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Copywriting, internet marketing AND Difference between Long & Lengthy
When it comes to internet marketing, Copywriting is considered as important as the technical stuff such as SEO.

           But unlike SEO, which is still the domain of a few World class experts; the content copywriting is a more democratic arena, where nothing can be treated as some airy fairy concept. Every copywriting concept has some logic behind it. A logic which ensures the success of a marketing copy based on that concept.

Since Copywriting is writing a copy for the purpose of advertising or marketing -- the objective of which is to persuade someone to buy a product or service, or make them agreeable to the marketing copy or the thought; that's why there are no fixed rules in Copywriting, as to what will convince and what will not.

For instance, in copywriting, it's often said that, other variables equal, a Short copy always performs better than a Long one.

This is not always true. As the length of a copy doesn't stop at 'Long' itself. There's one more term called 'Lengthy'.

And the distinction between Long and Lengthy matters a lot in copywriting.

A copy may be Long, but if it's useful and hence interesting to the reader or customer, it will NOT seem BORING.

A copy which seems boring to the reader or customer is actually "Lengthy".

This explains why someone planning to buy a particular smartphone, is able to read long pages laden with technical specifications, features, reviews and what gadget experts have said about it.

Do think about it. If you're trying to master the art and science of copywriting.

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Anil Singh Friday, February 20, 2015
2 Things you MUST NOT DO to make Yourself Popular on Facebook

With more than a Billion Facebook users across the world ( many of whom are active on a daily basis), many aspiring Facebook marketers want to make themselves and their Business or Brand pages popular on Facebook. That's why they have set a weird kind of goal for themselves: The goal to get 5000 Friends for their profile and as many likes as possible for their pages.

This goal, makes many of them ask a weird question: How many friends requests can I send a day, so that I remain safe from Facebook's ire?

The above question is funny as , their viewpoint for Facebook marketing is very wrong.

It's wrong because, you don't need everyone to be your friend on Facebook, you want someone who really likes you and your product/service (Page) , trusts you and spreads your word.

2 Things you MUST NOT DO to make Yourself Popular on Facebook

1) Approaching Facebook users to friend you or Like your Page

The novelty days of Facebook are over. This means that Facebook users now sense within seconds even the slightest bit of selfishness. Hence the moment the Facebook user you're approaching to finds that you wants to friend with him/her for your own vested interested, the person will never respond to your request. Hence the question of how many friend requests you can send a day is unnecessary. Even when you are not penalised by Facebook, you will emerge as a person who is liked by none.

2) Get to the 5000 Facebook friends mark or get loads of likes for your page in No Time 

In Facebook marketing, the maxim : Quality matters more than the Quantity.

You are focussing on getting 5000 friends or loads of Likes for your page fast. That's why you are friending everyone (by sending friend requests to all and sundry). But those who are accepting your friend requests without much consideration to what you promote on Facebook, are in all probability those Facebook users who themselves want to reach the 5000 friends count. This means that once befriended, many of these network marketers on facebook will push their own marketing on your Facebook timeline.

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The right approach to Facebook marketing is to have a compelling product, content or service which is useful, builds trust and loyalty among the target audience. It's not necessary to have too many Facebook Friends or Page Like. What is important is , you care about them as much as they care about you. This means not burdening your followers with too direct promotion and marketing.

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Anil Singh Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Facebook to launch 'Reply' And 'Most Active Threads' Feature for Pages and Profiles
People do spend a lot of time Facebook. They also show a high degree of engagement with other Facebook users. But this is not surprising as 'Engagement is Facebook's most important metric'. And everything the social giant does is someway linked to the metric.

But will Facebook be able to successfully connect this engagement with revenue is an entirely different question. People may engage with others in a social setup, but do they have buying intent during this process is another thing.

That said, Facebook seems to have realized that it can't make money as Google does (by showing ads). And good or bad, it has to devise a way to make money via its strength -- the engagement. And what better way to strengthen the engagement than improving on conversation. Allow Facebook people to talk more personally and pointedly to each other and stronger will be the engagement. Working on the same, Facebook is preparing to roll out a new feature on Pages and popular Profiles that will help increase interactions with fans and readers: Replies. Notably, Replies are already a part of Facebook’s commenting plug-in, which are put on blogs and websites.

