Marketing Blog
Some news, tips and tricks from the world of marketing that caught the attention of the team at Napier. Our marketing blog is where we share some of the things that have inspired, impressed or amused us.
Microsoft to launch search engine called “Bing”
May 29, 2009
The news that Microsoft is launching a new search engine called "Bing" has been covered extensively so I won't go into any details about this new…
How to get more people on your email database
May 27, 2009
Interesting story posted about the best way to grow your email database at MarketingCharts.com. According to research conducted by ExactTarget, Ball…
Online auditing of traffic now a requirement in the UK?
May 16, 2009
Thanks to ABCe for pointing me to a recent judgement by the UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) that should concern all publishers. The ASA…
Will print ever die?
April 27, 2009
I was interested to find a new cutting-edge dot-com business: MagCloud. The idea behind this venture is that anyone can create a magazine as a PDF,…
Analyse me, analyse my blog
March 20, 2009
Just a little bit of fun thanks to Business Week, which pointed me to Typealyzer, a site that claims to be able to tell you "what personality is…
IAB behavioral advertising guidelines
March 7, 2009
The BBC reports that the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) has introduced a set of guidelines for behavioral advertising. Behavioral advertising…
German courts review Google Adwords
February 4, 2009
I was pleased to see the German courts taking a reasonable line over the use of trademarks and company names as Google Adwords keywords, and…
Google drops print advertising programme
January 22, 2009
Google has given up trying to act as an advertising agency for certain print publications: maybe online really is a good idea! What initially…
Print is still important for online businesses
January 17, 2009
Without doubt one of the dsitributors that has made best use of online sales to European customers is Digikey. Yet they still mail out lots of copies…
Literature management problems….solved!
December 12, 2008
Having held both client-side and agency-side roles, I know that sometimes it's the simple things that make marketing difficult, and that literature…