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Cyber Monday: Marketing Hype No More
November 29, 2011
From Forbes
According to comScore, Cyber Monday is now the busiest shopping day online. Or at least it was last year, for the first time, after a steady rise in rank over the past few years. Now, it probably won’t be No. 1 again this year, or in most future...
Record Online Thanksgiving Day Shopping Paves Way for Strong Black Friday Retail Sales, Reports IBM
November 28, 2011
From Home Page
U.S. shoppers took advantage of early sales this holiday driving a 39.3 percent increase in online Thanksgiving day spending while setting the stage for 24.3 percent online growth on Black Friday compared to the same period last year, according to cloud-based analytics findings by IBM. As part of IBM's Smarter Commerce initiative, IBM's online retail benchmark study reveals the following trends as of 12:00 am PST:
Executives Fail to Focus on Social Media Marketing Strategy
July 21, 2011
From eMarketer
Social media marketing has gained its place at the table. eMarketer estimates 80% of companies with at least 100 employees will use social networks for marketing this year, up from nearly three in four last year. By 2012, usage will be even greater, and, in turn, efforts...
The Secret to Great SEO Keywords: Site Search
February 16, 2011
From Tipline
If you limit your keyword research to terms people are using on Google, Bing and Yahoo, you're missing out on data that can help you market to your customers even more effectively. Keywords that your customers are using within your own website can yield new ideas for connecting people to your site content.
IBM to Acquire Unica Corporation
August 13, 2010
From PR Newswire
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Unica Corporation (Nasdaq: UNCA) today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire Unica in a cash transaction at a price of $21 per share, or at a net price of approximately $480 million, after adjusting for cash. A publicly held company...
IBM Advances Analytics With Acquisition of Coremetrics
June 15, 2010
From TM News Clippings
See more news releases in: Computer Electronics, Computer Software, Acquisitions, Mergers and Takeovers, New Products & Services Addition of web analytics enhances IBM business analytics strategy ARMONK, N.Y., June 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IBM...
Video Adds Power to Milwaukee Electric Tool’s E-mail Marketing
March 10, 2010
From Tipline
By definition, a tool is something designed to be used. What better way to demonstrate that utility than with video? That's the driving force behind the show-and-tell approach Milwaukee Electric Tool takes to its online marketing.
5 Ways to Go Deeper With Customer-Level Data
March 3, 2010
From Tipline
To effectively target customers, marketers must gain in-depth customer knowledge and leverage it across channels. In its white paper, Five Guiding Principles for Developing In-Depth Profiles of Your Customers, San Mateo, Calif.-based marketing optimization provider Coremetrics lays out tactics to do just that.
4 Principles to Personalize the Online Experience
September 23, 2009
From Tipline
It’s vital to gather as much pertinent information on your customers as you can—search history, e-mail history, browsing behavior, purchases and offline activity—to build the richest possible customer profiles. In its guide, Five Guiding Principles for Creating a Tailored Online Experience, Web analytics and marketing optimization firm Coremetrics lays out data-driven tactics to provide the optimum online experience.
The 5 Most Important KPIs in Search Engine Marketing
August 19, 2009
From Tipline
If you’re measuring your search engine marketing program performance based on traffic, clicks and page views, you’re actually stuck out in left field. The main metrics that matter, according to Andreas Ramos and Roslyn Layton, are customer lifetime value, contribution margin and close rate, which then help you determine your target cost per lead or cost per action.
Nuts & Bolts: Tech Talk
October 2007
From Target Marketing
Go Retail to Web E-commerce application platform and services provider MarketLive has introduced FastTrack, an e-commerce solution designed to help retailers launch a fully optimized B-to-C e-commerce site in three months or less. FastTrack includes more than 200 e-commerce features bundled with MarketLive’s MarketLive 5 e-commerce platform, as well as intelligent imaging with dynamic image generation and zoom, free Google analytics, and search engine optimization. The solution also includes a rich display catalog that gives e-tailers a range of options for their online storefront. Real-time site management tools allow nontechnical staff to edit page displays, products, image, promotions, editorial content and merchandising information. Web:
Outsource Solutions: Web Analytics
February 2004
From Target Marketing
Track Your Traffic In “Web Analytics: Getting Down to Business,” Diana Cirillo and David Flint of research and advisory firm Gartner wrote: “It has long been said you cannot manage what you cannot measure. Nowhere is this truer than on the Web, where examining what works and what doesn’t directly influences the bottom line.” Unfortunately, the Web allows you to measure and test everything, even information that has no relevance or actionable data to be learned from it. For example, tracking hits has gone the way of the dodo bird, giving way to metrics such as conversion rate, navigation paths and revenue. Before