Hottest new workflow Online Marketers & ndash; Offline!

There is a big difference between what is "hot" in the marketing and what is really "works".

For example, "everyone" knows that mobile marketing is now super hot, but how many companies actually drive ROI through this channel, at least in comparison to the publicity surrounding the channel?

Interestingly, while experts with a loud voice, mobile phone or native or the Internet of Things to proclaim as the next big thing, many Internet companies are turning quietly to an old standard results - Offline Marketing.

For years, online marketers have very explained by merging online and offline marketing strategies for dead scoffed offline marketing (myself included) are now the profit and volume.

TV: Not Dead Yet!

Let's start with the marketing of 800-pound gorilla offline: TV. In a column a few years ago in the Super Bowl advertising that subtly criticizes television advertisers, and said: 'The complex marketing agency announces an industrial company is a machine that complacency convinced somehow large businesses pay mass for minimal results, let alone quantify. "

While still agree that most TV commercials "brand" fits that description, online companies that adopt an approach DRTV found ways to generate ROI.

Dollar Shave Club, for example, YouTube changed expenditure on television, as reported by Ad Age as conversions on television are cheaper. Drop-Shipping giant Wayfair.com spend 20 million + years on television, according to a report in Internet Retailer and "saw an increase in web traffic unprecedented" during their campaigns.

And when you see iSpot.tv - a website that indexes TV spots - you have started hundreds of online businesses, the TV spots (and most of these items are clearly focused response) to find.

Online shops for electronic commerce?

One of the attractions of e-commerce is that you do not need one filled with high rents, retail store employees, and a large amount of inventory, right? It turns out that the physical location of the old school - still resonate with consumers - even with high cost.

Warby Parker - Eyewear iconic online retailer - has found that the opening online stores actually shopping online, according to a report in Pando Daily.

We are also bringing in new customers, and most new customers come through the retail channel makes a second purchase online.

Neil Blumenthal of Warby Parker Pando Day

Warby Parker is not alone. Bonobos, a business ecommerce men, ten locations were opened; Julep Nail Polish online retailer has four salons in Seattle; JustFab.com and Birchbox also have offline locations.

Direct mail still works

Although direct mail (and e-mail in general) has since the dawn of the Internet, which is effectively used for online marketers, plummeted.

Google, for example, direct mail has to be used to acquire new advertisers; Netflix has several campaigns carried out to acquire new subscribers; and after Andy Ostroy of Belardi / Ostroy, many e-commerce sites, the printed catalogs are found positive ROI, including Amazon, eBay, Shutterfly, Zappos, Art.com, JustFab, Snapfish, a King Lane, Modcloth and Struck.

In other words, the calculation work. Especially if this channel is refined and integrated multi-channel equation sharp. Remember the 1-2 punch strategy: find, meet 'em by mail online orders.

Andy Ostroy of Belardi / Ostroy

Convergence monitoring online / offline

Traceability is one of the most delightful things about internet marketing. In contrast, the online tracking has always been murky at best.

In fact, in the 2000s, the former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, made fun of television advertising as "the last bastion of unjustified expenditure in Corporate America." Today, Schmidt probably admit that the landscape has improved offline monitoring.

Many technology companies offer solutions that are designed to measure the impact of online behavior - Award Convertro (acquired by AOL) and Adometry (acquired by Google) firms - which can measure the impact of TV and Radio online (and vice versa) in order to monitor the activity of linking shop shopping store online behavior.

The increasing investment in online advertising, then of Internet companies not because these channels become more efficient; but just easier to follow.

Do not buy a Super Bowl ad for now

To be clear, there are a variety of online advertising does not work for online businesses. The first advertisers on television, for example, still the giant brand advertisers to pay too much for "key demographics" with little regard for the real return.

The first online businesses never able, with these advertisers (still would) compete until the "irresponsibility" of the costs of the same brands that have motivated their business models on the floor.

Offline investments that work for online businesses, is still very patchy: Evening, inexpensive, television and radio direct response; highly targeted direct mail campaigns; and carefully orchestrated raids online retail concepts are preferred.

