Last week for SocialTech early bird + save $100 more with code BEMINE. Register now »

Benefit of PRO Membership Benefit of PRO membership

Marketing Resources: Customer Behavior

Access thousands of our Marketing Resources here. Select any of the popular topics below to narrow your search.

MarketingProfs Today

Get new marketing updates delivered to your inbox! Sign up for MarketingProfs Today for FREE!


Get to the Po!nt Newsletters

Bite-sized topic-specific newsletters on B2B Marketing, Content Marketing, Email Marketing, Search Engine Marketing, Small Business, Social Media and more. Sign up for one, two or all...for FREE!


Sign Up for Get To The Po!nt Newsletters

Unlimited Seminars for a Year

Try PRO Membership and get 35+ online seminars plus access to our whole seminar library.

Try Membership Now

Customer Behavior Resources

Get unlimited access to all of our exclusive marketing resources Go PRO Today
  •  
    Are Popover Forms Right for You?
    Although improved browser technology has rendered the popup window nearly obsolete, most of us remember its intrusive horrors. "As a result," writes Mark Brownlow at Email Marketing Reports, "email marketers have been reluctant to use 'in your face' website sign-up forms that in any way resemble those popups of the ... more
  •  
    Luxury Shoppers Use Social Media to Flaunt Purchases
    After making a luxury purchase, most Americans (70.8%) "verbally tell someone" about their latest acquisition, while fully three in ten (30.3%) head to social media sites to share the news, according to a survey from Empathica. more
  •  
    Android Gains in Smartphone Market, Apple Also Up
    Fully 40% of all US mobile subscribers, or 97.9 million people, owned a smartphone during the three months ended December 2011, as Google Android expanded its dominance in the market and Apple gained ground among handset manufacturers, according to data from the comScore MobiLens service. more
  •  
    Super Bowl Ad Stats: Top Advertisers, All-Time Best Ads
    Super Bowl XLVI is only days away—and so is the debut of those iconic ads that run during the big game. Learn which industries led the way in ad spending last year, and which ad was named the best Super Bowl ad of all time by Forbes.com readers. more
  •  
    Four Ways to Optimize Your Email's Call to Action
    Even when elements of your email campaigns deliver strong results, there's always a chance you can do better. Consider the case of a tried-and-true call-to-action (CTA) button used by HubSpot. During a slight redesign, the inbound marketing firm decided to test a few alternatives. "We were pretty shocked to discover that ... more
  •  
    Gen-Y Won't Buy Without User-Generated Input
    Raised on a diet of interactive and social media, Millennials are a consumer powerhouse who, when considering purchases, tend to value user-generated content (UGC) more than other sources of information, such as the opinions of friends and family, according to a survey from Bazaarvoice. more
  •  
    Web Traffic via Mobile Up 102%
    Some 12.6% of total website traffic was generated via mobile device in the fourth quarter of 2011, up 102% from the 6.3% a year earlier, and Android was the top smartphone OS during the period, accounting for nearly half of mobile traffic to websites, according to the Walker Sands Quarterly ... more
  •  
    Marketing Smarts Podcast: Sally Hogshead and the $500 Cup of Coffee
    by Matthew Grant
    What if you opened a coffee shop and needed to stand out from a slew of competitors? You'd need to create a fascinating aura around your product. One way to do that, according to Sally Hogshead, this week's guest on Marketing Smarts, would be to offer a $500 cup of ... more
  •  
    Websites Trump Social Media for Finding Holiday Deals
    When searching for the best holiday deals, one-quarter (25%) of surveyed consumers say they prefer visiting brand websites over other channels such as print media (15%), email newsletters and notifications (13%), and Facebook (3%), according to a survey from Crowd Science. more
  •  
    Social Media Lessons From the GOP Race
    Republican presidential candidates have made social media an integral part of their campaign efforts to win the White House in 2012—signing on to various social networks in hopes of reaching key constituents—and marketers can learn a lot by watching the political campaigns at work, according to a study by iContact. more
  •  
    Social Media Trends With Benefits in 2012
    The integration of social media and business has come of age: 38% of CEOs now label it a high priority, and 57% of businesses plan to hike their social media spend in 2012 (Booz Allen/Buddy Media). As the use of social media advances across the business spectrum, Edelman's David Armano has ... more
  •  
    2012 CES Wrap-Up: Top Trends, Devices, and Brands
    Tech brands Microsoft and Motorola generated the most Twitter buzz at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held January 10-13 in Las Vegas, each accounting for 5% of #CES-tagged Twitter mentions during the annual event, according to a study by Simply Measured. more
