17 Nov

Fast Flip, Google`s New News Reading Service

For quite some time Google and newspaper and magazine publishers have failed to get along — and historically for good reason. But Google doesn t actually want to fight and its new news reading service Fast Flip might go some way toward salving some wounds in the publishing business….

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17 Nov

More Blogging Tips: Cooking with Gas

Yesterday I covered four great lessons we can learn about blogging from watching the movie Julie and Julia. I promised you a total of 11. So what can you do to make your blog memorable besides being passionate about your subject having a goal being reliable and finding your niche [...]

02 Nov

38% of visitors to e-commerce sites in research phase: survey

Of all visitors to e-commerce sites, 38.6% are there to research products and prices, and to gather information, though just 85% are able to complete this task successfully.
This is one if the findings of an iPerceptions e-commerce survey, suggesting that improvements in navigation and usability can have a significant impact on sales.
The survey of US [...]

02 Nov

Google pulls the trigger, gets into lead gen

In late August, we reported on a lawsuit filed against Google by LendingTree alleging that Google was planning to offer an online lead gen service related to mortgages using technology offered by a LendingTree vendor that was contractually forbidden from working with LendingTree’s competitors.
While the status of that lawsuit is unknown, it is now official: [...]

02 Nov

Why SEM isn’t all that

You have to love a contentious headline. In this article, I won’t be declaring search engine marketing (SEM) dead. What I want to explore are the various ways you should support this kind of marketing elsewhere on your website.
The point is, gaining a customer through pay-per-click advertising in the search engine results pages costs money. That’s [...]

19 Oct

Do speakers need to weave social media into their presentations?

Earlier this year I attended an event at which one speaker used Twitter to gather audience questions and then answer key themes at the end. He did not allow this to interrupt the presentation but it was made clear that questions would not be a ‘hands up’ affair. More and more speakers are now aware [...]

19 Oct

Google gets deeper into display with Campaign Insights

Google’s bread and butter is paid search but that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have big ambitions for its display advertising business. After all, it spent $3.1bn in 2007 buying display advertising giant DoubleClick.
Google’s challenge in taking display to greater heights is simple: show advertisers the money (read: ROI). The ease with which paid search [...]

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