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  • Product, price, place, and promotion are the four Ps of marketing. These days, however, there's a frenetic obsession with promotion, confusion about place, and a hectic battle over price. Amid the chaos, that first P is often overlooked.

  • Despite anticipated increases in 2011 digital and social marketing budgets, only 30.0% of marketers say they have a strong understanding of social media conversations happening around their brands, according to a survey from Alterian.

  • MarketingProfs blogger Mario Sundar examples the purpose of Quora, its benefits, and the shares the reasons why you should care about Quora ... or not.

  • Writing is a vital component of various marketing-related tasks. Effective writing can improve sales pitches, enhance brand value, and perfect ad campaigns. Spruce up your marketing with these five tips.

  • Yahoo Sites comprised the top-ranked Web property in December 2010 attracting 181.2 million unique visitors, followed by Google Sites with 179.3 million and Microsoft Sites with 177.0 million, according to comScore Media Metrix service. Meanwhile Amazon recorded its highest month of traffic on record from the holiday shopping surge.

  • MarketingProfs blogger Ted Mininni wonders why ads disrespect fathers and shares survey results from a recent survey about fathers doing more shopping.

  • Sales and marketing best-practices are universally desirable—but, too often, elusive. Here are seven solid best-practices that address the misalignment between Sales and Marketing and help increase sales.

  • More than seven in ten (71%) of the nation's fastest-growing private companies now use Facebook and, among them, 85% say their efforts are proving successful, up 36 percentage points from the 54% that said so a year earlier, according to a study by the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth's Center for Marketing Research.

  • MarketingProfs guest blogger John Haydon of Inbound Zombie share his seven tips for keeping blog visitors hooked when reading blog posts.

  • MrketingProfs blogger Stephanie Miller shares the conversation at #profschat regarding the importance of email in holding businesses and customers together.

  • Whether you're just beginning to present to audiences, or are a veteran speaker—becoming a speaking champ requires attention to detail. Begin with these nine, nuanced tips to master your speaking skills.

  • Some 13.36% of email message opens occur via mobile device with the iPhone comprising more than 65% of that activity on average, according to a study from Knotice, which also finds that mobile email open levels are highest in the early-morning hours but vary dramatically by industry.

  • Are you dissatisfied with the results of your Google AdWords ads? A low "Quality Score" could be to blame. If you've tried all else but aren't seeing results, give these three unconventional tips a shot at bumping up your score.

  • US direct and digital advertising expenditures are forecast to reach $163.9 billion in 2011, up 6.2% from 2010 levels, according to a report from the Winterberry Group. Of that total, digital spending is expected to reach $31.6 billion, up 14.0% from the previous year.

  • MarketingProfs blogger Paul Barsch discusses the implications of machines reading the news for marketing, PR and social media professionals.

  • Online reputation management (ORM) has become a hot term in digital marketing. But few marketers know exactly how to use it to their advantage. Learn how to tackle the Top 3 ORM challenges, and let your brand shine.

  • In anticipation of stronger business conditions, more than one-half (52%) of digital and direct marketing executives plan to increase hiring in the first quarter of 2011, up from the 41% who said so in the previous quarter, according to a survey from Bernhart Associates.

  • A MarketingProfs guest blogger and the CEO of Appitalism.com, Simon Buckingham shares 5 ideas Facebook could use to address the privacy concerns of its users.

  • MrketingProfs blogger Stephen Denny offers 5 new mental shifts to make in order to see the opportunities hidden in plain sight around you.

  • MrketingProfs blogger BL Ochman defends the importance of social media in response to AdAge's claim that social media is useless and dead.