Measurability has made search engine marketing. In large part, its success as an online medium was built on two factors: One, everybody searches the Internet, and more and more they’re doing it before making a purchase. But what does that mean to brand advertisers?
I'm often called on to judge marketing awards. My least favorite are those judged on creative execution alone. Anyone who has ever been surprised by which tested ad creative produced the best results (and who hasn't?) will recognize the idiocy of awards based solely on what's prettiest or most "innovative."
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When Thomas Publishing elected last August to put the plug on ThomasB2B, its business-supply directory joint venture with FindWhat (now Miva), the three top executives at the project were left holding onto their vision of what an online directory for businesses could be. That notion wasn
Of all the topics featured in e-mail newsletters, few are as narrow as the one covered by Mark Zoske. Zoske and his staff put out an entire e-zine devoted to a well-known chemical compound: salt.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee. Carl Lewis. When they broke their own records, their country watched and cheered their enormous accomplishments. If only the lives of marketers could be so fair.
1-800-Flowers.com will acquire Fannie May Confections Brands Inc., which markets a variety of sweets via the Fannie May, Harry London and Fanny Farmer brands for $85 million in cash.
More than 75% of manufacturing companies will increase their online marketing budgets in 2006, according to a survey from SVM E-Business Solutions.
Marketers who reach for their Magic 8-Ball for answers to the question of using rivals
