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Cross Sectional Projects for the Lead Gen Team…

Friday, October 14th, 2011

One of the Intela’s value statements is “we embrace cultural diversity of employees and markets”. This is not only a written value; it’s completely true. We are a global company and many of us come from different countries and cultures. Our diversity makes us unique and ahead of the other companies, allowing us to be successful.

One example is the Spanish project for the last quarter of 2011 and strategic lines for 2012. We prepared a brainstorm where we implicated all the Spanish-speaking people from all teams such as; the affiliate/publisher department, the email marketing department, the sales team, the accounts managers and obviously the European lead generation team.

In this session we gave input on the Lead Generation business SWOT and an evaluation of the current landing pages through a room tour, taking opinions and ideas from everyone’s point of view. We got input about the new prize draws and key moments in Spain and getting ideas from Spanish magazines as well. We also established the priorities of the new projects and the main lines on the Spanish speaking expansion.

The results were a Q4 performance plan and a creative plan with the time scale for release ready for the new labels. The first one, supermarket voucher, goes live this week. The next week we will have the Christmas Spanish basket label, very popular in Spain. And shortly a scooter, the most sold in Spain, a Christmas trip to ski at Vaqueira, the most luxurious place to ski in Spain, a cosmetics voucher, a watch and a prize draw with Apple products.

We will know the final results at the end of this year and during 2012, but the improvements are coming. Now we can elaborate faster and add more new prize draws with our fantastic in house designer, and create targeted campaigns, thus, generating more leads with higher quality and up to date with the new trends in Spain.

 

Posted by Xavier Penades, Online Marketing Executive.

A New Addition to the Lead Generation Team!

Friday, September 9th, 2011

Xavier Penades joined the Intela family on Thursday, September 1, 2011 and is working as an Online Marketing Executive in the European LeadGen team, with a main focus on Spain.

Before joining Intela, Xavier worked in Ads & Tea, an online marketing agency in London. His previous experience as Marketing Exec in an offline marketing company in Spain will definitely be a great asset for our creative projects. Xavier also has a degree in Advertising and Public Relations!

Xavier’s hobbies and interests include sports, (mainly football and cycling) art, design, architecture and photography. He likes to walk through the city of London taking pictures (of the architecture I’m presuming but don’t hold me to that…)

Many of you have already met him on our wild boat trip. Please join me in welcoming him to Intela!

 

Posted by Gemma Corker, Exec PA.

 

A Historical Recap of Email Marketing

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

 

 

About 3000 years ago, an Egyptian landowner wrote on a piece of papyrus an advertisement for the return of a runaway slave. This, so far as we can trace, is the first example of direct advertising. The original can now be seen in the British Museum.

From Gutenberg’s invention of mechanical type printing to the present time the growth of direct advertising has, in many ways, been concurrent with the progress in printing. William Caxton was the pioneer printer in England having set up his press in the year 1471 at Westminster Abbey. The first American direct advertisement, according to the Philadelphia Public Ledger, was a pamphlet published in 1681 by William Penn. We cannot forget Antonio de Mendoza, the first Spanish Viceroy of Mexico, who went to Mexico in 1535 and established a printing office.

According to Wikipedia, in 1836, French newspaper La Presse was the first to include paid advertising in its pages, allowing it to lower its price, extend its readership and increase its profitability and the formula was soon copied by all titles. Around 1840, Volney B. Palmer established the roots of the modern day advertising agency in Philadelphia, he bought large amounts of space in various newspapers at a discounted rate then resold the space at higher rates to advertisers. The actual ad – the copy, layout, and artwork – was still prepared by the company wishing to advertise.

Aaron Montgomery Ward started the mail-order industry in 1872 in Chicago; he produced the first mail-order catalogue for his ‘Montgomery Ward mail order’ business. By buying goods and then reselling them directly to customers, Ward was consequently removing the middlemen at the general store and, to the benefit of the customer, drastically lowering the prices.

But it was not until 1967 that Lester Wunderman identified, named and defined the term “Direct Marketing”. Wunderman is behind the creation of the toll-free 1-800 number and numerous loyalty marketing programs including the Columbia Record Club, the magazine subscription card and the American Express Customer Rewards program.

So, what happened from there to now? In the early nineties’ the email came in to existence and Internet was gaining popularity so email marketing was just the natural evolution, the best way to reach the customers.

Today we have vast networks, loads of servers and gateways and billions of emails go in and out but the principles are still true: The basic idea is that the principles we have been advocating for years about relationship marketing can be enhanced through technology. Use technology to improve the delivery. The delivery of the relationship.

In the end, it’s all about relationships.

Think about this, next time you have to deal with a client.

 

Posted by Joseph Remesar, Director of Sales for Southern Europe.

New European Account Manager for France (In the UK!)

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

Another brand new addition to out team here in the UK is Laure Le Corre who is the European Account Manager for France. Originally from Brittany in France where the weather is apparently “exactly the same as London” according to her!

Laure has lived over here in the fine City of London for just over two years where she used to work for an e-commerce company as an International Marketing Executive developing their business in Europe with a priority in France.

Laure gained an Msc in Marketing and Business from top Parisian business school Ecole Supérieure de Gestion so she really knows her stuff.

Laure enjoys travelling and meeting new people in her spare time and has recently visited Porto, Stockholm, Seville and Brussels although there are many places in Europe she would like to visit at some point.

