It’s All Good News for Product Reviews

Maybe I’m a selfish person.
I don’t spend a great deal of time - aside from my own sites – writing product reviews. In fact I barely write reviews myself anymore and instead pay 40 freelancers for their poetic opinions on consumer goods.
I do ask questions on Trip Advisor, Chow and at one point of [...]

Encourage Customers to Rate Products

Do you rely on product reviews when you research or purchase on the web? When I ask that question, I usually get a large proportion of positive responses. I was pleased to see a study that confirmed my anecdotal evidence.

 
PowerReviews and the etailing group recently conducted a study that was reported on Marketing Charts. Customers [...]

Fish Where the Fish Are

It is true today that a great deal of the content we all consume comes to us and not the other way around. With the rapid growth of social media, widgets and other types of content sharing comunitites and tools, its getting harder and harder to drive traffic to branded sites, and this includes [...]

Experiment and Analyze

In Should Marketers Stop Talking About Advertising, our own Mary Lou Roberts in her DIY Marketing blog draws factful conclusions from several recent studies regarding the persistent migration of marketing spending away from more traditional media and towards interactive & social media in particular “emerging channels” which include blogs, social networks, advergaming and beyond. [...]

Is Video the New TV?

From the beginning of the television era marketers have considered it the ultimate brand-building medium. Its tremendous reach coupled with the ability to deliver stunning visual imagery in the context of a compelling message (when we could find one) created awareness and built brands. An article in today’s WSJ Online points out that demand for [...]