Google offers marketers a number of keyword matching options through its PPC AdWords centre. Broad match is the default option and it allows you to appear in results when any single word from your keyword phrase appears, but does it…
Every six months I take a look at where our new clients are coming from geographically and try to ascertain any factors that are leading them to choose their server hosting in Manchester. Naturally, the findings can help us with…
The Direct Marketing Association in the US has done its first major survey focussed on the b2b sector, discovering that the biggest single area of spend is direct response communications. The most interesting finding for me is that the US…
As a business online there are few more important things to discover than how your competition is doing and where you place in comparison to them. It's not cheap to become a fully fledged client of the Online marketing analyst…
Heather Hopkins at Hitwise has an excellent piece of research on her blog about the strength of MySpace within TopShop's marketing strategy. It seems that MySpace is now sending more traffic to TopShop than MSN and Yahoo Search combined. If…
The title of this post would immediately suggest I might be referring to the buying and selling of recorded music - but actually my work with the Manchester Jazz Festival this week has highlighted a very different area. UKFast is…
The Internet Advertising Bureau has set its sights on the B2B market with the news that only one third are currently embracing online marketing. Apparently 63% of respondents say that the Internet will take more of their marketing budget in…