At present, visitors can comment on a Facebook post; but if the post has more than one comment; then neither the Page/profile owner nor any member can effectively reply to any specific commenter. Although at present, Facebook owners and users do respond to each other by prefixing '@ followed by name' before their reply to a particular member; but still still this is not cool both from time and efficiency pov (if one has to look for all the replies made to a particular comment; he/she has to scroll down the entire page. difficult more with mobile devices). To improve on this situation, Facebook has been running tests of the new 'Replies' feature since November last year. When the Replies feature will be launched, people will see a Replies button under individual comments. This way any one can post a counter reply to any particular comment.

According to TechCrunch, Facebook will launch the Replies feature formally as an opt-in on Monday, March 25, before turning it on for everyone in July. At present, only those Pages with more than 10,000 followers, not personal accounts, are testing Replies feature. Replies initially won’t work on mobile, users of the native iOS and Android apps will see Replies as regular comments. That apart, there will be not Reply feature on posts via the Graph API. This will also mean that third-party page management apps for now will get the short end of the stick because they will also not be able to write Replies — only comments.

Another feature that will be launched at the same time is "Active-thread shifting" or "Most Active Thread". Aimed again at strengthening the engagement metric, the new "Most Active Thread" feature is a bit difficult to understand, particularly how it works. If explained in plain words, the feature will fetch the most active conversations at the top of the posts using an algorithm.

But Facebook is not using some simple criteria like number of likes or replies (that's why Replies feature is introduced alongside), to decide on the most active threads. It has been reported that the algorithm Facebook uses is a a bit complex. The algorithm, which even though ties in with how Facebook generally prioritizes content for you based on your own social network and likes; will evolve a deciding strategy based on the profile or page owners friends/members and how the this sub-social network (formed by the profile/page owner and friends/fans react to content on the profile and the Page). In short, "Most Active Thread" different profiles/pages will be fetched to the top based on different set of considerations. As a consequence, no two Facebook profiles/pages will resemble each other. For instance, if people you are more friendly with, comment or like a particular post; that will reach the Top (so that you take notice of that conversation or join it). Conversely, threads or comments flagged as spam will drop down the list, and Facebook says it may also “down-rank” comments made by frequent spammers.

What do Replies and Most Active Thread mean to a user and a marketer:

The changes are in a way are correcting the skewed concept of 'Friends', Facebook (and other social networks) invented. One can make 5000 friends on Facebook, but he/she will interact and listen to only that many friends, as humanly possible. Close friends can be 6 or 7; and extended circle can be 20 or 25. But it's not possible to be friends with 100 people.

With Replies and Most Active Thread, Facebook will restrict Facebook users to their inner circle of freinds (6 or 7 friends). This group will have more meaningful interaction with each other. And that interaction will sometimes solicit purchase opinions from one another.

Marketers will benefit, as much as Facebook wants them to. That's the information Facebook will provide them. Curating information one one's own, will become difficult for marketers, as smaller friend groups will mean, less amount of generalized intelligence. ---------

Anil Singh Thursday, March 21, 2013
Facebook Questions to have larger visual format

According to reports, Facebook is busy testing larger visual format for its Questions product.

The larger visual format means -- large photos that users can click on to respond.

This is revealed by some, who spotted Facebook guys testing this on its own “Known Issues on Facebook” and “Facebook Tips” pages.

The same changes when tried to be replicated by some ordinary users, didn't effected. Making the implementers, infer that the changes were part of some testing; and whether the same will be rolled out to ordinary Facebook users, is uncertain.

What the New Larger Visual Format looks like:

According to InsideFacebook, the new layout is much more noticeable in News Feed and includes subtle animations when users hover their mouse over the different options. After users choose an answer, they will see how others voted. This aspect appears in the same format that Facebook originally used for Questions.

A chiefly visual layout appeared on mobile devices as well. Here when a user clicks through from a friend’s News Feed story,and responds by touching the image they want to vote for.

Notably, Facebook Questions is an abandoned sort of product of Facebook, which was launched last year. initially it showed some promise, by envisioning concepts like the polling and recommendation feature. But later on Facebook guys lost interested in the offering. Interestingly, only recently, Facebook allowed to see and answer questions from mobile devices. Users still can’t ask questions via mobile.



Who will be delighted with larger visual format, on Facebook Questions:

Marketers and those entrepreneurs or business people who practice personal branding. Politicians, celebrities and leaders can benefit too. A bigger picture of the person and ability to click on it to respond, is a good way to connect to fans. If Facebook extends the larger visual format to more pages; and with Facebook testing page post ads in News Feed, this may become a new interactive advertising opportunity, notes InsideFacebook.

