A recent report by Harris Interactive documents how advertisers are relying less on print advertising and more on Internet and Digital. This just reinforces our view that great brands that have built or are thinking of building marketing communication portals for their retailers should include an Internet component. Or, if you have a portal add […]
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A savvy client just forwarded me excerpts of the 2009 digital future project release highlights from the Center for the Digital Future at USC Annenberg School for Communication. He is trying to coax his Fortune 500 company to into the 21st century as it relates to how they use the Web with their retailers. He […]
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MAGNA’s Media Advertising Forecast just came out and not surprisingly media spending will fall 14.5% this year but the good news for the industry is that the worst is over. In fact, they see improvement in the second half of this year because the first half was down 18% . In 2010 they predict media […]
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A recent study by Borrell Associates entitled Local Ads Moving to Social Networks found that 20% of the ad spend on social networks was from local advertisers. They were surprised as most of us are at thinking that a local retailer could be so savvy to so quickly tap into this phenomenon. They go on […]
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A Harris Poll study came out recently and found that the top two methods adult consumers use for gathering information for a purchase decision were using a website (36%) followed by talking to a salesperson (22%) at a local outlet. By comparison the very hot social networking websites like Facebook are only at 4%. If […]
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As we get more comfortable and gain confidence searching online, we enter longer search strings. More words in that little window. Trendspotting put together these observations to show how our search behavior has changed over time: Searching for 1 or 2 words has dropped while multiple word searches are increasing. The research also shows that […]
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This recent article on local retail advertising: “FSI’s need more localized approaches” is interesting because it reveals the true weakness of print messaging: “one message for all” in large volume give the best print pricing, but it isn’t effective. This article urges retailers to break away from one-size-fits-all and use more customized approaches in print – […]
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The advertising landscape at the local level is changing faster and faster as newspapers lose readership and even go out of business. To further add to the changing environment I just read an article about print magazines and how they are failing at a faster rate than ever before. Digging deeper into this phenomenon I […]
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While we’ve experienced how difficult it is to get an independent retailer to understand the value of local search advertising recent survey results are showing us that retailers who do make the jump and shift dollars from display advertising to local search and email are very happy with the results. According to a recently released […]
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It’s very easy to document that consumers are spending more time online before they go into a store to make a purchase. For durable goods it’s safe to say that 70% of consumers go online before going into a store. So, how do consumers rate the ads they see as they think about buying? Not […]
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