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  • Email and Facebook Dominate Sharing of Online Content

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    Email is still a key component of digital marketing: 49% of consumers share content online at least once a week, with most of it shared via email (86%) and Facebook (49%), according to a study from Chadwick Martin Bailey and iModerate Research Technologies. Just 4% of surveyed consumers share content via Twitter and 2% do so via LinkedIn.

  • Content Quality (Not Quantity) Builds Social Media Influence

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    Though most marketing executives (84%) agree there is a correlation between one's ability to drive action (influence) and one's reach, 90% draw a clear distinction between influence and popularity, and cite the quality of content as the most important factor in building influence online, according to a survey from Vocus and Brian Solis.

  • Forrester: Social Media Content Creation Waning

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    Consumers continue to join and engage with social networking sites, but the percentages of those who contribute new and fresh content to a broad array of social media fell or reached a plateau in 2010, compared with levels recorded a year earlier, according to a study by Forrester Research.

  • 10 Best-Practices in Planning and Marketing Virtual Events

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    Imagine making your events (marketing meetings, conferences, tradeshows, etc.) available to a much larger, highly attentive audience that can conveniently gather and exchange information, browse exhibits, receive product demos, provide feedback, and network—all via their computer.

  • Four Ways to Deal With Inactives on Your Email List

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    On any email list, there will be subscribers who signed up and never again showed signs of life. In email lingo, we call such list members "inactives." They may have opted in to a specific offer, then disengaged, or they were in the market for your product or service but aren't any more. Here are four ways you can deal with inactives.

  • Fatal Mistakes in Questionnaire Design: Leading and Misleading Questions

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    Leading and misleading questions always yield questionable data, based on which you are highly likely to report findings that can misguide stakeholders. Moreover, decisions they make based on such data could cause an organization's failure rather than lead to its success. Here's how to diagnose and repair those faulty questions.

  • How to Achieve Relevance in Direct Digital Marketing: Have a Plan

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    This final installment in a series of articles on achieving relevance in direct digital communications discusses the fifth vital key: developing and maintaining a plan. Achieving relevance requires you to define a step-by-step approach to overcoming each hurdle.

  • Most Teen Brand Word-of-Mouth Occurs Offline

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    Despite the image of teens being obsessed with digital communications, only 13% of teen word-of-mouth (WOM) about brands takes place online—via texting/instant messaging (7%), social networking (3%), and email (3%)—according to a survey from Keller Fay Group.

  • Retailers Increasing Spending on Internet, Mobile Channels

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    Most retailers say they are emerging from the recession better positioned for strong and sustainable revenue growth, with many planning to increase spending on Internet and mobile channels over the next 12 months, according to a survey from Forbes Insights. In addition, most retailers are planning to advertise more aggressively during the 2010 holiday shopping season.

  • Reaching Today's Digital-Savvy Chinese Consumers

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    With a population of over 1.3 billion, not only does China have more Internet users than any other country, but 81.4% of Chinese consumers age 18-54 say surfing the Internet is a favorite way to spend free time, making it a top leisure activity in China, according to a survey from Prosper China.

  • Social-Media Publishers Eager for Paid Sponsorships

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    Over one-half (56%) of social-media content publishers, including Twitter users and bloggers, say they have monetized their social-media activities via advertising, sponsorships, or affiliate programs, and another one-third (32.1%) say they'd like to do so, according to a survey from IZEA.

  • Social Media Use Growing Among Microbusinesses

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    Nearly eight in 10 of the nation's smallest companies (79%) say marketing is a major success factor for their business and nearly one-half (46%) of such firms, or microbusinesses, say they are using some type of social media for marketing, according to a survey from Vistaprint.

  • Email Campaign Testimonials: How to Maximize Customer Praise

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    Welcome to the power of the testimonial: A potent plug can make people as much as seven times more likely to buy or try than if they saw a paid advertisement. Email-based testimonials can be just as persuasive, but the key is to maximize their power. Here's how to do that...

  • Accelerate Your Referrals: Nine Steps to Success

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    If you're like many professional service providers, you get a lot of business from referrals. You get them because you're an expert and you provide excellent service. Nevertheless, that's not enough. Several things need to happen first: In fact, the referral process parallels the buying process that prospects use to make purchase decisions.

  • Why 'Free' Text Messages Will Cement Mobile as a Critical Component of the Marketing Mix

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    With short message service (SMS) reaching 5 billion mobile phones around the world, marketers can no longer ignore the significance of texting as a marketing channel. Some consumers, however, are hesitant to take advantage of those mobile marketing programs, in part because of the fees associated with branded messages. Enter free-to-the-end-user (FTEU) messaging.

  • Why Mobile Is Driving a New Approach to Data Management

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    As the mobile channel continues its rise to prominence among marketers and consumers, the lines between the digital marketing and the physical marketing worlds have become blurred. If mobile is meant to connect the two worlds, a new approach to data management is crucial for marketing to remain effective and relevant.

  • B2B Marketers Using Social Media to Boost Search

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    As B2B marketers shift resources and marketing budgets to social media, many have begun to align their social-media efforts with search-engine marketing, using the social channel to drive search referrals and conversion rates among Web visitors, according to a study by BtoB Online and Business.com

  • Signs of Recovery in Industrial, Tech Marketing

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    Despite dismal economic news overall, some business sectors are showing signs of improvement: Fully one-half of industrial-sector companies are expecting annual revenues in 2010 to be higher than they were in 2009, compared with the 24% of companies that reported the same a year earlier, according to a survey from GlobalSpec.

  • Google Leads in Explicit Core Search in August

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    Google Sites led the US explicit core search* market in August 2010, accounting for 65.4% of total searches conducted during the month, down 0.4 percentage points from July, according to data from comScore qSearch.

  • B2B Marketers to Boost Spending on Social Media, Digital

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    B2B marketers continue to shift their marketing mix away from traditional marketing vehicles toward social media and digital channels: 67% plan to increase spending on social media over the next two to three years and 64% plan to increase spending on digital and online marketing over the same period, according to a study by Booz & Co.