabilize in 2010. This growth is largely related to the improving economies of emerging markets such as South America and Asia Pacific. Ad industry revenue generally lags behind economic recoveries, so in the U.S., tepid or no growth may be the general trend… Read more »
Are consumers paying attention to email messages? Is there a way marketers can increase consumer engagement with email? These questions were explored in a survey recently carried out by Pivotal Veracity. Their findings can help marketers improve the results of their email campaigns. Pivotal Veracity tracked differences in email engagement metrics between the first and… Read more »
As marketing continues to evolve and more firms expand their reach into newer channels, managers will also be looking at ways to integrate and unify their efforts. During 2009, budget constraints forced many marketers to slash spending and cut entire programs. Industry watchers expect budgetary pressures to continue in 2010 but there may also be… Read more »
Twitter, Facebook, Blogger… there are so many services currently available where you could post your content that going over them one by one will actually lead to heavy eyelids and thoughts of counting sheep . The thing is, absolutely every person who uses one employs another at the very least. No blogger has no presence… Read more »
Email marketing is one of the dominant ways that a small business reaches out to customers and prospects. Email marketing is about relationships — and successful relationship marketing involves a lot more thought than simply firing off a newsletter via email. According to MarketingSherpa’s 2010 Email Marketing Benchmark Report (free PDF excerpt here), email marketing… Read more »