Directory Advertising Tips
Directory advertising is very different to other forms of print advertising. When someone picks up a directory we are practically assured that they are ready to buy, you ad has to reflect this state of mind. “Brand ads” which fit in nicely in some print or magazines will not cut it in a directory. These […]
Directory Advertising for Small Businesses
If you are looking at taking an ad in a directory then there are a few points you should consider before entering that process. First things first and a point that is overlooked: this type of advertising is ‘directional’, it’s needs driven. When someone picks up a directory there is a very high probability that […]
Marketing Mobile Coupons and Mobile Tickets
Dominos (www.dominos.com), in the USA anyway, have taken a real leap forward in my opinion with their new mobile coupon offering. For some time now, Dominos have encouraged customers to ‘opt-in’ to their mobile medium i.e. give details of nearest store, mobile number and permission to be contacted via text. They have partnered with www.air2web.com/ […]
Coupons, Coupons and more coupons
With the R word abound, coupons are resurgent but their route to the consumer is changing. Some time back, I worked in the Directory business. Our core product was print and we were constantly battling against a rising internet tide. Instead of building boats, we were trying to build dams and continually sought ‘hooks’ to […]
Responsibility for the Recession
Some very unusual survey results were released by Harris Interactive. Conducted in April, it surveyed people as to ‘who was to blame for the recession’, the results are reproduced below: Total 18-34 35-44 45-54 55+ Advertising Agencies 66 60 59 65 75 Print media 59 51 57 61 67 Other News Media 56 51 55 […]
Localised Search
Google gives you every opportunity to make sure that your business not only appears in its search engines, but that it also has a ‘local’ dimension to it. Some companies seem to throw their hat at the whole search scene as they feel that, in the greater scheme of things, they, as a local business, […]
New Google Analytics
A post on the Google Analytics blog informed all that Google was going to change the information that it reports in the referring URL when search results are clicked. From their example of the new referring URL they gave a string, which when it is laid out and the ampersands removed, contains like this. There […]
Adspend 2009
Looks like another bad say at the Ad office in 2009. New forecasts by Zenith Optimedia suggesting that worldwide Ad spend will be down by 7% – a drop of almost $31b to $453b. To put that $31b in perspective, it’s about half of the planned total Irish Government expenditure 2009. The only winner is […]
Free Newspapers March 2009
Interestingly the circulations of the two free newspapers are out, nothing actually interesting in that, but interesting to look at it from a retrospective point of view. Since the bell sounded for round one, the Herald has taken a different stance on its circulation strategy. Firstly it maintained a safe distance in the early months, […]
New Search Engines
Two relatively new search engines to have a look at. One looks like a mega spam fest and the other, while narrowly focussed, is very interesting. www.stumpedia.com is the first and I think it really has a short life span. It allows registered users to submit sites then other registered users vote these sites it […]
March Circulation
The Republic of Ireland Circulations for March, for the papers that participate in monthly ABC’s we released. Collectively they are showing 6.5% year on year decline and losing some 13,000 collectively copies since the beginning of 2009 alone. The tabloids are again taking the brunt of the drop in the morning market. The stereotypical view […]
Multivariate Testing
I listened to a great presentation during Search Marketing World recently given by Russell Sutton of Conversion Works and his thoughts and insights on Multivariate Testing. This allows you to test the effectiveness of different page designs/layouts on traffic retention. If some of your landing pages have high bounce rates then you could well do […]
SEO and Hotels/Accommodation
I did some work on the area of Hotels and Accommodation recently. As the JNIR report pointed out so clearly, the accommodation business is really driven by internet search with 51% of Irish respondents saying that they used the internet to look up travel information in the past 6 months. Furthermore some 324,000 Irish people […]