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Anil Singh Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Facebook Premium Ad Prices rising, CTR on decline
Ahead of its roadshow, beginning this week, to convince potential investors that its business is worth up to $96 billion in its initial public offering later this month; a few numbers are out on Facebook’s Ad prices.
Some revelations positive, others not so.

On the positive side, two recent studies have found that Pricing for Facebook’s premium “social” advertisements continues to rise.

A report to be released any time now, by Marin Software, a digital marketing platform that processes more than $100 million worth of spending on Facebook, found a 26 percent increase over the last year in the cost per click (cost per Click, is the per click price which advertisers pays to Facebook) for “premium” ad formats such as Sponsored Stories, which highlight friends’ “likes”, comments and other endorsements of brands’ activity on the site.

Marin’s report findings on the CPC is in line with the data published last month by TBG Digital, a digital advertising firm, which also showed a 23 percent increase in cost per click for the first quarter of 2012 compared with the fourth quarter of 2011.

On the flip side, the same study finds that the cost per click for Facebook’s standard ads, which contribute for an estimated three-quarters of the social network’s advertising revenues, fell 26 percent over the last year. The cost of delivering an ad to 1,000 people increased 41 percent in the first quarter of 2012 compared with the same quarter last year.

However, click-through rates on ads—a key measure of effectiveness of an ad (how many people visiting a page actually clicked on the ad)—fell an average of 6 percent across Facebook’s top five territories.

Inferences arrived at:


Some experts are of the opinion that Facebook is not actually able to deliver the promise of having 900 million users to its advertisers. The advertisers may be or may not be happy with their ability to measure the returns from that investment, as a CTR rate of 6 percent is not that bad after all; but a declining CTR can be problematic for Facebook, as Facebook has to justify a USD 96 billion valuation.

The fact that the standard and premium ad pricing trends for Facebook are heading for opposite directions; is making some suspect that Facebook may attempt to move away from keyword-targeted “direct response” advertising—so-called Marketplace ads, popular with online gaming and dating firms, which appear on the right-hand side of a user’s page—and towards getting big brands to buy “social” ads.

In this scenario, when a common joe (normal people like you and I) is removed from the Facebook ad scenario -- Will it be easy for Facebook to justify a USD 96 billion valuation, is any body’s guess. In short, Facebook can command a valuation that big, by solely depending on Big brand’s money.

It’s here important to note that, a slowdown in revenue growth from advertising in Facebook’s first-quarter results raised concerns about the company’s momentum.

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Anil Singh Monday, May 7, 2012
Increase the Active Life of Your Tweets with Twylah
Is it interesting for you to know about some Twitter-related startup, attracting a lot of attention amidst users, as it meets a need that Twitter is not filling? If yes, then keep reading.

One such recent startup to capture the imagination of Twitter users is Twylah.

Twylah is a service which provides a way for Twitter users to display the content of all their tweets on a single, personalized page.

What is good about Twylah is that rather than tweets disappearing into the oblivion after they have been posted, Twylah lets them live on, so that they are consumed by more people for a longer period of time.

The service has especially resonated for individuals and companies that generate a lot of tweets to build personal or corporate brands. For them, Twylah has proved to be a compelling way to offer more value to potential readers and customers.

The insanely simple concept of Twylah -- of displaying the content of tweets on a page that can be branded -- is so smart that it has also answered one important question of companies and marketers – How to monetize their Twitter activity?

Does this make your wonder why Twitter or another startup hasn’t already done it?

Then for your and for the information of the duo who created Twylah -- Eric Kim and his wife, who started San Francisco-based Twylah; There is always the possibility that Twitter might decide to eventually offer a similar service.

[NOTE: The service is currently in Beta, so you will need invitation to join it. But that's easy, just go to the service home page and click Sign in, and then submit your email address and wait for Twylah people approving your request and sending you the invitation.] ---------

Anil Singh Monday, September 26, 2011
Facebook personalities women Hate
Having a heightened awareness about almost anything, it’s not surprising that 85% Of Women on Facebook Are Annoyed By Most of their Facebook Friends, informs a new survey from, Eversave, a daily deal site.

