Anderson Marketing Blog

With the increasing number of seniors using online resources to research Medicare options, being where
they are is critical. It is absolutely imperative for Medicare marketers to master this channel, now more than
ever. Here are some key things to keep in mind as you begin to include SEM in your marketing campaign.

Even if you haven't utilized geofencing yet, you've probably heard about it. It's pretty powerful. Geofencing is even more precise than geo-targeting—a very specific virtual perimeter is set up using latitude and longitude coordinates. Once a device enters a virtual perimeter, the consumer receives ads on their device. Read on to get the rundown on this location-based marketing strategy.

Women make 85% of all purchasing decisions, yet 91% of women say advertisers don’t understand them. Wow. And with Gen X controlling 31% of the total US income, there is a huge opportunity for marketers to connect with and focus on Gen X women specifically.

Dig deep and you’ll find something very interesting about your Medicare segments (perplexing may be a better word). Through our 25 years of Medicare marketing experience, we have uncovered an interesting trend when determining which prospects merit allocating the most marketing budget to acquire.

You may have heard the term Micro-Moment and thought to yourself—is that just a tiny moment in time? Not exactly.

A Micro-Moment occurs when people reflexively turn to a device to act on a need to learn, do, discover, watch, or buy something. They are intent-rich moments when decisions are made and preferences shaped.

What is the Internet of Things (IoT) you may be asking? Well, it’s anything designed to process a unique task that can transmit and receive real time data over the cloud, or simply an intelligent device that is connected to human interaction. Read on for details and how IoT is taking the healthcare industry by storm.

Voice search is a speech recognition technology that allows users to search by saying terms aloud rather than typing. According to Behshad Behzadi, Principal Engineer at Google Zurich, “Voice search is the fastest growing type of search.” So from a marketer's perspective the question must be, "how does voice search impact SEO efforts? To learn 5 tips for SEO success, read on.

Digital marketing, along with the general explosion of media, offers a host of opportunities for brands to advertise their products and services. How do I maximize my marketing through my current channels? How do I evaluate my current efforts by channel? Anderson has developed a proprietary, diagnostic tool to do just that. Interested? Read on.

Launching a direct marketing campaign is a bit like piloting an airplane: skip the preflight details and you could be making an emergency landing in some remote cornfield; overlook the basics and you could be setting yourself up for a crash. Long before you roll down the runway, make sure you haven’t neglected to address these 9 musts for implementing a great direct marketing campaign.

For some time now, there’s been a buzz around developing buyer personas to better understand your market. Creating a buyer persona provides a new method to dive deeper into your ideal customer’s wants and needs. A good buyer persona will pool together all resources available and point you in the right direction to where there could be unmet needs and opportunities.