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A Guide to Making the Most of this Holiday Season: Social Media

Dec 24, 2010 | ,,,

Social media is an essential component to any retailer’s holiday marketing strategy. According to a BDO Seidman study, more than half of the retailers surveyed incorporated social media into their 2009 holiday campaigns, with 76% using Facebook and 50% using Twitter. With an increasing number of consumers using social media platforms to obtain information, and [...]


Email Marketing: The Glue of Online Marketing

Sep 28, 2010 | ,,

Brands are increasingly utilizing multiple online marketing platforms in order to reach consumers. One of the most common forms being utilized due to its efficiency and its effectiveness is email marketing. Fortunately, according to an analysis of e-mail marketing trends by Epsilon, a marketing services provider, and the Direct Marketing Association’s Email Experience Council, consumer [...]



Email and Social Marketing: Developing a Symbiotic Marketing Plan

Jun 16, 2010 | ,

As a result of media overload, brands are having an increasingly difficult time developing memorable and unique customer relationships. But with the influence of e-mail marketing and the emergence of social media, companies now have the ability to communicate with customers online in the mediums where they spend most of their time. Forrester Research predicts [...]


How Retailers are Utilizing Social Media this Holiday Season

Dec 7, 2009 | ,,,,,,,,

This year’s holiday season has shown that retailers are catching on to the idea of social media and are taking advantage of this cost effective medium of advertising. 47.1% of retailers surveyed by the National Retail Federation, plan on increasing their social media this holiday season. Of those who plan to use social media, 76% [...]


Facebook: Connect Globally, Advertise Locally

Jul 23, 2009 | ,,,,

There is no question about it, local advertising dominates Facebook, the popular global online social networking platform. Borrell Associates, a research firm specializing in advertising reports that of the impressive $310 million in ad revenue Facebook forecasts for 2009, 75% will come from local advertising. That’s $232.5 million in profits from small location-specific advertising campaigns, [...]


Who's Taking the Social Media Gold??

Jun 25, 2009 | ,,,

As the first half of 2009 comes to a finish, we wanted to look at a few different social media sites and compare their respective growths and recent changes. We’re not going to tell you which social media platform is best, because in our experience, different social media sites are better or worse for different [...]