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How To Make Your Client Remember Your Website ...Forever!

Paint a great picture to make your URL memorable... forever!



Otherwise Fine

A look at some "microtrends" likely to influence and powerfully shape society in New Zealand during 2008.

Data security is critical. Yeah right!

Yes, security is sometimes inconvenient, but it is critical. 

Enterprise 2.0

The rise of a culture of internal participation rather than competitiveness is being signalled, demonstrating the very need for Enterprise 2.0 technologies.



Marketers Behaving Badly

You can't stop people talking.  But you can listen.  And you can respond thoguthfully, taking note of their concerns.

How to Jump Into Social Media

If social media doesn't affect your job now, it will soon.  But first ... er, what is social media?



If you really want to gauge your relation to humanity, log on…

The energy pouring out of the web demands some serious study.



People power on steroids.. It’s Web 2.0!

From the ashes of the Web 1.0 crash arose a new breed, necessitating a culture based on responsiveness and fluidity rather than corporate control.



Embracing ‘Consumer Control’ in the Digital Environment – it’s a Question of Trust.

Lessons from the Proximity iD-Habeas partnership; improving email delivery in NZ through auditing, monitoring and whitelisting

The Informed Shopper: How Technology is Transforming the Retail Landscape

We are witnessing the rise of the 'Informed Shopper', assuming control of how they receive information that will influence purchasing decisions

The New Entertainment Paradigm

Can the movie industry teach us a few tricks in connecting with our brands with consumers?

The New Interactive Marketing Technologies – Sustaining a Frictionless Dialogue With Customers

People can fall asleep watching television.  They can fall asleep reading a newspaper or magazine.  Ditto radio.  By contrast though, people generally don’t fall asleep in mid-conversation or when they’re surfing the internet. The difference?  Dialogue – two way communication.

Keeping Up



Online Customer Retention – Why Social Media Matters To Your Brand

The corporate blog is one of the most democratic and accessible means of starting a dialogue with your customers.  How do you stack up?

Eight Ideas for Revitalizing Your Blog

Before you give up and decide to pull the plug on your blogging experience, let's look at some ideas for revitalizing you blog so that both you and your customers can benefit from it.

Five March Madness Lessons for Email Marketers

Marketers can use these five winning strategies to improve their email marketing game


MySpace Marketing Tips, Tricks, and Hints

I run MySpace.com marketing campaigns on a daily basis and wanted share some real-world experiences and tips

Top 10 Online Marketing Predictions for 2007

With 2007 in full swing, here are our predictions for the rest of the year to come. In prior years we have given you a mix of business and personal lifestyle predictions, but this year we're sticking to just the online marketing world. We busted out our omniscient crystal ball, and this is what it told us...

Case study : Rockgas National Marketing Goes Online

When you’re a market leader in residential and commercial LPG with a nationwide franchise and branch network, you’re bound to be plagued with marketing logistics issues to solve.



Case Study: Whitcoulls hits the Top 100! And reinvents marketing along the way...

Three years ago Whitcoulls reinvented the way it looked at advertising... adding new media and email marketing to their hardcopy, print and letterbox mailers.



Rich Internet 101

The benchmark for websites is continually rising, yet new developments in web technology are one of the hardest areas for marketers to keep abreast of.



Blogworld

So, in each issue of DLB, we will explore the impact a newsworthy subject is having in the blog world.
DLB #62 - Remember Auckland’s stellar example of our near third world power infrastructure in June of this year?



Have You Been Digitally Dissed?

Hiring managers are googling you—as are your clients and business partners. Maybe you're being googled right now as you read this article. Personal googling is a phenomenon guaranteed to impact your career.



E-Mail Plus Word-of-Mouth: A Marketing Revolution

The ubiquity of e-mail, among marketers and Internet users, has created a take-it-for-granted attitude that detracts from its actual power. But with 90% of Internet users — and over 55% of all Americans — e-mail unquestionably has access to an audience with critical mass, and it is increasingly becoming a primary delivery vehicle for word-of-mouth marketing.



Involvement Uncovered

As published in DLB #60 May/June 2006 - Consumer Engagement may be the phrase of the moment, but as WRC Strategic Director David Thomason explains, WRC has been quietly perfecting this type of thinking and process for the last four years.



