Last week I wrote about integrated marketing campaigns. Two days ago I advised dialoging with your direct competitors via Twitter. Today I am going to talk about the strength of affiliate marketing.  Read More

I started off in business when marketing people were gregarious outgoing individuals. They were creative, fun people and intuitive thinkers. There was a science to marketing planning but the people who were involved in it were rarely strong on the sciences i.e. they were “right brainers”. Read More

Achieving sales on a website is not a single “conversion” event, it’s actually a series of “micro” conversions. They’ve clicked on a ad in a Google search results page, they’ve clicked on various pages within your site, they’ve put products in your shopping cart and they’ve checked out. Read More

Marketers may spend millions of pounds on advertising campaigns yet arguably the biggest influence on a consumer’s decision costs nothing: a word-of-mouth recommendation from a trusted source. The great value of the internet is that it facilitates mass word-of-mouth recommendation possibilities.  According to a recent article from management consultants Mckinsey, word of mouth is the primary factor behind 20-50% of all purchasing decisions. Read More

Whatever business you’re in, at some stage over the last eighteen months you’ve probably asked the question “How can we use Facebook in our marketing?” Some people have dipped their toe in whilst others have gone in head first. With over 400m active users, there’s a big audience out there. There are also case studies of companies who have had success and a growing interest in Facebook from marketers. Read More