Adweek covered a recent study conducted by Universal McCann that shows some interesting things about US consumers and social media. The survey was a repeat of one done in September 2006 by the research firm. The second survey showed that the number of survey respondents who regularly read blogs jumped from just over 50 percent [...]

Blogging has been around for a decade or more and businesses are beginning to see the value of blogging as a marketing technique. In the Internet age, businesses are now beginning to see the value in blogging and working with bloggers to promote products. Many consumers turn to blogs when seeking out information and product [...]

The content that you opt to include within your blog must be a perfectly planned, blog marketing strategy.  When a customer first lands at your website, the percentage of them that specifically came to utilize your offered service is small.  Instead, some were linked there from a search engine query based on a keyword you had [...]

Back in October, I posted our initial research
on the ROI
of blogging. Many of you contributed your ideas, thoughts, and criticisms –
thanks so much as it was extremely helpful.
We’ve (finally) published the report – and
actually, there are two of them. The first is “The ROI Of Blogging: The “Why”
And “How” Of External Blog Accountability”. It’s [...]

Pheedo just published a study that appears to hold true to previous research.  RSS Ads are simply more effective than traditional site ads. 
CONSUMERS USING RSS READERS ARE more likely to click on ads presented as stand-alone posts than on ads within posts–7.99 percent to 0.85 percent–according to research conducted this fall by RSS company [...]