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Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/EPIG2PU6xqU/what-do-you-buy-online-vs-in-stores

Online advertising company Permuto pulled data from the U.S. Census Bureau into a nice infographic comparing people’s purchasing habits in-store vs. online, and it got us wondering: What do you buy online vs. in stores?

(Click the image above for a closer look.)

According to the Census Bureau’s data, the old brick and mortar stores are still responsible for the majority of sales in most of the categories, save for a few notable categories, including books, clothing, and electronics. Since Lifehacker readers are a more tech-savvy crowd than most of the public, we’d guess you tend more toward the buy online crowd. Are you more of a virtual shopper, or do you still prefer to touch and feel before you buy? It certainly varies depending on what you’re buying, so tell us about it in the comments.

What are People Really Buying Online? [Permuto]

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Monday, March 1st, 2010 Uncategorized No Comments

How to tell who has Google Buzz … and follow them

Lots of people have asked if I have invites for Google Buzz … but I didn’t see a way to invite them … but here’s a trick to give them buzz

1. go into Google Buzz

2. Click the link that says “Following X people”

3. scroll all the way to the bottom of the popup window

4. select contacts link

5. type a letter — e.g. “a” and see the list of others who have Buzz, who you can follow

6. select them and click add, then refresh the screen by clicking “load more” so you see them in the list

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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 Uncategorized No Comments

The Ten Commandments of Modern Marketing

Thou shalt not target customers with messages they don’t want.
Thou shalt be truthful.
Thou shalt respect your customers.
Thou shalt make it easy for people to find you.
Thou shalt be useful.
Thou shalt make it easy for people to pass along.
Thou shalt measure and optimize.
Thou shalt listen to customers.
Thou shalt remove any organizational barriers to speedy, collaborative innovation.
Thou shalt not do brand-ing.

Thanks for all the retweets!

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pamdyerColumn: Modern marketing must focus on today’s consumers http://bit.ly/8g3EGJ 10 commandments for marketing in 2010

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HamiltonWallaceRT @acfou: Ten Commandments to help “marketing sinners” become saints – http://bit.ly/8U3iI6

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Thursday, January 7th, 2010 Uncategorized No Comments

Map of IP addresses around the world used to commit Click-Fraud

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/QE1Gthuy4_k/3-million-in-click-fraud-over-two-weeks-just-the-beginning

A recently disbanded click fraud ring in China racked up $3 million worth of clicks in two weeks. $3 million that we’re aware of. Just how detectable is this whole business of racking up fraudulent ad revenue clicks?

That intricate mess of lines above represents a portion of DormRing1, the click fraud bunch that was caught in China. The lines show the relationship of some of the IP addresses involved in the fraud and how they are connected to some fraudulent ad clicks. The whole network actually “involved 200,000 different IP addresses and racked up more than $3 million worth of fraudulent clicks across 2,000 advertisers in a two-week period.” Impressive and scary at the same time.

The trouble is that no one really knows how much ad revenue DormRing1 collected before they were caught. Click-fraud monitoring services such as Anchor Intelligence, the ones behind this catch, are evolving to keep up with the scale on which these rings are operating. It’s still difficult to judge just how well they’re doing as they’re having to infiltrate forums and gain the trust of the perpetrators in a manner reminiscent of drug busts. But as the criminals are getting more elaborate, the investigations are too.

That good news aside, do me a favor: after you read this post, comment, and all that jazz, refresh the page a few times and—Ah…I mean, heh…just kidding. [Tech Crunch]

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Friday, October 9th, 2009 Uncategorized No Comments

RTB – real-time bidding may make ad exchanges more efficient, but it still won’t save display (ads)

in response to this mediapost article
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=113621

While RTB will make ad exchanges even more efficient, it may not be that necessary.

RTB depends on 3 things: 1) inventory, which depends on how many people hit the page to generate an impression, 2) clicks, which depend on people clicking something, and 3) bidders, the more niche you get, the fewer bidders there will be. Inventory does not change rapidly. Clicks take time to accumulate (to yield click rates, which are a necessary ingredient in the RTB calculation). And if there are too few bidders the price of the auction “item” won’t appreciate or depreciate much or rapidly. Because of these 3 things, making bidding real-time versus non-real-time (i.e. overnight) may not make it significantly better or move the needle much on efficiency and ROI.

