What’s Working in Marketing

I came across information on SlideShare and wanted to share.  SlideShare is one of my favorite social networks, as many highly valuable searches for content are conducted there every day.  If you are looking to  find information on just about anything, start with a search there – chances are that someone has posted a presentation [...]

I love the speed with which new Internet development tools hit the market. Here’s one that let’s you create a mobile app in just a few minutes. App Factory from Mippin.com. $20 to create the app, $750 each for distribution in an app store. Android and Windows Phone 7 are currently supported. The iPhone is [...]

In a new research paper by WPI Professor Soussan Djamasbi, we have our first look into Gen Y’s likes and dislikes when it comes to web pages. Gen Y’s are particularly interesting because they’ve been exposed to technology since childhood. They’re tech savvy and they’re short on attention span. That makes them an interesting target [...]

If you mention the phrase “social media” in front of senior execs, don’t be surprised if the color drains from their faces. It’s a Gen Y-dominated world that many business managers just don’t get. Worse, there is a lot of fear about what can and can’t be said with respect to your employer. How do [...]

In response to our recent blog post, Building Thought Leadership: White Papers, Blogs, and More, we received an interesting bit of news from Vance VanDoren, PhD, System Integration Editor for Control Engineering Magazine. Trade magazines like Control Engineering are eagerly seeking informative material that will be interesting and useful to our readers in the industrial [...]

In the process of researching information for an upcoming presentation, I came across this article about video growth and watching behavior that got my attention.  A recent comScore study showed that in the month of May, an average of 100 videos was viewed per viewer across all video sites. How many videos did you watch [...]

Newspapers have really taken a big hit since the rise of the Web. Many struggle to find a way to compete against the enormous amount of free information sources online. A recent study by comScore, on behalf of the Newspaper Association of America, found that local newspaper web sites remain the most used and most [...]

The economy has been harsh for much of the last year and a half. In the last quarter, we can describe it as sluggish, at best. But 2009 was a banner year for digital marketing. The Internet and e-marketing tools allow us to reach out and engage prospects and customers efficiently and at lower cost [...]

Last week we posted an article about the decline in print advertising spend across many well-known, well-read publications.   In that posting, it was discussed that there was not a supporting view of how much of those dwindling dollars in print advertising were going to online advertising.   Well, no sooner did we publish that post that [...]

Came across an interesting article by emarketer.com that noted the growth in video advertising in the next five years.  Intuitively it makes sense, and they describe what will become a 2-way play with large brand advertisers that will pair up TV and online ads for the double bang.  The accessibility to online video is growing, [...]