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Want to Reach Moms? Then Be Practical

June 16th, 2009

A few months ago, Razorfish and Cafe Mom released a report on Digital Moms.  Recently, eMarketer released a report on moms online as well, and they refer to it in this article.  Guy Kawasaki had a good blog posting on it.

Link to Today Show on subject.
What have we learned?  Some things are not surprises - [...]

Other good articles this past week / 12.08.08

December 15th, 2008

Issues of Interest
Adults Love Video Games
Top 10 Viral Videos
Shopping catches on with men
Digital Marketing News
US Social Network Ad Spending Growth Lowered
Social Networks and 40-Something Women
Study: Consumers Distrust Corporate Blogs
Network Efficiency Is Double-Edged Sword for Some Publishers
Digital Commerce News
Holiday e-commerce season sales up for early December
10 Wish List Websites For The Holiday Shopping Season
Digital News and [...]

Week of 12.01.08/Top Stories

December 2nd, 2008

SocialOverinfluence/OnlineBargains/GoogleTV/18-24YearOlds
Trying something new this week - putting articles together in themes and offering my thoughts on the implications.
How do we listen to customers via social without being overly influenced by the voice of the few?
People freaking out about Motrin advertising and the brand’s response begs the question - does listening to chatter give too much [...]

How do we listen without being overly influenced by the voice of the few?

December 2nd, 2008

People freaking out about Motrin advertising and the brand’s response begs the question - does listening to chatter give too much credence to the few who do blog, tweet, etc?

bloggers blog
Article links:
Moms and Motrin
Motrin campaign shows need for informed targeting
Crashing Motrin-Gate: A Social-Media Case Study
Musing: It’s amazing. In the course of only 5 [...]

Other good articles this past week / 11.17.08

November 20th, 2008

Issues of Interest
The Gen X Online Shopper
emarketer
Blogs and the Purchasing Decision
emarketer

 
Digital Marketing News
Facebook Tries to Woo Marketers
WSJ

 
Digital Commerce News
Retailers fare poorly in natural search results, Conductor study shows
internet retailer
Social media increasingly used by bargain hunters
biz report

 
Digital News and Trends
If RSS Is Niche Media, Why Use It?
emarketer
Carriers’ future uncertain in “Wild West” of mobile web
network world

 
Retail [...]

Woman to Woman, Online

August 19th, 2008

Authenticity appeals to readers, but are advertisers ready to play?
 
Picture: dooce.com
Article excerpt:  Heather Armstrong’s wickedly funny blog about motherhood, Dooce, is more than just an outlet for the creativity and frustrations of a modern mother. The site, chock full of advertising, is a moneymaking machine — so much so that Ms. Armstrong and her husband [...]

Study Refutes Niche Theory Spawned by Web

July 9th, 2008

First it was “The Tipping Point,” and now it’s “The Long Tail” that is being vilified.  Are no cool, trendy ideas sacred anymore?

Picture: Flickr

Article excerpt:   Had PowerPoint been around 150 years ago, Thoreau might have warned us to beware not only of enterprises that require new clothes, but also of those that require new paradigms. [...]

OMG! UM Finds Web 2.0 Breeding Consumers 2.0, Social Media Attains Critical Mass

June 24th, 2008

As if we needed confirmation – I dare you to find one of your colleagues who does not use some form of Web 2.0 technology.

Image: sachendrafiles.wordpress.com
Article excerpt:   Text messaging, blogging and social networking have reached critical mass, with more than half of adults now relying on at least one of these so-called Web 2.0 platforms [...]

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