Being partly fascinated by infographs at the moment, I thought I'd share this one that has always intrigued me. It's also a great example of how to create a viral effect in a B2B market by producing something exceptionally useful and shareworthy - you can see how effective it has been as a viral agent - it's been around as a couple of years.
This infograph terrifies me for two simple reasons:
Naturally, all I (we) ever hear people talk about are the big 4: Facebook, Twitter, You Tube and LinkedIn - and though this appears common sense it struck me that looking at that infograph we're not even skimming the surface of the reach we could have based on where relevant conversations and interactions are taking place - and those big 4 are also starting to get busy - imagine 18 months…
My May 2010 Powerpoint presentation for students taking the IDM Diploma in Digital Marketing.
It covers 10 key issues to consider when developing a digital strategy
Step 1. Set SMART Goals and setup analytics
Step 2. Define strategy
Step 3. Review current performance
Step 4. Define target markets
Step 5. Engaging OVP
Step 6. Visibility and traffic
Step 7. Digital channel integration
Step 8. Improve your site's efficiency and effectiveness
Step 9. Customer E-communications
Step 10. Channel governance
IDM Internet Marketing Strategy
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Many of the most successful digital marketers have a background in direct marketing. I think this is because they're very comfortable with using a structured approach of Test, Learn, Refine to get the most from their campaigns. They're also good at modelling campaign performance from customer demand to response rates and campaign costs to make sure they get positive ROI (See my Emarketing Planning Spreadsheets on my old site for free tools to help here).
Of course, many marketers looking to use the Internet don't have this background, so appreciating the principles direct marketing is useful to prompt different thinking about digital marketing.
I was chatting with Dan Croxen-John, the CEO of Applied Web Analytics and we thought it would be useful to talk through what online marketers can learn from traditional DM approaches. Watch out for Dan's Top #3 mistakes to avoid.
Dan is the CEO of Applied Web…
Steve Woods is suggesting that may be the case for companies that use a consultative approach to sales and marketing, and that changes to your digital marketing hold the answer.
He suggests that with the advent of most new technologies there are two phases (my experience certainly supports something like this), the first is that the new technology is adopted in a similar way to the old technology causing lots of incremental improvements, and the second phase frames the problem in an entirely different way leading to sweeping innovation with the largely same tools in place.
The Impact For Sales & Marketing
In his eBook for Eloqua, a company that he co-founded, Woods"€™ takes a very B2B bias approach (though this is very relevant to B2C products and services too) and suggests that technologies that have become common place in marketing - search, email, web, blogs, and video - have created…
Digital marketing strategy essentials are our weekly round-up of the best advice from Smart Insights and around the web focused on developing strategies to succeed online.
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A tool for integrating your strategy
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Commentary: Dave Chaffey presents a simple method of showing strategic integration and providing a one pager summary of your digital strategy.
Implication: If you feel that having a strategy is important to connect objectives with digital marketing tactics, then this model will help you do it efficiently and (more importantly) help you communicate it with others.
Formulate a content strategy in 10 easy steps
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Commentary: More are realising that a strategic approach to content is…
Search marketing essentials is our weekly round-up of what really matters in search marketing if you're a marketer or digital marketing specialist. Since Google is dominant in search in most markets, we focus on the changes made by Google to it's search experience and the implications for SEO and Paid Search.
Unlike the portals specialising in SEO and PPC we will only select posts from around the web which are "must-read" for marketers managing search, but also responsible for other areas of marketing. Of course, if you are a busy search specialist, aren't they all, we hope you find our updates useful.
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Our recommendations on Search Engine Marketing practice for week starting 30th August 2010
Google Paid Search : Viewing Impression share…
Learning from how other companies have adopted and managed Ebusiness and digital marketing is a must for students and professional E-business experts.
This is a compilation of case studies to act as an update to Dave Chaffey's books. Here is a full listing of the most recent digital marketing case studies on this site.
New case studies added since last edition of books
Crowdsourcing example Penguin Books Spinebreakers
Intranet case studies
Example Intranet case studies 2009 From .au company Step Two Design Awards
Ecommerce strategy case studies for large organisations
Ecommerce strategy case studies - My collection of Ecommerce case studies including Amazon, Dell, eBay Facebook, Google
The Times business case studies These are general business case studies but for some Ebusinesses such as ASOS. A Search on "Internet" will narrow them down.
Social Media Case Studies
UK retail brand using Facebook and Twitter
Facebook case studies Ten examples of…
Google revenue model case study
Google case study : A summary of Google business strategy and background on Google technology for readers of my Digital Marketing and E-commerce books. End of case contains technical references on Google's approach to crawling, indexing and ranking results at the end of this case study page.
This Google strategy case study is updated for each new edition of my Digital marketing or E-business book.
Google mission
Google’s mission is encapsulated in the SEC filing statement:
“to organize the world’s information …. and make it universally accessible and useful”.
Google explains that it believes that the most effective, and ultimately the most profitable, way to accomplish our mission is to put the needs of our users first. Offering a high-quality user experience has led to strong word-of-mouth promotion and strong traffic growth.
Read further details on the culture and ethics of Google in their Ten Things Manifesto. Notable tenets of…
An eBay Business Strategy case study
A 2010 update on eBay
Increased use of mobile Ecommerce. The eBay mobile app for iPhone was downloaded seven million times by January 2010. Consumers are shopping more and more via their mobile phones with more than $600 million worth of sales transacted through mobile applications in 2009.
eBay's Growth strategy. According to the SEC filing "Our growth strategy is focused on reinvesting in our customers by improving the buyer experience and seller economics by enhancing our products and services, improving trust and safety and customer support,
extending our product offerings into new formats, categories and geographies, and implementing innovative pricing and buyer retention strategies. Over the course of 2009, we continued to make significant changes that were designed to improve the user experience on all of our sites, including changes to pricing and shipping policies. In 2009, we also made significant steps to create a faster and…
