by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 26 Aug, 2011 | Online Advertising
I’ve said it before, the display online advertising industry is still growing – search is an incredible marketing and lead generation tool, but nothing can better project your brand online than rich media display ads (often expandable and page takeover...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 22 Aug, 2011 | Online Advertising
Regular readers of my blog will notice that I reference ComScore a lot – I love the data they provide and I believe them to be one of the brightest and most insightful online resources available. ComScore have just acquired a company called AdXpose and while...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 19 Aug, 2011 | Research & Trends
My husband and I just bought our first house. Literally, on Wednesday 17th August, we took the plunge and now I feel like I am officially a grown up (because I now have huge debt that I’d managed to make it through 33 years without accumulating). Anyway, what...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 8 Aug, 2011 | Digital marketing strategy, Social media marketing
Social media is an organic, living and breathing online marketing channel. You could argue that it is not a marketing channel, that its a community of individuals who choose to be connected and marketers are trying desperately to force their way in there. But its...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 5 Aug, 2011 | Search Marketing
I am compelled to write this specific blog post about Google Adwords and the paid search marketing strategies you can employ because I was outraged yesterday when I spoke with a woman who had been deliberately misled by the internet marketing company managing her...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 2 Aug, 2011 | Mobile Marketing
So of course I am adding to this clutter of information with my post this morning but I hope to distill down some of the information into easy-to-consume pieces of information and provide you with a list of recommended reading. What a helpful teacher I am :)As I was...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 29 Jul, 2011 | Digital marketing strategy
Until a couple of weeks ago I didn’t know that BNI existed. “BNI is a business referral organisation whose primary purpose is to assist its members to find and exchange qualified business referrals for each other and develop word-of-mouth marketing...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 18 Jul, 2011 | Email marketing
A successful email marketing campaign requires a considered content strategy to ensure that your email content is relevant and interesting to your audience. Your content strategy should be absolutely paramount to the success of your email communications however in...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 13 Jul, 2011 | Mobile Marketing, Online Advertising
For those of you who are not initiated into the world of online display advertising this may seem like another language so I’ll keep it in the simplest of forms for you. The banner ads that you are used to seeing on news websites are known as display...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 11 Jul, 2011 | Email marketing
There are dozens of factors to consider when planning your email communications strategy – there is the design of the email,the email content, spam compliance, marketing acquisition tactics, retention tactics, tracking, reporting & analysis but today...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 6 Jul, 2011 | Mobile Marketing
As always, Nielsen is providing us with the data that we love. Just check out the smartphone purchase infographic below. “Smartphones continue to grow in popularity. According to Nielsen’s May survey of mobile consumers in the U.S., 38 percent now own...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 5 Jul, 2011 | Email marketing
If you’ve read the biography page ‘About Shanelle’ on this blog, then you would have seen that I count email marketing as one of my specialties, yet I haven’t written much on the subject. I’m not sure why, I guess I’ve been focusing...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 4 Jul, 2011 | Web Inspiration
I had a sausage sizzle and movie night at a friends on Saturday and they were showing off their new Dell laptop and Samsung Plasma TV with 3D. Being a Mac person myself I was quite smug when they turned on their new, empty of any data laptop, and it still took at...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 21 Jun, 2011 | Necessary boring bits
Given the nature of our craft (digital or online marketing), the digital or technology aspect involved in engaging, attracting, converting and transacting online or through mobile devices means that we are constantly collecting and sometimes storing our...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 17 Jun, 2011 | Necessary boring bits
I’m a big believer in training. I don’t do enough of it with my team because one is a graphic designer, one an internal communications coordinator and the others are producers. So they don’t necessarily need the type of training that I can provide,...
