| Print ads influencing online searches
Traditional advertising could be playing a key role in influencing online searches, claims the Retail and Marketing Association (RAMA). A survey conducted by RAMA discovered that many consumers are using the internet to search out information following exposure to magazine and other print advertising campaigns. The poll discovered that 47.2 per cent of people are most likely to conduct an online search after seeing a magazine advertisement, while 43.7 per cent admitted that reading an article could lead to using the internet for research and 42.3 per cent were influenced by marketing in newspapers. Television advertising also played a key part in boosting online searches, with 42.8 per cent of consumers going online after watching a TV ad. Therefore, it could be important for retailers to consider combining traditional advertising with new media and search engine marketing to ensure that their products are being targeting at the correct audience and maximum influence is achieved.
iProspect Study Reveals 1 in 3 Internet Users Report Purchase ...
Search engine marketing firm iProspect today announced the publication of the iProspect Social Networking User Behavior Study, resulting from a survey sponsored by iProspect and conducted by JupiterResearch. The study reveals that approximately 1 in 4 adult Internet users regularly visited the most popular social networking sites in the past year, including MySpace, YouTube, and Amazon.com. In addition, the study also revealed that 1 in 3 Internet users report that their purchase decisions are influenced by sites that contain social content, with Amazon.com being the most influential of all.
Fielded in January of 2007 with over 2,000 respondents randomly selected from the U.S. online adult population, the survey that served as a basis for this study focused on user behavior on popular social networking sites.
Can Web 2.0 Ruin Online Marketing?
CrownPeak Technology's VP of marketing and product strategy reviews some important Web 2.0 capabilities and offers safety tips to help you decide when and how to deploy them.
I think we can all agree that, at this point, the term "Web 2.0" is overhyped. In fact, in my earlier "2007 Predictions" article for iMedia Connection, I said this would be the year that it jumped the shark. I haven't seen this much hype since the last time Brad and Angelina decided to adopt.
As digital marketers, we're being told that we need to (by tomorrow COB) develop a blog, produce podcasts, provide mechanisms to rate our content, accept user comments and create the new mashup of digg/YouTube/del.icio.us and wrap it all in Ajax. And, these days, we can be in such a hurry to implement these new technologies that we forget the fact that they should actually serve some function.
Bank of Internet RV and Senior Websites Are the Focus of a ...
SAN DIEGO, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- March 29, 2007 -- Bank of Internet USA (the Bank), a wholly owned subsidiary of B of I Holding, Inc. (NASDAQ: BOFI), announced that the Bank was noted by The Conference Board in a recent article for expanding its banking services into market niches, specifically maintaining a separate website for RV owners, senior citizens and for others. According to the article, Growing a Business Niche by Niche, by Howard Muson (March 21, 2007), "Smaller and midsize companies are often gut-smart about serving a well-defined market segment. They can build on their success by expanding into the niche next door." The article cited examples of niche strategies for various types of businesses.
"Bank of Internet's strategy is to develop websites that attract people in various affinity groups who are willing -- or can be convinced -- to bank online," the article cited and continued.
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