We published a blog post in late 2012 entitled “Majority of Sales will be “Web-Influenced” in 2015” which reflected on research by Forrester comparing online only, retail only, and web-influenced retail. Given how many have historically characterized the impact of online as “only e-commerce” which is small in comparison to traditional retail, it was worth […]
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We’ve been tracking the advertising behavior of small and medium businesses (SMB’s) for years, noting the dramatic increase in social media and promotions instead of traditional advertising spending (see recent videos and blogs). A recent report published by Borrell Associates on the Automotive Advertising outlook adds fuel to the fire. Here are some highlights: […]
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Many manufacturer brands are following a “lesser of two evils” strategy when managing their dealer locators, or developing PPC landing pages for their dealers. On one hand, brands link directly to their dealers’ websites, and risk a poor experience that damages their brand. Classic examples of this are competitor brands showing up, competitor promotions […]
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Back in the last century, Bill Gates (paraphrasing here)said that we would know the Internet had finally arrived when we stopped talking about it. I believe that day has arrived, as we think nothing of researching, buying, interacting, posting, checking in, etc. online. It’s pervasive. What we need to keep thinking about is how […]
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Any new idea must provide advantages to all parties in the ecosystem where it lives, or else it won’t be adopted. We saw this in the late 1990’s with a new idea: Digital Print. It was a compelling idea, but printers didn’t want to decrease the volume on their offset presses. Agencies said it was […]
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There isn’t much good news for printed newspapers when it comes to their remaining relevant to today’s consumers. The last hope seemed be that older people (55-plus) were still loyal to print and that fact has kept a lot of advertisers spending money in print. A recent study now may be breaking down that last […]
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Local advertising is changing in many ways and Borrell Associates has been tracking the way local retailers are spending their local advertising dollars and the move to spending on local promotions is very clear from this chart. You can download this chart here and from the Executive Summary you’ll read where Borrell Associates feels that […]
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If you’re involved in local advertising you’re naturally interested in the viability of local newspapers. As consumers move online and away from the printed copies of newspapers, the papers built great internet sites for consumers. Unfortunately, the banner ad revenue never equaled the decline in print advertising so they went to the idea of paywalls […]
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Many brands spend lots of time and money on their brand site and leave their best dealers to fend for themselves when it comes to online content for their sites. Here is an interesting chart from an article on eMarketer.com that shows that consumers shopping for a car are as likely to be influenced by […]
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Newspaper ad sales continue to fall as Google ad sales continue to climb. The chart shown here is from a post on Reflections of a Newsosaur and clearly makes the case that ad dollars are going digital at the expense of printed newspaper ads. This still understates the move from print to digital because so […]
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