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  • Visitors Stay on Facebook Far Longer Than on Any Other Top Website

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Facebook may still rank second behind Google among the nation's most visited websites, but online Americans spend nearly four times more hours per month using Facebook than Google, according to data from Nielsen.

  • Is Your 'About Us' Page Effective?

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    For a small B2B business, the second most important page on its website after its homepage is its "About Us" page. Learn a highly effective formula for creating content for your "About Us" page, and how to track its effectiveness.

  • Websites Top Online Source of B2B Leads, but Still Underperforming

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    Though 88% of B2B companies say they understand their target audiences at least moderately well, they still struggle to translate that understanding into new business leads via their corporate websites, according to a new study by Demandbase and Focus.

  • Three New Ways to Market Your Small Business

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    Running your small business is a labor of love, but promoting it with new, targeted efforts is necessary to connect with customers. Learn how to keep things fresh and stay connected when marketing your business.

  • Direct and Digital Marketing Jobs Weakening in 4Q11

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    The stalled US economy has weakened job prospects for digital and direct marketers in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to a survey from Bernhart Associates. Even so, more than six in ten direct and digital marketing employers say they are struggling to find the right talent to fill vacancies, citing analytics-related candidates as among those in greatest demand over the next three months.

  • How to Get to the Bottom of Base Sales Drivers

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    To significantly boost sales, you've got to understand base sales drivers and marketing's impact on them. Learn from examples that illustrate how factor analysis can help you yield consistently high ROI.

  • Behavioral Mindsets Influence Search Patterns

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    When searching for information on the Internet, people tend to exhibit one of three distinct behavioral search patterns, according to new research by About.com, which explores the various mindsets that drive Web search.

  • Marketing Smarts: Lou Imbriano on Teamwork, Positions of Power & the Goal of Your Business

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    CONTENT TYPE: Podcast | TOPIC: None

    For this, the maiden voyage of the MarketingProfs "Marketing Smarts" podcast, I spoke with Lou Imbriano, a former CMO of the New England Patriots. He offered a wealth of down-to-earth advice for any business owner.

  • Keeping Score: Make Tracking Stats Fun With Gamification

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    Need to stay on top of stats? Let the games begin. Make monitoring metrics fun, and learn how to keep track of your social media, search engine optimization, and email marketing efforts.

  • 'Like' Means Different Things to Different People

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Though more than nine in ten Facebook users click on a Facebook “like” button at least once a month, their motivations for doing so vary considerably by age and context, according to a new study by ExactTarget.

  • How Communities Are Changing Marketing (And Four Community-Building Lessons)

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    Few companies realize the incredible power of their customer communities. Don't be one of them. Learn about the interplay between content and community and four engagement lessons that'll keep you ahead of the pack.

  • Smaller Tech Companies Upping Marketing Investments

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    Though overall global marketing budgets in the tech sector are increasing 3.5% in 2011, they are not keeping pace with annual revenues in the sector, which are expected to grow 6.5% over 2010 levels, according to a report by IDC.

  • Jeff Bezos and the Shoe-Store Owner: How to Build Instant Rapport With Your Customers

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    In April 2009, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos convinced Zappos founder Tony Hsieh to sell his online shoe store despite his initial reluctance. The story serves as a lesson to all marketers on building rapport with customers.

  • Deliverability Still a Problem for Email Marketers

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    Some 81% of all permission-based commercial emails worldwide were delivered straight to recipients' inboxes in the first half of 2011, while the balance of messages fell prey to spam or junk folders (7%) or simply went missing (12%), according to a report from Return Path.

  • What's Wrong With Your Email: A Second Look at Proven Attention Grabbers

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    When soliciting business via email, there's a right way and a wrong way to grab your subscriber's attention and interest. Here's a real-life example—and a detailed critique—of an email solicitation gone awry.

  • Shoppers via Social Sites Buy Less Often, but Spend More

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Although online shoppers who arrive at retail websites via Facebook and Twitter are less likely than those who arrive via search engines to make a purchase, they tend to spend more money when they do buy, according to research from RichRelevance.

  • Top Tips for Multicultural Marketing

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    Are your campaigns reaching the intended audiences? Learn how to create an effective multicultural marketing campaign—and avoid the common pitfalls many endure when marketing to growing ethnic groups.

  • CMOs: Budgets, Hiring Up; Optimism Down

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Despite a lack of confidence in the overall US economy, CMOs are planning to increase spending on all forms of marketing over the next 12 months, particularly the share of budget allocated to social media marketing, according to The CMO Survey.

  • Analytics and Marketing Operations: A One-Two Punch for Growth

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    Today's customers are more value-oriented and less loyal. Considering the increase in customer expectations, the competitive landscape, and the data deluge, marketers will need an analytics approach to succeed.

  • Twitter Sharing Buttons Drive Sevenfold Increase in Tweet Links

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Websites that display Twitter sharing buttons are linked to on Twitter nearly seven times more often than sites that do not display tweet buttons, according to a study by BrightEdge of some 4 million randomly sampled Twitter messages in August 2011.