When laure isn’t jet setting and travelling she is quite content exploring here in the city of London and spending her time going out with friends or in the gym!

 

Posted by Gemma Corker, Exec PA.

 

Welcome to the Intela family, Joseph Remesar!

Friday, July 29th, 2011

Lets welcome another well-travelled addition to the Intela team, Joseph Remesar, who is our new Sales Account Director for Southern Europe! Joseph has notched up an impressive professional background working for large corporations like IBM and Microsoft and will be aiding Intela’s ever-growing business with his expertise.

Joseph has travelled and lived all over the world – Born in Venezuela, grew up in Miami and has lived in Spain, Dublin and now ‘The Cosmopolitan London’ as he calls it, where he likes to remain true to himself.

In Joseph’s spare time, when he isn’t updating our new kitchen notice board, he is quite the literary genius having published Comic books and Graphic novels in Spain, France and the USA (all available on Amazon of course). Influenced by his time in Dublin, Joseph enjoys a nice glass ofGuinness and some classic lit in the form of Yeats.

 

Posted by Gemma Corker, Exec. PA

Another Warm Welcome from Intela!

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

Intela would like to extend a very warm (if not slightly drizzly) welcome to Krzysztof Schmidt (Chris) into our UK team!

Chris, a strong member of the Intela team for the last few months, is the new Online Marketing Executive and is working with the Lead Gen team and Ellen to support management of the ever growing European Markets.

Chirs comes to us from Lifetech Sp. z o.o where he was previously the Brand Marketing Manager. His background mainly consists of project management foreign trade and design (a bit of an all rounder really!)

Chris loves to travel and has explored all corners (and curves) of the globe, except Antarctica…. But who can blame him really?! Not wholly content with just exploring the surface of the World, Chris is also an enthusiastic Scuba Diver.

Chris is hoping that Intela will take us all for an integration trip somewhere in the South Pacific… (Suffice to say, the whole UK office think this would be a really important venture for the progression of the company and believe that we should start organizing immediately). *

 

*Not entirely true.

Posted by Gemma Corker, Exec PA.

 

 

Lead Gen Goes Bigger and Better Chasing its Potential…

Thursday, July 21st, 2011

In the last few months our pint-sized team has welcomed a new member – Krzysztof. He has joined Ellen to support management of fast growing European markets. Recently, we also started a recruitment campaign to find another specialist who would focus mainly on the Spanish properties.

Since we are now stronger we have more time to focus separately on each of our markets. This is undeniably evident as our landing pages in Spain, Italy, Netherlands and France have already become more profitable. After a successful launch of new prizes in France (‘Win a free weekend’ & ‘Highway fees cover for a year’) and Netherlands (‘Win a bike’ with mini games to play), we continue to create new and interesting sites. Only a few days ago a new Spanish prize to win a trip to Oktoberfest beer festival in Germany has become live and soon another fantastic design by Amy (our London Creative Lead) is about to get a green light – something special for every soccer fan. Both include mini games which strategically increase the click through to the sites. Also, very soon we should have another new label coming live in Italy (‘Win Sony Viao’ – new look with mini games).

We’ll keep you posted with all the other exciting news!

Posted by: Krzysztof Schmidt – Online Marketing Exec

Intela sees Global Growth as IAB Reports $6.4 Billion Record Quarter in US

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010

Intela is optimistic after reviewing two studies conducted by the IAB.

IAB’s first study shows that in the first half of 2010, the UK’s online advertising spend increased 10%, to £1.97 billion. IAB estimates that if the current growth rate continues, the UK online advertising spend will break £4 billion by the close of 2010. As advertising evolves with contemporary demands, online advertising is poised to overtake the lead from television advertising. Online advertising achieved a share of 24%, a 1% increase since the first half of 2009.

In a second study released on November 17, 2010, IAB reports that, “U.S. Internet advertising revenues hit $6.4 billion in the third quarter of 2010, representing the highest quarterly result ever for the online advertising industry and a 17% increase from the same period in 2009.”

See Intela’s full release here.

Jim Mansfield Leads Round Table Discussion at A4U Expso

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

Intela will be at A4U Expo 2010 next week! Meet us at the show in London on the 12th – 13th October at Stand #92.

Jim Mansfield, CEO, will also be hosting a round table Q&A session on Day 1. Join the session to learn strategies for generating high value leads that pay large cost per leads for simple enquiries and trial users. Find out why lead generation campaigns can return higher value and effective CPMs than ordinary cost per sale or traditional affiliate schemes. Find out how your traffic or how you might generate traffic to generate leads in the “premium” verticals.

If you would like to set up a meeting with us before the event, please send an email to appointments@intela.com or contact your Publisher Manager today. We hope to see you there!

Intela Welcomes Simon Brent

Monday, July 12th, 2010

Following the expansion of Intela into the UK and Europe we would like to welcome Simon Brent to our UK based team. Simon will be working within our publishing team and predominantly looking after our online properties.

Simon comes to us with over five years experience within the online marketing arena, where he spent a number of years with the lifestyle data house, DLG, and more recently an independent performance based lead generation company.

For any queries on running any of our online properties/sites you can reach Simon on simon.brent@intela.co.uk or +44 (0)207 440 5986.