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  • Hispanics Most Avid Social Network Users

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    In the US, Hispanics are more likely than blacks and Caucasians to log in to various social networking sites on a daily basis or more often, according to a new American Pulse Survey from BIGinsight.

  • Pinterest: Not Just for Stay-at-Home Moms and Aspiring Wedding Planners

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Pinterest is a hot new social media website that provides a way for users to save and display ideas on virtual pin boards. But what's in it for marketers? Here are four ways to use Pinterest to get more business.

  • What's Driving Pinterest's Amazing Growth

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Pinterest is arguably the hottest social media site on the Internet—user traffic to the online social catalog has skyrocketed since mid-2011—but the website also boasts strong audience engagement, retention, and "virality" among its core demographic, according to a report by RJMetrics.

  • Case Study: One Company's Clever Approach to Turning Online Transactions Into Social Experiences

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Online testimonials are undeniably valuable, but they come after the sale. What if you could start that engine earlier? Learn how one company used Twitter and landing pages to boost sales and deepen customer engagement.

  • Security Concerns Hampering Social Commerce

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    More than one-half (55%) of social media users in the US say they are uncomfortable sharing credit card information with a known brand via secure payment on a social networking site such as Twitter or Facebook, according to a new survey from Digitas.

  • Facebook Stats: Five Years of Worldwide Growth

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Facebook's penetration among worldwide Internet audiences reached 55% as of December 2011, up 43 percentage points from 12% in 2007, according to report by comScore Data Mine.

  • Five Trends B2B Marketers Need to Understand to Succeed in 2012

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    What will the remainder of 2012 have in store for B2B marketing? Thanks to data, what lies ahead isn't so hard to predict. Learn five significant trends that will affect B2B marketers in the months to come.

  • What Others Like (and Dislike) About Your Tweets

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Twitter users* say only 36% of the tweets they receive are worth reading, 39% are mediocre at best, and 25% of tweets are not worth reading at all, according to a study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, and Georgia Tech.

  • Facebook Ad Spend Growth Outpacing Paid Search

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Facebook ad spending among clients of Kenshoo Social grew 109% in the fourth quarter of 2011 over 3Q11 levels, dwarfing the 27% growth recorded in paid-search spending over the same period, according to a report by Kenshoo.

  • Social Media Users Prefer Social Login Over Traditional

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    More than three-quarters (77%) of social media users say websites should offer social login—i.e., using a social media identity to log in at a website—as an alternative to traditional account creation or logging in as a guest, up from the 66% who said so a year earlier, according to a study by Janrain.

  • The Changing Agency/Client Relationship: Glenn Engler Talks to Marketing Smarts [Podcast]

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    CONTENT TYPE: Podcast | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Senior-level marketers don't seem to believe their digital partners are adequately extending their service capabilities in the digital age. So how does an agency demonstrate that it "gets" digital? Glenn Engler, CEO of Digital Influence Group, answers that question in this episode of Marketing Smarts.

  • Five Steps for Building Your Email and SMS Lists via Social Media

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    Want to grow your SMS and email marketing lists? Your social media fans and followers—who've already demonstrated their interest in you—are the perfect targets. Learn five steps for converting your social fans to subscribers.

  • Luxury Shoppers Use Social Media to Flaunt Purchases

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    After making a luxury purchase, most Americans (70.8%) "verbally tell someone" about their latest acquisition, while fully three in ten (30.3%) head to social media sites to share the news, according to a survey from Empathica.

  • Android Gains in Smartphone Market, Apple Also Up

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    Fully 40% of all US mobile subscribers, or 97.9 million people, owned a smartphone during the three months ended December 2011, as Google Android expanded its dominance in the market and Apple gained ground among handset manufacturers, according to data from the comScore MobiLens service.

  • SMBs Missing Email List-Building Opportunities

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    Most small-to-midsize businesses have mastered the basics of organic email list-building, making use of Web-based sign-up forms and even offering incentives to encourage subscriptions, but fewer than half use any type of email-to-social collaboration, limiting the potential of cross-channel marketing, according to a study by GetResponse.

  • The Inside Scoop on Using Twitter Lists for Profit and Sanity

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    The dirty secret of Twitter is that as helpful as it can be, it's also a time sink. Learn how properly using and cleaning up your Twitter lists can help you save time—and generate leads for your business.

  • 10 Hot Tips (and a Promo Campaign Planner) for Seasonal Sale Success

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    Customers today expect more deals and offers during holiday seasons, so it's important to create seasonal campaigns to increase revenues. Here are 10 tips—and a campaign planner—to help you achieve seasonal sale success.

  • Social Graph Drives Brand Lift, Direct Response Ad Metrics

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Ad campaigns that target consumers on the basis of their social media activities and interest-based connections—or Brand Graph—perform better than ads without such targeting capabilities, and they generate large gains in brand lift and key direct-response metrics, according to a study by 33Across.

  • Inc. 500 Social Media Use: Facebook, Twitter Up; Blogging Down

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Facebook and LinkedIn are now the most popular and most effective social media tools among the nation's fastest-growing private companies, according to a study by the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, Center for Marketing Research. Blogging among the Inc. 500 has fallen over the past year, as companies appear to be shifting away from maturing digital tools toward popular social platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

  • Four Easy Tactics for Becoming a Must-Follow Account on Twitter

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Twitter is a powerful channel that can help you connect with customers, promote products, and create brand awareness. Learn four tactics for making your Twitter account a social media heavyweight in your industry.