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  • During challenging economic times, buyers look for value. The more value you provide, the more likely you are to become the provider of choice. Presentations offer you excellent opportunities to provide that value at different stages of the sales cycle. Here are five ways to create more value in your presentations.

  • MarketingProfs Daily Fix Blogger, Matthew T. Grant shares three things he's learned about social media from IBM's Sandy Carter

  • MarketingProfs Daily Fix blogger, Elaine Fogel, discusses how non-profits should use marketing like for-profit organizations.

  • Although companies know they need a marketing message that stands out in the marketplace, 62% of executives rate their company's message as average to poor and only 38% say their company has a differentiated story, according to a survey from Corporate Visions.

  • Google's Android has been available as an open-source platform for just over one year, but the new mobile operating system has already gained significant market traction: Android users initiated seven times more downloads of mobile entertainment content than iPhone users in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to Myxer.

  • MarketingProfs' Daily Fix blogger, Jacob Morgan, discusses Enterprise 2.0 and social media tools.

  • Nearly two-thirds of marketers (64%) say they define success differently in the economic downturn while over one-half (55%) say emphasis on short-term responses to the economic slowdown has led them to neglect long-term strategy, according to a survey from Spencer Stuart.

  • The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index, which had increased in December, improved further in January and now stands at 55.9 (1985=100), up from 53.6 in December, the Conference Board reported.

  • The most significant online viral campaign of the decade was "Mentos and Diet Coke experiments" by Eepybird.com, according to a survey conducted by GoViral.

  • With 2010 Census questionnaires set to arrive in mailboxes across the country by mid-March, 84% of Hispanics intend to be counted this year and are confident that personal information collected won't be shared with other government organizations, according to a survey from Telemundo and Ipsos Public Affairs.

  • Even in the current economic climate, investments in fraud management are paying off as total estimated online revenues lost to fraud fell 18% in 2009, down to $3.3 billion from $4 billion in 2008, according to a survey from CyberSource.

  • Millennial women are optimistic about their career prospects: 94% of young (age 22-35) professional females surveyed say they can achieve a balance between a satisfying professional life and a gratifying personal life, according to a survey from Accenture.

  • Guest post by Ted Murphy, CEO of IZEA, on MarketingProfs' Daily Fix blog, discusses best practices for sponsored tweets.

  • MarketingProfs' Daily Fix blogger, Len Kendall, discusses five ways to maximize your technology story utilizing smart public relations.

  • In anticipation of a stronger global economy, digital marketing––fueled by social technologies that interact directly with customers––is positioned to thrive in 2010: 81% of brand executives expect increases in the volume of digital projects during the year, according to a survey form the Society of Digital Agencies (SoDA).

  • Even as more marketers adopt loyalty and rewards programs to improve sales, they are failing to fully engage their customers: Most consumers surveyed (54%) say the barrage of irrelevant messages, low-value rewards, and impersonal engagement don't particularly engender loyalty, according to a survey from the CMO council.

  • Ted Minnini, MarketingProfs Daily Fix blogger, discusses AdAge's article on how consumer packaged goods companies are aiming for innovative products for 2010.

  • Only 38% of US adults age 65+ are online––a significantly lower rate of Internet adoption than both the general population (74%) and the next-oldest group, adults age 50-64 (70%), according to research from Pew Internet.

  • Newspaper and magazine ads are still the preferred way for consumers to find shopping deals, but the Internet is not far behind, according to a survey from Harris Interactive.

  • In the B2C space there's a lot of buzz around mobile marketing, but in the B2B sector it's more likened to a whisper. B2Bs are missing out on super-sized opportunities for integrating a valuable new brand touch point for their customers and establishing a dynamic new communications channel with professional audiences.