Posted on February 28th, 2011 to Advertising, Blog, Consulting, Marketing, Retail, e-Marketing
Although more and more people are increasingly turning to the internet in lieu of newspapers, direct mail, radio, magazines and TV, not all traditional mediums are dead and buried.
Consider Groupon. It’s the largest group buying website in the world and it just launched a multi-million dollar branding and awareness campaign on that ancient thing we call network TV. So why then would Groupon use national network TV when it currently succeeds in reaching every major demographic market area in the United States simply through word-of-mouth, search engine optimization and public relations?
It’s simple. Online marketing is slow while traditional media encourages speedy transactions.
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