But what is interesting is to know about the Facebook personalities (a person behaving in a particular manner) that annoy women the most. The type can be a revelation OR a thing a common knowledge to the reader, depending on how well he/she knows "women"

Below are the Facebook personalities in their friend list that women on Facebook hate the most:

• Personality One: Complaining all the time (63 percent)

• Personality Two: Sharing unsolicited political views (42 percent)

• Personality Three: Bragging about seemingly perfect lives (32 percent)

• Personality Four: Always eager to post updates about their precious kids (16 percent)

In case the above, were a revelation to you, then, now you know exactly which Facebook personalities not to emulate if you want to have good rapport with women on Facebook. A Lesson particularly important for online marketers and simple 'men'. ---------

Anil Singh Wednesday, March 30, 2011
The Huffington Post Bloggers protest tells why own Blog should not be ignored
I always debated why it’s best to have a blog for all those who aspire to make money online. And by Blog -- I mean, a Blog, the one which has xyz.com or xyz.blogspot.com; and you own it the same way as Mark Zukerberg owns facebook.com or I own tech24hours.com .

The reason is simple: A blog is your own entity and its real estate is yours— which no one but you decide on how to use it to make money. It’s alright that others, advertisers etc. will be making money along with you too; but the bottom line is – you will also benefit from anything which occupies your blog real estate. Either by showing ads or selling products or by leveraging brand identity.

Twitter, Facebook and other platforms may be a hit with marketers, and may some times be called as a blogging platform; but as a user, you have not chance to take benefit of the platform real estate. That remains with the owners.

This line of thought exulted itself once again with the latest AOL Acquisition of The Huffington Post – a big blog or a popular news website, which posts content on variety of topics.

In the deal, AOL paid $ 315 million for The Huffington Post. Arianna Huffington, the website owner, is going to take as much as $100 million from the pie, along with a $4 million annual salary.

Obviously, The Huffington Post is not a single person website, it has an army of few thousand bloggers who contribute on everything from politics to entertainment to tech and a majority of these contributors, if not all, aren’t paid anything for their work. They either did for fame or to bring traffic to their respective blogs, if they have one.

So, after the deal, some of these unpaid contributors are asking – “what about their effort in building The Huffington Post?” They never got a penny then and not even now.

Now some of these Huffington Post contributors are demanding a share of the pie. They’ve setup a Facebook Page, appropriately titled Hey Arianna, asking Arianna to “give a little back to the unpaid writers who built the Huffington Post.”

I can feel how these contributors may be feeling. They are bound to feel their hard work being ignored.

But to be frank, even when these contributors want The H Post to acknowledge their efforts monetarily, the latter has its limitations too. In short, it can’t pay everyone and that too in a satisfying manner. And after all, if contributors provided it the content, it provided them fame and traffic.

That said, those who have set up their individual websites may be feeling less disappointment than those who have not. Although a Facebook, YouTube or twitter profile for some contributors may also be keeping them less heartbroken; those who have positioned their blogs to take advantage of their parallel content on The HP, will be more happy, and for obvious reasons.

To conclude, the THP protests have once again proved that those who want to make money online, should not ignore their blog(s), even if they find better ways to make money online. ---------

Anil Singh Thursday, February 10, 2011
Matt Drudge joins twitter: Opportunity for world to learn from his tweets
Matt drudge, the American creator and editor of the Drudge Report, a news aggregation website, Notoriously elusive internet aggregator, has decided to change his exceptionally low profile existence and instead has decided to give his internet persona a voice.

Matt has joined Twitter, although he doesn’t like the name of the social network.

On the last check, Matt had verified his account and had 6886 followers, and following no one.

In the last couple of hours, since joining, Matt has tweeted about, Twitter and Howard Stern, peculiarity of internet nomenclature, Obama etc. If you want to know else he’s talking about now and in coming months. Follow him, here’s his authentic account. It’s verified too. ---------

Anil Singh Sunday, February 6, 2011
Search Ads Are Better Than Facebook Ads: A study, coupled by ours, supports Schmidt
Last week, when outgoing Google CEO Eric Schmidt dismissed the idea of Facebook as Google's main competitor, claiming that Facebook ads don't really displace search ads; we, like most people started thinking.

The first thought that came to our minds, like many others, was maybe it’s “Schmidt’s another Big Talk”.

But when tried to couple our own survery, which we started in November 2010 and revealed findings day before yesterday, with a new survey from WebTrends then, we found that Schimdt may be indeed be saying truth.

