Back to the March 2009 issue.

Interactive Advertising Agencies Are In Demand!

(by Peter Bohenek, President)

It’s no secret that advertisers are hot to leverage interactive marketing channels more than ever before. With the economy in a downturn, and fewer marketing dollars available, each dollar has to count. In order to be counted, there must be a mechanism by which tracking and data aggregation can be performed, so results can be measured and understood. This very need in itself is the primary reason that interactive marketing is exploding. When you leverage electronic marketing, you have the ability to measure the results down to the penny. In a world where every dollar counts, this is a must.

The rapidly increasing number of companies that are shifting their advertising dollars from traditional line items in their budgets to Interactive is growing exponentially every day. As demand continues to increase, and companies work to “up the ante” on their online marketing efforts, the level of competition is also increasing. It’s already hard to capture viewer attention online, as there are millions and millions of websites, contextual ads, rich media ads, banner ads, flashing graphics, blogs, social networks and virtual worlds that are actively working to attract eyeballs. With more and more advertisers leveraging the Internet, it’s going to get even harder. The realization is the Internet is not a guarantee for anyone. It offers major advantages, but without firm understanding of how best to market online, you can quickly burn money, just as easily as with traditional forms of advertising. The difference now is that, you’ll know exactly how bad you failed, down to the penny. Traditional advertising made it a lot easier to hide failure.

In this regard, marketing executives are under a great deal of pressure to perform in ways that they may not be used to. If their ideas or strategies don’t work, it will be quickly apparent and their jobs will be on the line. In order to avoid catastrophe, marketers will have to turn to Interactive marketing companies that have the expertise to effectively leverage the Internet. Experience is key; and will be needed to shepherd the huge amount of companies now looking to use email, banner advertising, their website and so many other forms of Interactive media like never before.

I know this is true, because I’m living it. We have more calls and website inquires coming in than ever before. Prospects are seeking out experienced interactive marketing firms, not just a “design firm” or a guy working out of his house. The demand for interactive advertising agency help is on the upswing. If you are serious about Internet marketing, you better get in touch with an accomplished agency that can steer you to interactive marketing success.





Statistics Corner

Despite a drop in brick and mortar retailers, e-commerce sales in January increased two percent, according to ComScore.

A recent report by Limbo and GFK/NOP Research predicts that the number of U.S. mobile broadband users will increase by more than 200 percent by 2013.

According to a recent Mobile Advertising Report, 160 million consumers used text messaging in the third quarter of 2008.

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