Category: List Growing
Less is More, Put Your Subscriber Lists on a Diet
January 7, 2009 – In marketing it has been always said to play the law of averages. The more you put out the more you will get back. This holds true for most things but for email campaigning running lean and mean with no… Read More
Asian Paints A-Peeling?
October 15, 2008 – From its modest beginnings in 1942, in a tiny garage in Mumbai, the Asian Paints brand has grown in leaps and bounds over the last few decades. With a focus on product innovation and quality through a consumer-centric approach, Asian… Read More
9 Ideas To Offer Your Online Audience
October 15, 2008 – One effective way to keep people on your web site is to offer them something for free. On Hancock Fabric’s web site, they offer projects that can take 30 minutes or an hour or more. Lowes offers interactive tools for… Read More
Can You Actually Sell?
October 9, 2008 – Would you perform open heart surgery if you had never been to medical school? What about defusing a live bomb without any prior formal instruction? “Ridiculous”, you say. “That would be the height of foolishness.” Obviously, you are 100% correct!
Cause-Related Ads Get More Attention, Can Raise Sales 74%
October 9, 2008 – Cause-related marketing can increase sales as much as 74 percent in certain consumer-goods categories, and consumers spend twice as long looking at cause-related ads than generic corporate ones, according to a study by Cone and Duke University’s Fuqua School of… Read More
Branding on Facebook: Groups or Fan Pages?
October 1, 2008 – 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.
Wake Up and Search for Crocs!
September 25, 2008 – 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… Read More
The State of Online Retail Today
September 24, 2008 – In this morning’s opening keynote, Sucharita Mulpuru, Senior Retail Analyst from Forrester Research, presented a vivid look at the current state of online retail. She not only outlined the new rules for ecommerce, she provided insight into how retailers should… Read More
Nearly 70% of Online Adults Use Social Media, Often Research Products
September 24, 2008 – 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… Read More
Best Global Brands: Lessons Learned
September 24, 2008 – 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… Read More