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  • Four in Ten Email Marketers Don't Test

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    Despite the importance of testing in making decisions and proving campaign ROI, more than one-third of email marketers (37%) aren't testing at all, according to an eROI study.

  • Ads Interesting, Not Influential; TV Ads Most Helpful

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    Despite being daily exposed to dozens of ads—including on television, in print, and on the Web—most Americans (55%) say they find advertising to be interesting ("very" or "somewhat"), though fully 41% say it is not interesting, a recent poll found.

  • The New Direct Mail: Five Tips to Turn Print Campaigns Into Gold

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    Twitter and Facebook might make for captivating marketing headlines, but the same savvy Chief Marketing Officers who are embracing social media are also quietly reinventing a less-buzzy marketing technique: direct mail.

  • Creating Compelling Value Propositions Can Be Fun

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    It can be hard for companies—especially those that have a steady stream of paying customers—to exert the discipline to explore new markets that may be more profitable. But companies that do invest the effort to hone and validate their value propositions always get a huge return on their investment.

  • A Two-Step Process for Launching Successful Email-Marketing Campaigns: Find Your Voice, and Segment

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    Email is one of the easiest, most affordable, and most effective marketing tools out there. Nonetheless, launching an email-marketing program can seem a daunting challenge, especially for time-strapped entrepreneurs and small-business owners.

  • How to Bridge the Marketing-Staffing Gap

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    If the company you work for is like many companies in today's economic climate, it isn't hiring too many people and its marketing budget has been cut. Employees are being asked to do more with less. Now more than ever, however, marketing efforts are needed to drive sales. What options do companies have to get all the work done and drive business growth?

  • Social Media Popularity Skyrockets

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    Social networks have exploded in popularity in the past year: More than 4 in 10 (43%) among those who are online now use social networking sites, such as Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn—up from 27% a year ago.

  • Bada-Bing! Microsoft Scores Search Share

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    Google accounted for 74.04% of all US searches conducted in the four weeks ended June 27, followed by Yahoo Search at 16.19%, the recently launched Bing at 5.25%, and Ask.com at 3.15%, Hitwise reports.

  • Ad Spend Plunge Slows: Recovery in 2010, Growth in 2011

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    ZenithOptimedia revised downward its forecast for global ad expenditure growth in 2009 to -8.5%, from its April prediction of -6.9%, after Q1 came in below its predictions, the firm announced this week.

  • Google's Secret Weapon: Chrome OS for PCs

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    "The operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we're announcing a new project ... the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be."

  • Americans Getting Entertainment News Online

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    Nearly 55 million Americans (some 28% of US Internet users) visited an entertainment news site in May 2009—a 7% increase from a year earlier—with omg! and TMZ the leading sites in terms of unique visitors and video views.

  • Three Ways Healthcare Brands Can Leverage Social Media

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Marketing professional in the healthcare industry may be missing a golden opportunity to meet the sometimes-desperate needs of patients, to become more relevant and supportive in the long arc of their journey to better health. If they do, they will win their respect and loyalty, their adherence and behaviors will change to improve their overall health, and the financial bottom lines of healthcare brands will strengthen. Everybody wins. Here are three steps to ensure health care isn't left behind in the social-media sphere.

  • The Customer Lens: An Approach to Customer Touch-Point Analysis

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    Few marketers would dispute the statement that it is the sum of all customers' interactions with a company, over time, that ultimately creates or destroys that company’s brand value. Yet few companies take the time to look at their own business practices comprehensively through the lens of their customers to understand how they measure up to their customers' needs and expectations. Does each customer interaction live up to the brand experience that the company is trying to create? Are you providing a more consistent and relevant customer experience than your competitors are? Which interactions are the most powerful for creating customer loyalty?

  • Social Media 101: Use Twitter to Attract Prospects and Engage Customers

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Before you enter the relatively new frontier of social media, you need an action plan. Although the costs are low, social media tools require extensive maintenance to be effective. Your strategy needs to fit your corporate culture, resources, and customer expectations. Twitter is probably the best place to test the social-media waters to see if it is right for your company.

  • You Had Me at 'Recession-Proof': The Hispanic Market

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    The Hispanic market seems to be the only one still flourishing these days in the face of economic doom and gloom. Foreign-born Hispanics in the US have been historically unaffected by economic downturns. Why? And how can you tap the market effectively?

  • Execs: Need to Overhaul Risk Management

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    The vast majority (85%) of surveyed corporate executives agree that they need to overhaul their approach to risk-management if the lessons of the economic crisis are to be used to improve business results, according to results of an Accenture study released today.

  • McCafé? McProfits!

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    Looks like the recent $100 million ad blitz for the McCafé seems to be working. The McDonald's experiment in the specialty coffee arena may now have bumped Dunkin' Donuts from the No. 2 spot. But how?

  • Talk to Me: 10 Tips for Translating PR Results Into the Language of Business

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    As communications experts, we should find it easy to convey the value of our services to the business managers in our organizations. Yet many public relations professionals struggle with expressing results in a way that allows senior executives to easily recognize the impact that PR has on the success of the business.

  • Case Story: Boosting Email-Subscriber Satisfaction

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    Sometimes doing a little more for your email subscribers can make a huge difference. Tafford Uniforms of North Wales, Pa., faced a challenge to engage email subscribers because of two common but seemingly incongruent realities.

  • Five Tips for Small B2B Companies That Depend on Big Channel Partners

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    It's a challenge faced by hundreds of small companies: how to get the CXO of a Fortune 1000 company to consider its product. One effective strategy that helped get companies such as Citrix and VMware off the ground is to align closely with a major partner. Building a strong channel, even with just one or two partners, can be much more effective and easier to leverage than trying to develop your own sales team and customer relationships. The following five tips can help B2B companies maintain strong channel partnerships.