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Quick now, before the marketing hype subsides: Are most of the widget and gadget apps offered by SocialMedia, Google and Slide.com the new, killer way to reach the upscale audience in social networks who are bailing out of old-school media…

Step one: Set up a free, easily accessible virtual world (VW) where girls can play with virtual dolls. Step two: Purchase a truck-full of rakes and a heavy duty forklift for the cash that’s going to pile up, sit back in your late 18th…

In the Internet world of a billion information fire hoses, where you can drink as much as you want anytime you want or drown trying, media giants NY Times and CNN have both dumped the idea of charging online subscription fees to view their…

Google said this week they are expanding their AdWords service, offering businesses the chance to place ads next to cell phone search results. They are also rolling out a new Adsense for Mobile service, where contextual ads will appear on…

Today the blog's about online search. Searching for aviator Steve Fossett that is. If you’ve been incommunicado for some reason for the past two weeks, aviation pioneer and record holder Steve Fossett disappeared in the Nevada desert 11…

A book called CMO Thought Leaders: The Rise of the Strategic Marketer, published recently by global conglomerate Booz Allen Hamilton, uses interviews with CMOs and other marketing experts to scope the sea-changes successful marketers will…

It’s a good time to be in the ultra-personal, targeted ad business: Sexy, sultry behavioral marketing has AOL, Time-Warner, Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft all digging deep in Nomex-lined pockets to ensure they have a zaftig-share of…

Local newspaper ad revenue is shrinking dramatically. Ask any sales executive at any old style paper and they’ll confirm it. If they’re a friend, I suggest you have a hanky, a shoulder, and maybe a martini ready for them before you ask.…

Ultra-personal ad floggers promise to push hand-crafted, micro-targeted messages to all of your subscription media, whether you want them or not. Local, mobile search, “LoMo” for short, is the other side of the coin in this new,…

“Extremely targeted advertising will become indistinguishable from content.” Nicholas Negroponte, Being Digital, 1995 Targeted ads are in your email, on your search pages. Companies already track your habits and push selected ad content…

If you have any of the latest versions of SKYPE installed on your computer you may have noticed a little feature that converts any phone number on any website you may be browsing into a clickable phone number. The way it works is that it…

In a recent article over at Adotas, they take a hard look at how changes in algorithms at Google can have a painful impact on sites that depend on the giant search engine for organic search results. And if you think this applies just to…

MarketingExperiments has always maintained that the display URL is a very important part of creating an effective ad. Our research over the years indicated that simply adding a www to the beginning of the display URL or capitalizing the…

Let’s suppose you have taken a few marketing courses and have created a fundamentally sound webpage with all the bells and whistles . . . clear headline, natural eyepath, low friction, credibility indicators, etc. And let’s suppose with 2%…

HTML vs. Plain Text has long been among the most hotly debated email-oriented topics. HTML format offers a visually pleasing design that 1) affects readers’ ability to process and benefit from the information and 2) provides marketers with…

We recently received an appreciative note from a professional certification course graduate that makes us feel that our efforts in providing the latest in education about online efficacy helps people discover what really works across an…