• Civil Union And Domestic Partnership Targeting On Facebook, Great Opportunity For Online Marketers?| Leave a Comment

    If you are advertising on Facebook and want to target users who have set their relationship statuses to Domestic Partnership or Civil Union you’re out of luck, kind of.

    Previously, Facebook users could set their relationship status to: single, in a relationship, married, engaged, it’s complicated, in an open relationship, widowed, separated, and divorced. Facebook has now added two new additions to the relationship status, Domestic Partnerships and Civil Unions. With these additions, you would think that Facebook would allow for online marketers to target these users. Domestic Partnerships and Civil Unions theoretically open up new doors for marketers to reach these demographics. The problem is, as of today, Facebook only allows advertisers to target by the following; Single, Engaged, In a relationship, and Married.

    Advertisers will hopefully be able to create specific campaigns and corresponding landing pages to target gay and lesbian users on Facebook in the near future through Facebook Ads.

    As it currently stands, advertisers and marketers have to get a little more advanced and target users that have previously granted permission through the Like button and application installs to be able to target users who’s statuses are set to Domestic Partnerships and Civil Unions. An advertiser would in theory need to go through a company like Zynga, or a company that had access to large amounts of user data to be able to target users whose relationship statuses were set to Domestic Partnerships or Civil Unions.

    Hopefully in the near future, Domestic Partnerships and Civil Unions will be added to the advanced demographics section through Facebook advertising to make this a more mainstream option for marketers.

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  • Creating Conditions | Disease Branding and Online Marketing| Leave a Comment

    I recently came across a very interesting article on CNN.com titled, How to brand a disease — and sell a cure. Initially, I was drawn to the article because of the branding spin in the title, but after reading it, I started getting a few ideas. How could creating conditions, or what I interpreted as alternative calls to action increase conversion in online marketing campaigns?

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  • The Rise Of Reward Payment Methods Online | Zynga And American Express Partner| Leave a Comment

    It was last spring while attending F8, Facebook’s annual developers conference that it hit me during a presentation on Facebook Credits by Debie Liu, that the rise of alternate payment methods online had now become very important. I left the presentation motivated by the sheer amount of opportunity. Facebook had a made a very good move and understood the market and where it was going.

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  • Facebook Social Plugins Hits 100,000+ Sites In Under A Month!| Leave a Comment

    While attending the F8 Conference last month in San Francisco, I remember sitting through the Keynote and individual breakout sessions thinking to myself, “Wow Facebook really has something big going on.” I left the conference excited by what I had heard. During Mark Zuckerberg’s demo, he showed how the Facebook social plugins would integrate into sites like CNN. Of course, right when I went back to my hotel room that night, I tried it out.

    Click the above link to read more…

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  • Online Marketing Strategy: The Power of Freebies| Leave a Comment

    Always a fan of infomercials since I was a little kid, and fascinated as an adult at just how large the infomercial industry is. The “As Seen on TV” vertical has always been large and has significantly expanded in recent years. This expansion has been turbocharged due to the recession, and larger brand advertisers pulled [...]

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  • iDate 2010 Miami Online Dating Conference| Leave a Comment

    For Three days, the online dating industry gets together to discuss ideas, generate new business and to network with fellow colleagues. I have had the pleasure of attending iDate as a sales executive and a marketing executive and I still am able to garner new business during each event.

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  • How to Effectively Test Your PPC Ads| Leave a Comment

    Have you ever wondered what some of the effective techniques are out there to test your PPC search ads? There is a great presentation that I came across by Jonathan Mendez that I have included below titled, Ad Testing: Research & Findings. I particularly value what Jonathan has to say being that he was the Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Offermatica’s service unit, OTTO Digital.

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  • Getting Back To Blogging| Leave a Comment

    Google’s ongoing clash with the newspaper industry is discussed as well as the anticipated Mobile disruption that Google’s newly announced Nexus One mobile phone will have on the market.

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