Channel Innovation – How SMS-to-email is bridging the channel gap

As published in DLB May/June 2006 - At Dialog we’ve been experimenting with this type of SMS-to-email mechanic for a while, so here are some of our observations on how to get the most from this multi-channel technique.



Paving the path to purchase - from awareness to the till

As published in DLB May/June 2006Boyd Wason of Tango Communications is a man on a mission. In fact he’s positively evangelical when it comes to the opportunities that exist in the interactive space.



Buying Online Media for ROI – Tracking consumers from click to purchase

As published in DLB May/June 2006 - So why is it in this country for a medium as measurable as the Internet, you are getting such poor information? Well three reasons that I can think of



New eMarketing Media Technologies - reaching today’s search engine users

As published in DLB May/June 2006 - Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is an essential tool for businesses to promote goods, services and generate leads through their website. Here are some tips on employing SEO to ensure you maximise on your investment through effective marketing on search engines such as Google and yahoo!



Tooling up for a new era of accountability

As published in DLB #60 May/June 2006 - When you read about the growth of online media and search, it’s easy to see why traditional media vehicles are now starting to put serious thought to incorporating more interactivity and measurability. To read on, click the link below



The Marketing 2.0 Toolkit: The top 10 new tools for measuring up in the new age of Marketing 2.0

As published in DLB May/June 2006 - Recent advances in technology have driven a fundamental power shift in consumer behaviour, largely in favour of the consumer.



win win win win WIN

As published in DLB May/June 2006 - Like human kind, the sales promotion has evolved. When driving sales for your brand, are you still on all fours or walking tall?



Why Small Businesses Should Care About Web 2.0 Marketing

A new Internet gold rush has been taking hold with the emergence of social networking, blogging, podcasting, and other Web 2.0 experiments



The Pay-Per-X Generation

2005 has been a year where many New Zealand businesses have started measuring online marketing return on investment (ROI) in concrete terms where X dollars invested returns X dollars in sales or leads



Click Fraud: How Real Is the Threat?

There's a troubling paradox for advertisers and it is one that that will only intensify as the ongoing boom in online advertising continues: as search engine marketing grows, so does the potential for click fraud, which, in turn, can eat into overall revenue numbers.

The Secrets of Building Links and Increasing PageRank

Links are important to Google, Yahoo and MSN in determining where your site is placed within the search results. As you probably know, the more links, the better you will place.

RPS027 (Rock Paper Scissors) - A Case Study

A case study on the award winning Rock Paper Scissors Telecom Mobile campaign. This campaign takes the concept of 'integrated' to a whole new level. It is a great example of intimately understanding your target market and developing a campaign to suit.

Vodafone Case Study: The Great Deal Nabber’s Speedy Route Plotter

After Vodafone launched its 3G network in August 2005, complete with real time video calling, it developed an offer of two 3G Motorola handsets for the price of one.

Psst! Here's Some Viral Marketing News . . . Pass It On.

How many times have you been e-mailed a joke or cartoon and forwarded it to friends or co-workers? And how many times have you done it today?

Who Says It's Spam?

Who decides what is spam and what isn't? The consumer perhaps?

Online Retail Marches Ever Upward

eMarketer estimates that US online retail sales rose by a hefty 25% in 2005, but when it comes to online shopping, the old huckster's line, "You ain't seen nothin' yet, bub," couldn't be truer.

Five Ways to Improve Your Web Copy Immediately

Here are five tips, hints, and suggestions you can apply right now, with a minimum of time or technical hassle, to dramatically improve the effectiveness of your website writing.

Picking the Best Day To Send E-Mails

Should you e-mail your prospects on Monday or Friday, sometime in between or on the weekend?

Improving Conversions From the Home Pages You Don't Know About

While getting people to enter your site through the home page of your Web site is ideal for conversion, occasionally visitors will enter through a sub-page, not designed for that same means.

12 Tips for Successful Opt-in Email Newsletters

Do you have your own opt-in, permission based electronic newsletter? It could answer many of your problems.

Staying on the right side of the new Spam legislation

The Unsolicited Electronic Messages Bill - to give it the official title - has now been released. What are the key points and what does it mean for you?

