Monthly Archives: February 2012

Optimizing your Keyword Bids: How to Choose the Best Approach

by Mark Palony Special to the eTail Blog Set-it-and-forget-it is not a paid search strategy. If you want to maximize the ROI of your PPC campaigns, it’s necessary to review and optimize the performance of…

SEM Resource Allocation: Agency vs. In-House

Search engine marketing is one of the lowest cost ways to increase traffic to an e-commerce site, but it is not without its complications. In fact, there is SO much info out there about SEM…

Jay Shaffer’s ‘One Thing’ is a Customer Service MUST!

Jay Shaffer, Chief Marketing Officer, California Delicious, chose a ‘One Thing’ that will probably set a light bulb off for many of you as retailers, especially online retailer, also can’t live without it. What is…

How Retailers Can Prepare for Tablet-Based ‘Couch Commerce’

By Lorenz Jakober Special to the eTail Blog It’s looking like the “Couch Commerce” trend – shopping on smartphones and tablets from the comfort of your home – is here to stay. A recent report…

How to Convince Your Team that Less is More in Mobile Marketing

It’s a common flaw of marketers to want to shove everything possible in front of their customers. The more opportunities I give them to buy, the more likely they’ll do SOMETHING, right? We think, wrong….