One of the much-emphasised benefits of online marketing in general, and of e-mail marketing in particular, is its excellent measurability. A number of key indicators and ratios have been defined that provide information about whether your marketing message has reached your target group. Print advertising, on the other hand, usually leaves you in the dark. But this advantage of online…

There are many horror scenarios about the consequences of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on the internet at the moment. Some sites give you useful suggestions on how companies should implement necessary changes. But you will hardly find an answer to a key question: Will it remain legal to use sales leads generated through web portals after the…

A picture is worth a thousand words, as the idiom goes. But what about videos in B2B marketing? The advertising agency dieleutefürkommunikation AG investigated this and published their results in a new marketing study. More than 200 decision makers from the B2B sector participated in the study to determine how videos are used in work environments. In this blog entry,…

Generating sales leads online has become one of the most important marketing objectives for B2B companies. They are typically obtained by placing enquiry forms on the company’s own website, on dedicated landing pages or on B2B internet portals. Users with questions or information requests fill them in, submitting their contact details, all in the expectation of receiving a quick and…

When searching the internet for new software that our company could use, I regularly come across webinars or videos that give me a quick impression of how a software solution works and what its typical uses are. This helps me to assess with little effort whether the tool could be suitable for us and if it is worth looking at…

It happens all the time: an e-newsletter with content tailored specifically towards a target group mysteriously turns out to be a flop for unknown reasons. The root cause analysis begins, covering analyses of the open rate [OR], click-through rate [CTR] and click-to-open rate [CTOR]. And then it dawns on the person in charge: “If only I had carried out a…

Those who work routinely with programs like Photoshop will appreciate its eyedropper tool, which comes in the shape of a pipette. You can use it to record a desired colour very easily and show its values in all colour models with a simple double click. However, it eases your workflow and saves time if you don’t get out your massive…

I guess we’ve all been through this: you want to liven up a presentation with some nice-to-look-at photos. But most images in commercial databases are much too expensive for your intended purpose or you are unsure about the licensing terms. Getting your smartphone out and quickly taking a photo yourself is usually no option either. This is where royalty-free photos…

Commuter trains and busses are where smartphones run hot. This is where long waits for web pages to load are particularly annoying. Often enough, unoptimised image files are the cause of poor performance and long loading times. This leads many passengers to discontinue visiting a website, especially when the destination stop approaches, leaving its mark on the conversion rate. Images…

Marketing budget is routinely wasted without generating any sales leads. That’s the quintessence of a study by LUMITOS in the course of which the ads appearing in the German magazine “Laborjournal” (3/2015 edition) were scrutinised. In this blog article I will demonstrate how landing pages are used properly to avoid typical mistakes in print media advertising. They offer a way…