Delivery Dilemma

Forget about subject lines, creative executions and test offers. The thing that concerns e-mail marketers most is deliverability. Will the message get through?

Touchpoint Case Study

The txt2taste campaign combined multiple channels, including TV, txt, email, web and post for fulfilment.

Identity Theft and eCommerce

Business online should do everything possible to protect consumer information, provide relevant privacy safeguards, and assure consumers that their data will be treated with high level of security.

Search and ye shall find

Search marketing is a powerful tool, but brands must beware: competitors can easily use it to divert potential customers to their own websites.

Move Over Blogs: Here Come Podcasts

If you haven't heard of podcasting yet, I am not surprised. It's a brand new term—just invented last year, in fact, by Ben Hammersley in an article for The Guardian newspaper.

Case Study: How to Beat the Spam Filters

It's now critical that we be a bit smarter in our newsletter-delivery strategies.

From Spam to Viral Web Video With John Cleese

This is a behind-the scenes story that reveals how one B2B marketer used a lot of silliness to increase its Web traffic tenfold and generate thousands of sales leads.

SEO: The True Cost of Doing It Wrong

Search engine optimization - what amount should companies pay for SEO expertise?

Blogging for Fun and Profit

Stephan explains what a blog is and how you can use it to your advantage!

Designing Search Engine Optimisation Solutions, Which Offer CompetitiveAdvantages

In today's business environment there are multiple and competing issues that constrain any marketing mix. End-to-end web marketing strategy is critical.

Natural Search: The Great Equalizer

Scott looks at what is a natural search, why it is important and the difference it makes for both small and large organisations.

Does your web site appeal to the silent and suffering?

Think about the problems your customers are facing when they come to your web site. Then start to design your email communications to suit those that are wandering around your website, silently suffering, but interested in learning more.

Social Networks: Passing Fad or the Next Big Thing?

What is it about social networks that is creating such a buzz in the media...?

Two Simple Strategies to More Profitable Email Promotions: Targeting and Personalisation

What are you doing to make sure that your email promotions get noticed, opened, and read by your customers and subscribers?

Design tips to improve your open rates

Chris presents four simple steps you can to take to ensure your next email message preview pane design gets all the attention it should.

Texting reaches the grown ups!

Case Study

Understand Online Consumer Behaviour

Success in online advertising is based on understanding the Internet as a communications medium and how it differs from television, radio and print media.

Are Your Emails Building Your Brand?

Of all the emarketing activities used by businesses today, none has the potential to reinforce or to damage a brand as much as email.

If you're happy with your apps clap your hands!

Technology is (finally) catching up with the 'get-go' rhetoric down here at the bottom of the world.

Plan and prepare your web pages as thoughtfully as your advertisements

The truth is a large percentage of advertisers don't apply the same amount of effort to their follow up materials-including their Web sites-as they do their ads or mailers.

email Marketing: Dynamic, Personalised Mail

Neil discusses how dynamic content lets marketers send timely, relevant messages that resonate with recipients on an individual level.

Traditional Companies Pick Up Online Ad Reins

Statistics on online advertising.

Your Website - How does it influence your offline brand?

No longer does the online presence exist merely to support the rest of your marketing efforts; your website can be the defining factor in how prospects see your entire brand.

Don't Ask Your Customers to Assume the Risk of Data Security

Alan covers why Web sites that limit liability for security breaches will regret that decision in the long run.

Monitoring Search Engine Positions

Once you achieve a high search engine position, it is essential that you make sure you maintain the high ranking you have worked so hard to achieve.

Typos Can Kill Your Image But Boost Your Online Marketing

While misspellings and grammatical errors are disturbing, online marketers can take advantage of misspellings and typos to boost their efforts.

Define your eMarketing plan

Unlike a business plan that helps you focus on your day-to-day and year-to-year goals, an emarketing plan will help you monetize those goals.

Sleeping Subscribers

Are marketers inadvertently producing messaging that turns their own subscribers off?

Search Engine Ethics for eMarketers

Legitimate marketers must dissociate themselves from the rising tide of spam, not just in the inbox, but in the search engines as well.

