Online Marketing

Campaign Analytics 101

Campaign Analytics 101

One of the most traditional ways to get the word out about a company, product or service is advertising. It started with print, then radio, television and finally the web. Each of these media are still being used today as advertising vehicles, and tracking the various ways ads are presented to the consumer can be… read more »

Re-introducing an Old Social Media Technology

Re-introducing an Old Social Media Technology

I have been using some form of “social media” since the early 1990s. I started back in the day using Usenet and within a few months discovered something called “IRC,” (Internet Relay Chat). I’m not even sure if Usenet is still around (and if so, how to access it – last time I tried I… read more »

Sony/BMG Media Island

Analyzing Virtual Worlds

In the past week I’ve written a lot about a different type of social media – virtual realities and online game environments. While Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn are currently the most popular and have a very large subscriber base (Facebook currently with the most at 400 million subscribers to date), the online virtual communities have… read more »

Facebook Analytics: Hot or Not?

It seems everyone is talking about tracking Facebook these days – and all the major vendors are getting on the bandwagon to make sure they have offerings for their clients to be able to track Facebook – mainly applications, ads or business / fan pages. With Facebook now starting to surpass Google in traffic, it… read more »