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I found a great resource for consumer purchasing behavior. According to a Harris Interactive Brief 12/08, “Evolving the Prototypical Path to Purchase” the shopping begins here
Search Engines 20% Family Friends 15% Retail Stores 15% Retailer Website 9% Multi Brand Website (amazon) 9% Print Media 9% Prod Comp Websites 8% Mfg Wesbites 8% Blogs [...]
I guess I may be late to the game, but I recently used Lynda.com online training site to learn Adobe Premiere Elements. I spent 3 hours last night learning how to edit video with Adobe’s Premiere Elements for my CoachParker.org youth football blog. Since most new software programs do not ship with a [...]
from SES email
I’ve been beating up Twitter to all my friends and now maybe I should stop. According to a new study by Hubspot, “The State of Inbound Lead Generation” March 2010, small to medium sized businesses doubled their leads by using Twitter. I guess I will start Tweating like a new [...]
So most of us have heard of the Big Bang theory that the universe keeps expanding, well I think Facebook just created a Big Bang and will expand social networking throughout the web universe not just on Facebook. With Facebook’s announcement of social plug-ins for 3rd party sites, the power of 400 million connected [...]
Email seems so easy. You have a list, a marketing message and a good email program to send all of your beautiful emails off into the ether to make a nice push in your weekly sales. Arrgh, not much happened, you ask yourself? Email is the best social networking tool you have to use [...]
Crab some Readers
I just read an article from Click Z, What’s wrong with Social Marketing, by Heidi Cohen. You can find it here http://www.clickz.com/3640096 Heidi outlines 12 tactics to integrate your overall marketing efforts into your social marketing efforts. In summary, one should view social marketing channels as just another marketing channel [...]
Flushing PPC $'s
Internet Retailer writes that search engine optimization is increasing by 43% in 2010. I was very surprised to learn that 9% of companies spent nothing on SEO last year. Unbelievable! Half of the eConsultancy.com report respondents will spend more on paid search marketing. Even more unbelievable since SEO is an [...]
I’ve always loved BlueFly.com. I have bought several dresses for my wife at BlueFly and she looks great in them. The one in the pic is from BlueFly. It was her Easter dress several years ago. Anyway, they have come up with a very cool social networking site, Closet Confessions. I love the [...]
Ok, so I keep talking about Twitter use to my colleagues. I recently cam across this site, Retailer Twitter Aggregation, that aggregates some of the larger retailers’ tweets. This looks interesting.
I keep wondering how Twitter is making money and how it will survive beyond a Google [...]
I wrote an article back in 2004, maybe earlier, about SEO strategies. You can still find it out on the web doing a Google search. I still find it relevant today. Some things never change. If you already know what keywords you want to focus on to optimize your site, I would immediately do [...]
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