Posts Tagged ‘ marketing ’

1. Identify your advertising goals. Your optimization strategy depends on the objectives that you define for your campaigns. With specific goals in mind, you can work strategically to achieve your objectives, track your performance, and make the modifications necessary to get the results you want. Here are some typical objectives and sample focus areas...
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Be careful what you advertise – In the past, it was difficult to find information about people other than their phone numbers or address. Now, an increasing amount of personal information is available online, especially because people are creating personal web pages with information about themselves. When deciding how much information to reveal, realize...
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American Civil Liberties — Google and the NSA. It is hard to imagine a more potent—or frightening—combination when it comes to the collection and safety of Americans’ private information, bBut just such an alliance is underway. As reported by the Washington Post, “Google—the world’s largest search engine company with access to intimate details of...
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U.S. Government — Good marketing is critical to the success of your business. Marketing has many dimensions, including market research, pricing, advertising, packaging and labeling, distribution and customer service. Investing in a good marketing plan will generate excellent returns. But there’s more to a winning marketing plan or advertising campaign than a profitable product...
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For the last few years, our organization has been exploring how an information technologies company fits together with an energy company. With the demise of traditional publishing (i.e. newspapers and broadcast television), has come the rise of new media marketing. Though the cost to produce each ad has plummeted, the cost to store and...
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The Washington Times, a 27 year old newspaper, is gutting its staff of 40% of their employees. The entire staff of photographers were terminated. Also, the sports section will be eliminated. “Our market-based, forward-looking plan is both a response to the recessionary economy, continued downward financial pressures on the news industry and our...
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Census Bureau Reports Increase of Nearly 1 Million Nonemployer Businesses The United States added nearly 1 million nonemployer businesses between 2006 and 2007, bringing the total to 21.7 million, the U.S. Census Bureau announced today. This 4.5 percent growth rate is detailed in Nonemployer Statistics: 2007, an annual data series on businesses...
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In-Game Advertising Measurement, Releases New Guidelines for Public Comment Brings Clarity to Emerging Interactive Advertising Platform SAN FRANCISCO, CA (June 15, 2009) – As consumers spend more time playing in immersive gaming environments, marketers and game publishers have been struggling to compare campaign results because different measurement methodologies are used by different platforms. To establish a...
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Internet Advertising Revenues Surpass $23 Billion Internet advertising revenues in the U.S. remained strong, topping $23 billion, according to the 2008 Internet Advertising Revenue Report, released by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC). Despite a difficult U.S. economy, interactive advertising’s continued growth, albeit at a slower pace, confirms marketers’ increased recognition of...
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Publishers and Advertisers Reach Consensus on Critical Online Measurement NEW YORK, NEW YORK — To an Internet user, a click is a simple action. Accurately counting those clicks, however, is a complex operational task. The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) today announced the release of its Click Measurement Guidelines, which establish parameters for the...
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