In other words, online brands are opportunities "arbitrage" prices continue on the scale. Probably 50-75% of what you pay for a traditional brand like this In a perverse twist of fate, as online marketing has developed (and the prices in force), smart online advertisers have jumped on the online marketing to exploit inefficiencies.

There is no doubt that spending always go offline to digital and new generations of the breed with a heavy diet of digital media will only accelerate this trend. Therefore, the focus in online marketing is still the right choice for savvy marketers.

The data suggest, however, that the strategy can be a straight line in the positive approach driving progressive rate online ROI.

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A new study links Ghostery digital marketing technology gaps distributed cloud-based security

Source: Company Ghostery

Ghostery management cloud marketing platform introduces new security module to reduce safety risks and to improve the user experience

NEW YORK, NY - (Marketwire Wired - 23 September 2014) - Ghostery has identified today a new study, the industry hidden security risks for the rapid growth of technology linked in the digital marketing. To help companies manage these online safety risks and maximize the return on their marketing investments, Ghostery also announced a new security module for its cloud management solution (MCM) Marketing.

The results of the study of industrial Ghostery "Digital Security is a serious matter", not today published the most popular sites for all key sectors of the industry including retail, banking, insurance, publishing and aviation technology in the areas of marketing safe security of their websites. ¹

The complexity of the "Cloud Marketing" of each company - the collection of digital technologies, the energy measurement socialize, and optimize digital marketing - creates significant blind spots that affect the ease of use and reduce the revenue of the company. This study illustrates the importance of issues related to the safety of these blind spots are available: presence of warnings (also called "mixed content warnings" known) that have shaken consumer confidence in the brand, ² increased exposure to man the middle - in-the-browser attacks, ³ and a negative effect on search engine rankings on Google.

The "Digital Security is a serious matter" study based on real data from the user interaction Ghost Rank community of 20 million members in 50 main pages.

"Make sure the company more transparency portal improves the user experience and increases the online overall security of the Internet," said Devdatta Akhawe, Ph.D., author of the report and co-author of "Alice in Warning state. Powerful study of browser security warning effectiveness "" Without effective security measures, web pages up to 65 percent of the visitors to lose by a bad user experience. "

"Digital Security is a serious problem:" The results of the study:

• 96 percent of the sites surveyed Cloud Marketing related security blind spots. Sides of the Finance, Sales and air transport are the most vulnerable because of unsafe code on secure pages.

• Shopping websites have the highest volume of vulnerabilities with 438 different digital marketing technologies without warranty are investigated in the top 10 retail sites. A website selling more than 300 blank technologies used in secure web pages.

• Despite strong security investments financial services and insurance are widely exposed to unsafe technology risk enterprise cloud marketing. 100 percent of the insurance companies and 90 percent of the sites online banking sites have used the case of cloud computing technologies Marketing examines unsecured secure pages.

Today's news comes on the heels of the recent announcement by Google that a secure Web pages for better search rankings, increased impact and safety online website visits and sales of the company. ⁴

Ghostery company announced a new security solution:
Enable organizations to take control of this serious situation, today announced the launch of its new Ghostery Ghostery security module MCM, a first in the industry. This new solution leverages the community of 20 million real users Ghost Rank to identify in real time when the marketing technology of uncertainty undermines the integrity of the secure pages. Security Ghostery MCM triggers alarms to detect security flaws before they harm a significant impact on the enterprise revenue due to the usability of the site and Google search rankings pressed.

Ghostery MCM module security is part of their marketing Cloud Management (MCM) and the platform will be available ^{17th October 2014} The new security module is based on the other MCM Ghostery - Performance-latency / control, data governance and privacy. Large companies rely on Ghostery MCM to eliminate blind spots your digital ROI and increase their online marketing investments.

