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  • Marketing is changing and evolving at a rapid pace. Are you keeping up? Here are five major changes taking shape in 2012 that CMOs can't afford to ignore.

  • The flash sale is one of the hottest tools being used today to capture customers' attention, and email is a key driver of such campaigns, generating on average 18% of referral traffic to websites advertising flash sales, higher than social media (13%) and search (11%), according to a report by Experian CheetahMail.

  • Engaging local target audiences is a strategic focus for many brands: 49% of national marketers surveyed say localized marketing is essential to business growth and profitability, particularly as it relates to demand generation and sell-through of products and services, according to a study by the CMO Council. Moreover, 86% of marketers say they intend to look for ways to better modify, adapt, and localize their marketing content, messaging, and prospect engagement practices.

  • Nichole Goodyear, strategic adviser at Extole, chats about running startups, changes in advertising, and the future of social search... in the latest Marketing Smarts podcast from MarketingProfs.

  • The best way to embark on a social media marketing strategy is to prepare in advance. To ensure success and maximize results, learn six questions you'll need to tackle before delving into your next social strategy.

  • Conversations taking place on blogs, forums, and major news platforms have grown more positive in sentiment over the past two years, and the rise in social media adoption worldwide has slightly diminished North America's position as the center of the social media universe, according to a report by Sysomos.

  • The use of blogging, Twitter, and Facebook among the nation's largest companies has leveled off in 2011, according to a new study by the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.

  • Applying social media marketing efforts to an international audience could present unique challenges—but it doesn't have to. Learn six best-practices that'll ensure the greatest ROI in localized social media.

  • Some 18 months after the introduction of the iPad, 11% of US adults now own a tablet computer of some kind, and among them 53% access news via tablet every day, reading long articles as well as browsing headlines, according to a new report by Pew Research.

  • With a Facebook follower base of more than 34 million fans, and growing some 2.6% each month, Coca-Cola is ranked as the top brand on Facebook among the nation's top 100 advertisers, according to the Covario Facebook Presence Index, which evaluates the competitive performance of Facebook pages.

  • Prospective technology buyers who consume whitepapers and other types of tech content say they perceive marketing collateral to be more influential when it displays a social sharing option, or when audio or video content is embedded within it.

  • In this episode of Marketing Smarts, Aaron Weber of Spiral16 discusses what makes content popular, how effective algorithms are at parsing the Web's information, and how to connect with the people who are talking about you.

  • People who engage with brands via social media demonstrate a deeper emotional commitment to those brands, and they spend between 20% and 40% more than other customers on the products and services offered by the brands, according to a report by Bain & Company.

  • Mobile social networking is on the rise: As of August 2011, the number of people who accessed Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter via mobile devices grew 50%, 69%, and 75%, respectively, over the same period a year earlier, according to a report by the comScore MobiLens service.

  • People who follow brands on Twitter say they are more likely to buy products from the brands they follow and more likely to recommend those brands to friends, according to a new study by Constant Contact and Chadwick Martin Bailey.

  • Among a list of 12 social media success enablers, the ability to react and adapt quickly to change is ranked as the most important factor for succeeding in today's social media environment, according to a new survey from Booz & Company and Buddy Media Research.

  • Marketing professionals have mixed opinions on the state of branding today: 58% of those surveyed say "we're in a time of revolutionary change when it comes to how powerful brands are created," whereas 42% express the opposite viewpoint, saying "the fundamentals haven't changed at all," according to a report by the Branding Forward Project.

  • Thanks to the Internet, event promotion has never been cheaper to do or easier to track. But before you set off to promote your next event online, learn the benefits—and drawbacks—of three popular approaches.

  • Most of the world's top marketing executives understand the dramatic shifts occurring in the way they engage with customers, but still struggle to manage the change, according to a new survey from IBM: 79% of CMOs expect a high or very high level of marketing complexity over the next five years, but only 48% say they feel prepared to cope with it.

  • With the news of Steve Jobs's death on October 5, 2011, the Twitter universe exploded with tributes to the visionary co-founder and former chief executive of Apple. More than half of those tweets were generated via Apple devices, according to a study by Visibli.