By Mark on Jul 9, 2008 in Advertising, Commentary, Direct Marketing, Featured, Marketing, Mobile, Online, SEO/SEM, Social Media, Viral Marketing | 1 Comment
What's the value placed on a social media marketing campaign by the marketers that develop the campaign? It's hard to tell, because one typically can't get access to the key metrics associated with the campaign, particularly sales attributed to the effort and ROI.
I was intrigued by a new social push by Sony Ericsson for the Z750a flip phone, created by their agency, Iris. The campaign is titled "Bringing Purple Back."
By Mark on Jun 11, 2008 in Direct Mail, Featured, Marketing, Process, Strategy, Testing | 0 Comments
You plan for offensive operations, while you prepare to play defense. You'll find this concept in both warfare and sports, and it's applicable in business as well.
I much prefer playing offense, because that's where you score and generate revenues. A strong business offensive plan also limits the amount of places you'll need to prepare to play defense, freeing up more resources for--you guessed it--playing more offense.
By Mark on May 6, 2008 in Commentary, Marketing, Offer | 1 Comment
Chrysler's guaranteeing gas for your new vehicle will stay under $2.99/gallon for the next three years.
Talk about a great offer that addresses a couple of problems:
1. Chrysler has too many large vehicles to sell, with lousy gas mileage.
2. Gas at $3.00+/gallon is putting a crimp in the budgets of potential buyers, slowing down overall sales.
By Mark on May 2, 2008 in Commentary | 0 Comments
I was doing some SEO work this morning (and SEO will be the subject of a longer article in the near future) and happened to find a few articles where I was interviewed on topics ranging from membership to deploying analytic platforms using SAS software to education and internships.
Here's a quick look at a few [...]
By Mark on Jan 27, 2008 in Advertising, Direct Mail, Direct Marketing, Inserts, Marketing, Testing | 1 Comment
For the first time in a long time I took a few minutes to run through the Valpak co-op mailing I received last week.
After a few minutes of looking at the offers, I came up with a short list of things to consider if you're using Valpak (or other co-ops) as a marketing channel. The [...]
By Mark on Jan 15, 2008 in Database marketing, Featured, Strategy | 0 Comments
I've been working on a list analytics project recently and that's resulted in me thinking of, among other things, universes. I've started to think about model performance and how the changes to the economy might be impacting marketing results.
However, I wasn't tempted to write this post until two things happened yesterday. First, [...]