"The security Ghostery shows what many Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and practitioners of information security were known but not quantified in the situation - that security breaches do more than just user to expose danger, chopped," CEO Scott Meyer Ghostery said. "These defects directly on the user experience and the company's sales. Our study shows that the rapid growth of technology and marketing problems clouds unsecured technology are much more widespread than previously thought. Provider not only is guilty of this security issue. Rather, the company must to take control of their cloud marketing and to ensure that your investment in technology to work for them. "

Examine the risks hidden vulnerabilities in any cloud marketing site, Ghostery can identify risks, reduce vulnerability and drive significant revenue increases. How CIOs and Directors of Marketing (CMO) work together to take advantage of the promise of digital marketing, more control over security is essential to maximize the benefits of cloud marketing investments.

For more information on Cloud Marketing Management Ghostery, please visit http://www.ghosteryenterprise.com. To download a complete "digital safety is a serious matter" Ghostery report, please click here.

About Ghostery
Ghostery can consumers and businesses to expose and eliminate blind spots in the Cloud Digital Marketing - collection of digital technologies, the energy measurement to socialize, and to optimize web pages and applications. More than 40 million people around the world use the free Ghostery browser extension to view and control their followers online technologies. Companies rely on cloud management Ghostery Marketing ROI go through the maximization of safety, performance and profitability of their digital assets. Major customers such as Equifax, InterContinental Hotels Group and Procter & Gamble from Ghostery your business taxes on digital chaos. Ghostery is also the leading provider of Governance privacy worldwide, advance the implementation of the measures of more than 2 billion annually advertising and e-commerce. Founded in 2009, Ghostery is a technology office in Salt Lake City and sales offices in London and San Francisco based in New York. The company is supported by Warburg Pincus LLC, a global private equity investment. More GhosteryEnterprise.com etghosteryinc.

¹ Source: Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Secure. "Say sides, the use of" "In his popular internet provision," secure HTTPS. "This allows the authentication server and the website with the contact that protects man-in-the -Middle against attacks connected. Additionally, it provides an encryption Two-way communication between client and server, the network against eavesdropping and manipulation and / or form the content of the communication protects. [4] In practice this with reasonable certainty we communicate exactly the site intends to communicate with (as opposed to a fraudster) "and make sure that the content of the communication between you and the website can not read or manipulated by a third.

² Definition of mixed content and the associated risks:
http://www.troyhunt.com/2013/06/understanding content.html joint venture;
https://community.qualys.com/blogs/securitylabs/2014/03/19/https-mixed-content-still-the-easiest-way-to-break-ssl

Http://www.veracode.com/security/man-middle attack: ³ Source A man-in-the-middle attack is a type of cyber attack, where a malicious agent adds him / her in conversation between two and embodies both the access to information that both parties have tried to send another. An attack Man-in-the-middle can intercept a malicious agent to send, and data to someone else, or not sent at all was, without the parties had to know, "it's too late. Man-in-the- middle attacks can in many ways, including, MITM, MITM, MiM or MIM be abbreviated.

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HeBS Digital still high with seven Magellan Award

New York, NY (September 23, 2014) - HeBS Digital, the leader in digital entertainment technology, marketing and consulting firm, is proud to announce that it Travel Weekly Magellan Awards won seven in the category of home, including two gold Magellan Awards.

HeBS Digital is an honor to receive the following prizes:

Gold Magellan Awards:

• Brush Creek Ranch Site
• Main Resort / Timeshare - Interactive application: campaign last summer adventure Web Marketing / Advertising

Silver Magellan Awards:

"These awards are a true honor," said Max Starkov, President & CEO of HeBS Digital. We are humbled, but not surprised, that our commitment to the development of applications of digital technology, design and innovative marketing campaigns is recognized in the industry. We are proud to share the success with our customers who have placed their trust in our abilities and are now reaping the results with the industry acclaim and increased sales and revenues from direct online sales. "

From design to marketing services, Travel Weekly Magellan Awards honor the best travel and welcomes the outstanding travel professionals behind it. Meet a wide range of industries, the Magellan is the price, if you are in the travel industry.

To learn more about HeBS Digital CMS, SEO, SEM and Internet marketing technology for Hotel campaigns alone or Resort Properties (CMS Premium) casino and hotel chains, brands and companies learn to multi-property if Please visit the company website www .hebsdigital.com.

