Marketing

When Rightmove wanted to be the first to provide an innovative and engaging mobile app that would move millions of iPhone users to access extensive property search functionality, they turned to 2ergo. Learn about the challenges Rightmove faced, the solution 2ergo provided, and the unbelievable results that were achieved, including how the app ultimately ranked in the top 30 Apple "Best Apps of 2009" chart.

The popular misconception about open source ecommerce solutions is that they will save time and money. However, the real cost of doing business must be considered when choosing a solution to manage your online presence.

Lincoln, a division of the Ford Motor Company, was launching an integrated marketing campaign as part of its efforts to revitalize the brand with more contemporary vehicles. The goal of the campaign was to attract a younger demographic. Use of the web by car companies has become more and more important, but Lincoln was setting out to create a new benchmark for consumer involvement and participation. Download this paper to read more.

Hearst-Argyle Television , Inc. owns 26 television stations and manages an additional three television and two radio stations owned by Hearst Corporation, in geographically diverse U.S. markets. The Company's television stations reach approximately 18% of U.S. TV households, making it one of America 's largest television station groups. Download this paper to read more.

Not doing Social Publishing? You’re behind. Social technologies on the web have changed forever how organizations of all sizes interact with their customers to gather feedback, improve customer service, and protect and grow their brands. Effective web content management must now include social and community capabilities.

This case study, published by DM News in July 2007, explores how email helped top-ranked ad agency Radarworks succeed in a changing market in developing a marketing campaign using a mixture of media channels with a set budget to maximize brand and event awareness and drive participation, and be able to measure the ROI from each marketing channel.

This opinion piece, published by DM News in November 2007, addresses a common but less talked about problem with email marketing – over-mailing to positively effect otherwise mediocre results; which is likely the result of an acquisition email provider using a compiled response file, and guaranteeing high open and click rates in addition to a positive ROI. This article provides insight on what the marketer, broker or agency can do to ensure they are maximizing the ROI from a given campaign, while disincentivizing over-sending behavior.

This article, published by DM News in June 2006, begins, “As sure as the spring is followed by summer and succeeded by fall, online marketing options, Search, Lead Generation and Email, seem to enjoy a cyclic season in vogue.” This article describes how for many, the use of email cost effectively has driven sales and built brand awareness; however, for the majority, email has not delivered on the promise.

This article, published by Target Marketing in April 2008, examines principles and practices associated with acquisition e-mail, which also apply to CRM programs, that are often overlooked by marketers when building their e-mail strategies. These fundamentals serve as strategies to consider and employ to yield higher response rates and a more effective e-mail marketing effort.

This white paper suggests there is no doubt that email marketing can be an extremely cost-effective marketing tool, and when used properly can significantly improve a company’s bottom line. It explains that email can be used in every element of the marketing process, and presents a number of benefits that email can deliver as part of an overall marketing strategy.

This article addresses one of the biggest challenges associated with e-mail marketing programs – establishing meaningful contact with customer targets in order to increase sales, while protecting and enhancing your brand. It illustrates that successful e-mail marketing designed to drive sales and build brands requires adopting a methodology that includes more precise prospect targeting, better permission-based models, a better overall consumer experience and better quality lists.

For 6 months we evaluated leading PPC technology platforms including Marin, Kenshoo, Aquisio, SearchForce, Omniture, Clicable and others. Using a SWOT analysis, we compared their capabilities for small clients, as well as clients spending more than $1 million a month. We also explored their value for both lead generation and ecommerce clients.

If you're managing search in-house, this exclusive White Paper from Acquirgy will help you identify negative trends, and provide critical suggestions to reverse them. If you're considering bringing search inside, this White Paper will help you implement the transition successfully. For both readers, it will provide a roadmap to improve ROI and increase efficiencies.

Discover how to get maximum response from your next e-mail Webinar invitation. Learn how to make your event stand out from the crowd, and how to avoid the common mistakes that doom most Webinars to mediocrity.

This predictive solution can provide quantitative support for decisions related to pricing rationale, segmentation, offer strategies and retention impacts, and deliver dramatic margin gains over time. The solution allows clients to significantly improve their visibility into the varying levels of customer's price sensitivity impact on demand/revenue.

Many marketers find themselves thrust into a world where they've lost control. While some see the social media frontier as a great opportunity, many see it as the Wild West - a place where things can quickly get unmanageable.

As consumers interact online, online marketers need to track their moves. Unfortunately, different marketing systems and vendors make it difficult to truly understand how the range of online marketing efforts work together to influence customers. With limited resources, many marketing directors are making critical decisions based on hunches and happenstance.

Devices like the iPhone have made the mobile Internet a massively valuable new advertising medium, with a worldwide audience of 546 million consumers and 10 times higher brand awareness and 10 times higher click-through rates than online advertising. The mobile Internet is changing the face of advertising, and marketers must adapt to stay ahead of the competition. This White Paper is an introduction to mobile advertising and the key things marketers need to know to run successful mobile campaigns. What you'll learn: 1) The Basics: An introduction to mobile advertising; 2) Who you can reach: Demographics and statistics; 3) Spotlight on the iPhone: What it means for marketers; 4) Results you can expect with mobile advertising; 5) Case studies: Examples of Brand and Performance mobile campaigns; 6) What you need to know to extend your campaigns to mobile.

This paper describes how Adobe sees the UC technology developing, and how you can start taking advantage of the benefits today in regards to web conferencing. Share this paper with your IT departments.

This white paper summarizes recent studies that demonstrate the value of online display advertising, and how search and display advertising used together can drive sales more effectively than either channel by itself.

In our latest Point of View, "The Dirtiest Word In Business," Airfoil has assembled a collective set of best practices to help technology marketers meet the communications challenges of a new digital decade.

"In-market shoppers," those deemed actively looking to buy online today, are an incredibly valuable audience segment for online retailers looking to drive transactions. Akamai's white paper, entitled "Ready to Buy: the In-Market Consumer" will help online retailers understand how to attract and make customers of in-market shoppers.

You don’t simply want your name to come top of the list, ahead of your competitors – you also want to make it clear to the searcher that you have exactly what they’re looking for. You want their search to start –and end - with you. This whitepaper show you how.

In order to master the customer experience one must have the correct insight about that customer, and the easiest way to achieve these results is through analytics.

Virtual worlds where customers can connect and share information are another channel through which marketers can improve the customer experience, but consider your approach carefully.