Comments on: 11 Internet Marketing Trends To Ignore in 2009

By: bfellow

bfellow — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:42:47 +0000

Great follow up to your 2008 list. Don’t agree with everything (I love analytics damn it!) but pretty sound for the most part.

By: luke

luke — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:24:31 +0000

I like it!

By: mayhem

mayhem — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:20:25 +0000

personaly i cant wait for yahoo to p**s off

By: marc

marc — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:22:27 +0000

Wow, what a list! Going to be tough to decide which one I agree most with. I sure HOPE IE continues to slide…with IE I always feel “forced” to do things…with Firefox I feel like they give me “options.”

By: Shawn

Shawn — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:51:54 +0000

Oooh, analytics 2.0, now you’ve given me an idea ;-)

By: Jay Philips

Jay Philips — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:33:36 +0000

Personally I am a fan of StatCounter but also use Google Analytics. It’s interesting to see how the information collected isn’t the same so it would be really nice to see standards.
I really like the ebook comment. It was amazing how many emails I received about ‘check out this cool ebook” or something to that effect. I didn’t buy any because to me the content in the ebooks were normally found by just doing a few more searches.
I tried out Google Chrome, wasn’t very impressed and went back to Firefox. I like Firefox the best since it’s not constantly crashing.
Thank you for the great list and I look forward to your 2010 list.
@jayphilips

By: Andrea Merida

Andrea Merida — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:24:53 +0000

I’m totally concerned with Google analytics, because the lion’s share of my site visitors are Google users. So I could really care less about other analytics, except of course Quantcast.

By: William Muncrief

William Muncrief — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:16:56 +0000

I couldn’t agree with you more on these issues.
I think the one that hits home the most for me is the one about crappy content. With all the article submitters that hit the market last year I am surprised people are still reading.
Thank you for your original and transparent content. Here is to you having a great 2009.

By: Sean Maguire

Sean Maguire — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:10:47 +0000

Analytics – The only point I disagree with.
“organizations will eventually lose their interest…”
Organizations and/or people will never lose their interest in analytics. Give someone a pretty chart with graphs and numbers and they go happily running to Sr. Mgmt for show and tell as if it were gospel.

By: Rick Kleban

Rick Kleban — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:04:46 +0000

Re: Analytics – I have to disagree with you on this one. I work with many clients on analytics and inconsistencies across web analytic packages is not their top concern. What is their top concern is understanding trends on their site and determining which marketing tactics are working best for them. We can easily go a few years before most companies bump into a “standards” issue. Good analysts are used to dealing with data inconsistencies.