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  • 10 Key B2B Mobile Arguments to Turn Skeptics Into Supporters: A Slideshow With Audio

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    To launch your marketing programs, you need the green light from your internal executives—and that means building the business case for new media and new programs. Here's how to convince B2B executives that mobile poses a high-opportunity, high-ROI marketing channel—and can make a significant impact with their business-centric audiences.

  • How to Attract an Audience for Your Virtual Events

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    Companies have discovered that a virtual-engagement strategy provides a new channel for reaching target audiences. Virtual-engagement platforms remain open 24/365 for connecting with prospects, customers, and employees around the globe. No wonder virtual engagement is on its way to becoming a key component of innovative companies' marketing mix.

  • Fortune 500 Social Media Use: Twitter Overtakes Facebook

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    The use of Twitter among the nation's largest corporations has nearly doubled: 60% of companies listed on the 2010 Fortune 500 have a corporate Twitter account with at least one tweet issued in the previous 30 days, up from 35% who did so a year earlier, according to research from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. Meanwhile, 56% of Fortune 500 companies have a Facebook profile.

  • Social Media Payoff for Brands, but 'Friends' Finicky

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Companies that deliver high-quality customer experiences via new media are rewarded for their efforts, often in the form of higher brand awareness and likelihood to purchase among those who engage, but that loyalty can be hard to find and hard to keep, according to a survey from Cone.

  • Got Social Strategy? One-Third of Brands Do

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Social marketing is growing up: Not only have activity levels across social communities risen, but the number of brands now applying more focused and disciplined approaches to their social media communities has increased significantly over the past year, according to a study by ComBlu.

  • Online Display Ads Bounce Back in Q3

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    The US online display advertising marketing rebounded sharply in the third quarter of 2010 with $1.284 trillion worth of display ads delivered to Internet users during the period, up 22% from $1.050 trillion a year earlier, according to data from the comScore Ad Metrix.

  • Strategy First When Integrating Social Media and Direct Marketing

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    The path to social-media success is filled with sinkholes that cost you time and relationships. Clearly defining your plan, documenting the process and details, and revising the plan as needed is the difference between profitable social-media engagement and being just another corporate presence.

  • Women Share Opinions About Products Online, Offline

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    Websites have now surpassed traditional forms of word-of-mouth as the preferred method among women for getting information about products and services, but when sharing information and opinions, women are still nearly three times more likely to do so with family and friends than to go online, according to a survey from Harbinger.

  • Social Media Use Drives Face-to-Face Interaction

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Social media isn't a zero sum game: Consumers are engaging across a variety of interactive channels at increasing levels—and far from making people less social in the physical world, such increased digital activity correlates to increased social, in-person interaction, according to a study by ExactTarget and CoTweet.

  • Older Workers Driving Social Networking at Work

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Gen-X information workers—and not those in the younger Gen-Y generation—constitute the majority of people who use social networking for business, followed closely by Boomers age 55 and older, according to a survey from Citrix Online. Moreover, the use of social and collaboration technologies among Gen-Y workers lags behind older groups.

  • The State of the B2B Marketer in Social Media: 3 Trends From SocialTech 2010

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    CONTENT TYPE: Infographic | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    SocialTech 2010 wrapped up yesterday. Here are four quick takeaways from the one-day event, which brought 221 B2B high-tech marketers to San Jose, Calif. (and another 467 attended virtually, online) to learn social media marketing tips, tactics and strategy specific to the business-to-business marketer.

  • Next-Generation Media Consumers Tougher to Reach

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    Next-generation media consumers, or "Off the Gridders," are young, educated, and affluent, and they spend less time viewing live TV but more time viewing online and time-shifted premium video content, according to a study by SAY Media. Such tech-savvy consumers are also difficult to reach via traditional broadcast media and other broadly targeted ad campaigns.

  • 'If You Want This Choice Position…': Seven Virtues of the Perfect Social Media Leader

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Your social-media manager or director is a critical and strategic hire who will be responsible for formulating and executing your strategy, as well as educating your whole organization and aligning it with that strategy. How can you sift the wheat from the chaff? Here are the seven virtues of a social media leader.

  • Wal-Mart, Target Among Top 25 Brands for Women

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    Female consumers are a powerful force that shape how billions of marketing dollars are spent yearly, and among the most important brands for women are Wal-Mart, Target, and eBay, according to the Women at NBCU Brand Power Index, which measures the top 25 brands most important to women.

  • Opinions Shared on Social Media Valued

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Though most Americans prefer to interact with their friends and acquaintances face-to-face, rather than via social media, 60% of adults who use social media say they value the opinions others share on social media sites, and 41% say they feel important when giving feedback about brands, products, and services in the social media space, according to a Harris Poll.

  • Brand Campaigns Drive Most Facebook Likes

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    Though search plays an important role in triggering a Facebook user to "like" a brand, fully three in four Facebook fans say they have joined a brand's Facebook page because of a brand invitation or advertising campaign, according to a study by DDB Worldwide and Opinionway Research.

  • Turning Thought-Leadership Content Into Cash

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    CONTENT TYPE: Infographic | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    In June, The Wall Street Journal reported a surge in social-media use by law firms interested in connecting with potential class-action plaintiffs. But if you take a closer look, you'll see that many of the approaches used provide viable marketing lessons for businesses of all types.

  • Bring Your Fans Home: How to Capitalize on Facebook Fatigue

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    Is the buzz around Facebook fading? That is just what a couple of recent studies suggest, so perhaps it's time to bring your fans home—back to your website. Marketers should give serious thought to supplementing their social-media strategies with a strong content-driven website.

  • Digital-Media Terms: How Do You Translate That?

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Writing

    Interactive media platforms are a global phenomenon, occurring in all markets regardless of their level of economic, social, and cultural development. Therefore, when translating content into other languages, it's critical to define terms clearly. But what is the best approach?

  • Small Biz Report: Social Media Adoption Levels Off

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    As small businesses continue to navigate the economic recession, their adoption of innovative marketing technologies such as social media has leveled off, while expectations among those who use social media have changed, according to a study by Network Solutions and the University of Maryland's Smith School of Business. Still, among those that leverage social channels, 57% expect to generate a profit from their social media efforts over the next year.