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  • Marketing is like baseball. If you can measure data well, you can unlock new insights about how to win. Here are some ways to keep score of your digital relationships—and get results.

  • Brands that conduct Facebook marketing can gain huge benefits by targeting the friends of their Facebook fans, according to a new report by comScore and Facebook, which also found that Facebook users spend 27% of their time browsing homepage newsfeeds.

  • Many companies have referral programs, but how many can say theirs converts at about three times the rate of other online campaigns and brings in over 500 product sales each month? Learn how one company did just that.

  • Brands are using a new and expanding set of advertising tools to reach social consumers: 67% of surveyed brand managers say they conduct some type of social media advertising and another 18% plan to implement such activities in the next year, according to a new study by The Pivot Conference and Brian Solis.

  • One-to-one marketing is time-consuming, but as any sales professional can tell you, the personal touch—communicating directly with the decision maker—can be very effective.

  • Fully two-thirds (67%) of North American information technology (IT) professionals say they find vendor-produced content such as whitepapers "extremely useful" or "useful," according a new study from IDG Connect. IT professionals say thought-leadership content is the most useful, followed by analysis and survey statistics.

  • If you create or manage direct mail programs, the current economy probably has you pulling your hair out. Now is the perfect time to get back to basics and remind yourself of the following seven core principles of direct marketing.

  • Most Members of Congress have integrated social media into their communications strategies—using social tools to gauge public opinion, communicate with constituents, and reach new people, according to a survey from the Congressional Management Foundation (CMF).

  • With the number of Americans owning tablet devices forecast to increase at a compound annual growth rate of 51% between 2010 and 2015, tablet commerce is expected to grow rapidly over the same period, offering consumers a portable yet highly engaging shopping experience, according to a new report by Forrester Research in partnership with Bizrate Insights.

  • Humans or machines—which are superior these days? Both human and machine translation can be used when taking marketing content global. Learn three translation techniques—and when to use them.

  • Watching video online is becoming more popular in the US, particularly among rural audiences: 71% of online adults now use video-sharing sites such as YouTube and Vimeo, up 5 percentage points from the 66% who did so a year earlier, according to a new report by Pew Research.

  • To get the most out of your online marketing, don't go it alone. Get powerful influencers in your corner to help spread the word about you. Here's how to build your team of evangelists and create a winning word-of-mouth campaign.

  • More than six in ten online Canadians (62%) say they have a social networking profile; among them 48% "like" or "follow" at least one brand or company on a social site, and 49% say their views of products and brands are influenced by recommendations of those in their social network, according to a survey from Ipsos.

  • Are you increasing your inbound leads? What happens once you get them? Without successful conversion, leads are essentially useless. Here are six steps that'll immediately increase your lead-conversion rates.

  • After trailing Yahoo for nine months, Google Sites was the top-ranked Web property in June 2011 with 182.5 million visitors, followed by Yahoo Sites with 178.4 million and Microsoft Sites with 173.6 million, according to comScore Media Metrix service. Amazon Sites jumped one spot to rank at No. 6 with 95.8 million visitors, while Twitter, which had joined the top 50 ranking in February 2011, jumped nine spots to No. 37 with 30.6 million.

  • When social media use first took off, many posed the question, "Is social media going to kill email?" But savvy email marketers soon realized they could use social media to their advantage. Here's how.

  • Small business owners are still lukewarm about social media: 53% say they use social media for business, but only 12% say social marketing is a must for their business, according to a survey from Hiscox. Social media adoption varies by company size, however.

  • LinkedIn is now the second most popular social networking site in the US: Traffic to the professional networking website increased 63% year over year as of June 2011, inching past MySpace for the first time, according to data from comScore Media Metrix.

  • Smartphone use is exploding, providing new opportunities to connect and engage with target audiences. Learn how to optimize your mobile marketing campaigns, and effectively track and record mobile conversions.

  • Email open rates continued to languish in 2010, though performance levels varied dramatically by industry, whereas click rates improved during the year, according to a report by MailerMailer, which also found that most people tend to open email between seven and ten in the morning.