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eZanga.com Helps Bedco Mobility Grow Business

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Every business aims to reduce costs and increase profit, but not many are able to find the right formula to attain that goal.

eZanga client Bedco Mobility has figured out one way to do it, however. And in About.com’s ‘Entrepreneurs’ feature this week, the accessibility and mobility company made no bones about giving some of the credit for its recent success to its successful search engine marketing campaign with eZanga.com.

Bedco Sales Manager Tim Pelton took on the questions from About.com and told the story of how eZanga.com was helping to turn Bedco Mobility into even more of a household name.

“One of the ways we’re growing our business through technology is by utilizing search engine marketing, which makes us more visible on the Web. Prior to advertising online, we advertised exclusively in local newspapers and Yellow Pages, with no online representation other than our web site. Since our in-house staff does not know much about Internet marketing, we hired search engine marketing company eZanga to run the campaign. After just four months of running the campaign, our lead generation more than doubled.”

View the rest of the article at About.com for more on Bedco and eZanga.com’s partnership and why it has changed the way the company thinks about marketing in today’s landscape.

  

eZanga Prepared to Go West for SMX Expo

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

The annual SMX West trade show and expo is right on the horizon and eZanga.com will once again be part of the festivities, this year held at the Santa Clara Convention Center. The eZanga team will hit the Golden State on March 2nd and 3rd for the expo and will be set up in booth 213. Anyone planning on attending the event should stop by the expo, which will run 9:45 a.m.-7 p.m on March 2 and 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. on March 3, to talk to our team about eZanga’s sales and publishing opportunities.

This year, SMX West will feature over 50 sessions on relevant industry topics such as SEO, PPC, social media, local and mobile search, real-time search and more. This event will feature a keynote speech from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, while eZanga CEO Rich Kahn will give a presentation titled “How to Select the Right SEM Management Firm”. Kahn’s presentation will be held March 3 from 10:40-11 a.m. and will discuss what a business should consider when choosing a company to handle its Search Engine Marketing campaign.

For more information on the event including a schedule of events, go to http://searchmarketingexpo.com/west.

  

eZanga in the News

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

A couple of eZanga’s own showed up on the world wide web this week. Once again, CEO Rich Kahn was quoted in an article on WebProNews.com about the rise of display advertising.

“Research has shown that exposure to both search and display ads from the same advertiser results in a 22 percent increase for conversion rates over search alone,” Rich Kahn, CEO of display ad provider eZanga told WebProNews.”

Frank Holland, who manages the satellite office in Connecticut, was featured in a gallery on the Stamford Advocate highlighting the Social Media Marketing for Small Businesses Expo & Conference which took place last week in Stamford, Conn.

As eZanga.com continues to make its presence felt in the industry, make sure to keep checking back with eZanga News for all the latest news, events and appearances.

  

Blue Haven Pools Selects eZanga to run SEM campaign.

Monday, January 25th, 2010

eZanga has been selected by the nation’s number one pool company, Blue Haven Pools, to implement and oversee a search engine marketing campaign.

With the new deal, Blue Haven looks to use eZanga to help increase leads and phone calls leading to a boost in the Pool giant’s overall sales. Already the recognized leader in pool and spa building and remodeling, Blue Haven welcomes the help of eZanga’s knowledgeable and successful search marketing team.

“We have selected eZanga for search marketing because the company has a proven track record with other pool venders,” said Dominic DiCesare, general manager, Blue Haven Pools Northeast, Inc. “We know that people are researching their options for pools and supplies online, which is why we think it’s important to have prominent exposure on the search engines and look forward to seeing the traffic that eZanga brings in for us.”

“We are excited to be representing the largest pool company in the nation,” said Rich Kahn, CEO of eZanga. “Having worked with other companies in the industry, we know that our SEM campaign will significantly increase awareness of Blue Haven’s Web site, which will impact their sales positively.”

Among the outlets that have reported the deal include Forbes, Yahoo Finance, Earth TimesDaily Finance and Ameritrade.

eZanga – Rising Competition for Google

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Pete Barlas’ recent article on Yahoo News titled ‘Rising Competition Slows Growth for Google’s Online Ad Network’ cites eZanga as an effective alternative for online advertisers looking to move away from networks like Google. The article also can be found at Investors.com in its ‘technology’ section.

“Picky advertisers have been good news for eZanga,” the article states. “The company is one of the many search engines besides the big three. It also has an ad network of 20,000 Web sites that carry its search ads. There is much overlap, with Web sites often carrying ads from multiple networks.”

eZanga founder and CEO Rich Kahn is quoted in the article, discussing the advantages advertisers gain by using eZanga’s network – namely cheaper rates than the competition.

