Sat.Apr 07, 2012 - Fri.Apr 13, 2012

Direct Marketing Observations

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On Social Media Tools, Noise, and Experience

Direct Marketing Observations

I was driving through the Florida Everglades last week when I thought, “How in the hell does someone survive and get around out here in this vast expanse of nothingness?” Which made me immediately draw a relation to the water that surrounds the glades being the internet so to speak, and the wispy reeds of sea grass or whatever the hell it is, being your customers or users of the internet.

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A Need to Redefine Brand Lift

Direct Marketing Observations

According to a recent survey published by eMarketer , four in five North American brand marketers considered brand lift to be the most important metric for evaluating the success of their online branding efforts. But is brand lift the right metric at all? Vizu which partnered with DIGIDAY on the survey defines brand lift as the following: Brand Lift is defined as the percentage increase in the primary marketing objective of a brand advertising campaign.

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