Sunday, April 12, 2009

Live Blogging at WIMST Day 1

And we're off!

Winning Internet Marketing Strategies & Tactics is now up and running. We have 12 participants, with a majorty coming from a prominent media company.

Prof. Ricky Lim kicked things off a while a go with a road map of the course and now Jayvee is talking about an overview of Internet Marketing.

I'll be posting updates in this blog, apart from the Twitter #wimst topic. :)

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Interesting insight: smaller companies "take risks" with internet marketing more, compared to corporate giants, at least locally.

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One theme recurring is the hesitance of companies to invest on internet marketing because there fear or lack of understanding. Also, there is also a need to have better media valuation of internet marketing.

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We had good looks at campaigns from a local deli/cofee shop and a telco. Interesting stuff from Jayvee.

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One key question we hope to answer during the duration of the course: "how do you convince the big advertisers to advertise online?"

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Key takeaway: Pitch internet marketing in a different way, relative to traditional campaigns. "Traditional" companies need to look at internet marketing in a very different light.

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Nice URL's of local campaigns:
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Anton's time! We're looking at the Philippines' Top 100 websites... Interesting: News sites are going down, no local sites in top 10 sites in the Philippines.

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What IS the difference between "Word of Mouth" and "Viral Marketing"? Anton sharing his thoughts: Viral is really more technology-based.

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Nice things to think about for your internet campaigns: pain points, authenticity & empowerment.

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Anton is sharing the things that make things "viral" in the Philippines... interesting. Sample: Everyone loves food pics! :)

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The Wisdom of Crowds: the aggregation of information in groups, resulting in decisions that are often better than could have been made by any single member of the group.

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Now we're talking about Search Engine Optimization (SEO): stuff like onsite SEO techniques that even managers should talk about.

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SEO: When do you do SEO?

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Now we're at Pay Per Click advertising (PPC) strategies.

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