  •  
    Three Tips for Effective Feedback-Loop Management
    "If you are a large-volume sender of email, you should be signed up for all the feedback loops that are available," writes Tom Sather in an article at MarketingProfs. "Why? Because feedback loops are a great way to … increase customer satisfaction, and reduce sender questions and end-user complaints." While ... more
  •  
    Top Shopping Tools: Web Browsers, Smartphones, and Facebook
    Among the various digital shopping channels available to consumers today, when discovering new products, most online shoppers prefer to use websites via PC or laptop or browser-based mobile sites via smartphone rather than mobile apps, according to a new study by Zmags. more
  •  
    Top Social Networking Trends and Need-to-Knows
    Social networking was the most popular online content category in the world as of October 2011, accounting for 19% of all time spent online, or one out of every five minutes, according to a whitepaper by comScore. more
  •  
    Maximizing Your Brand Presence on Google+
    Recently, Google+ granted companies the ability to launch brand pages. Its stated goal in doing so was to help users build relationships with any company they "care about." As Google's SVP-Engineering Vic Gundotra describes it, "behind every page (or storefront, or four-door sedan) is a passionate group of individuals, and ... more
  •  
    Mobile Email Audiences Up 28%
    Some 89.6 million Americans used their mobile phone to access email for work or personal purposes during the three-month period ended November 2011, up 28% (19.5 million) from the 70.1 million who did so a year earlier, according to comScore Data Mine. more
  •  
    The Importance of Relevance: A Cautionary Tale
    "Today I was sad," writes Tara Jacobsen at the Marketing Artfully blog. "I got a message from someone who I like a lot and have been 'friends' with on the Internet for a while." The problem? Unlike the steady stream of relevant content the business friend used to distribute, this ... more
  •  
    Some Do's and Don'ts of Social Updating
    It's hard to decide what's appropriate for posting on social networks without an etiquette road map—and harder still when you're doing it as a company, not just as yourself. Amalia Agathou of The Next Web understands. To help marketers get the art of social updating right, she has written an article on ... more
  •  
    Why Content Marketing Rules (and What's in It for You)
    "Blogs, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and other online platforms are giving organization like yours an enormous opportunity to engage directly with your customers or would-be customers," write Ann Handley and CC Chapman in their book Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) that Engage Customers ... more
  •  
    Four Timeless Email Copywriting Commandments
    Any successful email campaign begins with a good offer. But you won't close the sale or earn the click-through if your copy doesn't do its job. For instance: Are you discussing features without explaining benefits? Or placing your call to action "below the fold" where subscribers won't see it unless ... more
  •  
    How to Bridge the Left Brain-Right Brain Gap in Your Loyalty Program
    "To deliver the critical wow factor that draws consumers into loyalty programs and keeps them there," writes Fred Thompson at MarketingProfs, "marketers must get inside customers' heads." What you'll find are two hemispheres—logical left and dreamy right—that compete for attention and want drastically different things. To select the right rewards ... more
  •  
    How to Avoid Four Deadly Email Program Sins
    "There are a lot of things that can go wrong with email marketing—broken links, typos, unoptimized images—the list goes on," writes Magdalena Georgieva at the HubSpot blog. But on the other hand, she notes, marketers shouldn't focus so intently on small technical details that they lose sight of the big ... more
  •  
    Four Reasons Haters Are Good for Your Company
    Your company will always have haters—unhappy customers who go out of their way to trash your product, service or customer service at every opportunity. "They often find their way onto social media, thanks to the low barrier of entry and promise that any invisible comment can find its way onto ... more
  •  
    Free Shipping Day Drives Holiday E-tail Sales to $30.9B
    US retail e-commerce spending for the first 46 days of the November-December 2011 holiday season reached $30.9 billion, up 15% from the corresponding days in 2010, according to data from comScore. more

Customer Behavior: See all 949 items

Customer Behavior articles by the best and brightest in the field

All Articles  |  Benefit of PRO Membership PRO Articles Only

See all Marketing Articles

Customer Behavior case studies, deconstructing real life examples and illustrating lessons learned.

