Posts Tagged ‘online marketing’

Online Competitor Analysis 101

April 22nd, 2010

Situation: You’re a business in a capitalist environment. Sales are good, you have your customers and life goes on. You also have one more thing to reckon with: competition. Competition is of two types – offline and online. Offline competitors are the companies who you view as brick and mortar competition in your marketplace.

For example, if you’re Borders, you probably view Amazon and Barnes and Noble as your competitor. The three of you all sell books, DVDs and other entertainment/leisure accessories. Therefore all of you are vying for the same audience to market to in both offline and online channels. » Read more: Online Competitor Analysis 101

What does ‘Interactive Marketing’ mean?

April 2nd, 2010

Ladies and Gentlemen! The newest term in prominence – “Interactive Marketing”. Everyone today is an expert on interactive marketing and yet, when I queried a couple of folks on what interactive marketing was, I received a couple of weak responses like “ Ummm, it’s about online marketing” or “It’s a new form of web marketing to customers” .

What twaddle! » Read more: What does ‘Interactive Marketing’ mean?

How PapaJohns.com makes online ordering so easy

March 8th, 2010

Not much to pen today. I’ve been assimilating the wealth of information that SEOMoz provides to all its readers extolling them to understand thoroughly the virtues of good SEO, and with that understanding strive to build sustainable websites.

One of the blog entries on SEOMoz caught my attention and I was impressed by the way it was penned and arranged. The entry was about how PapaJohns, the pizza company has managed to build an online presence and how sales from their online channel has increased immensely.

Read the article here

The Adobe-Omniture Deal

September 16th, 2009

Yesterday, Adobe announced that it had agreed to buy analytics firm Omniture for $1.8 billion in cash, or $21.50 a share. This purchase is a major and rather unexpected diversification for Adobe with a move into the high-growth SaaS market on which Omniture focuses. According to Adobe’s CEO Narayan, their customers wanted to integrate Adobe’s online products like Flash with services like those offered by Omniture, hence the deal.

Yeah, right! And Disney bought Marvel because they wanted to have a Spiderman/Mickey Mouse teamup. Here’s what probably happened… » Read more: The Adobe-Omniture Deal

Internet Marketing – How should you be spending your time…

August 12th, 2009

internet-marketing-time-managementAs always,  the folks at SEOmoz never cease to add value. One of the biggest challenges I face as an online marketer is to allocate my time appropriately to tasks of important to meet both, my short-term and long-term objectives. Easier said than done in the dynamic world of business. Based on the cool time management graphic that SEOMoz put together, here are my thoughts on what you should be doing for each category below : » Read more: Internet Marketing – How should you be spending your time…

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