Comments on: How Search Engine Marketing Can Save the Economy

By: oldschool

oldschool — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:45:04 +0000

@ Monica – No worries, I don’t take offense to anything or I wouldn’t be a blogger

By: Miss Monica

Miss Monica — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:08:53 +0000

Hi Old School,
I didn’t mean to be confrontational!!!! I realize you weren’t about economics… I guess my “in case you haven’t noticed” sounds that way… oops
I meant to add to what you were saying, because I really enjoyed the article and I agree we need to be doing things differently. Search Engine Marketing gets the direct mail out of my MailBoss and the voice with the many and that works for me. For being Old School, you’re not so old school!

By: oldschool

oldschool — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:42:41 +0000

@ Monica – I think you missed my point. I wasn’t arguing economics, I was sharing how companies can effectively use Internet Marketing to grow their business, very similar to how you shared your business is doing. Keep doing what you are doing – provided it is in line with industry best practices.

By: Miss Monica

Miss Monica — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:29:05 +0000

Actually, I’m not sure what it means to “save the economy”. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t mean a continual increase in the GDP. In case you haven’t noticed, an increase in GDP doesn’t translate into a higher standard of living for 98.5% of Americans. In order to see where most of the “growth” goes, you have to look up, way, way up. For instance, from 1972 to 2001, the top 10% had an inflation adjusted income gain of less than 1% a year, for a total of 34%. The top 1% had a gain of 87%. The top .01% had a whopping gain of 497% (I kid you not- this was reported in a NY Times article by Krugman). Perhaps economies shouldn’t grow! For all the good it does 99% of Americans, maybe they need to be sustainable, and that’s it! And yes, among other things, I think that does mean less trees (direct mail) coming uselessly to my mailbox, and more relevant information available to me by personal interest and search.

My company manufactures locking security mailboxes. We use the search engine marketing that you recommend and our business is growing, even in this “recession”. Maybe it’s because of the growing divide between the super rich and the super poor, but it seems there are a growing number of people in America who don’t “play by the rules”. There are organized criminals who steal the mail, and networks in place to steal the identities of anyone with good credit or a balance in a checking account. It’s the middle-class everyday American that is paying the price and pardon the expression, but that sucks.

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By: Zoobie Joy

Zoobie Joy — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:59:26 +0000

I think so..SEM can help a lot in saving the economy especially now that a lot of people are willing to spend money for their sites..^^

By: todd

todd — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:12:48 +0000

I agree, Internet Marketing will no doubt make companies that implement it more profitable, but it won’t help the US economy as a whole. you see there is a finite amount of searchers and therefore buyers. This won’t change by any amount of budget shift to IM.

In fact, I’d argue that phasing out an ACTIVE customer acquisition marketing strategy (like direct mail) to something more passive, like search, the economy would suffer as a result. In effect, you’re going after people already looking for services/products as opposed to marketing to people who might need your product but just haven’t actively begun shopping. The latter is more apt to STIMULATE the economy.

By: oldschool

oldschool — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:54:17 +0000

@ Murty – I see I’ve opened a can of worms here. I really didn’t intend for the focus to turn to outsourcing challenges. I will try to do some more in-depth research into this side of things and try and see how outsourcing is impacting SEM economy. I am certainly more curious now myself. Thanks for stopping by.

By: Murty BVNS

Murty BVNS — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:26:33 +0000

I agree with Kary and Old school as we are handling cases at less than 90 percent cost than our US contemporaries for the same work and capable of producing more results. Can you imagine a graduate woman working at home trained for one month works happily for a Internet marketing at 100 dollars a month ( almost 240 hrs a month ) Can anyone compete from US.

By: oldschool

oldschool — Sat, 31 May 2008 22:33:51 +0000

@ Kari – I hear what you are saying, but for some US companies (not ours) outsourcing is a part of their profit model so there is no guarantee that all of the money would stay in the US. One could argue that by outsourcing, they can remain more profitable and keep more people in the US hired, assuming there higher profit margins allowed them to hire more people than would lose jobs for the outsourced tasks. There is no simple answer. Thanks for dropping by.