According to the Webtrends study of Facebook advertising , Schmidt may be right: as users burn out much faster on Facebook ads than they do on search ads.

The study looked at about 1,500 Facebook ad campaigns consisting of more than 11,000 ads, and found that average clickthrough rates decline by half in about two days. In other words, once a user has seen an ad a couple of times, they're very unlikely to click on it. The pattern of decay continues until the clickthrough rate gets so low that Facebook removes it, and the advertiser is forced to start over again.

To take care of this burn out, Facebook Advertisers can use "friend of fan" targeting -- the feature that shows the names of friends who have also clicked on an ad. This helps advertisements last three times as long before users get sick of them and stop clicking. But the effective duration is still only a week or two.

A search ad can run for weeks or months with no changes. That's because the ad shows up only when users search on the associated keywords, so each ad continues to rotate through people who have never seen it before. The trick with search advertising isn't figuring out how to attract users with new ad copy (something top marketers do with Facebook ads ). It's more about buying the right keywords at the right times( a tested formula which Top marketers are using for Adwords, Google’s ad program for marketers).

Although, no study can be called authoritative, when it comes to ads online; with every model having its pros and cons; but treating Facebook ads are more like very well-targeted display ads, will not be bad after all. Our own poll provides some support in this regard.

In the said poll, we asked our esteemed readers, “Will you make Facebook as your default browser homepage?”. To this 72 percent said NO, 13 percent said YES and 13 percent said CAN’T SAY.

This made us infer that, the world still considers a “Search Page” as their primary gateway to web rather than some social network. When our poll findings are coupled with the findings of the WebTrends survey, then another inference can be derived, which says: No matter where people spend time, they want to keep a search service handy, as it’s where they search to buy stuff. ---------

Anil Singh Tuesday, February 1, 2011
EgoBook App creates a Book out of your Facebook Profile
For most people, a Book (one that is made of paper and is stacked in a book rack) created out of their Facebook wall posts, photos, and comments …. That’s everything that shows up on Facebook profile; will be of no use.

An Ego massaging exercise than anything.

After all what will a person do with such a book, that contains nothing but what the user has posted, reacted or uploaded in his own Facebook profile?

But there may be something very useful about such a book; else why would some Facebook app offer such a service?...Yes, 8 out of 10 times businesses fail to sense the buyer’s pulse; but I think the app means business. How? That a bit later, first a few things about the app.

EgoBook is a Facebook app that lets you turn your Facebook profile into an actual book. To create a Book out of your Facebook profile, the EgoBook Facebook app pulls in wall posts, photos, and comments from your Facebook profile (you will have to give it permission to do so). EgoBook will retrieve the data it needs to assemble a book from your profile, and store it on its servers for 48 hours or so, to create the Book. Once the book is created, the App removes your information from its servers. Last but not the least; EgoBook doesn't sell your information to third parties.

Pricing for an EgoBook starts around $22.45 US. You can visit their page and order one if you find it useful.

Now coming on to how the app is “speaking business”; I think the app provides something more than an Ego massaging exercise. A Book containing one’s Facebook activity, over a period of time, is a valuable tool for any marketer or online entrepreneur. The fact that the app makes it possible for a marketer/online entrepreneur to flip or compare, review, contemplate, pinpoint mistakes, strategize his/her Facebook profile, just like one reads a Book at Bed time, makes it immensely valuable. Other possible clients for this app can be businesses online, who can use such books to train the new recruits and to convey their Facebook philosophy to staff in general.

I feel that this app is going to do well; and surprise many. ---------

Anil Singh Monday, January 31, 2011
AOL App Promotion creates a New Niche that already exists!
Attention pulling phrases in Ads, Look at-least once videos, innovative or suggesting such a use of a device/product/service which people don’t like to talk in public (that in itself is Finding an Entirely New Niche); are an evergreen ingredients to a successful promotional campaign. Can be used alone, but work best when used together.

So kudos to AOL on its new campaign for its forthcoming Editions app; as it has used all the above mentioned ingredients.

A catchy slogan, with one low-key YouTube video, and suggesting a use which, though people are practicing with paper newspaper and books; don’t talk in public (as if revealed, no will either lend or borrow the person’s readables) it has managed to make for a successful promotion campaign.

