Ask Enquiro – Online Marketing Insights http://ask.enquiro.com Ask Enquiro provides expert insight and timely information to make online marketing more successful, discussing strategies and tactics to improve customer acquisition, customer retention, and profitability. From web site usability issues to search engines, site redesigns, online advertising and more, the latest hot topics in online marketing are covered here. Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:41:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 B2B,Tech,SEM,News,Search,Marketing,Marketing,Internet,SEOTechnology/PodcastingTechnology/Tech Newsmanoj@enquiro.comnoB2B,Tech,SEM,News,Search,Marketing,Marketing,Internet,SEOAsk Enquiro - Insight on the latest in the SEM IndustryAsk Enquiro - Insight on the latest in the SEM IndustryAskEnquirohttp://feedburner.google.com The Status of Mobile Marketing in Canada http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AskEnquiro/~3/OWDDf6zVc-4/ http://ask.enquiro.com/2011/the-status-of-mobile-marketing-in-canada/#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:39:53 +0000 manoj@enquiro.com http://ask.enquiro.com/?p=2207 The Mobile indus­try is expe­ri­enc­ing a true expan­sion across the world, and Canada is no exception. In 2009, Canada had the high­est pen­e­tra­tion rate in terms of con­tent down­loads and mobile games (Nielsen Wire, 2009). In 2010, 75% of Cana­dian house­holds had a cell­phone (Mobi­think­ing, 2010).

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]]> http://ask.enquiro.com/2011/the-status-of-mobile-marketing-in-canada/feed/ 0 http://ask.enquiro.com/2011/the-status-of-mobile-marketing-in-canada/ Paid Marketing and Media: What Is That Exactly? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AskEnquiro/~3/9SKNe6V6YyQ/ http://ask.enquiro.com/2011/paid-marketing-and-media-what-is-that-exactly/#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:38:00 +0000 manoj@enquiro.com http://ask.enquiro.com/?p=2205 Paid mar­ket­ing refers to all kinds of paid adver­tis­ing that appears on the Inter­net and other inter­ac­tive plat­forms. This includes dis­play adver­tis­ing (ban­ners) on the Inter­net (con­tent, ser­vice and social media sites), on video game con­soles, mobile devices (sites and appli­ca­tions) and dig­i­tal dis­plays; video adver­tis­ing; email adver­tis­ing (adver­tise­ment inte­grated into a publisher’s newslet­ter); direc­to­ries and clas­si­fied ads; and mar­ket­ing on search engines (pur­chase of text adver­tise­ments by words/key phrases).

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]]> http://ask.enquiro.com/2011/paid-marketing-and-media-what-is-that-exactly/feed/ 0 http://ask.enquiro.com/2011/paid-marketing-and-media-what-is-that-exactly/ Don’t Typecast Search as “Direct” http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AskEnquiro/~3/521_AqgRCRc/ http://ask.enquiro.com/2011/dont-typecast-search-as-direct/#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:34:50 +0000 manoj@enquiro.com http://ask.enquiro.com/?p=2202 We should have taken it as a sign of things to come.

The panel I was mod­er­at­ing at OMMA, with the highly provoca­tive title, “The Evolv­ing Role of the Search Mar­keter”, was in a tiny room that seemed to be an after­thought of who­ever planned the meet­ing space lay­out in the Mar­riott Mar­quis in New York.

