Monthly Archives: May 2012

The Trident: Integrated Strategy the Key to Success

The following is a guest post by Joe Baker.

Today’s marketing landscape is too diverse to be easily tackled with one single strategy. Between the traditional mediums and the newer developments of email, online inbound, pay-per-click and social media marketing, consumers are more accessible than ever before. While this has created a wealth of opportunities for marketing departments to tap a global market and expand their company’s consumer base, the challenge of remaining competitive across all strategies looms larger than ever.

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Understanding How to Succeed in Mobile Search

The mobile search market is a local one. People on the go are looking for goods and services, and they are interacting with their surroundings like never before. Whether the search is for the nearest store that sells widget A, or scanning the QR code to get a coupon at store B, we are using phones a local tools.  According to Google 40% of mobile queries are for local search.  eMarketer has projected that mobile ad spend will reach $4.3 billion by 2015.

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Pay to Play: The New Social Media Model?

Remember when Google launched and people scratched their heads, wondering how such a great search engine could afford to exist? How would they ever make money?

Google has figured out the monetization of Internet services and information, a challenge that even social media juggernaut Facebook is still struggling to make sense of. In the last few weeks, Facebook seems to be taking a hint from blogging platform Tumblr.

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Mobile Devices and Click to Call Ads – Where did your budget go?

Marchex Institute released their latest edition of MPulse, last week and it had some very interesting numbers.

Marchex noted that there was a strong connection between mobile search and connected calls to business via the same mobile phones. The prediction is that this correlation will grow stronger as more consumers become accustomed to using their phones to search, locate and purchase goods and services based on physical location.  Marchex  connected about 30 million calls a month in Q1 2012.

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The Difference Between Good and Bad Infographics

Infographics are a great tool to use to help people to visualize the meaning of information, and many individuals in the marketing world are starting to catch on to the infographics trend.  This is a marketing strategy that will likely grow exponentially in use over the next few years. For this reason, if you are involved in the marketing industry in any way, or if you own a business and handle the marketing yourself, you will not want to be left behind when everyone else starts utilizing infographics.  In order to utilize infographics in your marketing scheme, though, you have to have a good understating of what they are, as well as an understanding of the difference between good infographics and bad infographics.

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