Archive for March, 2009

Google Turns to Behavioral Targeting to Beef up marketing Business

Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Google's fledgling display-ad network is hoping a pair of new targeting options will bolster its value to advertisers and publishers. The company today announced it will launch a beta test of "interest-based targeting," which lets advertisers target web users based on where they've been surfing across the internet. If a user is reading sports articles on NYTimes.com and also visiting CBSSports.com, for example, it could get lumped into a sports audience bucket, which advertisers can target.

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Mintel Reveals How to Get Ahead in Retail

Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Mintel Reveals How to Get Ahead in Retail At a Mintel webinar held last week (March 09), entitled "Keeping Up and Getting Ahead in the 'New Normal' Economy," Mintel's senior research analyst Marcia Mogelonsky, Ph.D., revealed the bottom line for retailers in these tough economic times: Retailers need to do more than change the way they do business; they need to change the way they connect with and respond to consumers. They have to understand how consumers feel, she added, because "that's the only way to succeed." Domino Effect

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Facebook introduces opportunity for businesses to start branding

Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Facebook's Changes Give Brands More Freedom But Can Marketers Respect Social-Network Etiquette? Posted by Ian Schafer on 03.04.09 @ 04:51 PM Ian Schafer Ian Schafer Today, Facebook announced the redesign of their Facebook Pages, as well as several other product updates. These ones you should know about are: * Existing Facebook "Pages" will start to look/act/feel more like typical Facebook "Profiles." * Brands pages will move from segregated areas of Facebook to within users' social graphs.

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You Tube video Retro food leans back towards nostalgia

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

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