Measurement

Inbound Marketing University – 16 Training Courses

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 Collier, MarketingProfs

2: SEO Crash Course to Get Found
Professor: Lee Odden, TopRank Online Marketing

3: Social Media and Building Community
Professor: Chris Brogan, New Marketing Labs

4: Successful Business Uses for Facebook and LinkedIn
Professor: Elyse Tager, Silicon Valley American Marketing Association

5: Viral Marketing and World Wide Raves
Professor: David Meerman Scott, author of New Rules of Marketing & PR and
World Wide Rave

6: Advanced SEO Tactics: On Beyond Keyword Research
Professor: Rand Fishkin, SEOmoz

7: Calls to Action and Landing Page Best Practices

Professor: Jeanne Hopkins, MECLABS, Marketing Experiments

8: Inbound Lead Nurturing

Professor: Brian Carroll, MECLABS, InTouch

9: Successful Email Marketing

Professor: Eric Groves, Constant Contact

10: PR for Inbound Marketing
Professor: Todd Defren, SHIFT Communications

11: Twitter for Business

Professor: Laura Fitton, Pistachio Consulting, co-author of Twitter for Dummies

12: Advanced Marketing Analytics

Professor: Avinash Kaushik, Google and author of Web Analytics 2.0

13: Passion-Inspired Video & Other Creative Content

Professor: Gary Vaynerchuk, Wine Library TV, and author of Crush It!

14: Social Media for Big Business

Professor: Paula Berg, Southwest Airlines, Linhart PR

15: Internet Marketing Comprehensive Review
Professor: Mitch Joel, author of Six Pixels of Separation

16: Midway Inbound Marketing Review

Professor: Mike Volpe, HubSpot

US marketers still rely on CTR

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.

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

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 reliable metric.

French company called Alenty created this technology. You can see live demo of their technology here.

If I were to buy banner advertising on CPM basis, I would definitely appreciate dwell rate time discounter, or to be billed based on the time of exposure.

Neuromarketing explained in 49 seconds

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.