It sounds dumb, but some marketers are failing to give people a reason for signing up for their e-mail newsletters. And too few are offering opt-ins on every page of their Web sites. Those are two findings of a new list-growth survey by Silverpop.
IMN has been advising people for years on how to create and upgrade their e-mail newsletters. Now the company is going to heed its own counsel. It is about to relaunch its monthly e-zine, now called Informed Marketer News, as Pro & Content.
The hottest electronic channels may be a marketer’s dream. Cutting-edge technology enables consumers to have content delivered directly to them instead of chasing it down.
Mobile marketing is on the way, and it will usher in a Golden Age. Soon we’ll all be receiving rich-media ads over our Internet phones, being enticed by retailers with GPS capabilities to replace those worn jeans at 20% off, and watching TV—complete with ads—on our handsets. Get real.
It’s been a big week for two of the Big Three search engines. On May 4, Microsoft held its annual MSN Strategic Account Summit in Redmond WA, where Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer reaffirmed plans to spend $1.1 billion in research and development on MSN in the fiscal year that starts this July—twice the amount the…
How do you follow an act like building an online advertising network, running it for 10 years and selling it to investors for $1.1 billion? If you
Search engine optimization (SEO) can be a contradictory combination of science and intuition. On the one hand, as often practiced by professionals, it assesses the relevance of a Web page to a keyword in terms of measurable, concrete factors such as keyword density and backlink counts. On the other hand, the values assigned to those…
More than 6,000 auto dealers are expected to participate in a joint promotion with the upcoming Disney-Pixar film "Cars." Under the terms of the campaign, participating dealers send out direct mail letters offering two free tickets to "Cars" to vehicle prospects who visit showrooms. The letters are customized with the dealer's name and address on…
Internet service provider AOL is closing a call center in Jacksonville, FL and trimming staff at four other locations, according to news reports.
If you don’t understand your past, you won’t be aware of your future. That was the underlying theme of yesterday’s session on circulation planning and analysis, part of the Circulation Intensive here at the Annual Conference for Catalog & Multichannel Merchants (ACCM).