And RTB will still not save “display” ads. The golden age of display was in the mid 90s when people tolerated ads when they read content. They are now trained to avoid looking at the top and right of web pages So while RTB may increase the ROI of display ads by increasing click rates from a percentage with too many zeros to count to something sligtly higher, display ads are still ignored by users and will still not generate measurable business impact for advertisers.

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Saturday, September 19th, 2009 Uncategorized No Comments

This is what happens when 99% of the inefficiencies are cut out of a system (advertising industry)

Update: Including Q3 09 numbers

Source: http://adage.com/agencynews/article?article_id=140125

While no holding company’s results are pretty these days, Interpublic Group of Cos. last week posted particularly poor numbers, swinging to a net loss of over $35 million for the first nine months of 2009 from almost $60 million in profit during the same period in 2008. IPG’s third-quarter revenue fell 18% compared to declines of 14.4% at rival Omnicom Group, 8.7% at WPP (factoring out the effect of acquisitions and currency shifts) and 5.3% at Publicis Groupe. WPP’s reported revenue, including revenue from its big Taylor Nelson Sofres acquisition, rose 16.7%. In the same quarter, net income attributable to IPG tumbled 47.3%, more than double the drop of Omnicom (down 22.5%).

Google changed the game by changing the business model from paying for impressions to paying only when the advertiser gets the click. This helped to cut out the 99% of waste and inefficiency which existed in the industry.

WPP Profit Dropped 47% in Second Quarter More Than Half of Company’s Revenue Came From Nontraditional Advertising

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Using words such as “severe” and “surprise” to describe the recession’s impact on its business, WPP, the world’s largest advertising conglomerate, today said its profit was down 47% for the second quarter. And WPP Chief Executive Martin Sorrell said it will be a while before marketing executives begin to spend and take chances the way they did just a few years back.

FULL ARTICLE – Source: http://adage.com/article?article_id=138673

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In a first half earnings statement released this morning, WPP Group announced that digital and direct marketing-related services now comprise 25% of its body.

WPP Group owns labels like 24/7 Real Media, Mediaedge:cia, MediaCom, Mindshare, GroupM and Outrider.

Digital and direct garnered $1.7 billion in revenues in the first half of ‘09, with a projected annual run rate of nearly $3.5 billion total. But it is digital media and advertising that appear to be dominating the segment.

Overall, first half revenues fell 2.9% to $6.4 billion in the first half on a reported basis, MediaPost reports. Like-for-like, however, total revenues slid 8.3% against the first half of 2008.

According to WPP, traditional advertising and “media investment management” have been the hardest-hit amidst the economic downturn.

“On a constant currency basis, advertising and media investment management revenues fell by 7.5%, with like-for-like revenues down 7.8%,” it stated.

Branding and identity, healthcare and specialist communications — which includes direct, internet and interactive — were least affected.

The media conglomerate committed to prioritizing the growth of digital communications, customer insights and strong geographic markets.

Related topics: Online Advertisers, Data Updates,

Source: http://www.marketingcharts.com/updates/digitaldirect-marketing-now-25-of-wpp-group-10211/?utm_campaign=rssfeed&utm_source=mc&utm_medium=textlink

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Thursday, August 27th, 2009 Uncategorized 1 Comment

Contextual Help Bubble – Dictionary, Thesaurus, Wikipedia, Amazon, Google Translate, Clip2Send

Dead simple, handy tool for adding contextual help to any web page or entire site. It is installed on this blog — so go ahead and select something with your mouse.

Install on any webpage or blog by way of 1 line of code:

<script src=”http://64.202.162.213/bubble/bubble.js“></script>

Select any text, contextual bubble appears, click Wikipedia to get more information about the selected text

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When more than 5 words are selected, other options are grayed out and clip2send is the link to click to send the selected part of the page via email. Type in the email address; the subject line is autofilled, but editable; the source URL is automatically cited>

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Select text, contextual bubble appears, click Amazon link to bring up results on Amazon.

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Sunday, August 23rd, 2009 Uncategorized No Comments

JetBlue All-You-Can-Jet Pass – how viral can be manufactured (easily)

http://bit.ly/13sF7E

Enjoy unlimited travel with our All-You-Can-Jet Pass! For just $599* you can take JetBlue anywhere you like, as often as you like, from September 8 to October 8, 2009. Use your All-You-Can-Jet Pass for business, for pleasure, to visit your favorite cities or to meet with a client. You might as well just do it all! With more than 50 cities to choose from, and for just $599, it’s a deal you can’t pass up.

