Showrooming is a relatively new phenomenon in shopping and it’s a tough problem for retailers to solve. It’s when a consumer with a smartphone is in a retail store and they use their phone to find the product they are looking for online at a better price. What’s a retailer to do? The above chart […]
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Here is an interesting chart from BIGinsight.com that tells us what motivates consumers to start searching for product information online. Before you study this chart too closely you should also realize that in a December 2012 study they found that over 85% of consumers regularly/occasionally research online before buying a product. The chart above supports […]
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The transition from traditional media to digital continues to move as about one third of marketers surveyed expect to decrease their focus on print newspaper advertising in 2013 according to a recent article on eMarketer.com. The reason for the decrease is so that marketers can spend more money on digital media. As marketers deal with an increasingly fractured […]
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Here’s a good post from Search Engine Watch that can get you to rethink the way you advertise locally. It starts with understanding the different types of digital media available to us today. So often when you think about your marketing budget you only think about paid media, but earned and owned can be much more valuable […]
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The Internet has made and continues to make a big difference in the way consumers research and buy products. It’s always difficult to explain the magnitude of what is happening, especially on the local level. I ran across this graphic from a blog post at Screenwerk.com and thought it was worth sharing. The author, Greg […]
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Here is a very good article from FastCompany.com that focuses on the way digital content must be shared between owned and earned media, even to the point of blurring the distinctions between the two. From the article, Many marketers are not doing a good enough job supporting their earned content once it’s created. They have forgotten that […]
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Here’s a recent report from MarketingCharts.com that paints a good picture of where small businesses are today with their usage of social media and how according to Facebook the trend is up. From the article, Small businesses are behind in their adoption of social media, finds Hiscox in survey results released in December 2012. Just 35% of […]
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Lots of marketers we talk to have been dabbling in building apps for consumers for a few years and none of them report to us that they’ve had any real success. On the other hand, marketers who are building mobile sites using HTML5 are very pleased with the results. Here’s a great report from BusinessInsider.com that […]
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There is a lot to be said about the value of owned and earned media online and what drives their value is great content. Here’s a chart that appears in an article on eMarketer.com that indicates how much value marketers are putting on good content. Then they make the point about content being tied to […]
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I can’t believe it’s taken this long but we’re finally seeing advertising dollars follow consumers to the internet where print and internet ad spend will be equal in 2015. This chart appears at statista.com and they explain it thus, According to a recent forecast by ZenithOptimedia, online advertising in 2015 will overtake print advertising for the […]
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