How to Explain SEO to C-Suite Executives
Getting CEOs on board with search marketing can sometimes seem like an
10/29/2012
Getting CEOs on board with search marketing can sometimes seem like an
Probably any marketer will tell you how important what they do is for a business. And people would agree as a new study shows. 94% of consumers and 98% of marketers consider marketing as essential to businesses, and nine out of ten people see marketing as paramount to driving sales. Yet only 13% of the people interviewed consider that marketing benefits society, and 53% of them think that generally marketing is “a bunch of B.S.”.
Corporate Social Responsibility has become important for many companies, sometimes driven by the desire of doing something good, other times just as a means of gaining awareness. The public relations and marketing agency Cone Communications launches a new approach to CSR called Corporate Social ReturnSM based on their belief that corporate social responsibility should deliver measureable business, brand and social impacts thus meeting stakeholders’ expectations.
When using any social network (and not only, for that matter, in the online environment), you might want to block a user. On Pinterest, you didn’t have this option until now. But it was a heavily requested option, the third most popular feature request on the site (as mentioned here, and no longer on the official list as it already is a rolled out option). With the block option, the social network has also announced a ‘report user’ feature and more granular email settings.
Communication devices get smaller and more powerful with each version, allowing owners to perform more and more actions with just an few clicks. Smartphone users can now communicate, login to various social media networks, write emails, browse the internet, watch TV channels and more. TV networks should however keep in mind the results of the latest Red Bee Media survey which shows that if a TV program benefits from social media buzz, viewers are more likely to watch it.
Ad buyers want to know their ads are indeed seen by target audiences. Publishers want and need advertising money and one could only think that in order to receive it, they would offer relevant statistics. Well, it looks like things aren’t as simple as that, as a new report that analyzed actual buys made across 425,000 sites and included display, video, mobile and social network ads shows.
We make no bones about telling our readers about products we find well worth the trouble, or even ones to stay away from, for the matter. For a few weeks I have been testing Vocus’ iContact services for an in depth review, and for a number of reasons. Today an infographic from iContact reveals just some of how come you and I should be interested in email marketing systems.
Morrisons will launch its first online wine offering, Morrisonscellar.com, which will be promoted by Focus PR. The agency won a three-way pitch and will have quite a challenge with this launch. Its mission is to create awareness for the website, scheduled to be launched later this year, and for the Morrisons wine offering, targeting to key opinion formers and consumers.
Overit expands its creative staff with the hiring of content and social marketing thought leader Lisa Barone, along with the acquisition of Brayton Graphics, an award-winning boutique design and development firm.
These unexpected companies that invest in Pinterest see something beyond the hard sell for a product when using Pinterest. It all boils down to how they use Pinterest for marketing and lead generation.
