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The Status of Mobile Marketing in Canada

The Mobile indus­try is expe­ri­enc­ing a true expan­sion across the world, and Canada is no exception. In 2009, Canada had the high­est pen­e­tra­tion rate in terms of con­tent down­loads and mobile games (Nielsen Wire, 2009). In 2010, 75% of Cana­dian house­holds had a cell­phone (Mobi­think­ing, 2010). Read the full article at The Results People blog.

Paid Marketing and Media: What Is That Exactly?

Paid mar­ket­ing refers to all kinds of paid adver­tis­ing that appears on the Inter­net and other inter­ac­tive plat­forms. This includes dis­play adver­tis­ing (ban­ners) on the Inter­net (con­tent, ser­vice and social media sites), on video game con­soles, mobile devices (sites and appli­ca­tions) and dig­i­tal dis­plays; video adver­tis­ing; email adver­tis­ing (adver­tise­ment inte­grated into a publisher’s newslet­ter); direc­to­ries and clas­si­fied ads; and mar­ket­ing on search engines (pur­chase of text adver­tise­ments by words/key phrases). Read the full article at The Results People blog.

What is Earned Media?

Earned mar­ket­ing is every­thing you do not con­trol. This means pos­i­tive and neg­a­tive word of mouth and press cov­er­age in every pos­si­ble manner. Read the full article at The Results People blog.

Local Search: Let’s find a restaurant with a great patio

With a for­get­table round of golf com­plete it was time for phase two of my bril­liant Labour Day plans… Find­ing a restau­rant with an amaz­ing patio to relax on with a drink. Read the full article at The Results People blog.

Multilingual SEO: by language or by country?

With only around a quarter of internet users being native English-speakers, and with the majority of multilingual users placing more trust in websites written in their own native language when it comes to making purchases online, website localisation and multilingual SEO are becoming increasingly important aspects of online marketing. Indeed, Common Sense Advisory studies suggest an average return of US$25 for every $1 spent on localization. The benefits are clear, but once you’ve decided to take the plunge, you still have to decide whether to target foreign markets by language or by country. By language Many languages are spoken across [...]