Archive for March, 2006


Another example of two-step marketing

Monday, March 27th, 2006

There are a lot of “ipod stickers” items on eBay, with price of $0.01 and free shipping - although their price is actually higher. But this allows to seller to record postal addresses of iPod owners and send them marketing materials, coupons, sales letters and so on. You can do the same to gather userbase […]

Price-per-click up 25% last year

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

Average cost-per-click rose 24.8% in 2005, from $1.29 to $1.61 on Google AdWords. Yahoo’s CPC jumped 30%, from $1.03 to $1.34. Shopping search engines rose from $1.87 to $2.56, a 36.9% increase.
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Google enables starter edition

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

Google Adwords now has launched Starter Accounts, a fast way to create and run an ad with just the most basic campaign services. Only one ad is possible.
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eMail marketing results depend on number of recipients

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

The 2005 study of more than 4,000 organizations, 230,000 e-mail campaigns and 2.7 billion e-mail messages reports that lists with 100,000 or more names experienced an average open rate of 18.2% and click-though of 3.6%, while those of 101-1000 names had an open rate of 42.1% and click-through rate of 6.8%. For lists of 1,001 […]

Difference between regular and guerilla marketing

Monday, March 6th, 2006

Regular marketing:
· Define your target group.
· Market research.
· Creative thinking.
· Mediaplanning.
Guerilla marketing:
· Define what user should do when he sees the ad.
· Define what you should do for user to act when he sees the ad.
· Define what you will do with the user after you get him.
· Define your target group and how they […]