Usability Issues: 5 Factors to influence your website design

Aran delves into how to maximise the impact of your website through design and copy.

Mutant Mobile Mania

Did technology always get ahead of etiquette? Jim believes mobile phones rob us of both privacy and leisure.

How small firms acquire and retain online customers

The basics of acquiring and retaining online customers before you're at the stage where you can roll out a loyalty programme.

Games People Play

Would it surprise you to learn that 5th on the list of the top online activites is contests?

Introducing Interactive Touchscreens to your Multi-Channel Strategy

Vodafone Live! - Case Study.

Mobile Marketing Ready for Prime Time

The highly personal mobile channel - will this ruin the potential benefits for marketers?

Develop a Five-Year Plan for Your Site

Let's dispel a big myth that the Internet is changing so fast, it is impossible to plan for. That is absolute rubbish.

email Case Study: Shell Oil

A look at two newsletters that Shell Oil put together and some of their key learnings.

The Email That Made Me Feel Special

Making your customers feel like a very special part of your business is relatively easy, and definitely low cost. Read how an email surprised and delighted Simon...

Future-proofing Your Website

How future-proof is your website? What I mean is, how well have you prepared your site for the rising consumer generation - a group that will, in all likelihood, conduct most of their transactions online?

Trust Me, I'm a Website

How does a website earn the same level of trust as a physical store?

Getting Your Newsletter or Ezine Past the Spam Filters

As if it's not difficult enough to create high quality content for your newsletter or ezine, there's a new problem that's cropped up lately that could have a major impact on your success.

Contagious approach

As consumers lose trust in mainstream brands, viral marketers are being handed specific budgets to spread the word. But they must innovate to accumulate.

Is your web site missing its most vital part?

The Internet Explosion has resulted in every business deciding they need a web site. The problem is the lack or strategy for the site.

Eight Steps to Ward Off Spam Complaints

Here are a number ways email list managers can avoid spam complaints.

5 Key Questions (You've Been Dying) To Ask About Business Blogs

By now you've heard about blogs or Weblogs. They're the next new thing. They're cool. The blogosphere (the community of active bloggers) has grown from a dozen or so Weblogs in 1999 to an estimated half million today.

Rescue your legitimate opt-in email messages from the "trash bin"...

... by using these lessons from the FTC spam conference!

Instant Gratification

Danielle Green asks how secure e-coupons will be from fraud, and whether customers will embrace the technology

Does Your Website Scratch an Itch?

Does your website answer what people are really asking... or are you just telling everyone about your product or company?

8 Tips to Increase Response in Email

Opt in email marketing is no different from normal direct marketing in that small, simple changes will increase your response and success.

New Beer Uses Pre-Launch Viral Email Vote to Turn Consumers into Evangelists

Southern Cross Brewers had to crack into a giant market with no apparent footholds or entryways for new suppliers. Find out more about how they did it.

Getting to Know Yourself Online

Study your statistics in more depth and with more enthusiasm than ever before. Anna Curnow examines websites, email marketing, search engine marketing and online advertising.

Spam Soars, But Key Metrics Stay Stable

Spam hasn't diminished email's performance for 'legitimate' marketers

Marketers vs. Spam? Hey, It's a Start

With inboxes overflowing from get-rich-quick schemes and Viagra specials, it's easy to see why customers use blacklists and other techniques to stop spam.

DM Owns Online Advertising

66% of online ad impressions served in fourth-quarter 2002 were direct marketing ads

De-horning email's devil child

James gives his take on email marketing and the do's and don'ts he recommends

Is A Yahoo Listing Still Worth The Cost?

The pros and cons of maintaining, or paying for, a Yahoo listing

Instant Gratification

Mobile text messaging, web and email are making direct marketing a successful, cost-effective option for FMCG companies and retailers.

Leaping Virtual Boundaries

How implementing a Content Management System can keep website content informative, pertinent and up-to-date.

How to make sure your eNewsletters hit the mark

It's nearing deadline day for the next issue of your eNewsletter - and it's not looking great. Here are some pointers to help make sure your eNewsletters always hit the mark.

Top Tips for Taglines That Engage First-Time Visitors

A good tag captures a visitor's attention and interest long enough for her to decide if she is in the right place. This makes it a first step in the sales process. An ineffective tag leaves your visitor guessing what you do.