About HeBS Digital
Founded in 2001, HeBS Digital is a leading digital technology industry, a full-service hotel digital marketing, web design and consulting business direct online channel in the City of New York (www.HeBSDigital.com) is based. HeBS Digital has done many of the best practices in the mobile digital hotel marketing, social marketing and distribution channels and just pioneering work. The company has more than 250 industry awards for digital renowned design and website marketing web services, including numerous Adrian Awards, Davey Awards, W3 Awards, WebAwards, Magellan Awards, Summit International Awards, Interactive Media Awards won, and IAC Awards . A diverse client portfolio of high major hotel chains, luxury brands and boutique hotels, resorts and casinos, hotel management companies, franchisees and independents, and CVBs enjoy the hospitality HeBS Digital digital marketing experience. Contact advisor HeBS Digital (212) 752-8186 or success@hebsdigital.com.

The last sheet tricks on Inbound Marketing: A Guide to Marketing Manager

The average budget spent on company blogs and social media has tripled in the last three years, and it seems like everyone to talk about inbound marketing.

But what exactly is it? Do they offer value for money? Applies to B2B companies? And it's worth it when you integrate your current marketing approach?

Here are some answers to your questions.

What exactly is Inbound Marketing?

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The idea behind inbound marketing is that the purchasing behavior has changed. To give the necessary information about their products and services prospects 15 years ago. Now a great job of background research on your own, with 60% of the purchase decision before talking to someone made by the Executive Committee.

We define marketing as online marketing input each, creates and uses a direct relationship between you and your prospect or customer as an individual. So "inbound marketing" is actually a misnomer, because the approach includes methods such as sending e-mail marketing and the exchange of information on social media, the apparent "Issuer" as it approach.

Unlike other marketing channels, the Internet is what people can, if they are actively looking for information. So you can see the prospects, if they say you are considering buying speak something. Inbound marketing allows you to earn make them a decision by attracting business prospects with useful information. You can educate your prospects so that when they come to buy, you choose your business because they trust you.

Why Inbound Marketing to integrate in your approach?

There is a simple answer: It is a good value and easy to measure companies acquiring inbound marketing techniques better use than those who do not, according to HubSpot Inbound Marketing margins State, 2013 ..

Inbound marketing is also flexible. You are allowed to adjust their tactics, based on the new information, for example, if you write your website or blog to fix the problem.

Measurement of marketing activities is marketing simply by inbound. You can all search terms that people to your website lead to individual child over time download analyze. This gives you the evidence you need to support your marketing initiatives.

How do you use the Inbound Marketing?

One of the cornerstones of inbound marketing is to provide free information. The only "cost" of perspective, gives you the contact information so that you directly by phone or email on.

The prospects are insensitive "sold" over traditional marketing messages and do not want to in the conventional sense. You must become a trusted advisor who helps to make the prospect of a purchase decision. For this purpose, the cultivation of a relationship with the prospect. That means you offer useful and appropriate to each stage of the journey of the information authority: inform exciting, and transform their top prospect.

The idea is to be in the front of the minds of prospective customers when they are finally ready to buy. No sales messages that emphasize your product or service in particular - but it generates valuable information that leads and convert prospects into customers.

If it is applicable only for B2C companies?

Many of our B2B customers believe that their customers not to respond to inbound marketing. But in almost all cases, our research shows that in-depth strategies added value. Even in B2B sell not just a business - it is a human at the other end, the decision is to be made. And most of the people who have these choices, the Internet for research.

Are the sales of services and inbound marketing approach?

According to Paul Houston, our Managing Director, Inbound Marketing is "the seller sleep so that the sales team:

• Limit cold calling and focus on the "hot" traces "hot" or
• Become a consultant and a reliable partner for customers
• In order to better service for the customers
• Analyze the data to understand what creating a sale is necessary

But remember, while technical input is likely to help you win business in order to get the best results by integrating these tactics with other approaches offline.

If you enjoyed this article, please click here to read our eGuide inbound marketing for B2B companies.

