Net Media Planet has been ranked the No. 4 Search Marketing Agency in the UK by New Media Age in the Marketing Services Guide 2009. Demonstrating tremendous growth, Net Media Planet has moved up from the 20th position in 2008 to being the 4th largest Search Marketing Agency in the UK in 2009.

Much of the Dodgers? marketing was wrapped around Manny Ramirez, from the sale of wigs that imitate his dreadlocks to calling a section of left field ?Mannywood.?

What do the following have in common: Flowers, jewelry. Candy, perfume. Brunch, lunch and dinner? For one day a year, they all converge for the extreme marketing opportunity: Mother’s Day.

It’s not too late to formulate a marketing plan for this year’s growing season. Before I became a market advisor, I was a vice president of an Iowa bank.

The UK and Ireland office of the Government of Dubai, Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing has unveiled a new campaign across print and digital media to kick-start an intensive period of marketing to promote Dubai to new and existing audiences.

Even in hard times, the Noblesville Corporate Campus is drawing business. Carmel-based Performance Marketing Group has announced it will move its headquarters to Saxony, a development within the Noblesville Corporate Campus. The company has bought 3.8 acres from Republic Development at the southeast corner of Greenfield Avenue and Getz Road for $417,000, according to state records.

NOBLESVILLE » A Carmel-based marketing and promotions company is moving its headquarters to the Noblesville Corporate Campus. Performance Marketing Group has bought about four acres in the Saxony development. Noblesville has given the company a “pre-commitment'’ for a six-year real estate tax abatement, though that would have to be approved by the City Council. (Star report)

It’s not too late to formulate a marketing plan for this year’s growing season. Before I became a market advisor, I was a vice president of an Iowa bank. During that time, I worked with many borrowers on marketing and formulated a very simple, but effective marketing plan for livestock and grain producers. I want to share this marketing plan with you.

Marketing currently has a dual challenge: marketing in a downturn and needing to transform operationally. What is also clear is that doing more with less and trying to find money to fund marketing investments is going to be a difficult financial discussion.