Elaborating AOL’s Feat:

The video below, explains everything, said above:



Although, Flipboard is what epitomizes a tablet app; still AOL has cleverly created a new Niche for itself: The People who like to read while they are in bathrooms.

And this niche is very real and existing.

AIS media, recently surveyed Facebook readers to find that nearly one-third (27 percent) of respondents reported that they read Facebook while in the bathroom.

AIS Media’s survey also found that Facebook usage on mobile devices in the bathroom was higher among women with 54.4%; compared to only 45.6% of male respondents. Usage in the bathroom was greatest among the 30-49 age category.

*** As marketers, we know that Digital media is, if nothing else, being addicted to analytics, statistics and surveys to see how, when, where and who is eyeballing the content. And putting one’s energy beneath those eyeballs is every marketer’s objective. Good thing is AOL gave us a perfect case study, to look at and analyze.

About AOL Editions App:

The app will deliver news customized to a reader’s tastes – a genre perhaps best typified now by Flipboard. AOL‘s Editions, based on its video teaser, uses icons that represent these interests – sports, fashion, business news – which the user then arranges in the order he or she prefers. News from these categories, sourced from various sources, is then displayed in a magazine-like format. ---------

Anil Singh Monday, January 24, 2011
Moms think differently Sep 2009
By A Bisht

Those who have sisters will have noticed that, when they become moms their entire thought process changes. In majority of cases, kids become their main priority and every effort is made to provide the kids a hassle free life. As money is an important medium to ensure a good life, they start making conscious effort not only in making savings for future uncertainties; but also start spending each penny with extreme caution and judgment. So along with buying only the necessary; they also start looking for best bargains, whenever they shell out money.

In simple, a woman without children and a woman with children are two different entities. Moms do think differently.

A recent survey “What Women Want Consumer survey” by Prospectiv conducted among US women internet users with and without children; underlines the above assertion.

Findings of the survey:


--More moms than women without children said they did not mind seeing online discounts and coupons for products that interested them.
 Inference: As more alternates, can lead to a better buy.

-- Moms were less likely skip discount and coupon offers.

-- Moms trust online coupons more than female Internet users without children.

-- While 45 percent of moms wanted information relevant to their lifestyle; 30 percent of Women without children said they want messages pertaining to their lifestyle.

--While 21 out of hundred moms, wanted to see “anything they send me.” messages; Women without children were much pickier: only 17 out of every 100.

--While only 20 percent of moms, opted for “Don’t send anything at all” pertaining to their lifestyles; 35% of women without children want to opt for it.

-- More than the information on discount and other offers, women without children want information which is based upon recent purchases. While 18 out of 100 women without children depend on such info; for moms this number is 15 out of 100.

Interestingly ,females without children were twice as likely as moms to say they would pick something up based on a personal recommendation from a friend, family member or co-worker.

-- Altough “moms who blog” phenomenn is hyped a lot; the survey finds the marketers overestimating its usefulness. Just one out of every 100 moms, 1 percent, thinks blogs to be an effective way to promote a brand. In comparison, women without children are more positive about the effectiveness of the blogs, 8 among every 100.

Reason: This finding may appear a real surprise to some, but if the finding is analyzed with respect to the thought process of moms, which revolves around generating a secure, steady and permanent monthly income; along with conservation and avoidance of any money wastage; then effectiveness of a blog to promote anything worth, is bound to be seen by moms with some suspicion. In short, as most moms don’t consider blogging as a constructive activity, because of its low success rate; they consider it an ineffective medium.

Other findings:

-- For moms the most effective way Brands can be promoted online, in descending order of likeness:

Product samples offered online (47 percent)
Coupons (40 percent)
E-mails (9 percent)
Banner ads on websites (3 percent)
Blogs (1 percent)

-- For women without children the most effective way Brands can be promoted online, in descending order of likeness:

Product samples offered online (38 percent)
Coupons (34 percent)
E-mails (13 percent)
Blogs (8 percent)
Banner ads on websites (7 percent) ---------

Anil Singh Monday, October 12, 2009
Demographics/segments Cellular operators in India are eying
By A Bisht

The cellular operators in India are eyeing the youth and those living in rural areas.

The following numbers will justify the assertion:

Number of Youths in India: ____________________560 million or 56 crore

[This is more than the population of USA and Indonesia.]

Out of the total rural population, this is 70 percent of the India’s population; just 13 per cent have phones. ---------

Anil Singh Saturday, May 9, 2009