Marketing.com.au is one of Australia’s leading online communities for the marketing industry, providing up-to-date and accurate marketing industry information and tools. We hope you find our community useful and interesting.
Now that 2012 has gotten off to a roaring start, perhaps it is time to take a look at what’s in store for the digital marketing industry for the year. As with any industry, in any year, there will be challenges as well as successes. From our extensive research (well, we did a bit of [...]
Read More
Some years, everything changes. Innovation and rapid technological advances have been known to change the whole face of the marketing industry in one foul swoop. This has been particularly true throughout the naughties, with the ever-advancing avalanche of social media launches. 2011 was not like this. Rather, 2011 saw a plethora of incremental upgrades across [...]
Read More
Facebook has again released its analysis of the most popular trends, topics and ‘memes’ for 2011 in it’s annual Memology. The highly anticipated Memology is usually a fairly accurate and concise summary of the year’s events, or at least the most talked about events. The analysis shows the top ten Facebook status trends globally by [...]
Read More
Consumers are often unaware of product placement, of the use of integrated marketing campaigns, and celebrity and media endorsements to ensure a product’s success. These tactics are increasing due to difficulties capturing the attention of Y gen. No matter how much public relations consultants want to believe it – there is no research to support [...]
Read More
As a market researcher, the pressure is always on to deliver the most insightful and actionable results for your clients. You need to keep your finger on the pulse of what the upcoming trends are, so you can develop research methods that will help you to use these trends to your advantage and keep one [...]
Read More
With smartphone usage in Australia estimated at a whopping 40%, if you’re not already getting serious about mobile, now may be the time. According to Morgan Stanley research mobile internet access will be greater than access from laptops and desktop computers. And according to Google, 44% of searches last-minute gifts will be performed on mobile [...]
Read More
In 2011, 80% of businesses in America with over 100 employees will use social media marketing. Compared with two years ago, when only 42% of companies were using social media, this is an enormous change (source eMarketer). As more and more people adopt the use of social media in their daily lives, marketers are being [...]
Read More
RSS stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’ (or Rich Site Summary) and is a relatively easy and free way to communicate updates to your (or your client’s) website. Users can subscribe free to one or more ‘feeds’ which send a headline and a short summary of articles that have been recently added or updated on any [...]
Read More
So, you’ve decided that your brand needs a helping hand to get cut-through in today’s cut-throat consumer driven market. You’re set with the advertising campaign but a bit unsure on what PR even is, let alone what its benefits are. Isn’t it all just spin? Don’t today’s marketing savvy consumers see through PR fluff these [...]
Read More