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  • Branded-Content Spend Reaches New High

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    Marketers spent record highs on branded content in 2009––allocating on average 32% of their overall marketing, advertising, and communications budgets to the category––up five percentage points from the previous high of 27% recorded in 2007, according to a study from the Custom Publishing Council (CPC).

  • E-Books Attract Internet-Savvy, Educated

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    US consumers who own electronic book readers are more likely than other adults to be well-educated and have high incomes, according to Mediamark Research & Intelligence (MRI). They are also far more likely to be heavy mobile Internet users.

  • How to Capture Your Company's Essence in 15 Words

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    As a B2B company, you may never air a 15-second message on NPR. But distilling your company description to its essence is a powerful goal. It will force you to jettison the jargon and superlatives. And your message will resonate all the more with prospects.

  • Sales: Strategic Calling to Find Hidden Opportunities in Your Current Accounts

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    What growth strategy is your sales organization pursuing as the economy begins to show signs of recovery? As the business climate improves, so do the opportunities for shifting from survival mode to growth mode. Frozen budgets are beginning to thaw, and companies are considering to fund projects that were deferred during the height of the recession.

  • The Anatomy of a Conversion Path

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    A well-designed conversion path does more than guide a user toward the ultimate goal of becoming a customer. It leads you and the user into a richer, better-informed relationship.

  • Embracing Cross-Channel Analytics to Create a Competitive Advantage

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    If you are using multiple channels and you want to understand both what's really working and enrich your customers' experiences with your organization, then you'll have to step into the world of cross-channel analytics.

  • Single Day E-tail Spending Surpasses $900M

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    US online holiday spending reached $24.8 billion for the first 48 days of the November-December holiday season, a 4% increase over the same period last year, according to comScore.

  • Youth Interest in 3D Video and HDTV High

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    Younger US consumers (age 18-34) are more interested in viewing 3D video content on a TV or PC screen and are more likely to make an HDTV purchase over the next three months than other age groups, according to research from Ipsos Media.

  • Email Trumps Social Media for Sharing

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    Despite reports of its demise, email continues to beat out emerging social media channels such as Twitter and Facebook as the favorite way to share information with colleagues and friends, according to a study from ShareThis.

  • Business Use of Social Media Surges

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    The use of Facebook, Twitter, and blogs for business purposes has skyrocketed in the last six months—with indications of wider adoption and more frequent sessions, according to research by Palo Alto Networks into application traffic patterns of computer networks.

  • Americans Struggle to Feel Holiday Cheer

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    A large majority of Americans (62.7%) say they can't get into the Christmas mood this year due to worries about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the healthcare debate, the economy, and concerns about jobs, according to America's Research Group. In previous seasons, outside forces affected no more than 48% of Americans.

  • Online Remarketing Most Underutilized

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    Among online marketing tactics available to Web marketers, remarketing––bringing back users that abandon a website––is the most underutilized, according to a survey conducted by SEMPO and Advertise.com.

  • Emerging Markets to Drive Smartphone Surge

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    The smartphone market will climb to 37% of global handset sales in 2014, expanding from 16% of market share in 2009 to 37% in 2014, with emerging markets driving the growth, according to Pyramid Research.

  • US Marketing Models Won't Work in China

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    The consumption of media among the Chinese––and the influence that media exerts on Chinese purchasing behavior––is significantly different from what it is for American consumers, according to ProsperChina.com and BIGresearch. Chinese consumers are also educated about Western brands and tend to be selective in their purchases.

  • Small Business Marketing in 2010: A Forecast

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    Small business owners are planning to engage customers in new ways in 2010, according to an Ad-ology Research study: 28% say they will spend at least the same or more on online video, an increase of 75% over last year's plans; 25% say they will commit more resources to social media; and 21% say the same for mobile advertising.

  • Facebook Top Search Term, Google Top Site

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    Among the top 300 Web search terms, Facebook was the top-searched term overall in 2009, accounting for 0.67 percent of all searches, according to Experian Hitwise, which also found that Google has been the most-visited site of 2009.

  • Consumers Simply Want a Better Phone

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    Consumers are asking for three features when they buy their next cell phone, including better connectivity, better audio, and simplicity, according to a survey by In-Stat.

  • Q3 Email Click and Open Rates Increase

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    Marketers used email communications more effectively during the year as open rates jumped to 22% in the third quarter of 2009 from 19.8% during the same period last year, or an increase of 11.1%, according to a study by Epsilon.

  • Brand Control to Major Tom: The New Rules of Brand Management

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    The notion that you can manage your brand by making and distributing messages and materials that you want "out there" is becoming quaint. And though the new age of extreme participation is a challenge, you as brand manager haven't lost all control—and you CAN influence what you can't control.

  • The Brave New World of the Engaged Web

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    We no longer use the Web just for browsing, we use it for doing: posting videos, creating content, sharing things, and connecting with people and organizations. Welcome to "the Engaged Web," a new world where passive websites have been replaced by engaging Web applications and where visitors have become users. This new world has three important implications for marketers.