Retail Marketing - Shopping Center Marketing

Search Engine Journal produced a comparison between two free Facebook branding tools: Facebook Groups, which enable users to cluster around a shared interest; and Facebook Fan Pages, which are like a personal profile page for companies.
Two major distinctions were made:

Fan Pages are visible to unregistered users and are indexed by the search engines. Starting one […]

You probably know that Crocs are fairly popular shoes these days–with kids and weekend warriors (personally, I can’t go there). But did you know that when you search for “Crocs” on Flickr there are 27,761 results? (And a solid majority of them are about the shoes, not the reptiles.) Search for “Jibbitz” and you get […]

More than two-thirds (68 percent) of online Americans say they visit online blogs, communities or social networks, and 33 percent engage in product research online to help make purchase decisions, according to (pdf) the August/September 2008 Insight Report from MarketTools - writes MarketingCharts.
The frequency of social media visits also is on the rise, with 42 […]

Despite this past week, the year 2008, in general, has been an excellent one for developing nations. China, Brazil, Russia, India and other historically troubled economies continue to enjoy burgeoning middle and upper classes that are spending money on purchases they could not afford in the past.
In contrast, this has not been a good year […]

Imagine you’re in a meeting with your CFO and he/she announces that all variable spending must be held flat or increased at a significantly slower rate than you have experienced over the last two years. Now what do you do? While we haven’t been privy to your budget meetings, we do get the subsequent calls […]

A brand is more than image. Customers need to know they can trust you to provide something important and unique. They judge your store, your merchandise, your pricing and your web site; especially your web site. Research has shown that a web site is assessed in five areas. Ask yourself these questions:

Content quality

Does the site […]

In an email sent to its Premium members recently, online news and entertainment site Salon.com announced that it wanted to do more for its greatest asset–its readers–by giving them a way to “create your own content, produce your own stories.”
Ahh, how very Open of them. Now, they didn’t exactly hand over the keys to the […]

Hugh MacDonald, Canadian’s reserve archer for the Olympics, was not a happy blogger.
Stuck in Canada nursing his frustrated Olympian ambitions, MacDonald was suddenly ordered to pack his bags to fly to Beijing, after one archer who had beaten him onto the team, John David Burns, fell ill.
Before MacDonald could board a plane, Burns recovered enough […]

Do you understand the evolution of direct marketing to what is now referred to as database marketing?  This is the single greatest aspect of your marketing efforts.  Let me explain the difference:
Direct marketing:  creating a brochure, catalog or direct mail piece and mailing it to a list of potential or current customers in hopes that it […]

Bebo’s newest web series, Model.Live, follows three IMG models as they globetrot to fashion shows in search of fame and fortune.
The show is 12 episodes long and begins in New York City with Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. Its intention, Bebo says, is to “[reveal] the truth about how professional models live.” (Like most professions, the “truth” […]