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  • Social Media Consumers More Likely to Buy, Recommend

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    Two-thirds (67%) of consumers who follow brands on Twitter are more likely to buy those brands after becoming a follower, and 51% of Facebook fans are more likely to buy after becoming a fan, according to a study from Chadwick Martin Bailey.

  • iPad Matches Kindle in Awareness, Purchase Intent

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    Less than a week before iPad's April 3 ship date, nearly two-thirds (65%) of consumers are aware of Apple's tablet device and 15% are already thinking about buying it in the next three months, according to comScore.

  • Small Biz Search Spend Surges in 4Q09

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    Small business advertisers spent on average $2,149 on search advertising in the fourth quarter of 2009, up 111% from $1,018 spent in the same period a year earlier, and up 30% from the $1,658 spent in the third quarter of 2009, according to a study by WebVisible based on its small-biz clients

  • Build Your Brand on a Solid Sense of Your Identity

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    Think of your brand as a mosaic where you can select and place most, but not all, of the tiles: You can control the communications you make, your offerings, and how your organization behaves. But some of the tiles in your brand mosaic are placed by others––the media, bloggers, tweets, the conversations that happen outside your walls. It's important, therefore, to develop a strong foundation for your brand.

  • Increasing Sales Effectiveness: The Art and Science of Win/Loss Analysis

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    Do you really know why you lost the recent deal or why some customers keep coming back? Customers have the answers, but they rarely provide them in an unfiltered manner to your sales and service teams.

  • Problem Solved: How Can We Map Social Media to B2B Sales?

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    You've made a couple of forays into social media, and you like what you see! But what tactics are really working out there to draw prospects in—and not turn them off? What are some cool ways to match social with selling?

  • Web-Metrics Express: What You Need to Know to Avoid Mistakes

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    Approaching your website's analytics as a three-step process will allow you to not only understand the tools available and what they have to offer but also create a gauge by which you can determine how well key business objectives are being met.

  • Business Owners Feeling Increasingly Stressed

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    More than one-half (56%) of leaders of privately held businesses globally say their stress levels are greater now than they were a year ago, according to a survey from Grant Thornton.

  • Social Network Monthly Use: 5.5 Hours

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    Web audiences across 10 countries spent an average of 5.5 hours on social networking sites in February 2010, up from more than 2 hours in February 2009, but about half an hour less than US Web users' average, according to the Nielsen Company.

  • Entrepreneurship During the Recession

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    Challenging economic times can serve as a catalyst for the entrepreneurial spirit and lead to the creation of much-needed new jobs: 69% more unemployed US workers started a business in 2009 than they did a year earlier, according to a report from TrendsSpotting.

  • Mobile Apps Market to Reach $17.5B by 2012

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    The global mobile applications market is forecast to reach $17.5 billion by 2012 and surpass the market for CDs (which is projected to reach $13.8 billion during the same period), according to GetJar.

  • Is Social Media the New Addiction?

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    Not only do social media consumers visit their favorite social sites throughout the day, but almost one-half (48%) of them check Twitter or Facebook during the night or as soon as they wake up in the morning, according to a survey from Retrevo.

  • US Ad Spend Down 12.3% in 2009

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    Total measured advertising expenditures fell 12.3% in 2009 from 2008 levels, to $125.3 billion, according to data released by Kantar Media (formerly TNS Media Intelligence).

  • Facebook Surpasses Google in US Traffic

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    For the first time, Facebook surpassed Google in the US to become the most-visited website of the week, accounting for 7.07% of US Internet traffic in the week ended March 13, 2010, up 185% from the same period a year earlier, according to Experian's Hitwise Intelligence.

  • Ad Spending Share by Medium, December 2009

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    Cable and Network television together accounted for nearly 44% of ad spending share in December 2009 , according to recently released data from the Nielsen Company. Television's share, when including local TV, constituted some 60% of ad spending for the month.

  • Booz: Consumer Frugality Here to Stay

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    A "new frugality" born of the Great Recession and evidenced by two consecutive years of declining per-capita consumption is now becoming entrenched among US consumers and is reshaping their consumption patterns in ways that will persist even as the economy starts to recover, according to a study from Booz & Company.

  • Smartphone Owners Ready for Mobile Coupons

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    Over one-third (36%) of smartphone owners say they want to receive mobile grocery coupons, but only 9% have received a location-based coupon, discount code, or text message on their phone in the previous six months, according to a survey from Compete.

  • Media and Marketing M&A to Rebound in 2010

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    Fueled by optimism about the economy and business prospects in emerging media and interactive services, mergers and acquisitions activity in media and marketing is expected to rebound in 2010, according to a survey from AdMedia Partners.

  • Why Salespeople Don't Like Your Customer-Reference Program (and What to Do About It)

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    With most large corporate purchases, the only way to get new customers to sign on is to let them hear directly from current customers who can speak about their experience with your products. So why do salespeople often resist participating in your company's customer-reference program? For several reasons...

  • The Two Laws of Branding From the Inside Out

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    If your unique brand attributes aren't all bubbling to the surface vying to be the No. 1 attribute, then you don't have a branding problem, you have a business problem. In other words, it's your business—not the brand—that isn't offering anything of unique value.