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  • Consumer Confidence Falls Again in July

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    The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index, which had declined sharply in June, retreated further in July and now stands at 50.4 (1985=100), down from 54.3 in June, the Conference Board reported. The Present Situation Index decreased to 26.1 from 26.8 last month, while the Expectations Index declined to 66.6 from 72.7 in June.

  • Five Ways to Get Unique, Keyword-Relevant Content on Your E-Commerce Site

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    E-commerce sites can be particularly challenging for search-engine optimization (SEO) because they tend to lack unique, relevant content. The challenge can be easily (though not necessarily quickly) overcome with these five content techniques that can help you search-optimize e-commerce websites.

  • Two Survey Questionnaire Flaws to Avoid: Scary Matrix Questions and Unbalanced Scales

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    Poorly designed questions and scaling problems can derail your research efforts faster than you can say "the cat in the hat"! To help you avoid a few of the more common and onerous problems, this article explores two separate but related questionnaire-design issues: matrix questions and unbalanced scales.

  • Shattering Five Branding Myths

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    When people think of branding, they often think of just a logo or business card. Or they think of the opposite extreme, such as Apple, and so assume they will never have the resources to "brand effectively." But branding on a budget is more than possible, and dispelling these five popular myths is key to starting that process and transforming your business.

  • Gone Phishing: Why eBay Emails Can Be Hard to Trust

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    People tend to open an email based on the two things they can see in their inbox: the From name and the Subject line. If recipients receive an email from a sender they do not recognize or trust, they are less likely to open it. If an email with a "suspicious" Subject line lands an inbox, it's most likely to be deleted or marked as spam.

  • Small-Biz Search Advertising Surges in 2Q10

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    Small-business advertisers spent on average $2,231 on search advertising in the second quarter of 2010, up 159.7% from the $859 spent in the same period a year earlier, and up 1.4% from the $2,201 spent in the first quarter of 2010, according to a WebVisible study based on its small-biz clients.

  • Social Media and SEO Integrated via New Platform

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    To help drive viewers to online content, a just-launched platform uses linguistics technology and search marketing best-practices to integrate social media with search engine optimization (SEO). Search engine marketing and design firm Zog Media launched the platform, dubbed Project Redline, in partnership with social media press release builder PitchEngine.

  • Mobile Marketing Gaining Ground Among Retailers

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    US retailers are actively pursuing the mobile channel to enhance customer engagement and loyalty: 73% have some type of mobile initiative in place and 20% of are in the process of evaluating the mobile channel, according to a survey from Forbes Insights, in association with Research In Motion (RIM).

  • Facebook Flops in Customer Satisfaction, Wikipedia Wins

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    Though Facebook is the dominant social media platform, consumer satisfaction with the industry giant is low—with users citing concerns over privacy, security, technology, and advertising—whereas satisfaction with nonprofit Wikipedia is more favorable, according to a survey from ForeSee Results for the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI).

  • In Email Integration, Social Media Tops Mobile

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    Though the adoption of sophisticated mobile devices continues to climb, the integration of mobile marketing into email and online programs is still low: Less than one-third of marketers say mobile-optimized experiences are relevant to their email audiences, but nearly two-thirds say they are integrating social technologies into their email efforts, according to a survey from eROI.

  • Email, Facebook, Twitter: How Users Engage With Brands

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    More than 90% of consumers who are a fan of, or "like," at least one brand on Facebook also receive at least one permission-based marketing email per day, and roughly 75% of consumers who follow at least one brand on Twitter subscribe to at least one brand's email marketing, according to a study by ExactTarget.

  • Marketing Lesson From the Grateful Dead: Loosen Up Your Brand

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    The Grateful Dead teaches us to show our brand's playfulness and to trust that our customers will recognize our brand even if it looks a little "different." By loosening up your brand, you allow your company to show its personality—and, by extension, its ability to roll with the punches.

  • How to Achieve Direct Digital Marketing Relevance: Take an Incremental Approach (Part 4 of 5)

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    Previous installments of this article series have describe the importance of relevance in direct digital marketing and three of the five keys to achieving a relevance-centered approach. This article looks at the fourth key: taking an incremental approach to creating more relevant, valuable communications every day.

  • When Competing With Your Own Customers Is OK—Vibram FiveFingers and Eigen Values

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    Eigen values are what marketers use when we're doing our best work. Once we view everything that our brand does through the prism of eigen-value standards, it changes how we launch our websites, train our customer-service people, and hire our employees. Want to see how an eigen value plays out in real life? Look at Vibram and its FiveFingers shoe.

  • How to Ruin Your Brand, Your Business, and Your Career: The 13 Worst Marketing Mistakes, Part 3

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    Part 1 and Part 2 of this article covered the first 10 of the 13 worst marketing mistakes. Here are the rest of the top 13 marketing mistakes you should avoid at all cost.

  • 2010 US Ad Spend Forecast to Grow

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    Tentative growth in the US advertising market has begun to propel the global ad recovery, prompting a revised forecast of global ad expenditure, now projected to grow 3.5% in 2010, up from the 2.2% forecast in April, 2010, according to projections by ZenithOptimedia.

  • Email Metrics: Open and Click Rates Decline

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    Email open and click-through rates declined sharply in 2009, especially in the latter half of the year, with performance levels varying dramatically by industry and email list size, according to a study by MailerMailer, which also found that open and click rates tended to be highest on Sundays.

  • 4 Billion Web Video Ads Viewed in June

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    More than 177 million US Internet users watched video content in June, also viewing more than 4.3 billion video ads, with Hulu generating the highest number of ad views at 566 million, according to Video Metrix 2.0 data from comScore, Inc.

  • Marketing and Sales Alignment Pays Off in Recession

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    Companies with strong alignment between marketing and sales departments have fared better during the economic recession, reporting higher levels of new customers, revenues, and customer retention than those with low alignment, according to a study by Miller Heiman and Northern Illinois University.

  • Digital, Direct Marketing Hiring Softens—Less so for B2B

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    Weakening economic signals are having their effect on the employment outlook for digital and direct marketers in the third quarter (Q3), according to the latest quarterly employment report by Bernhart Associates Executive Search, LLC.