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  • 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.

  • Marketers to Double Spending on Digital Data by 2012

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    US marketers are expected to more than double their investments in online-derived data sources by 2012, allocating a projected $840 million to information about digital audiences, transactions, and clickstream behaviors, according to a study by the Winterberry Group.

  • 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.

  • Three Ways to Find Negative Keywords

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    Keyword discovery is a huge component of pay-per-click advertising. You need to find relevant keywords so you can create topical ad groups, text ads, and landing pages. But for truly cost-effective, high-ROI PPC campaigns, it's equally important to find negative keywords—those that aren't relevant to your offerings or customers—so you don't waste ad spend.

  • Content Marketing Has Been a Successful PR Strategy for Decades

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    The highly effective strategy of creating informational content that's valuable to prospects and customers has been with us for decades. Demonstrating expertise, becoming an authority, providing "how-to" information, and speaking about subjects of interest or relevance to your market are a superb way of promoting or driving market engagement for B2C or B2B brands.

  • Five Reasons Why Social Media Is Right for Small Business

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    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.

  • US Ad Spend Increases 5.7% in 1H10

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    Led by television media spending, total measured advertising expenditures reached $63.6 billion in the first half of 2010, up 5.7% from the same period a year earlier, according to data from Kantar Media. Ad spending during the second quarter of 2010 grew 5.4% over the same period in 2009.

  • 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.

  • Google Instant Means 5 Big Changes for Search Marketers

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    Google recently unveiled Google Instant, which displays search results to a user as they type. The benefits of these changes, according to Google, are (a) Predictive Typing: as you type, a prediction is made of what you are seeking; and (b) Instant Results: as you type, the results appear. Every new character updates the search results instantly.

  • Men More Likely to Act on Ads, Women More Likely to Click

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    Businesswomen deliver a 23% higher click-through rate for online ads than businessmen, who are 53% more likely, however, to take action—such as download a whitepaper, start a free trial, or make a purchase—after clicking on an ad, according to a study by Bizo.

  • Adults Texting More, but Teens Still Rule

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    Texting among US adults has increased substantially over the past year, but still does not approach the magnitude of texting activity among teens: 72% of adult cell-phone owners send and receive text messages now, up from the 65% who did so in September 2009, whereas 87% of teen cell-phone owners exchange text messages on a typical day, according to Pew Research.

  • E-reader Owners Prefer Kindle Over iPad

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    Though consumers say the Apple iPad is "more compelling" than the Amazon Kindle, 64% of e-reader owners say they prefer the Kindle to the iPad, according to a new survey from One News Page.

  • Five Lessons From the Social Media Frontlines

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    The rules of social media are just now being written, so they are more like guidelines than well-defined best-practices. In other words, it doesn't make sense to blindly follow rules someone else has set. There's only one sure way to know what works for you in social media: Test it. Here are five five lessons learned from one practitioner who tested the social media waters.

  • Eight Tools to Help You Manage Social Media Content Overload

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    Marketers have rushed to embrace Facebook, Twitter, blogs, customer ratings and reviews, and other social media platforms—inviting customers to comment on their products and services across the Web. The result? Content overload. Here are eight tools to help you tame and respond to the otherwise overwhelming flow of information.

  • Six Socially Responsible Tactics That Grow Your Small Business

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    It's a global trend: Consumers want to buy from, employees want to work for, and other businesses want supplies from, socially responsible enterprises. Small-business owners can use the corporate social responsibility trend to improve their own businesses and stand out from competitors by taking the following steps.

  • Open-Source Social Publishing Opens Doors for Marketers

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    Does the phrase "open source" scare you? You're not alone. Many marketers hear the phrase and cringe. However, open source not only offers the collective creativity of a large, vibrant community but also promises a new level of customer engagement, brand equity, and a competitive edge for today's marketers.

  • Social Networking Among Older Adults Nearly Doubles

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    Though young adults remain the heaviest users of social networking sites, older users are fueling much of the growth: 42% of online adults age 50+ now use social networking sites, nearly twice as many as the 22% who did so a year earlier, according to a study by Pew Research.

  • Ad Spend Forecast Again Revised Upward

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    Driven by a faster than expected rebound in the US advertising market and continued robust growth in Asia-Pacific and Latin America, worldwide ad expenditure is forecast to grow 3.9% in 2010, an upward revision of 1.0 percentage point from the 2.9% forecast issued in March 2010, according to Carat.

  • Brands Caught Astroturfing Risk Losing Customers

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    Most marketers say online "astroturfing"—the practice of generating fake online product reviews and testimonials—is unethical, and many would consider not buying from a brand if they discovered the brand was engaging in such a practice, according to a recent survey from R2integrated (R2i).

  • Facebook Users Like Brands for Discounts, Social Badging

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    Though consumers turn to Facebook primarily to connect with friends and fill downtime, product discounts and "social badging" are the most commonly cited motivations for "liking" brands on Facebook, according to a survey from ExactTarget and Co-Tweet.