Companies Responding to Customer email Inquiries

Email risks being abandoned as a viable contact method if companies delay response

Plugging in and Logging on: Simultaneous TV and Internet Usage

New statistics reveal a cross-media trend

12 Steps to Better E-Mail Marketing

12 steps, because we have some bad email habits to shake off!

Cyberkidz Resource Kit Takes Off

The latest on increasing the safe use of the Internet by children

Finding the right Search Engine Optimisation Contractor

Ask these questions before you decide

Some Wellington websites poorly prepared for internet marketing

Research looking at the readiness of Wellington (New Zealand) businesses with websites for web marketing.

Permission-based Email Marketing

Permission-based email marketing has brought a powerful new medium to your marketing arsenal.

The Text Messaging Phenomenon

What makes a mobile marketing campaign successful? Three elements provide the keys to a successful campaign: Proximity, Convergence and Engagement.

Can you Identify your most Valuable eCustomers?

e-tailers are predicted to spend $1.7billion on eCustomer, email-retention campaigns this year. But how do you reach the retention at the end of 'cyberspace road'?

Want more sales? Think of your Web Site as a Catalogue, not a Storefront

Understanding catalogue buyers vs. shop buyers can be the key to your site's success

Interview: Yours is a Very Good Email

Could a hilarious powerpoint presentation be the prototype for viral marketing?

iTV: The Reality & Opportunity

iTV creates as many opportunities as challenges for advertisers, retailers and application providers in the years ahead. While iTV has promised much in the past, the opportunities are now slowly becoming realities.

Spam: regardless of what the law says - it's bad business

All the reasons why spam is bad for your business

The Ins and Outs of email Security

The real truth about email security

Are you practising permission marketing... or perdition marketing?

Do you perceive permission as an obstacle or a tool for your email marketing?

Be a Poodle, with a Rottweiler bark

A 12-point website checklist for small companies wanting a big bark, not a little yap

The Original "20 Reasons to Put Your Business on the WWW"

Insightful reasons as to why you need to be on the web

What Makes a 'Killer' Website

Tips for making a customer-driven website.

So, you want to go online?
Strategies from Harvard

How to create a successful website with limited budget by leveraging existing resources.

The Changing Face of Marketing

The role of Internet, email, digital and interactive television and some tips on achieving more bang for your buck.

The Difference Between Newsletters and Emails

There are two different approaches to writing... in an action-oriented copy of an email promotion... and in the more personal, informative, and value-driven style of a newsletter.

Just do something else

What you need to be an eMarketing leader

A clever marketing email

Points to remember when putting together an email campaign

A Five-Point Plan of Beer: Understanding to help build relations between Marketing and IT

Understanding to help build relations between Marketing and IT

Doom and Gloom after the Internet Boom?

What has happened to the Internet boom?

8 Ways to Prevent E-Commerce Security Breaches

Risk management tips to prevent e-damage to your eCommerce.

Developing Internet Partnerships

Looks at the Internet's own particular brand of affiliate programmes

Five "Do's" For Customer Relationship Management in the DigitalWorld

Suggestions on keeping customers longer on the web

Horses for Courses: New Opportunities for Email Marketers

New opportunities for email Marketers.

Is your web site fast enough?

How to measure your website's performance

Email: Hunting vs. Gathering

Preaching to the converted can pay off

How the web works

Find out what those web stats are really telling you

Permission is Not Enough

Alan's thoughts on persmission email marketing - when it is and isn't OK.

ASPs - The Way Ahead for B2B Marketing of Services and Systems

If you don't know about ASPs, you will soon.

eMarketing in NZ - Gearing Up for the Year 2000

A look at the state-of-play for ebusiness in New Zealand, and opportunities for savvy emarketers.

How to Build a Community on your Site and Participate in Others

One of the Internet's most powerful advantages is this ability to bring together people.

After the Gold Rush

In the midst of all the hype, speculation, and self-interested predictions about the Internet...

7 Deadly Sins of Email Marketing

The "killer app" of the Internet, email marketing is theoretically a direct marketer's dream come true.

 
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