• 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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  • Hooked On Technology| Leave a Comment

    Are you hooked on technology. Increasingly in this always on work environment that we all seem to be apart of, the answer is yes.

    If you are like so many other professionals, you are always online. You may not physically be in front of your computer, but you are “online” at all times via your Blackberry, iPhone, iPad or other smartphone devices. I am one of the individuals that is always online. In fact, it was not until my honeymoon last fall that I even knew there was an option to turn off data on my Blackberry . This (arguably) good feature disabled my email – how pathetic is that!

    Now, with more recent studies and media attention, the “always online” mentality is being addressed. Naturally the news is not always that positive. Recently, the New York Times started an investigative series addressing how computers are affecting us called Your Brain on Computers. The first part of the series, Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price is a great read….

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  • Leadscon Las Vegas 2010| Leave a Comment

    Today was the start of Leadcon 2010 in Las Vegas. The show is again being held this year at the Mirage, but this time with some 2000 attendees. For the individuals that attended last year, you know this a well-organized and very well represented show…

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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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