Back in the late 1990s, a number of advertising agencies (Poppe Tyson and ModemMedia being just two) extolled online marketing as uniquely capable of providing marketers with a method to truly personalize presentations of product promotional information for highly specific… Read more ›

According to some data published on the PwC web site, Internet advertising segment insights from the Entertainment and Media Outlook: PWC, the likely size of the worldwide online advertising market should be worth more than $185 Billion by 2017. If… Read more ›

My recent experience, on behalf of clients, tells me email marketing remains one of the most important online promotional tools available to Small to Medium Sized Businesses (SMBs), here in the US. But I’ve noted some technical limitations, which lead… Read more ›

With increasing frequency industry analysts are drilling down to some disturbing characteristics of online marketing. Not the least of these is a pessimistic, but nonetheless popular, conclusion about the likelihood of engagement with website visitors — or the lack of… Read more ›

Google’s Q3 2013 earnings report includes an important section titled “Traffic Acquisition Costs”. Google has offered a definition of these costs. The Google definition of Traffic Acquisition Costs is very specific to the “network” component of their revenue. Google’s network… Read more ›

On Thursday, September 26, 2013, Google announced a substantial change in its search engine. A new algorithm named “Hummingbird” had been implemented. As Greg Kumparak wrote in an article titled Google Recently Made A Silent Shift To A New Search… Read more ›

According to an article written by William Lauder, and published on the online Wall Street Journal website on Sunday, August 25, 2013, Marketers Seek Extra Edge to Go Viral, “More marketers are starting to buy space on websites for their… Read more ›

We’ve written on the topic of online pay per click advertising options. We’re not convinced they are a worthwhile investment for technology businesses. If a customer’s decision to buy a product can be categorized as a “considered purchase”, there are… Read more ›

We make daily use of data on anonymous website visits in our work for clients. We use a service from VisualVisitor. Our service plan is available to any business at a cost of under $40.00 per month, which should be… Read more ›

We use VisualVisitor on this blog and Talking-SharePoint (a week day blog we write for one of our clients, Rehmani Consulting, Inc). One of our clients is also using the product to quickly identify visitors to several pages on the… Read more ›