Business Crawls Onto Web 2.0

By eMarketer May 1, 2007 Dave’s Comments (Digital Marketing Tutorial Blog): Web 2.0 – it’s all the buzz these days. Now eMarketer reports that the acceptance of “The Collaborative Web” is penetrating the Fortune 500/Global 1000 corporate world at a surprising rate, although most applications are “inward facing” at this time. Still, every online marketer needs … Read more

50 Questions To Answer Before Starting Your SEO Campaign

By Stoney deGeyter search engine land Dave’s Comments (Digital Marketing Tutorial Blog): A great little primer for small business owners regarding how and who should be doing their Web site search engine optimizing. All fifty questions are relevant and will take less than 3 minutes to read. “An online business owner basically has two choices … Read more

Search Retargeting: It’s Ready

By Robin Neifield Clickz Behavioral Targeting Dave’s Comments (Digital Marketing Tutorial Blog): Search Re-targeting? New term to me as well! Think you’ll find the concept interesting, and the article’s author, Robin Neifield, is a great resource to learn more about the overall topic of Behavioral Targeting. “Early adoption has its advantages, but being an aggressive … Read more

Keep Track of Your Friends with The Coop

By Mike Beltzner Mozilla Labs Dave’s Comments (Digital Marketing Tutorial Blog): Social Media Marketing built right into the Firefox Web browser?! Stay on top of this development so you understand how your organization can take advantage of this VERY interesting new twist in Web browser technology. “Just a few years ago, one of the most … Read more

Loyalty Program Members Shop More, Spend More, Have More: Study

By Richard H. Levey Direct Magazine Dave’s Comments (Digital Marketing Tutorial Blog): While Direct Magazine’s summary of a just-completed Epsilon Marketing study on the positive sales impact of retail loyalty programs is not surprising, the detail in the report is very interesting AND is mentioned in this blog because of the potential positive impact of … Read more

Digital Pharma Marketers Keep It Simple

Lisa Phillips Senior Analyst eMarketer Dave’s Comments (Digital Marketing Tutorial Blog): The “digital” slice of the pharma marketing pie just keeps getting bigger each year, as this article highlights with some very interesting details about where the digital marketing dollars are being spent. “The endless text of pharma disclaimers is at home on the Web. … Read more

comScore: Yahoo’s New Ranking Model

From: comScore.com Dave’s Comments (Digital Marketing Tutorial Blog): Looks like Yahoo! got it right this time! Their new paid search ad serving platform, code named Panama, is supposed to improve the click-thru rates of paid ads running on it’s search service, and preliminary comScore results show that it has! Panama is designed to serve the most … Read more

Getting Started With Web Analytics

Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik Dave’s Comments (Digital Marketing Tutorial Blog): Web analytics and common sense can be strange bedfellows indeed! But not for Avinash Kaushik, an expert in Web analytics. If you’re new to this topic, this blog post by Avinash is the PERFECT Place to start! “A common theme I have noticed across many … Read more

In Search of Better Ways to Search

Google, Microsoft, Ask.Com Quietly Use Spinoff Sites To Test New Features, Solicit Feedback; Pulling Up Videos By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO Wall Street Journal Dave’s Comments (Digital Marketing Tutorial Blog): Take a peek at the major search engines’ ideas for the next generation of search via this Wall Street Journal Online article. Why should Web Marketers … Read more