Archive for November, 2011

India's Emerging Online Advertising Market Set for a Boom

Online advertising, especially in the form of social media marketing, is set to grow 30-40% in the Indian market this fiscal year, with early adopters of the medium increasing their expenditure and new converts adding to their ranks. Some telecom brands have doubled their online advertising budgets, while automobile companies have increased it by 20-35% [...]

Website Design: Looking Good is Just Part of the Picture

The majority of website designers focus wrongly on website designing practices that are shaped towards enhancing the visual experience. This leads to websites that are poorly designed to serve the needs of the visitor or the client. Website design technology may have progressed in the past five years; it is hard to say the same [...]

Social Media Marketing: More Facebook Marketing Myths

In our previous post on social media marketing related Facebook myths, we cleared some commonly held notions about marketing on Facebook. Of course, there are more to be dispelled still, but here’s the thing. With the penetration of social media marketing rising by the day, it’s raining self-acclaimed Facebook marketing gurus nowadays, all of them [...]

Sensible Measurement: 5 Principles for Social Media Marketing

Social media marketing is nowadays conspicuous by its near-omnipresence. Everybody seems to be doing it, but does that mean they’ll all reap equal benefit of the same? Perhaps, if the mix is right:  it is balanced on effective budget allocation and optimal marketing mix decision making. Social media marketing practitioners have a responsibility to drive [...]

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Common Facebook Myths related to Social Media Marketing

Facebook is a wildly popular social media marketing platform, and yet in many ways, can be termed the wild-wild west of digital marketing. Just as the final frontier of email marketing was conquered in the times gone by, the Facebook social networking platform is being civilized by up-and-coming best practices, upgrading user experience, and Facebook’s [...]