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The news that Twitter Search - which is currently simply a search box that trolls Twitter feeds in real-time - will also soon start crawling and indexing the links that Tweets link to, was covered closely last week by many news outlets, with plenty of questions as to whether this function could someday pose a threat to Google and other mainstream search engines.
Customer satisfaction with many of the largest online retailers fell 3% since last year, according to the annual Top 100 Online Retail Satisfaction Index from ForeSee Results and FGI Research. The research, which employs the methodology of the University of Michigan's American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), is based on surveys of over 22,000 visitors to the top 100 e-retail Web sites by sales volume, as reported in the 2009 Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide. This year's aggregate score of 73 indicates online retailers may be dropping the ball.
Click Forensics has announced a new version of its traffic quality management platform, which will now allow ad networks, publishers and advertisers to identify traffic based on its likelihood to convert.
Direct sales company Appssavvy has announced six exclusive partnerships with top social media application companies, whose popular apps include Circle of Moms, Pick Your Five, Texas Hold'em Poker, Friends for Sale and Dogbook.
Sears Holdings Corp. has renewed its longstanding partnership with Acxiom Corp. as part of an effort to improve customer relationships and marketing efforts. The 50+-year-old marketing services contract has been renewed for another three years.
Social media, social networks and now the social graph. The language might sound modern, yet the concept is timeless. Brad Fitzpatrick, a Google engineer and a respected thinker on the subject, describes the social graph as "the global mapping of everybody and how they're related." Fortunately for marketers, technology not only enables connections between people, but between people and brands.
Customer experience management starts with an understanding of a customer's perception of their interactions with an organization. With the proliferation of social media, creating a program to effectively manage the customer experience is more complex than ever. Customers have a lot of choices on whether, how and where they interact with your organization and how they get information about products and services. How you respond to these choices determines the customer experience, which in turn defines brand experience and brand equity.
The DMNews Essential Guide to Search Engine Marketing
As economic clouds darken and search spend grows tighter, many search marketers are looking for creative means to retool their strategic planning efforts. One such approach may be simply to focus on what has served them well in the past.
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