Have you ever chatted to a direct marketer (from the old school) about online and search engine marketing? Did you end up hearing the line – “it’s all direct marketing, just in a different medium”

Whether you believe that or not, the fact of the matter is that many of the old rules of direct marketing very much apply to our new age of marketing.

There’s a myriad of “top rules of direct marketing” lists out there, one of which I stumbled on in my recent meanderings online. While reading it, I couldn’t help but see how these rules applied to PPC advertising. So here it is with a PPC advertising slant on the explanations.

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A new report released today by Efficient Frontier shows that overall search advertising spend is beginning to stabilize as the economy slows its freefall.

Overall U.S. advertising spend dropped slightly in Q2 2009, however the rate of decline is slowing. In contrast to the reduction in spend is advertiser’s ROI, which recently grew by 12 percentage points to 129%.

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If you’ve got someone managing your Pay-Per-Click (PPC) campaign, then you probably are hearing a lot of jargon and acronyms. The world of PPC is similar to search engine optimization when it comes to abbreviations and tech-speak, but it is still important for a customer to understand what is being referenced in a conversation, since your PPC agency is using your money to make the best possible purchases. Search Engine Marketing (SEM) agencies generally use a whole raft of terms in their internal reporting, and unfortunately they don’t always tone down the jargon when speaking to customers. (more…)