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  • Most Americans Conduct Online Product Research

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    The commercial use of the Internet among Americans continues to grow: 58% of US adults say they conduct research online about products and services, up from the 49% who said so in 2004, while roughly one-quarter (24%) have posted comments or reviews online about products they buy, according to a survey from Pew Research.

  • Social Media Brand Passion Index: Butterfinger Rules for Trick-or-Treaters

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    When trick-or-treaters head out for their favorite candy on Halloween night, they'll be most delighted by the sight of a Nestlé's Butterfinger: Consumers are more passionate about that brand than any other major Halloween candy, according to the NetBase Brand Passion Index, which measures the intensity of consumer passion for brands among users of online communities.

  • What CMOs Can Learn From Mixed Martial Arts

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    Those who think mixed martial arts athletes are merely cavemen pounding each other for sport need to realize that they may well be the strongest personal-branding experts in the marketing world. Those "brutes" are very often better at social media marketing than many self-proclaimed gurus.

  • Four Lingering Myths About Video-Email Marketing

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    People are always looking for the next great thing in email marketing, and these days much of the talk involves social-networking integration. But now that email and online media have gotten much more sophisticated, there is one other technology—video, long considered taboo in email marketing—that can be integrated into your campaigns.

  • Sales and Social Media—Measuring the ROI

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    Although the ability to measure tangible results when using social media is still evolving, companies are realizing substantial savings from their social-media initiatives.

  • Social Buzz for The Social Network

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    "The Social Network," from Sony Pictures Entertainment opened on October 1 to a strong $23 million in weekend ticket sales at US theaters, and prompted a 480% increase in weekend social media conversation about the movie, compared with levels recorded over the previous weekend, according to a study by Alterian.

  • Top 10 Ways to Make Twitter Your Brand's Best Friend

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    There's more to Twitter than amassing followers and broadcasting your latest news. Properly engaging in the right discussions can earn customer goodwill and brand awareness. The real-time conversations that fill the Twitterverse offer an abundance of market insight.

  • Most Twitter Replies, Retweets Occur in First Hour

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    Roughly 29% of tweets generate a reaction from other twitter users, such as a reply or retweet, and fully nine in 10 of those reactions occur in the first hour of the original tweet, according to a report by Sysomos.

  • Email and Facebook Dominate Sharing of Online Content

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    Email is still a key component of digital marketing: 49% of consumers share content online at least once a week, with most of it shared via email (86%) and Facebook (49%), according to a study from Chadwick Martin Bailey and iModerate Research Technologies. Just 4% of surveyed consumers share content via Twitter and 2% do so via LinkedIn.

  • Content Quality (Not Quantity) Builds Social Media Influence

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    Though most marketing executives (84%) agree there is a correlation between one's ability to drive action (influence) and one's reach, 90% draw a clear distinction between influence and popularity, and cite the quality of content as the most important factor in building influence online, according to a survey from Vocus and Brian Solis.

  • Forrester: Social Media Content Creation Waning

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    Consumers continue to join and engage with social networking sites, but the percentages of those who contribute new and fresh content to a broad array of social media fell or reached a plateau in 2010, compared with levels recorded a year earlier, according to a study by Forrester Research.

  • Social-Media Publishers Eager for Paid Sponsorships

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    Over one-half (56%) of social-media content publishers, including Twitter users and bloggers, say they have monetized their social-media activities via advertising, sponsorships, or affiliate programs, and another one-third (32.1%) say they'd like to do so, according to a survey from IZEA.

  • Social Media Use Growing Among Microbusinesses

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    Nearly eight in 10 of the nation's smallest companies (79%) say marketing is a major success factor for their business and nearly one-half (46%) of such firms, or microbusinesses, say they are using some type of social media for marketing, according to a survey from Vistaprint.

  • Why 'Free' Text Messages Will Cement Mobile as a Critical Component of the Marketing Mix

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    With short message service (SMS) reaching 5 billion mobile phones around the world, marketers can no longer ignore the significance of texting as a marketing channel. Some consumers, however, are hesitant to take advantage of those mobile marketing programs, in part because of the fees associated with branded messages. Enter free-to-the-end-user (FTEU) messaging.

  • B2B Marketers Using Social Media to Boost Search

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    As B2B marketers shift resources and marketing budgets to social media, many have begun to align their social-media efforts with search-engine marketing, using the social channel to drive search referrals and conversion rates among Web visitors, according to a study by BtoB Online and Business.com

  • B2B Marketers to Boost Spending on Social Media, Digital

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    B2B marketers continue to shift their marketing mix away from traditional marketing vehicles toward social media and digital channels: 67% plan to increase spending on social media over the next two to three years and 64% plan to increase spending on digital and online marketing over the same period, according to a study by Booz & Co.

  • Content Marketing Vital to B2B Marketers

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    Content marketing is now a well-established, core marketing strategy in the B2B marketplace, with B2B marketers considering content integral to their marketing mix: fully 9 in 10 organizations say they market with content, according to a new study from MarketingProfs and Junta42.

  • Achieve Less Din, More Dialogue With Your Social-Media Presence

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    There's not merely buzz but outright din surrounding social media and how "everyone" is using it to win hearts and minds, and maybe even help grow business. But before you jump in, take pause to reframe your thinking about social media—away from the tactical, and toward the strategic. Doing so will ensure that instead of adding to the noise you're positioning your organization to win.

  • Five Reasons Why Social Media Is Right for Small Business

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    When it comes to social media, the one thing that small and midsize businesses want to know is this: Is it worth it? Yes, it is. Here are five quick reasons why.

  • Brand Marketers Not (Yet) Sold on Social Media

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    With brand awareness cited as their primary brand-management goal in 2010, most corporate brand executives say online communications and traditional public relations—not social media—are still the most effective channels to reach their audiences, according to a survey from MiresBall and KRC Research.