The largest of the digital market and parallel US Like any A & M is greater than $ 1 billion

According to PQ Media Global Digital and another (D & A) grew by 11.9% on average earnings in 2013 that 24.2% of 1,007 billion USD and advertising, the marketing of the global ecosystem, which published a profit of 3.4% over the previous year.

Traditional advertising and marketing, meanwhile, increased by 0.8% in 2013, growth rates of D & C Media and advertising and traditional marketing and generally a slowdown from 2012 to BRIC markets higher represented growth compared to the economies of the weakening of the debt problems and the price of Soft Power.

Global D & Media revenue forecast 2014-18 is the first of three in the series of PQ Media Research, analyze media ecosystem rapidly.

Global Digital Media and Alternative Finance (in USD million)
		CAGR			CAGR
Media sector	2013	2008-13	2014	2018	2013-18
Digital and Alternative Advertising
Sales (in millions of dollars)	$ 102.631
YY growth	15.6%	14.8%	16.9%		17.0%
% Share	40.7%
Alternative and Digital Marketing
Sales (in millions of dollars)	$ 149.516
YY growth	10.0%	9.9%	11.5%		12.1 %%
Share	59.3%
Total Digital and Alternative Media
Sales (in millions of dollars)	$ 252.147			$ 489.759
YY growth	11.9%	11.8%	13.7%		12.4%
Source: PQ Media September 2014

Despite the slowdown in growth in 2013, D & A media he was of higher growth in channels of mobile media and double-digit gains in other platforms and other digital media, not driven including Internet advertising, paid product placement, marketing and mouth-to- mouth. A number of major brands change budgets penetration tablet mobile search is significantly increased, while PC penetration begins to fall in households.

• Sales of D & advertising increased by 15.6% in 2012, as Internet advertising has been the largest mobile ads and the World advertising platform published faster growth, says report
• Marketing revenues D & A by 12% to produce $ 136.37 billion in 2012, with online marketing and replaces public events as the biggest marketing platform and mobile marketing faster growth.
• Search online were more than 40 global channels of D & media analyzed, reaching $ 45.18 billion in 2012, while mobile coupons the highest growth in the year, rising 115 2%
• Sales of D & advertising increased 14.7% to $ 102.63 billion in 2013, as the platforms and mobile Internet advertising showed the fastest growth, the report
• Global Marketing & D costs by 10% to $ 149.52 billion, driven by strong growth in mobile marketing, product placement and marketing word-of-mouth
• The largest D & A media platform in 2013 was Internet advertising has reached 73.38 billion U.S. dollars worldwide, while mobile marketing is the fastest growing new media platforms D & communications, rising at a rate of 70.4% in

However, in the market of the United States, the income of the average 12.6% increase in 2013 to $ 103.02 billion, while the largest digital media market in the world. D & average 26.5% of all revenue from advertising and marketing in the United States, compared to only 15.6% in the year of 2008.

The D-driven and advertising industry by 16.5% in 2013, due to strong double-digit growth in all channels of mobile advertising, mobile media such as video, audio, and increased while D & A increased 10.7% Marketing by Mobile Marketing channels such as mobile search driven.

In comparison, the United States has traditional means 1% by 2013, continued to show after the press lower growth and lack of exercise-revenue for broadcasters such as the Olympics and political advertising. The expenses for advertising and marketing increased by 2.4% in 2013 and reached $ 376.29 billion, still below the results of 2008.

USA incomes and other digital media ($ million)
		CAGR			CAGR
Media sector	2013	2008-13	2014	2018	2013-18
Digital and Alternative Advertising
Sales (in millions of dollars)	$ 35.289
YY growth	16.5%	13.7%	18.5%		17.9%
% Share	34.2%
Alternative and Digital Marketing
Sales (in millions of dollars)	$ 67,733
YY growth	10.7%	9.8	12.1%		% 11.7%
% Share	65.7%
Total Digital and Alternative Media
Sales (in millions of dollars)	$ 103.122			$ 199.899
YY growth	12.6%	11.1%	14.3%		14.2%
Source: PQ Media September 2014

D & media, the conversion was on the pace in the first half of 2014 increased by 14.3% for the full year, the highest growth rate since the recession.

