Press Release: Millennials Prime Targets For Ads Sent Via Text Messages
Press Release New York, New York, March 14, 2011 - Millennials with mobile phones look at texted ads and respond to ads via text far more than do other cell phone owners, followed by GenXers, according to the latest data from GfK MRI. Baby Boomers, meanwhile, trail the pack considerably with regard to these activities. Approximately 6.2% of adults with mobile phones looked at an ad sent with a text message in the last 30 days (some 12.5 million people), while 2.65% of adults with mobile phones used text messaging to respond to an ad or to make a purchase in the last 30 days (some 5.3 million people). Millennials (born 1977 to 1994) are 57% more likely than the average cell phone owner to have looked at a texted ad. GenXers (born 1965 to 1976), on the other hand, are only 19% more likely than the average cell phone owner to have looked at a texted ad, and they are just 6% more likely to have responded to an ad or to have made a purchase via text messaging. About GfK MRI
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Make Any Content on the Web Embeddable With Embedly
The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Embedly Quick Pitch: Embedly is a platform for converting URLs into embeddable content. Genius Idea: Embedding all the media on the web. When traversing the web, most site visitors will stay on a page 250% longer when there's embedded media, Sean Creeley tells me. Creeley is the founder of Y Combinator startup Embedly; Embedly's mission is to make it painstakingly easy for publishers and application developers to add that embedded media and better engage their web users. "The idea is to engage the user where they are," says Creeley. Embedly can make a call to any web URL or RSS feed, grab the associated media — photos, videos, audio and text — and embed it on a third-party site. Look for the startup to push into the mobile frontier first. Series Supported by Microsoft BizSpark
4 Creative Ways To Reward Your Facebook Fans
A key part of your Facebook marketing strategy is figuring out how to build and engage your fan base—and one of the best ways to do this is by rewarding your Facebook audience for becoming and staying fans. "Fans have signaled a level of passion or connection with a brand, so rewarding that acknowledgement only further endears the brand to those fans," says Blake Cahill, principal and president of social media agency Banyan Branch. "Giving fans what they want can vary from discounts, to empowering them to support causes, to providing them with exclusive content and information. In many cases, success is a mix of all of these." Here are four great ways to reward your Facebook fans for their continued engagement and support: 1. Discounts and specials are definitely among the most popular ways of rewarding Facebook fans, says Ron Schott, senior strategist at the Spring Creek Group. There are also low-cost applications you can use to create custom fan-only tabs for your Facebook Page. 2. 3.
14 Customer Feedback Tools for Small Business
Feedback is essential to running a business. It tells you what’s working and what’s not. It provides you with fresh ideas on ways to improve your business. And it gives you insight into the needs of your customers. Here is a list of customer feedback tools. SuggestionBox.
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HOW TO: Optimize Text Ads for Search
The Future of Search Series is supported by SES San Francisco Conference & Expo, the leading search, social and display conference. From August 15-19, get five days of education, inspiration and conversations with marketing experts across the digital space. Save 20% with the code MASH20. Text ads aren't sexy. They look bland, aren't colorful and often read like they're being shouted by annoying salespeople. We spoke with Michael Gold, search engine optimization specialist and co-founder of Midtown SEO, about how marketers can optimize their text ads to make them more appealing to search engine users. Use Groups of Related Keywords There are a number of best practices when setting up your search campaigns, and you can use tools, such as the Google AdWords Keyword Tool, to research and choose the best keywords. When you've settled on your set of keywords, create advertisements that focus on each group of related keywords. Create a Clear Offer Communicate an Urgent Call-to-Action Your Tips
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A Portrait Of Who Uses Social Networks In The US (And How Social Media Affects Our Lives)
Did you know that out of all social networking users 92% partake in Facebook, 29% participate on MySpace, 18% are on LinkedIn and Twitter is the least utilized network with just 13% usage? Or that males on LinkedIn nearly double the number of females, yet female usage of Twitter almost doubles male usage? Today Pew Internet & American Life Project, a project of the Pew Research Center, launched a detailed report on how social networking affects our lives that contains these results and more surprising information. The report includes a wealth of information from whether or not social media is making people less social in real life to detailed demographic data about U.S. usage of each network. The goal of this report was to discover what social networking is actually doing to people in their personal offline lives. Who Uses Social Media Networking Sites? Some of the initial information that Pew Internet presents relates to the social user and who they actually are by age, race and gender.
