DirectMale.com, a newly launched deal site, offers marketers an opportunity to reach an affluent, engaged population. But marketers need to know there are specific ways to speak with -- and not speak with -- this audience.
U.S. consumers spent $194.3 billion online in 2011, yet Forrester Research notes that for every $80 companies spent driving traffic to their sites, they spent only $1 trying to convert those visitors into customers. Given how much revenue is up for grabs, and how little companies are spending to stake their claim to it, there…
The rules for landing pages are different in the business-to-business (B2B) arena than they are for consumer marketers. Adam Blitzer, co-founder and COO of Pardot, discusses how what marketers should be aware of, and how they can make the most of these differences.
There's a throwaway line in Microsoft's Windows 8 preview announcement that could completely overhaul online data collection.
Avery Dennison's business-to-business salespeople were convinced large companies were not visiting its website. Analysis showed differently.
Ecommerce shopping cart abandonment rates have jumped by nearly 20 percentage points -- from the low-to-mid 50s to the low 70s -- during the last two years. While a closer look reveals the facts probably aren't as bad as the numbers indicate, they do represent a call for marketers to take a closer look at…
A series of videos from Denny's which feature comedian Dave Koechner fail to do much... including entertain or sell food.
This year's election may be divisive and bitter, but one wouldn't know it based on the amount of online political advertising. Television and mail have remained the dominant channels for political advertising -- to the detriment of candidates, according to Katz 360's Andy Slater.
For brick and mortar retailers, ecommerce data can provide many relevant and timely indicators of popularity, such as new or increasingly popular search terms, or engagement metrics like dwell time on particular products or categories.
Shoppers have thousands of ways to ask for products they want. But if a marketer's website can't recognize those requests, the opportunity to make a sale vanishes. Guess Inc. is using a new website platform that recognizes a wide variety of synonyms entered into search engines to direct prospects to relevant offerings. The fashion marketer's…
