Getting a handle on the ROI of your e-marketing is really pretty simple …and because it can be all-electronic, it involves a lot less guesswork or assumptions than measuring traditional marketing elements like direct mail or space advertising.
Let’s look at a fictional – but fairly typical – B2B example: Foobar Enterprise Software. Foobar’s […]
Continue Reading Add comment February 26th, 2008
If it doesn’t, you’re in lots of company …but not necessarily good company. According to KnowledgeStorm and MarketingSherpa’s landmark Connecting through Content joint study of over 4,000 technology marketers and buyers, 61% of technology buyers say that they look for different content types, depending on where they are in a research-to-purchase cycle. Yet 62% of […]
Continue Reading Add comment February 20th, 2008
Of course, it’s great sport to debate the strategy behind Microsoft’s proposed mega-gamble on Yahoo, and whether it might actually pan out. What’s clearly not debatable, though, is that Microsoft’s 40+ billion chips on the table represent a stunning affirmation of the probable future growth of online advertising …especially since we can be certain […]
Continue Reading Add comment February 13th, 2008
While we couldn’t agree more, fortunately we didn’t have to say it; David Meerman Scott did, in his recent RainToday article.
David acknowledges off the top that his premise is a fairly sweeping generalization …but one based on his personal review of more than 1,000 websites. By and large, he says, agencies are conditioned by their […]
Continue Reading Add comment February 7th, 2008