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Pay for Performance or P4P was invented originally by Overture. Nowadays Overture is called as Yahoo Overture because of takeover a couple of years ago. To get a visitor to visit to a site than others, it has to be really visible. With more people being aware of your web site, there would be extra hits and visitors to your site given the chance to Read More

Advertising works when it is done right. There is no question in that. Companies spend millions of dollars on ad campaigns trying to target the right market and convince them of something. Read More

Good discussion by Kristina Knight about how advertisers are adjusting (or not) to the current market. Read More

Well, this is sad. A new study from Borrell Associates found that 90 percent of small business owners quit their local paid search campaigns within 6 months of starting, saying they are unhappy with the results and can no longer justify the costs. Ouch. What's going on? I think there are a couple of reasons for the sour stats. Read More

Did you know that May is when you need to start trying to get media publicity for the fourth quarter holidays? That's when many major magazines start accepting, and even have deadlines for, submissions for holiday gift guide publicity placements. And if yours is a product business, most likely the fourth quarter of the year is absolutely crucial t Read More

One simple fact of marketing is that the Internet is a much different playing field than traditional advertising channels like newspapers and television. According to a study by Webvisible and Nielsen Online, only 9 percent of small business owners say they are satisfied with their online advertising efforts. Getting it right is critical in today Read More

Data from Jefferies and Company puts a hard number on the cost of traditional ads in 2008. The firm estimates that broadcast TV had the highest cost-per-thousand (CPM) rate of $10.25, with syndicated TV at $8.77. Magazines, cable TV, newspapers, radio and outdoor advertising round out the space. As for spending in the online sector... it' Read More

Within a half hour period, magazines deliver more than twice the number of ad impressions as TV and more than six times those delivered online, according to a new study. The research also found that though TV doesn't deliver as many ads per half hour as magazines, net recall of TV ads was almost twice that of magazine ads. Meanwhile, magazines Read More

I thought this was an effective idea, "When you're stumped trying to come up with remarkable features to talk about in your marketing -- go the opposite way. Talk about something awful, opposite, or different." Check out this example from TripAdvisor to see how it can be done. Read More