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The Changing Agency/Client Relationship: Glenn Engler Talks to Marketing Smarts [Podcast]by Matthew Grant
Senior-level marketers don't seem to believe their digital partners are adequately extending their service capabilities in the digital age. So how does an agency demonstrate that it "gets" digital? Glenn ...
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Five Tips for Online Public Relations Success [Slide Show]by Allie Gray Freeland
It's 2012. Advances in the digital world have revolutionized media—and how public relations professionals do their jobs. Are you keeping up? Here are five tips for mastering the digitization of ...
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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 ...
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Top 5 Crowdsourcing Pitfalls That Can Sink You [Slide Show]by Wil Merritt
Crowdsourcing can be a great way to generate creative for your campaign, allowing your brand advocates to "own" a piece of your messaging. But watch out for five common pitfalls—and ...
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Three Core Qualities of B2B Digital Marketing
As businesses become ever more adept at creating their own digital marketing strategies, they are sure to expect the same or better from you when you try to engage with ...
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IBM: CMOs Struggle to Keep Up With Digital, Social Marketing
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 ...
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Direct and Digital Marketing Jobs Weakening in 4Q11
The stalled US economy has weakened job prospects for digital and direct marketers in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to a survey from Bernhart Associates. Even so, more than ...
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Five Steps to Clearly Defining Your Brand in a Digital World
As information disperses across a thousand channels, clearly defining your brand becomes more important than ever. Yet many B2B companies "still don’t have a clear understanding of what their brand ...
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Smaller Tech Companies Upping Marketing Investments
Though overall global marketing budgets in the tech sector are increasing 3.5% in 2011, they are not keeping pace with annual revenues in the sector, which are expected to grow ...
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Digital Loyalty: You Built It. What's Next? Part 5 [Video]
In the final installment of this five-part video series on Digital Loyalty, experts from The Buddy Group and Badgeville explore key considerations of a consumer loyalty, incentive, or rewards program, ...
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Digitally Savviest Magazine Brands: Time, People, Self
Time Magazine, People, and Self earned the top three spots among a list of 87 prominent magazine brands for exceptional marketing performance across digital, social, and mobile channels, according to ...
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Digital Loyalty Strategy in a New Landscape, Part 2 [Video]
In part two of this five-part video series on digital loyalty, experts from The Buddy Group and Badgeville explore users' needs, reaching the right audience with the right messages, and ...
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Facebook Ad CPCs Up 22% in 2Q11
Ad rates on the nation's most popular social network are climbing: Median cost-per-clicks (CPCs) on Facebook grew 22% in the second quarter of 2011 over the previous quarter, according to ...
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How Visa Shifted Its Marketing Focus to Social and Digital Media
In a CMO Close-Up interview at BtoB Magazine, John Obrecht speaks with Antonio Lucio, global chief marketing, strategy and corporate development officer at Visa. The two discuss how Visa has shifted ...
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Six Social Media Archetypes and How to Reach Them
Studies often classify us into demographics, psychographics or—more recently—by our "online influence" scores. The real question for today's social-savvy marketers is, What makes us connect and share in our digital ...
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Small Business Marketing: Social, Search Fastest-Growing Channels
Despite a lack of investment in marketing technologies and staffing over the past two years, many small businesses are now stepping up investments in digital channels such as social media, ...
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Long-Tail Websites Deliver Higher Ad CTRs
Digital marketers may be missing opportunities by focusing ad campaign spending solely on premium short-tail websites: Average click-through rates (CTRs) for ads placed on long-tail websites are 24% higher than ...
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Digital Ad Spend to Climb 14%, Social Media 35%
US direct and digital advertising expenditures are forecast to reach $163.9 billion in 2011, up 6.2% from 2010 levels, according to a report from the Winterberry Group. Of that total, ...
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Internet Ad Revenue Hits Record $6.4B in 3Q10
US Internet advertising revenues reached an estimated $6.4 billion in the third quarter of 2010, a record high for the online ad industry and 17% higher than the same period ...
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Four Ways to Optimize Your Digital Marketing Spend
The recession has provided even more momentum to the ongoing shift to digital. Tech marketers are expected to increase their marketing budgets on average 3.7% in 2010, according to IDC. ...