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These are some great ad ideas from around the world. Some of the best ones are downright guerrilla-marketing cheap to do. At the very least these ads should get small business owners and marketers thinking outside of the box. My favorite are the peephole flyers.
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If you have ever looked into more cost efficient ways to market, utilizing social media should be almost #1 on that list of to-do's. This is a wonderful resource of how to get the most out of your social media efforts!
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A new study and analysis reveals a range of benefits by making some format adjustments to Customer Magazines. Though currently the average number of pages for a customer magazine is 36 and the most popular frequency is quarterly, says the study, more pages inspires more thorough readership and greater frequency yields an uplift of over 10%.
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10 case studies of social media campaigns. Why they worked, what worked and how it worked.
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Ever felt you'd NEVER get the chance to advertise your business on TV?
Google AdWords has just made a MAJOR announcement: they are launching Google TV Ads, an all-digital system that lets you place your ads into TV program. The service has been available as a trial program for over a year now, and now Google has opened it up for everyone.
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It's hard enough creating effective banner ads of any size, but it's especially difficult to create an ad that's only 125px X 125px (a popular size for blog ads). Randa Clay offers some great examples of these tiny ads. If you can create an effective version of one of these, you create an effect ad at any size.
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Using product placement for advertising allows for a lot of creativity. Here are my ten favorite product placements.
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Let's explore a facet of social media that's often ignored -- B2B (define) social media. Last month, my agency ran a social media seminar at the New England Direct Marketing Association Conference. When an audience member asked about B2B social media, Bianca Garcia, one of our star media planners, jumped right in with a lot of good information.
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Researchers from Duke University and the University of Waterloo have published the results of a study that suggests that brief exposure to Apple's brand logo drives higher levels of creativity than exposure to IBM's logo. In fact, the researchers suggest that subliminal advertising is actually more effective than regular advertising, because peo
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Technology inspired by Israeli surveillance has led to camera-equipped billboards that can track viewers’ faces to gather reliable viewing data for digital displays and screens.
The technology comes from TruMedia, which is testing the cameras in about 30 locations nationwide. A company in Paris offers similar tracking. Software behind each bill
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Marketers are working hard behind the scenes to make sure it's much, much worse in the future. Doing things like ...
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At a single trade show, you can expect to receive a stack of business cards in the double digits.
And while a good networker is enthusiastic about receiving them, no one looks forward to reviewing an indiscriminate pile of contacts. (Most probably don't bother.) Here are tips for a card worth keeping.
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You don’t necessarily need a big budget to tell a great story that your customers will remember.
Once again the Anheuser-Busch Clydesdale ad was the favorite ad in the 2008 Super Bowl. It outscored all the rest of their ads that were trying to strengthen the Bud Light brand against Miller Lite. What is it about Hank the Clydesdale and all of th More...
Once again the Anheuser-Busch Clydesdale ad was the favorite ad in the 2008 Super Bowl. It outscored all the rest of their ads that were trying to strengthen the Bud Light brand against Miller Lite. What is it about Hank the Clydesdale and all of th More...
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Quiznos invited the public to submit homemade commercials in a contest intended to attack a top rival, Subway. The contest rules made it clear that the videos should depict Quiznos sandwiches as “superior” to Subway’s. Subway promptly sued Quiznos and iFilm, saying that many of the homemade videos made false claims and depicted its brand in a dero
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