Operators of American media should generate a CAGR of 14.2% in D & A in the period 2013-18, while D & annual advertising revenues expected to increase by 18.5% in 2014 and a rate of 17.9% in the next five years,

In comparison, it is expected that the traditional media increased to 1.3% in 2014, and following an annual growth rate of 1.5% to $ 293.81 billion in 2018, with profits mainly due to the influx of political campaign attributed and Olympic advertising.

The United States was the world's largest market of over $ 100 billion in sales operator D & media, reaching 103 million in 2013, almost five times larger than the second place in Japan. The United Kingdom had the largest D & media of their average total income in 2013 to 30.6%, followed by Japan, Canada and the United States at number seven in a ratio of 26 to 5%.

D & A growth media represent a slowdown in growth, the brands are not only changing budgets away from print to mobile platforms and media channels, as well as new media and exterior of the house and marketing word-of-mouth digital. Most notable, however, is the impact on mobile is with powerful Internet channels, such as search and display, with brands that want to reach the main target groups on tablets and smartphones instead of PCs.

• Product placement is to continue to show double-digit growth rates in all media. Stages of viral television became more frequent, such as placing the patch on Toyota at football matches of the NFL preseason. Digital paid placements appear in YouTube videos, while businesses are trained to proactively targeted young audiences online and on mobile devices.
• OOH higher growth during the year despite headwinds in the digital media category road display. A court-ordered closure of all digital map of Los Angeles, along with slowing organic growth in the existing digital display, led to the first digit growth rate for this category. DBB smoother results were carefully strong categories, locally based networks, particularly digital point-to-points, as more and more doctors and hospitals increased by the number of seats on the screen, leading the join operator offset the customer the Affordable Care Act to be informed.
• The concept of "native advertising" has an impact on many channels of D & A. advertising content comes from brands that are connected together and placed in the vicinity of the content to content owners of media companies, publishers and operators. With stressed editors, it is becoming increasingly common, even sponsored content online and mobile content and product placement in other media, the fastest growing digital channels driving
• Word of mouth continued strong growth due to the strong participation of sponsored tweets phones and best parameters WOMM campaigns for television in collaboration with researchers from WOMM to monitor conversations in the audience to show down the next day, or technology company, the digital buzz Something to give,
• Advertising game generate faster growth in 2014, which improved the Xbox and PlayStation became available, followed by several release new titles in 2014, many console games and digital platforms, promotes the growth of advertising opportunities in online games and mobile

Advertising and Marketing worldwide sales (in USD billion, digital +)
Year	USA A & M income ($ Bil USA)
2008	$ 381
2013	$ 376
2018	$ 496
Source: PQ Media September 2014

Total Marketing Advertising and Sales (USD billion, digital +)
Year	A & M Global Income (U.S. $ billion)
2008	$ 945
2013	$ 1.007
2018	$ 1.371
Source: PQ Media September 2014

With the austerity measures and economic drive faster growth in many economies expected to stagnate during the forecast period, as provided for broadband, smart phone, and the penetration of the tablet, D & A deeper median income should increase, with a growth rate of 14.2% per year in the next five years compounded at $ 489.76 billion in 2018 To put it in perspective, the traditional advertising and marketing with an annual growth rate of 3% 2, grow bears the mark of global marketing to grow at a CAGR of 6 , 4%, according to the report.

Finally, the report notes that D & C Media represent more than a third of the global advertising and marketing revenues in 2018, is involved with several markets at or above the 40%, led by Australia. Increase D & advertising revenue 17% CAGR and D & A Marketing will increase at a CAGR of 12.1% in 2018, Brazil and Russia, among the highest growth market in the forecast period, as each host are two sporting events around the world, including the Summer Olympic Games in Brazil in 2016 and the World Cup in Russia in 2018, the United States, the largest D & A media market will stay just next to the, reference to 200 million dollars, while only recording an annual growth rate of 14%.

For more information and the full report in PDF format is available here PQ Media.

To prevent tourists travel sites general searches on the Internet

ABTA, the trade body for travel companies, the research of its annual report, which showed, travel companies hired not be able to use their websites to sell goals efficiently.