About the Pass

$599 for a month of unlimited travel, any available seat
- Domestic taxes and fees included
- International and Puerto Rico taxes and fees not included

On sale through Friday, August 21, 2009, or while supplies last
Travel Dates: Tuesday, September 8, 2009 through Thursday, October 8, 2009
Each flight must be booked no later than 11:59 p.m. MDT three days prior to the flight’s scheduled departure.
Nonrefundable/nontransferable/no name changes permitted
Customers who already have a flight booked during the pass travel period can pay the difference to upgrade to the pass by calling 1-800-JETBLUE (538-2583), prompt 4.
Each All-You-Can-Jet Pass is eligible for 35 TrueBlue points. Flights booked on the pass are not available for additional TrueBlue points.

To purchase an All-You-Can-Jet Pass:

Call 1-800-JETBLUE (538-2583), option 4. You do not have to be a TrueBlue member at the time of purchase, but a TrueBlue number is required to book all flights.To join TrueBlue, click here; it’s free.

To book flights with your All-You-Can-Jet Pass:

Before calling to reserve your flight, please visit jetblue.com to check availability and select flight times.
Call 1-800-JETBLUE (538-2583), prompt 4.
Provide your pass number which is your original reservation number.
Provide your TrueBlue number.
You may only book one flight per city per day; if a violation of this policy is found, JetBlue will honor only the last booking made and cancel the customer’s other bookings from that city on that day.
Each flight must be booked no later than 11:59 p.m. MDT three days prior to the flight’s scheduled departure.
You can change/cancel flights for no fee with three (3) or more days notice; changes or cancellations to flight bookings made after 11:59 p.m. MDT three days prior to the flight’s scheduled departure will be charged standard JetBlue change/cancel fees.

To change or cancel All-You-Can-Jet Pass travel:

Greater than three (3) days before a flight: $0 change/cancellation fees
Less than three (3) days before a flight: JetBlue’s standard change/cancel fees apply

In the case of a no-show, the customer’s pass will be placed on hold, any reserved pass flights will be canceled, and no new flight segments wil be able to be booked until the customer pays a $100 no-show penalty.

*Other important restrictions apply. For complete details, please read the Full Terms and Conditions.

18,000+ clicks in 4 hours

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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 Uncategorized 1 Comment

Samsung 52 inch HDTV $9.99 at BestBuy – purchase receipt below (6:21a eastern time August 12, 2009)

Buy Link at the bottom of the post

Click for product page: Samsung – 52″ Class / 1080p / 120Hz / LCD HDTV LN52A650 SKU: 8749287

Order is still good as of 12:23 pm EST August 12, 2009.

BestBuy knows digital and social media. CMO Barry Judge tells it like it is.

http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/smartspending/archive/2009/08/12/customers-irate-about-10-hdtv-ad.aspx

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=8311580&page=1

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/12/AR2009081202660.html

http://adage.com/article?article_id=138469

http://www.nbcwashington.com/around-town/shopping/Best-Buy-Bummer-999-HDTVs-an-Error-53043522.html

http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=6697

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/13/bestbuy.mistake/index.html

http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/081209_best_buy_offers_999_hdtv_by_mistake

http://industry.bnet.com/media/10003678/jetblues-all-you-can-jet-promo-shows-power-and-peril-of-free-media-channels/

http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/53067682.html

http://www.wftv.com/countybycounty/20371068/detail.html

http://www.shoppingblog.com/blog/8120912

http://www.cepro.com/article/best_buy_accidentally_lists_1700_hdtv_for_10/

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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 Uncategorized 2 Comments

I know I am wasting my ad dollars…

I know I am wasting half of my ad dollars; I just don’t know which half — is more like “I know I am wasting 99% of my ad dollars and I know which 99%” – banner ad click through rates are generously at 1%, which means the other 99% is known to be wasted — no more guessing necessary.

Digital advertising is more efficient than traditional advertising and is more measurable (despite being called “unmeasured” media by traditional measurement purveyors — you know who you are). In traditional advertising the advertiser pays for 100% of the media costs (e.g. pay to air the ad on TV, pay to print the ad in magazines, pay for banner ad impressions). If banner ad click through rates are an indication of what percent of targeted users actually like the ad, then only 1% like the ad or the message. So the other 99% either didn’t like it, didn’t see it, or didn’t think it was relevant at the time.

Google changed the game by charging advertisers only for the 1% that clicked (pay per click) not for how many times the ad was aired (impressions, pay per thousand). If advertisers are paying only for the click and not for the 99% other impressions that did not get any clicks, then the 99% of waste is eliminated — making the entire system more efficient.