Check out our marketing Case Study Collections on hot topics including Social Media ROI, Mobile Marketing, Facebook and Twitter.

Customer Behavior: See all 48 case studies

Customer Behavior online seminar broadcasts from the best minds in marketing

Be sure to check out our Upcoming Online Seminars. Tune in LIVE or watch the recordings at any time.

Customer Behavior: See all 30 seminars

Customer Behavior marketing downloads for the busy professional

  • Influencer Marketing Success Stories
    Influencer Marketing Success Stories features 13 companies that have leveraged the influence of outspoken opinion-makers and ordinary online reviewers to achieve their marketing objectives. With examples including Forbes Digital and Virgin America, this new Case Study Collection will show you how use influencer to boost brand awareness, introduce new products, increase sales, and more.
  • Research Spotlight: Twitter
    A successful Twitter program requires extensive research on whether your audience is there, what everyone is interested in, and what they're doing. Lucky for you, MarketingProfs has done the work for Research Spotlight: Twitter. Download it now to access close to 70 pages of Twitter research from 30 unique sources.
  • Research Spotlight: Facebook
    Research Spotlight: Facebook helps you focus on the most popular social network today. Get the research insights you need to create successful Facebook campaigns. Learn who's on Facebook, what they're doing, and how best to reach them.
  • Slowpoke's Guide to Digital Marketing
    Feel like the digital marketing race began without you? Don't worry—you can still catch up to the social media superstars. The Slowpoke's Guide to Digital Marketing puts rocket fuel in your engine to propel your digital marketing campaigns.
  • Website Conversion Success Stories
    Many marketers spend too much time and money trying to get people to visit their sites, and not enough boosting the number of sales from the people already visiting. See how 11 companies, including Jelly Belly Candy Company and Kinaxis, are transforming their landing pages, and get great ideas for optimizing your own site to increase sales.
  • Customer-Centric Innovation: How Companies Engage Customers in Product Development and Radical Innovation
    Engaging your customers can help increase satisfaction, loyalty, and brand awareness. This research report will help you understand the role of customers in product development.
  • Benchmark Research: Marketing in the Economic Crisis
    These economic times have everyone concerned and asking, "How does this effect marketing?". Well we surveyed our very own members to help give marketers a sense of how others are dealing and adapting to these tough times.
  • B2B Sales Lead Generation: Integration of Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 Media
    Research on how Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 can be used in effective Lead Generation campaigns
  • E-Newsletter How-To Guide
    The e-newsletter has become ubiquitous. Almost a dime a dozen. How do you make yours not only stand out in the inbox, but make a positive impact on your bottom line? This guide will show you how.
  • Online Research How-To Guide
    Set clear objectives and a realistic scope to online research projects. These are just two of the steps that this comprehensive, step-by-step planning guide will help you to accomplish to insure your online research results in the most relevant and useful information possible.
  • Lead Generation How-To Guide
    Great product, great sales team, great marketing collateral - now what? People to sell to, of course. Put your lead generation tactics under the microscope with this enlightening how-to guide. Get more and better qualified leads, faster today.
  • B2B Direct Marketing How-To Guide
    Direct marketing is one of the fastest changing disciplines within marketing today. What worked 10 years ago, isn't working today. Heck, what worked last week sometimes doesn't even work today, so keep your skills sharp with his How-To guide, focusing on the B2B market.
  • Benchmark Survey: Voice of the Customer
    Link directly to the raw (aggregate) data in this 2006 survey of the ways companies are incorporating the voice of the customer into their marketing, their product development, and their management. With access to the raw data, you can view the results, and even filter them to see how a subset of companies in your country or industry answered. In this way, you can interpret the data in the most meaningful way for your business.

Customer Behavior: See all 13 downloads

Join over 433,000 members ... SIGN UP!

My email address is and I'd like my password to be .

Already a member? Sign In!

My email address is , and my password is .


Better Business Bureau Seal