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]]> http://ask.enquiro.com/2011/dont-typecast-search-as-direct/feed/ 0 http://ask.enquiro.com/2011/dont-typecast-search-as-direct/ The Psychology of Couponing http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AskEnquiro/~3/hRrVu_Jn6g0/ http://ask.enquiro.com/2011/the-psychology-of-couponing/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:42:44 +0000 manoj@enquiro.com http://ask.enquiro.com/?p=2200 Is a Groupon model the next big thing for B2B? Appar­ently not. Or, at least, not now, based on an early trial by a Chicago-based con­sult­ing firm, Ajil­li­tee. They used Groupon to offer $25,000 worth of con­sult­ing ser­vices at half price.
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]]> http://ask.enquiro.com/2011/the-psychology-of-couponing/feed/ 0 http://ask.enquiro.com/2011/the-psychology-of-couponing/ The Seventh Stepping Stone: the final step, or is it? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AskEnquiro/~3/cNzhKtIhjms/ http://ask.enquiro.com/2011/the-seventh-stepping-stone-the-final-step-or-is-it/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:41:00 +0000 manoj@enquiro.com http://ask.enquiro.com/?p=2198 The final step on the path to a pur­chase is often seen as the end by the ven­dor. But ask any expe­ri­enced sales per­son you know and they will tell you that it is eas­ier to sell to some­one who has already bought from you then to some­one who does not know you.
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]]> http://ask.enquiro.com/2011/the-seventh-stepping-stone-the-final-step-or-is-it/feed/ 0 http://ask.enquiro.com/2011/the-seventh-stepping-stone-the-final-step-or-is-it/ What is Earned Media? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AskEnquiro/~3/nDZYK4HCtw4/ http://ask.enquiro.com/2011/what-is-earned-media/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:39:07 +0000 manoj@enquiro.com http://ask.enquiro.com/?p=2196 Earned mar­ket­ing is every­thing you do not con­trol. This means pos­i­tive and neg­a­tive word of mouth and press cov­er­age in every pos­si­ble manner.
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]]> http://ask.enquiro.com/2011/what-is-earned-media/feed/ 0 http://ask.enquiro.com/2011/what-is-earned-media/ Local Search: Let’s find a restaurant with a great patio http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AskEnquiro/~3/-rG8KLuL8kM/ http://ask.enquiro.com/2011/local-search-lets-find-a-restaurant-with-a-great-patio/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:36:53 +0000 manoj@enquiro.com http://ask.enquiro.com/?p=2194 With a for­get­table round of golf com­plete it was time for phase two of my bril­liant Labour Day plans… Find­ing a restau­rant with an amaz­ing patio to relax on with a drink.
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]]> http://ask.enquiro.com/2011/local-search-lets-find-a-restaurant-with-a-great-patio/feed/ 0 http://ask.enquiro.com/2011/local-search-lets-find-a-restaurant-with-a-great-patio/ Is it Time to Re-label “Search” Marketing? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AskEnquiro/~3/FAVzgdJIL3c/ http://ask.enquiro.com/2011/is-it-time-to-re-labe-search-marketing/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:32:52 +0000 manoj@enquiro.com http://ask.enquiro.com/?p=2189 Last week, I asked the ques­tion, “Is the word “search” the right label for what we do on Google, Bing, Yahoo and other engines?” When Inter­net search debuted in the early 90’s, it was prob­a­bly pretty accu­rate. But today, the con­cept may have passed the label by.
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]]> http://ask.enquiro.com/2011/is-it-time-to-re-labe-search-marketing/feed/ 0 http://ask.enquiro.com/2011/is-it-time-to-re-labe-search-marketing/ The 2011 Dreamforce Conference Had Rocking Sessions & Entertainment http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AskEnquiro/~3/E_YJ02A6VVc/ http://ask.enquiro.com/2011/the-2011-dreamforce-conference-had-rocking-sessions-entertainment/#comments Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:29:44 +0000 manoj@enquiro.com http://ask.enquiro.com/?p=2183 Mediative’s Sales Oper­a­tions Man­ager, Cindy Daniel­son, just got back from the 2011 Dream­force Con­fer­ence, and filed this report…Read the full story at The Results People

]]> http://ask.enquiro.com/2011/the-2011-dreamforce-conference-had-rocking-sessions-entertainment/feed/ 0 http://ask.enquiro.com/2011/the-2011-dreamforce-conference-had-rocking-sessions-entertainment/ The Sixth Stepping Stone: Negotiate http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AskEnquiro/~3/ZDS_mAVUs2o/ http://ask.enquiro.com/2011/the-sixth-stepping-stone-negotiate/#comments Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:24:32 +0000 manoj@enquiro.com http://ask.enquiro.com/?p=2179 As the buyer’s jour­ney con­tin­ues, each step­ping stone on the path to a pur­chase gets smaller. The good news is that if you are the ven­dor that has made it this far, there is less room at this step for other ven­dors to knock you off. Read the full article at The Results People…

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