Consumers use a variety of sources - including print, online and face to face - Ideas and rental on the ABTA.

According to research, 41 percent of respondents in all age groups to use general search on the internet for ideas and inspiration for your next stay in the amount of 46 percent of young people aged 16-24 years.

Meanwhile, 36 percent of all age groups chosen travel brochures for ideas and 34 percent asked for recommendations from friends and family, the old increased from 49 percent of those aged 16-24 years.

But the websites of the airlines were low on the list of sources of ideas, with only 15 percent of respondents using this method, a slight increase from 17 percent of young people aged 16-24 reported old.

The general trends of the report showed a slight decrease in the number of days in the 12 months to August 2014, 80 percent a vacation in the country or abroad in this period compared to 83 percent in 2013.

Among those, 68 percent took a holiday in the last 12 months, a break in the UK, while 53 percent took holidays abroad.

The respondents were 41 percent a holiday in the UK and abroad in the last 12 months, an increase of two percentage points in the last 12 months.

But a growing number of people have not a holiday at all in the last 12 months compared to 10 percent in 2011, 20 percent.

Commenting on the results, Mark Tanzer, Chief Executive said ABTA: "The last 12 months have been varied, from the perspective of trust and consumer sales.

"Our members have reported a growth market with sales of high consumer confidence and a strong start to the season. Since then we have seen consumer confidence and soften a mixed picture for the Christmas sales."

Perfect your balance Outbound Inbound Marketing

Life is balance. The balance between professional and personal life. The relationship between diet and exercise. So why marketing input-output be different?

In earlier times it was the right combination of creative image focusing and faster Brand call to action and the reaction of direct marketing. Now that the debate about inbound marketing moves; but people forget about the balance of power strategy with best external marketing.

No doubt the ad game has changed and continues to change rapidly. Participants, including organic search engine marketing and paid Internet, blogs, social networks and content development, increased with the increasing use of the Internet and ubiquitous connectivity. The problem here is that, while many marketing budgets move arrival, increased congestion and performance fade.

So this kind of marketing works? Yes. Sometimes.

Then marketing projections. Has traditional media (television, radio, newspapers / magazines, direct mail, e-mail, with a sales representative / team, business and public relations measurement), and will still be used to influence it can not you think, I know They are not available, or when a new product or service, including the updating of an existing system, usually for a wider audience. While effective, it is expensive and requires more time for the ramp and read the test results.

So this kind of marketing works? Yes. Sometimes.

A company website acts as a balance of the two types of marketing because it can perform two types of marketing to marketing efforts so that their importance today. Same with landing pages / microsites.

Today, as we noted in the past, we need marketing that a combination of inbound and outbound strategies and tactics used to increase our chances of success.

Inbound assumed, wrongly, that their perspectives are often found. Practicing media and the proliferation of communication time due diligence is down. We simply have too many demands on our time. Therefore, a combination of the two approaches is more logical.

When run on the drive, you will be able to move faster and more efficiently. Test incoming aggressive tactics and take their knowledge and apply it to your outbound marketing efforts, while still in the trial. Test offers and / or e-mail first and focus on key metrics - conversions instead of clicks, for example.

This will help you determine what works includes / Messaging and confirm or discredit their effectiveness with output sharpening, plays precisely on each channel and its return. If you offer / messaging below, you can go to the first to market faster and more successfully.

For example, it was used against two tough tenders, a free collection with a free hat try introducing a soft offer ("Be the first to know ..."). The hard-fought deal, but the amazing customer cover less easily beat the expensive collection.

We have then used these insights aggressive in our efforts to be out and successfully tested a new output channel, paid ads, and landing pages, as well as traditional direct mail.

Registered customers had money, determine an impressive return on investment and what strategy to quickly go to the market, based on a combination of inbound and outbound marketing.

The conclusion is that we live in a world of multi-channel marketing. Those who understand this, and the need for tests and other tests are those who end up taking money to the bank.

Grant A. Johnson is the ambassador of fun at the Direct / Johnson answers. He can be contacted at grant.johnson@johnsondirect.com