Oct 15 2008

The Failures of Direct Mail: How to Burn Through a Chunk of your Marketing Budget

Category: pay-per-click advertisingJon Davis

As a marketer I am constantly evaluating how companies are attempting to market their products and services as I go throughout my day.  Sometimes I am impressed, more often I am amazed at how basic common sense and simple marketing logic is disregarded by companies.  In these times of increased economic concerns I just don’t understand how these companies don’t see that they could use their marketing budget more effectively.

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Jun 19 2008

Not so Dynamic Insertion

Category: general, pay-per-click advertisingJon Davis

The dynamic keyword insertion tool for adwords is a great tool for managing large amounts of diverse keywords within an adgroup. For those of you who are not familiar the keyword insertion tool allows you to place a code combined with a generic keyword into your ads. This combination results in the actual keyword the searcher was searching for appearing in the ad. This has been proven to help with click-through-rates because searchers respond more to seeing the exact phrase or word that they typed in.

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Apr 21 2008

The Tipping Point: When Organic Traffic Surpasses Paid Search Traffic

Category: generalTom Shivers

So you have a new business and, to keep expenses down and ROI up, you use the Internet to find new customers or clients. Search engine optimization (SEO) is the best investment, but it normally takes 3 to 6 months to see top rankings. Since you must have customers to stay afloat, you want immediate and qualified prospects to come to your site. So what you need right now is paid search (pay-per-click advertising). And implementing both SEO and paid search simultaneously can give your business an irresistible one-two advantage.

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