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Customer Engagement Important in the New Economy

Posted by: Terry Oehrke in Relationship MarketingLoyalty MarketingDatabase MarketingB2CB2B on

Relationship Marketing A recent study of 1300 Marketing Directors or above sited that 57% of the respondents said that email marketing will receive the greatest investment in 2009.  It's not that other initiatives are not important it's just that email has proven the most valuable way to

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To Flash Or Not To Flash, Is That the Question?

Posted by: Terry Oehrke in StrategyB2C on

To Flash or not to Flash, is that the question It's not Flash or no Flash the answer is using the best of both worlds.  Flash has been around for a while now.  Whenever we ask clients to give us a list of sites that they like they send us a list of Flash sites.  Once we talk to them about some of the challenges

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Search PPC or SEO

Posted by: Terry Oehrke in SEOSearchPPCB2CB2B on

 Pay-Per-Click (PPC) is the part of the search results screen that includes the couple of entries at the top as well as the listings down the right side. These placements are based on an auction-like service that sets a specific ranking based on the maximum price the

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Is Weather Important to Your Sales?

Posted by: Terry Oehrke in Online AdvertisingNew MediaB2CB2B on

We can utilize weather conditions at the ZIP code level to promote a specific product or service. We can target by specific temperature, humidity, pollen level, rain, etc.

I don't know how to get more targeted than this. For instance if you own a furnace and air

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Turn Your Marketing Green

Posted by: Terry Oehrke in StrategyRelationship MarketingLoyalty MarketingEmailDirect MailDatabase MarketingB2C on

This might sound weird but there are huge movements to move away from printed materials with the biggest one being catalogs. Schools are having contest to see how many catalogs a class can unsubscribe from. Take a look at the video here. There are sites that make it

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Who's Your Target Customer?

Posted by: Terry Oehrke in StrategySocial MediaRelationship MarketingLoyalty MarketingDatabase MarketingB2CB2B on

Unfortunately, this question rarely comes up from a traditional advertising agency. That's why I started Ontarget and made sure that our classification is a marketing agency. This question is very important and should be asked. Without this understanding you don't

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Customer Seduction

Posted by: Terry Oehrke in Social MediaRelationship MarketingLoyalty MarketingB2CB2B on

The days of passing an ad in front of someone seven times to make them purchase are over.  With the advent of DVR (Digital Video Recorders) people have made two very important statements.  First, I want content when I want it.  Second, I want to be able to fast forward

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Social Networks are Focus Groups 2.0

Posted by: Terry Oehrke in StrategySocial MediaRelationship MarketingLoyalty MarketingB2CB2B on

Smart companies are creating social networks to open up the dialog between their brand and the users of the brand. Most brands use these as a promotional channel but there's another very important use of a brand's social network, research.

 

The typical way to gain the

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This Isn't Your Father's PR

Posted by: Terry Oehrke in Social MediaNew MediaB2CB2B on

PR has always been the way to reach media professionals when you had a significant newsworthy event of interest.  The measurement for PR has always been the number of media impressions.  Impressions on TV, radio, in newspapers, magazines, etc.

The research, conducted by

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