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  • Social Media Use Growing Among Microbusinesses

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    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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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    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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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    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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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    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.

  • Content Marketing Vital to B2B Marketers

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    Content marketing is now a well-established, core marketing strategy in the B2B marketplace, with B2B marketers considering content integral to their marketing mix: fully 9 in 10 organizations say they market with content, according to a new study from MarketingProfs and Junta42.

  • Marketers to Double Spending on Digital Data by 2012

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    US marketers are expected to more than double their investments in online-derived data sources by 2012, allocating a projected $840 million to information about digital audiences, transactions, and clickstream behaviors, according to a study by the Winterberry Group.

  • Achieve Less Din, More Dialogue With Your Social-Media Presence

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    There's not merely buzz but outright din surrounding social media and how "everyone" is using it to win hearts and minds, and maybe even help grow business. But before you jump in, take pause to reframe your thinking about social media—away from the tactical, and toward the strategic. Doing so will ensure that instead of adding to the noise you're positioning your organization to win.

  • Three Ways to Find Negative Keywords

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    Keyword discovery is a huge component of pay-per-click advertising. You need to find relevant keywords so you can create topical ad groups, text ads, and landing pages. But for truly cost-effective, high-ROI PPC campaigns, it's equally important to find negative keywords—those that aren't relevant to your offerings or customers—so you don't waste ad spend.

  • Content Marketing Has Been a Successful PR Strategy for Decades

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    The highly effective strategy of creating informational content that's valuable to prospects and customers has been with us for decades. Demonstrating expertise, becoming an authority, providing "how-to" information, and speaking about subjects of interest or relevance to your market are a superb way of promoting or driving market engagement for B2C or B2B brands.

  • Five Reasons Why Social Media Is Right for Small Business

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    When it comes to social media, the one thing that small and midsize businesses want to know is this: Is it worth it? Yes, it is. Here are five quick reasons why.

  • US Ad Spend Increases 5.7% in 1H10

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    Led by television media spending, total measured advertising expenditures reached $63.6 billion in the first half of 2010, up 5.7% from the same period a year earlier, according to data from Kantar Media. Ad spending during the second quarter of 2010 grew 5.4% over the same period in 2009.

  • Brand Marketers Not (Yet) Sold on Social Media

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    With brand awareness cited as their primary brand-management goal in 2010, most corporate brand executives say online communications and traditional public relations—not social media—are still the most effective channels to reach their audiences, according to a survey from MiresBall and KRC Research.

  • Google Instant Means 5 Big Changes for Search Marketers

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    Google recently unveiled Google Instant, which displays search results to a user as they type. The benefits of these changes, according to Google, are (a) Predictive Typing: as you type, a prediction is made of what you are seeking; and (b) Instant Results: as you type, the results appear. Every new character updates the search results instantly.

  • Men More Likely to Act on Ads, Women More Likely to Click

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    Businesswomen deliver a 23% higher click-through rate for online ads than businessmen, who are 53% more likely, however, to take action—such as download a whitepaper, start a free trial, or make a purchase—after clicking on an ad, according to a study by Bizo.

  • Adults Texting More, but Teens Still Rule

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    Texting among US adults has increased substantially over the past year, but still does not approach the magnitude of texting activity among teens: 72% of adult cell-phone owners send and receive text messages now, up from the 65% who did so in September 2009, whereas 87% of teen cell-phone owners exchange text messages on a typical day, according to Pew Research.