Martin Kovac

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Inbound Marketing University – 16 Training Courses

May 24, 2010 - 14:01

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Posted in Email marketing, Measurement, Online advertising, PPC advertising, SEM, Social Media | No comments

HubSpot is kindly sharing 16 great marketing courses, which are MUST to every online marketer.
If you are interested in becoming certified Inbound Marketing Certified Professional, you can register here.
Below you can watch all training courses:

Inbound Marketing University Certification Program

1: How to Blog Effectively for Business
Professors: Ann Handley & Mack [...]

US marketers still rely on CTR

May 20, 2010 - 15:47

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A March 2010 survey by Chief Marketer showed that CTR is till the most used metric to measure effectiveness of online campaigns.

- 60% of US marketers reported they measure interactive marketing performance in click-throughs.
- Just 38.4% measured return on investment.
- Only one third measured brand awareness or reputation.

Social media measurement (video)

May 12, 2010 - 16:42

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Amy Martin from Digital Royalty explains in 6 minutes, how to measure the impact of social media on a brand’s popularity.
There are two important things to do, when you are measuring your social media efforts:
1. establish your KPIs
2. measure these KPIs
Return On Influence: Cold Metrics & Warm Metrics

Giving Presentations that Stick

April 27, 2010 - 15:07

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In a 3-minute video by Dan Heath, the co-author of the bestselling book Made to Stick, he`ll answer the question:
“How do you avoid that bullet-riddled PowerPoint presentation that everybody loves to hate?”
Dan reminds presenters to:
1. Be simple
2. Show something
3. Tease before you tell
Watch the video below or checkout the transcripts on the Fast [...]

Neuromarketing study: Social Media vs TV

April 20, 2010 - 13:57

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NeuroFocus – neuromarketing company, released summary results of a study that compared the performance of the same ad run on television and on two Internet websites: Facebook and a website controlled by the advertiser.
Top findings are:

* Highest overall effectiveness for the ad, especially with women: Facebook
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Nokia – Conversation is the new Conversion

April 13, 2010 - 11:06

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Arto Joensuu – Head Of Digital Marketing, Middle East and Africa at Nokia, posted this great presentation on his blog.
What I find most interesting:
– Conversation is the new conversion metric.
– Each company should redefine digital marketing and increase the importance of concept development.
Conversational Marketing
View more presentations from Arto [...]

Is the time of exposure the new metric for display advertising?

March 30, 2010 - 10:50

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Ad network called World Web Network launched technology that measures the amount of time that a banner is visible on the page and the web surfer is active. Time is only tallied when the script detects a regular mouse-keyboard activity. After ten seconds of idle time, the tool will pause until activity returns, ensuring a [...]

Neuromarketing explained in 49 seconds

March 24, 2010 - 15:10

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If you are wondering what is Neuromarketing, watch this short video from NewScientist that explains the basic concept of using EEG to measure consumer reaction to ads.

Study: Scrolling and Attention on the Website

March 22, 2010 - 18:45

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Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox conducted a broad eye tracking study of user behavior across a wide variety of sites. Jacob Nilesen wrote:
“To investigate whether the “fold” continues to be relevant, I analyzed parts of the study with a total of 57,453 fixations (instances when users look at something on a page, typically for less than [...]

Display advertising is still effective in Europe

March 17, 2010 - 14:58

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We have all heard about banner blindness. Are low click rates evidence that display ad campaigns have not had any impact on consumer behavior? Or, does online display advertising work in a similar way to traditional offline advertising with multiple exposures over time being needed to effect a change in consumer behavior?
comScore released a new [...]