Direct mail may have a larger response rate than advertisers think. According to a recent Vertis Communications study users who read direct mailings are more apt (21%) to respond to offers via mailers websites.
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David A. Utter offers some great tips from PubCon. Here's an excerpt: Wil Reynolds of SEER Interactive said at the PubCon session, "Keyword Research, Selection, and Optimization," that the SEO needs to get into the mind of the searcher. He suggested the tools at MSN Adlab can help the pro who "stays broad" with keywords, looks at their perfor  More...
Many marketers, particularly online, concentrate on reaching younger users. But that could be a multibillion-dollar mistake. Overall, older Americans make up the most affluent segment of the US population. And they are online.
”Internet usage by baby boomers—and over-60s—is projected to continue rising well into the future,” says Paul Verna, eMa  More...
New Gear Lets ISPs Track Users and Sell Targeted Ads; More Players, Privacy Fears. CenturyTel's system allows it to observe and analyze the online activities of its Internet customers, keeping tabs on every Web site they visit. NebuAd takes the information it collects and offers advertisers the chance to place online ads targeted to individual co  More...
Readers of newspaper Web sites are 52% more likely to share their opinions than those who do not visit newspaper sites, according to study conducted by Millward Brown and sponsored by the Newspaper National Network and Newspaper Association of America in September and October. Newspaper Web site visitors who were surveyed were also more apt to bel  More...
While many email marketers adhere to opt-out laws, many aren’t taking the opportunity to garner feedback and potentially retain a customer by engaging them in an exit conversation, found a recent survey by Lyris.  More...
From green marketing to high-tech billboards to social networking niches, this author provides 10 trends to consider for the coming year.  More...
About one-quarter of Americans have no Internet access, according to a wide-ranging report titled "Information Searches That Solve Problems: How People Use the Internet, Libraries and Government Agencies When They Need Help" by the Pew Internet & American Life Project and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University o  More...
Learn how to win big when you negotiate. These 3 rules are good negotiation rules to follow to arrive at a win-win-win situation.  More...
Explore cost effective and integrated advertising effectiveness surveys design, programming and reporting solutions at Market Equations.  More...
From the page "Chuck clearly understands his readers and what they want to know. His blog– and this eNewsletter–are valuable and powerful because he really knows what he’s talking about. We trust what he says and we’re likely to accept his recommendations about products and services–even when they are his own. That is, because we trust what he s  More...
A new JupiterResearch and PayPal study revealed that consumers value payment security and payment choice more than rewards when making purchases online. According to the research, when consumers are confronted with two merchants who offer the same product at the same price, the two most influential factors when choosing where to buy are payment s  More...
A great post by Dan Schwabel of Personal Branding, sharing his presentation on personal branding to college students.  More...
Short version: a chief marketing technologist (CMT) is the person responsible for leading an organization's marketing technology. A CMT is to the CMO what, in IT-centric firms, the CTO has been to the CIO.  More...