Digital Chameleon Blog

Develop a reporting scorecard

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Advertisers new to online will often ask how much traffic a campaign should drive to their site. Once you get beyond looking at CTR’s and focus on the “right” measurements, you’ll see that site traffic is irrelevant (unless, of course, the campaign objective is simply to drive traffic!). More

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What's adserving?

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Adservers are used by both online publishers/sellers as well as by agencies/buyers. It may all sound and look complicated, but adservers actually simplify the process of delivering ad campaigns in a couple of basic ways: More

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Planning your social media strategy - understand your audience

Monday, September 20, 2010

Shown here is my column for Beauty Directory that you can access here (with registration).
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Online advertising tracking tools

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

When planning an online advertising campaign, there is a great variety of anticipated actions that we can measure - and we need to make sure everyone involved is in agreement as to the measure of “success” in each campaign. Only by doing this can we ensure we’re keeping our eye on the ball during campaign implementation and tracking.  More

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Planning your social media strategy

Thursday, September 09, 2010

Here's my latest article from Beauty Directory which you can also see here (if you register)

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Digital media sales proposals

Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Because of the speed at which media planning and buying happens these days (especially online/digital), we’ve showed you the ultimate planning/buying process and the main steps that should be followed assuming there is enough time. Of course this compressed timeframe adds pressure to the sales effort and the traditional notions of pre-sales activity (doing some vertical industry research on the advertiser and their competitors, etc) falls by the wayside and we find media companies providing the trade with things such as online media centres where ratecards are often found; enewsletters that highlight the latest opportunities and maybe some case studies; and maybe even some research on who the audience is, how they use the site, how often they visit, etc. More

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The online media planning and buying process

Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Once an agency receives a campaign brief from a client, depending on the structure of the agency, a planner will write a strategy document based on consumer insights and distribute it to the media team(s); or an account director or media director may get the brief and develop a (media) strategy. Tools such as Roy Morgan or Panorama are used in the channel planning process to determine which media channels to include in the plan based on target audience use. More

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