Now that advertisers have a way to pay for ONLY the “audience” that wants what they are advertising (they show this interest by clicking) there is no need to re-aggregate audiences. When a user searches for something, that is when they are interested or are researching. That is the only time advertisers need to show ads. Any other time, it would be wasted. Large audiences were useful in the “olden ages” of television, print, radio, and banner ad advertising. Large audiences are no longer necessary because advertisers should only care about the 1% that may be interested anyway. Advertisers can save the 99% of media cost that is known to be wasted — good for the advertiser, bad for the media companies.

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Map of IP addresses around the world used to commit Click-Fraud

RTB – real-time bidding may make ad exchanges more efficient, but it still won’t save display (ads)

While RTB will make ad exchanges even more efficient, it may not be that necessary.

Contextual Help Bubble – Dictionary, Thesaurus, Wikipedia, Amazon, Google Translate, Clip2Send

Dead simple, handy tool for adding contextual help to any web page or entire site. It is installed on this blog — so go ahead and select something with your mouse.

Install on any webpage or blog by way of 1 line of code:

<script src=”http://64.202.162.213/bubble/bubble.js“></script>

Select any text, contextual bubble appears, click Wikipedia to get more information about the selected text

When more than 5 words are selected, other options are grayed out and clip2send is the link to click to send the selected part of the page via email. Type in the email address; the subject line is autofilled, but editable; the source URL is automatically cited>

Select text, contextual bubble appears, click Amazon link to bring up results on Amazon.

JetBlue All-You-Can-Jet Pass – how viral can be manufactured (easily)

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To purchase an All-You-Can-Jet Pass:

To book flights with your All-You-Can-Jet Pass:

To change or cancel All-You-Can-Jet Pass travel:

18,000+ clicks in 4 hours

I know I am wasting my ad dollars…

I know I am wasting half of my ad dollars; I just don’t know which half — is more like “I know I am wasting 99% of my ad dollars and I know which 99%” – banner ad click through rates are generously at 1%, which means the other 99% is known to be wasted — no more guessing necessary.

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Lots of people have asked if I have invites for Google Buzz … but I didn’t see a way to invite them … but here’s a trick to give them buzz

1. go into Google Buzz

2. Click the link that says “Following X people”

3. scroll all the way to the bottom of the popup window

4. select contacts link

5. type a letter — e.g. “a” and see the list of others who have Buzz, who you can follow

6. select them and click add, then refresh the screen by clicking “load more” so you see them in the list

Thou shalt not target customers with messages they don’t want.

Thou shalt be truthful.

Thou shalt respect your customers.

Thou shalt make it easy for people to find you.

Thou shalt be useful.

Thou shalt make it easy for people to pass along.

Thou shalt measure and optimize.

Thou shalt listen to customers.

Thou shalt remove any organizational barriers to speedy, collaborative innovation.

Thou shalt not do brand-ing.

While RTB will make ad exchanges even more efficient, it may not be that necessary.

Update: Including Q3 09 numbers

Google changed the game by changing the business model from paying for impressions to paying only when the advertiser gets the click. This helped to cut out the 99% of waste and inefficiency which existed in the industry.

Source: http://www.marketingcharts.com/updates/digitaldirect-marketing-now-25-of-wpp-group-10211/?utm_campaign=rssfeed&utm_source=mc&utm_medium=textlink

Dead simple, handy tool for adding contextual help to any web page or entire site. It is installed on this blog — so go ahead and select something with your mouse.

Install on any webpage or blog by way of 1 line of code:

<script src=”http://64.202.162.213/bubble/bubble.js“></script>

Select any text, contextual bubble appears, click Wikipedia to get more information about the selected text

When more than 5 words are selected, other options are grayed out and clip2send is the link to click to send the selected part of the page via email. Type in the email address; the subject line is autofilled, but editable; the source URL is automatically cited>

Select text, contextual bubble appears, click Amazon link to bring up results on Amazon.

About the Pass

To purchase an All-You-Can-Jet Pass:

To book flights with your All-You-Can-Jet Pass:

To change or cancel All-You-Can-Jet Pass travel:

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I know I am wasting half of my ad dollars; I just don’t know which half — is more like “I know I am wasting 99% of my ad dollars and I know which 99%” – banner ad click through rates are generously at 1%, which means the other 99% is known to be wasted — no more guessing necessary.

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