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View Article  Part 5: Measuring Your Demand Chain: It's All Relative

This is the last in the series of five articles by Mark Walton, Managing Partner at the consulting firm DemandEdge (http://www.demandedge.com).  The prior articles talked to ...   more »

View Article  Part 4: Automating Your Demand Chain: PRM Can Really Help

In the third of this series of five articles by Mark Walton, Managing Partner at the consulting firm DemandEdge (http://www.demandedge.com), we took a look at how to ...   more »

View Article  Part 3: Managing Your Demand Chain: De-Fragment Your Touchpoints

In the second of this series of five articles by Mark Walton, Managing Partner at the consulting firm DemandEdge (http://www.demandedge.com), we took a look a the value ...   more »

View Article  Part 2: The Value of Thinking 'Demand Chain': Partners Not Resellers

In the first of this series of five articles by Mark Walton, Managing Partner at the consulting firm DemandEdge (http://www.demandedge.com), we reviewed the history of the demand ...   more »

View Article  Part 1: What Is a Demand Chain?

The following is the first in a series of five articles by Mark Walton, Managing Partner at the consulting firm DemandEdge (http://www.demandedge.com), exploring the topic of distribution channels ...   more »

View Article  Your Demand Chain: Beyond Channels

The following is a description of a series of five articles by Mark Walton, Managing Partner at the consulting firm DemandEdge (http://www.demandedge.com), exploring the topic of distribution ...   more »

View Article  Marketing Performance Measurement (MPM) – Will It Ever Work?

There’s been a lot of noise about Marketing Performance Measurement, or MPM, over the last year or so.  Much of it has been driven by the efforts of the ...   more »

View Article  More Data on IT Spending

As we reported a few weeks ago, CIO Magazine’s survey of 225 CIO’s concluded that overall spending on IT is projected to grow at a rate of 5.4% in 2005 ...   more »

View Article  Online Advertising Projections Get Consolidated

eMarketer produced some ‘consolidated’ data on the growth of online advertising from 2001 through 2008. 

 

The bottom-line is that overall, online advertising is enjoying healthy growth and while ...   more »

View Article  Are We Still Waiting For IT Spending To Improve?

CIO Magazine recently reported little growth in IT budgets over the next 12 months.  That’s bad news for the IT industry as a whole, particularly as we’ve been waiting ...   more »

View Article  TV’s Role Is Diminishing

A recent study showed that the habits of TV viewers are changing rapidly as audiences search for more ways to control their viewing experience. 

 

The report entitled “How ...   more »

View Article  Internet Users Are Unaware Of Paid Search

According to a recent study, 62% of search engine users are unaware that companies are paying for their search engine rankings and listings.

 

As a marketer, that may be ...   more »

View Article  Did You Know There Are More Than 77 Million SMBs That You Can Sell To?

While only 8.6 million are in the US, the rest-of-the-world makes up the other 89% of SMBs worldwide.

 

A new report by AMI-Partners details the number of SMBs ...   more »

View Article  Email Continues To Show Its Strength as a Marketing Tool

While trust of the company sending you the email is ever-more important, if your emails pass that test they are capable of significantly impacting the behavior of your customers.

 ...   more »

View Article  Web Sites Are #1 for Additional Information

In a recent study of both digital and print magazine readers, the Web sites of advertisers were the clear means of getting additional information on a product or service.

 ...   more »

View Article  Salesforce.com Woos Microsoft Office Developers

Salesforce.com recently announced its sforce Developer Program for the Microsoft Office System in an attempt to accelerate the development of tools and solutions built around the integration of the two ...   more »

View Article  Paid Search Online Advertising Enjoys Dramatic Growth

Spending on search-based online advertising is growing almost three times as fast as spending on non-search based online advertising.

 

According to a recent survey, spending on search-based online advertising ...   more »

View Article  NetSuite 10 Is Definitely Hard To Beat

While it took us a while to find the time to ‘dig under the covers’ of NetSuite 10.0, we can certainly tell you it was worth it.  We’ve long ...   more »

View Article  Email Continues To Play a Key Role in the Marketing Mix

32% of consumers consider email the most effective marketing communication channel, just slightly behind the 39% that prefer TV. 

 

What they like most is when email is used ...   more »

View Article  Search Engine Marketing To Top $4 Billion In 2004

Total spending on search engine marketing, which includes spending on search engines and search-related media companies, search engine marketing agencies as well as in- house expenditures in support of such ...   more »

View Article  As Expected, DVRs Are Having an Impact on TV Advertising

More than three quarters of advertising leaders now expect the DVR (a.k.a. TiVo) to significantly affect TV advertising.  That number is up from only 58% in 2003.

 

While ...   more »

View Article  Ad Spending Continues To Grow Worldwide

It seems like the drought is over and ad spending is enjoying significant growth.  According to a recent study by ZenithOptimedia, ad spending in certain parts of the world ...   more »

View Article  Search Engine Users Prefer Short Phrases

A recent report by Hitwise showed that phrases of three words or less accounted for more than 75% of searches delivering traffic to shopping sites.  Full details are in ...   more »

View Article  Are Video Games Ready For Product Placement?

As the video game market continues to grow, more and more advertisers are considering using product placement to reach the important 13+ year-old demographic it represents.  With more than ...   more »

View Article  Online Product Research Drives More Offline Spending

Online info drove $180.7 billion in offline spending, according to a recent report1.  That number continues to eclipse direct online spending which totaled $106.5 billion during the ...   more »

View Article  Magazine Advertising Up 17.1%

Spending on magazine advertising in September rose 17.1% compared with September 2003 according to Publishers Information Bureau.
 

Spending was up in nearly every category except Technology, Media & Advertising, ...   more »

View Article  Telemarketers – Hated but Effective?

While there is a lot of noise about ‘do not call’ lists there’s at least some good news for telemarketing organizations – telephone marketing is the most effective direct-order method ...   more »

View Article  Web Still Driving Offline Sales

A recent study* confirmed that the Web’s influence over offline sales is continuing to grow.  According to the study, online research by consumers drove more than $180.7 billion in ...   more »

View Article  NetSuite’s Upsell Manager Takes On Demand CRM To A New Level

With the release of NetSuite version 10, the on demand CRM vendors has added a new module, Upsell Manager, to the Sales Force Automation piece of its ...   more »

View Article  E-Mail Ranks Second In Marketing To Consumers

While the data is limited to the UK, a recent study by IPT reported that e-mail is the second most effective marketing communications channel according to consumers.

 

The ...   more »

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Demand Chain Definition
Definition: "Demand Chain" - The marketing, sales, service, and logistics functions that connect a business with its customers.