“Our network is growing simply from the fact that people can buy traffic on our network for less money,” he said. “We are seeing (advertisers) looking to the alternative search engines for lower costs per click so that they can reduce their costs.”

  

The Nuts and Bolts of Metasearch Engines

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

For years now, eZanga.com has been one of the premier metasearch engines on the web. However, many users and online advertisers may not be quite familiar with what metasearch is and why it is appealing to search marketers. Others may wonder how exactly the relationship between the two works and why it generates such favorable results.

Thursday, Adotas.com, a website which focuses on the businesses of online advertising and media, featured a commentary on metasearch by eZanga.com founder and CEO Rich Kahn which aims to answer all questions. Rich lends his near two decades worth of expertise on the industry in his piece entitled “The Nuts and Bolts of Metasearch Engines.”

Rich dives in to topics such as “good data” and “bad data”, what sets certain metasearch engines from each other and why metasearch engines are appealing to marketers on the web.

The article was also linked to from the “Search Engines” section of Business Week’s Business Exchange, a web site featuring business-related topics from around the world. Check out all of what Rich had to say and be sure to check back with eZanga News for more information on appearances, mentions and all the goings-on at eZanga.com!

  

PPC Search Survey Results Include eZanga

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

PPC Hero, a web site devoted to all of the latest on pay-per-click advertising, recently conducted a survey looking to find the best second tier PPC search engines.

The survey asked over 100 users “Which second tier search engine produced the best results for you?” and eZanga.com turned up in the results, garnering 1 percent of the vote as one of just seven search engines named in the responses.

The report, which can be read here, also includes a chart depicting the results.

“To generate supplemental traffic, leads, and revenue, these search engines can be a useful resource (if managed and optimized properly),” it reads. “Also, diversifying your search marketing efforts can help stabilize your performance just in case you should incur any fluctuations in the “big 3.” And for certain advertisers, these search engines may even work just as well as Google (gasp!). This is some food for thought when creating a strategy to expand your PPC efforts beyond Google, Yahoo or MSN.”

  

Search Ad Spending On The Rise

Monday, October 19th, 2009

Reports this week revealed that search advertising spending is steadily increasing in 2009, nearly matching the spending levels from a year ago.

Search marketing agencies such as Search Ignite and Efficient Frontier disclosed data that showed their clients’ spending had increased to between 5 and 10 percent from second quarter results. Year-over-year spending is still down nearly 5 percent, according to Efficient Frontier.

That trend has been witnessed at eZanga, where search spending has increased by 70 percent from last year.

The news brings a great deal of hope to the search marketing industry after the economic recession made an impact in spending over the last year. Reports from eWeekEurope, ClickZ and Advertising Age give some of the details about the recent rise in ad spending and what it could mean for the immediate future of search marketing as a promising fourth quarter begins.

  

Is Multi-Platform Advertising The Way To Go?

Friday, October 9th, 2009

Online Advertising has become the go-to way to advertise in recent years. But some businesses may not be aware of just how many different ways they can reach customers on the web to promote their products and services. Not only that, some may not know which of those ways is the best way to get a better Return on Investment.

A new article at BizReport.com aims to show businesses that instead of choosing between SEM and Display advertising, it just might be beneficial to combine the two to get the necessary results. “Why you should consider a multi-platform approach” by Kristina Knight points out that the two work well together and eZanga CEO Rich Kahn was interviewed to help explain why:

“Display ads have always been high on branding but haven’t been high on conversions. Search has been high on conversions but not on branding. When you combine the two, they are very powerful,” Kahn said. “It all comes down to the budget of the customer.”

Read the article in its entirety at BizReport.com for more on what Kahn has to say about combining multiple advertising platforms and why it is a favorable option in a struggling economy.

Rich Kahn Lends Opinion to SEO vs. SEM Debate

Monday, September 14th, 2009

eZanga founder and CEO Rich Kahn is back in the news. Kahn once again joins the debate on which online marketing strategy gets the best results for businesses – SEO or SEM.

In an article published by Target Marketing Magazine Senior Editor Heather Fletcher, Kahn is one of three online advertising experts to lend his opinion to the often-debated topic.

From the article:

“”If you put up a campaign with search engine marketing, you can put up a bunch of tests, a bunch of different campaigns, test them all—and you can do that all in the first day,” Kahn says. As for the most obvious ranking aspects, he adds, SEM always ends up with the top rankings, no matter how high the SEO results are. And beyond that, paid search has access to more than Google.com. Google teams with other sites, so paid search customers also have access to those sites, Kahn says.”

Kahn goes on to talk about how personal experiences through eZanga help lend credence to this view, which you can read in the full article here.

The Targeting Marketing Magazine website garners close to 26,500 visitors monthly.