How many iPhone users does your website get?
So how big a deal is iPhone adoption? Is it all about the apps? Or are increasing numbers of iPhone users using your website, just on their phones?
I took a quick look at the stats for Econsultancy.com...
Two ideas to solve two problems – paid content and multi-channel marketing
As you are no
doubt aware, the newspaper industry, and the publishing industry more broadly,
are scratching their collective heads about how to transition their business models
to the web. How to avoid offline pounds evaporating into online pennies. How to
charge for content.
And, if you’ve ever had anything to do with measurement and analytics, you’ll also know how hard it is to measure marketing effectiveness across multiple channels in order to optimise the mix and maximise effectiveness of spend.
But don’t fear. I have two ideas….
Traffic and Audience Measurement - what free tools do you use?
I'd be interested to hear what free tools and services people use to gauge levels of traffic and the nature of the audience to any website?
Obviously this information is useful for competitive intelligence, media planning and buying, search optimisiation, online PR, affiliate marketing etc.
Econsultancy Site Migration and SEO Impact - the story so far
On 14 December 2008
we relaunched the Econsultancy.com site. This involved a subtle name change (“E-consultancy”
became “Econsultancy”), a new logo, a completely new look site with a new
directory structure, a new URL, on servers in a different country. We had to
migrate 10,000s of pages, deleted a load of old ones, and created 10,000s of
new ones.
The background to all this is explained in my interview about the new Econsultancy site – and question 9, about the SEO impact of this large change, is the subject of this post. What has happened to our previously excellent search rankings since the changeover?
New metrics and business models for digital publishing - selling outcomes not inputs?
Are publishers using outdated metrics? How should they be innovating and reinventing their business models?
Understandably there has been much debate of late around publishing business models. The rise of the internet, compounded by the global economic woes, are making it increasingly hard to see where the money is in publishing and media going forwards.
What in-store retailing can teach us about how to sell better online
I recently attended an event in Amsterdam which gathered together senior etailers from across Europe (kindly sponsored by Fredhopper – I owe them at least that plug…).
For me the most fascinating talk was by the VP Merchandising & Buying at a major European multi-channel retailer. It reminded me just how much we still have to learn about how online selling works, and how much we can apply from offline.
Just how much of the customer journey will Google own?
Google's stated mission is to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful".
The genius of this statement is that it sounds quite innocuous, indeed philanthropic, despite its obvious grand ambition, but actually allows pretty much anything within its scope.
It is interesting to see just how much of the online customer journey (from search, to research, to purchase) Google is taking hold of. Will we all end up as "wholesalers" to Google's customers?
Can offline marketing and advertising help you save money in digital marketing?
We know that offline marketing and advertising drives demand that can be captured, and monetised, online. The correlation between TV advertising and paid search performance, for example, has been much discussed; and direct mail, or catalogues, drive online sales.But do you know of any examples where the cost of offline marketing or advertising has been more than offset by the savings in the online marketing?
FatttPipe - ultra-fast new broadband that doesn't exist...
Have you heard of FatttPipe the ultra-reliable, ultra-fast new broadband?Not FatPipe (that's already a networks company) and not FattPipe (because someone already owns Fattpipe.com) but with three 't's in the spelling - FatttPipe because it's at least 3X faster.
You haven't heard of FatttPipe? That's probably because it doesn't exist. But I need to repeat FatttPipe to get my keyword density up.
You see this is really a post about search marketing and brands...
eTail UK – a few notes of interest from the conference
I was one of the speakers and attendees at the inaugural eTail UK conference this year in the UK. I scribbled down lots of notes intending to do a series of blog posts based on what I heard and learned.
That was over 2 months ago now… But I thought I’d at least capture a few snippets of interest that I still remember.
Holiday shopping forecast 2009: a lot like 2008, with more coupons
The NLA explains why it is going after the news aggregators
Web 2.0
Graham Charlton
Strategy & Planning
