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  • What's Showrooming? (And Six Ways You Can Combat It)

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    Armed with smartphones, shoppers are going to brick-and-mortar stores to evaluate products—then, often while still in the store, buying them online to get deals. That's "showrooming." Here's what you can do about it.

  • Apple Nabs 33% of US Smartphone Market, Google Android 52%

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    Google Android and Apple continued to expand their share of the US smartphone market during the three months ended July 2012: Apple captured 33.4%, up 2.0 points from the previous three-month period, while Android reached 52.2%, up 1.4 points, according to data from the comScore MobiLens service.

  • A Quirky Experiment Proves the Value of Story-Driven Content

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    How much is a $3 ashtray purchased at a yard sale worth on eBay? If it includes a short story by William Gibson, then it's worth $101. Still don't believe in the alchemistic powers of a great story? Read on.

  • Mobile Web Users: Media Consumption, Mobile Activities, Ad Tolerance, Demographic Profiles

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    Among mobile Web users in the US, mobile media (via phones and tablets) was the the most popular way to consume media content in the second quarter of 2012: Mobile media accounted for 2.97 hours of the total 9.00 hours spent consuming media via all platforms during the day, outpacing TV at 2.35 hours, according to a report by InMobi.

  • Keys to Creating Effective Buyer Personas: Ardath Albee on Marketing Smarts [Podcast]

    Podcast

    CONTENT TYPE: Podcast | TOPIC: None

    Has your organization ever created buyer personas? If so, did you ever use them? Many don't—because they don't create truly useful personas in the first place. Ardath Abee lays out key elements of personas you can really use.

  • How the Best B2B Marketers Think Like B2C Marketers: Five Strategies to Emulate

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    The best B2B marketers are successful because they start with building a brand. In other words, the best B2B marketers think like B2C marketers. And here's just how they think and what they do.

  • Luxury Brands Boosting Online Marketing Spend

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    More than three-quarters (77%) of luxury advertisers are expected to increase their investments in online marketing in 2012, according to the 2012 Luxury Brand Study by Martini Media, a new study based on a poll of 400 agency marketers who serve luxury brands.

  • The Cobbler Wears Prada: A Four-Step Guide to Succeeding at Self-Marketing

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    Companies often don't practice what they preach (or sell)—a classic case of "the cobbler's children have no shoes." Agencies and marketers are not exempt. Here's a guide to help you succeed at internal marketing.

  • Fortune 500 Social Media Adoption Surging in 2012

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    The use of blogging, Facebook, and Twitter among the nation's largest companies—those listed on the 2012 Fortune 500—has surged in 2012, according to a new study by the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.

  • Content Creation: How to Build a Successful Outsourced Team

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    Marketers far and wide know the value of content marketing. But delivering a high volume of quality content that is profitable and efficient poses operational challenges. Here's a way you can overcome those challenges.

  • Who's Who in the E-Commerce Business [Infographic]

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    CONTENT TYPE: Infographic | TOPIC: None

    E-commerce is booming again! Now, online merchants have a lot of choices when selecting shopping carts and hosting platforms. Lexity has put together an infographic after studying the e-commerce landscape.

  • Movie Rentals Down 10% in First Half of 2012

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    People are renting fewer full-length movies as they shift from physical to digital media, according to a report by The NPD Group: The total number of movies rented by Americans in the first half of 2012 fell 10% from the same period a year earlier.

  • Three Cross-Sell and Up-Sell Tactics to Improve Email Marketing Results

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    It's an old adage: Driving increased sales from your current customers is easier than acquiring new customers. But when marketing via email, a lot of businesses seem to be missing an opportunity that's right in front of them.

  • Nearly 2 in 5 Would Rather Clean a Toilet Than Think Up a New Password

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    Americans are tired of managing their online identities: 38% say they'd rather tackle household chores such as folding laundry or scrubbing toilets than come up another new user name and password, and 38% say achieving world peace would be a more manageable task than trying to remember all their passwords.

  • Why and How to Encourage Online Reviews

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    One of the first things consumers look for when making a purchase is a review of the product or service they're interested in. They look to their peers for input and advice and trust them far more than they do the brand, especially if they've had little or no interaction with it.

  • Educate, Entertain, and Inform: Kipp Bodnar Talks Social Media Strategy on Marketing Smarts [Podcast]

    Podcast

    CONTENT TYPE: Podcast | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    HubSpot's Kipp Bodnar discusses why so few B2B companies blog, how to develop a social media strategy, and what roadblocks companies encounter when trying to implement their strategy (if they actually have one!).

  • Marketers and Content Consumption, Use, and Measurement

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    Content consumption is no longer a choice, it's innate. If you own a smartphone, tablet, or laptop, chances are you're absorbing content the majority of the time that you're awake. This brief survey considers how marketers consume content, and how they use and measure it in their work as marketers.

  • Seven Ways Market Research Can Feed Into Business Activities

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    Most commonly, market research is viewed as a method to improve advertising and marketing initiatives and to develop products that are friendlier to specific markets. However, the true range of uses for market intelligence is much larger than most businesses think.

  • Marketers Still Shying Away From Pinterest

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Despite the rapid growth of Pinterest, some 44% of ad and marketing executives surveyed say they have no interest in using the social networking site for business purposes, according to a new survey by The Creative Group.

  • Zen and the Art of Conference Presenting

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    At a recent industry event, I was often inspired, but also confused... therefore this attempt at Zen, to provide feedback to presenters everywhere about what they do that's excellent—and less than excellent.