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<< previous page 1 2 next page>> written by Nate Rodnay Effective marketing is key for retailers to survive and stay ahead of competition, especially in recessionary times. It is proven that search engine marketing is helping many small and medium scale enterprises to fortune 500 companies to market their products and services online effectively. Search marketing helps to increase ROI by creating a strong online presence while making it easy for customers to find the retailer online. written by Nate Rodnay The 2009 Advertising Effectiveness Survey from Forbes revealed that a significant percentage of Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) believe that SEO is an effective way to generate sales for their companies. A majority of the surveyed CMOs said that they use conversions or sales data as main metric to measure the success of their marketing campaigns. Almost half of the surveyed marketers believe that SEO has the potential to generate sales for their businesses. written by Nate Rodnay A considerable amount of web-only retailers believe that search engine marketing helps to get good results compared to other forms of online marketing based on a survey conducted by Internet retailer. They find search marketing as an effective strategy to adopt amid glooming economy. The survey says natural search results are providing better ROI than paid search for a substantial percentage of retailers. written by Nate Rodnay US retail e-commerce spending in Q1-2009 recovered from 3 percent negative growth YoY when compared to Q4-2008. According to ComScore, retail e-commerce sales remained flat when compared to Q1-2008, as they recovered slightly from the immediate previous quarter. Sports & Fitness is the fastest growing category online followed by Books & Magazine in dollar sales. written by Nate Rodnay The online search behavior in US seems to have changed significantly due to economic downturn. The number of searches related to terms like ‘unemployment’ and ‘unemployment benefits’ showed a significant increase of over 200%, according to comScore. Searches with terms related to money saving like ‘coupons’ and ‘discounts’ also reported remarkable growth. written by Nate Rodnay Core searches in US reached to 13.1 billion in February 2009, according to comScore. The core searches increased significantly in the same month compared to a year earlier. However, it has declined by 3% compared to the core searches conducted in January. Google sites were leading the US core search market with 63.3% share of total core searches. written by Nate Rodnay Internet is referred to as the first technology that achieved a global scope. Now, there are zillions of web pages on Internet with lots of information, almost on anything. There are no restrictions to access general information on internet. written by Nate Rodnay There are various SEO firms and consultants that optimize your websites and facilitate in obtaining improved search engine results. These firms use various techniques to increase qualitative and quantitative traffic for your website. written by Nate Rodnay For most businesses hiring an SEO firm is a good way to improve their website ranking on search engines. As people don’t have sufficient information about SEO, they may have some assumptions on how it works. Therefore, people find it difficult to choose the right SEO firm. written by Nate Rodnay Information abundance is not about digitalization and copying but is about the perception, analysis, comparison, exchange, reuse and evaluation of facts. Prior to Internet, information is collected through different sources like books, newspapers etc. written by Nate Rodnay Now-a-days, online video streaming is considered as one of the best tools in Internet marketing. According to Nielsen, 65% of online video viewers stream content between 9am-5pm on weekdays, and 51% of viewers stream content between 6am-8pm on weekends. 3% decrease in unique viewers of online videos from September to October 2008, and YouTube is ranked as number one online brand. written by Nate Rodnay Direct mail is the key element among all the promotion channels used by direct marketers. According to Direct Marketing Association (DMA) research report 2007, 90% of direct marketers use non-catalog direct mail as a promotion channel and about 46% say that it is their primary channel for promotion. About 39.6% of businesses use direct mail (non catalog), where as only 6.1% of businesses use direct mail (catalog) as primary channel for promotion. written by Nate Rodnay People employ different sources of news for reading such as online news, newspaper, television news and radio. written by Nate Rodnay Social networking has become one of the popular online activities for worldwide internet users. According to comScore, social networking users grew at 25% from June 2007 to June 2008 and the number increased from 0.46 to 0.58 billion. written by Nate Rodnay eBay has announced few changes in its pricing strategy, planning more incentives for free shipping and updates seller standards. Reduction in insertion fee in listing came into existence from Sep 16, 2008. Plan of free shipping incentives for sellers and changes in final value fees comes into effect from October1, 2008. written by Nate Rodnay The number of online videos viewed in US is increasing every month. According to a study conducted by comScore, the online videos viewed in the US reached 11 billion in April 2008 from 9.8 billion in January 2008. Youtube.com accounts for more than 4 billion of the total videos viewed online. written by Alan Smith Smith SEO and CMS are interrelated to each other. Both have to be appropriately in place to achieve online success. written by Nate Rodnay In the present globalized market situation, consumers are very much cautious about their purchasing decisions and they use different sources to find information about products and services. Internet serves as a major resource for consumers seeking advertising and shopping information regarding products and services. written by Nate Rodnay Internet ad revenue for first quarter of 2008 witnessed second highest revenue ever in a quarter, according to Interactive Advertising Bureau’s research report executed by Pricewaterhouse Coopers. written by Nate Rodnay Shopping cart abandonment rate increased in US by 2.7% from 57.88% in Q1 2007 to 59.43% in Q1 2008. Abandonment of shopping cart pages was more in the first quarter of 2008 when compared to same period in 2007 according to Market Live Performance Index. written by Nate Rodnay Marketing research specifies the information required to address the vital issues in decision making, designs methods for collecting information, manages and implements the data collection process, analyzes and communicates the findings and their implications. In simple marketing research is about researching the whole company's marketing process. written by Nate Rodnay Internet has become a major source of information in marketing research. Online sources are used to collect data or cross validate the processed data from more than one source to check the consistency of the data. However, it posed new challenges in the areas of data collection, interpretation and validation. written by Nate Rodnay Top search engines Yahoo and Microsoft are revamping their portfolio of services and websites to expand their areas of operation in an effort to increase web traffic to counter Google’s control over Internet. written by Nate Rodnay Search engine marketing (SEM) is a set of integrated marketing methods that are used to promote your website or online business on Internet. It enables to reach your target audience and spread your business into global market at a relatively low cost. The method of SEM involves SEO, paid placement and paid inclusion. written by Nate Rodnay When you are planning to start an SEO campaign, it is essential to know the techniques used to optimize your website. This is because there are some SEO firms, which practice various illegal and unethical SEO techniques in their campaigns. written by Nate Rodnay The major elements of online business are to build trust and credibility of your website. When there is high credibility of your website, your potential customers will feel much secured, to buy your products. It is very important to convince your visitors and convert them into the customers. written by Nate Rodnay In the first part of this article we have discussed some of the common mistakes that you have to avoid in PPC landing page for better conversion. written by Nate Rodnay There are various SEO firms and consultants that optimize your websites and facilitate in obtaining improved search engine results. These firms use various techniques to increase qualitative and quantitative traffic for your website. written by Nate Rodnay Landing page is typically used to describe the page where visitors are brought on clicking an Internet advertisement. This page has to be well thought out and executed to achieve the marketing goals. written by Nate Rodnay The integral part of any marketing initiative is market research. Comprehensive market research identifies the wants and requirements of the potential target market. It provides information that helps to make operational business decisions. It is good to outsource Internet marketing research, as it is advantageous for businesses in many ways. << previous page 1 2 next page>> |