Archive for July, 2008

B2B Marketing Secrets on Google

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

If you are a B2B marketer, you know the rising costs on Google Search is making it tougher on your bottom-line ROI numbers.  To reduce your costs and to stay within your marketing budget, check out Google Base.  Google Base is currently in beta, but it’s a great product to test out, since it’s free to list your products and services and you can link it to a store easily for processing purchases.  Google Base makes it easier for consumers to find products and services from B2B marketers that are more relevant to their searches.

Also, check out HowStuffWorks.com, if you are a marketer with products that need demonstrations. HowStuffWorks.com can create customized pages for marketers that want to brand their products and services in a non-traditional way to their target markets.  The How Stuff team will maintain the page for you with their own editorial content, which is relevant to the products and services that you are marketing.

How the Economy affects your Online Marketing Stategy

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Online marketing has been a cheap and effective solution comparatively to traditional media for advertisers with small budgets. The baseline for online marketing choices for advertisers have been search marketing through Google and Yahoo, display advertising through Advertising.com, and affiliate marketing through LinkShare and Commission Junction. Now, these cheap solutions are being affected by the economy, due to advertisers of all sizes looking for economical ways to maximize their ROIs because of softer sales, which causes high biddng wars in Search and increases in CPM and CPA costs for prime display advertising space.

As the U.S.  economy worsens, big budget advertisers that have used multi-channels for their marketing strategies will be forced to cut their budgets and limit their marketing channels, which makes online marketing a more attractive solution to traditional outlets. So, what can you do as a Marketer with a limited budget competing with the Big Boys?  Try alternative advertising services to the baselines.  For example, advertising networks, such as AdOnNetwork represent some of the Top ComScore sites and offer cheap remnant ad spaces for a 1/3 of the price.