Posts Tagged ‘global’

Search Engine Marketing Forecasted to Grow

The North American search engine marketing industry will grow 14% from $14.6 billion in 2009 to $16.6 billion by the end of 2010, according to a global online survey of nearly 1,500 client-side marketers and agency respondents, commissioned by The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) and conducted by Econsultancy.

The report finds that measuring the return on investment (ROI) is the biggest challenge facing marketers this year in all three key search tactics covered in the survey — search engine optimization, paid search, and social media marketing.

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Where Twitter works for business – Travel

I’m not sold on how a social networking tool like Twitter can work for most businesses, unless part of your product or service offering expires on a regular basis.

Case in point:  The travel industry.  With inventory (i.e. hotel rooms, tours, airplane flights) expiring on a daily basis, it looks like there is a place for a flash message of 140 characters to turn travel bargain hunters onto last-minute deals.

Here’s an article from the Toronto Star:
Tourism and Twitter: a match made in cyberspace


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