• How to Create Your Marketing Dashboard in Five Easy Steps by Laura Patterson
  You already know that a dashboard is an essential tool for improving (and proving) marketing effectiveness. These five steps will help you and your marketing team get started on the road to creating a dashboard that works for you.
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• Five Marketing Mistakes You Can Avoid by Using Cross-Channel Attribution by Anto Chittilappilly
  Cross-channel attribution is about assigning credit for marketing results to where credit is due. Most marketers and agencies either attribute all credit to the last touch point or have no way of attributing the credit in a meaningful manner. Here ...
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• A 12-Step Guide for Driving Marketing Action With Data by Laura Patterson
  Are you facing increasing pressure from your leadership team to justify your marketing decisions? Most marketers can no longer afford to make decisions based on intuition or gut feel. Today, making good decisions requires data. Data and technology enable marketers ...
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• Segment Migration: Where Your Customers Were, Where They Went, and Why by Mark Klein, PhD
  Understanding customer behavior is key to creating marketing campaigns that generate high response and revenue. One of the best ways to understand customer behavior is to study customer migration patterns—to learn when and why a customer ends up in a ...
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• Defining Market Opportunity—You Be the Judge by Kevin Horne
  At its core, market opportunity is your sizing forecast for a specific product or service, now and over the next several years. At a minimum, you should know that information in terms of sales dollars. A solid understanding of opportunity ...
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• Embracing Cross-Channel Analytics to Create a Competitive Advantage by Laura Patterson
  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.
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• Marketers' Choice: Run With the Big Dogs, or Stay on the Porch by Traci Gere
  Marketers need to establish and institutionalize the processes for drawing and communicating Marketing's impact, consistently and repeatedly. That means running with the "big dogs" in Finance, Sales, and the chief executive's seat... and speaking their language, and framing decisions in ...
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• Capturing Campaign Sales Lift—Can Pre-Post Measurements Be Trusted? by Jim Lenskold
  The typical pre-post measurement is not accurate enough to support major marketing decisions; moreover, if it is not managed correctly and improved, Marketing can take a significant hit on credibility.
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• Proving ROI for Search-Engine Optimization by Dan Skeen
  Search-engine optimization (SEO) provides several return on investment (ROI) measures that can have a positive impact on a company's bottom line far more visibly than most marketing tactics. Yet despite all the potential, and the many SEO success stories, it can ...
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• Measuring What's Meaningful in Social Media by Mack Collier
  How do you measure the effectiveness of your social media efforts? Many companies are not properly tracking the right metrics. Or they are tracking the right metrics but aren't applying those metrics to their full effect. Here's a look at ...
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• 11 Tips for Challenging Government-Marketing Myths and Reaching Buyers by Becky Sheetz-Runkle
  Just as selling to government is different from selling to any other industry, marketing to government requires a distinct approach. Although there is no shortage of ways to reach government buyers, some ways are better than others. To help shatter ...
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• Are Your Marketing Dollars Buying Customers—or Just Renting Them? by Debra Ellis
  How many marketing dollars did you waste last year contacting customers who didn't buy from you? It's easy to look back to see where your investment was ineffective... if you know precisely where to look.
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• Marketers: Don't Just Buy Media—Earn It! by Ben Straley
  Want to get started with an effective earned-media marketing program? Here are three tips for launching, measuring, and monetizing a low-cost earned-media program that will drive a surge in online word-of-mouth traffic about your brand.
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• Retail Price and the Impact of Commodity-Price Inflation by Joy Joseph
  In the past year, the most fundamental of the 4 Ps of marketing (price) has rapidly risen to prominence. In a way, that is an inevitable outcome of the recent media focus on macro factors that determine the economics of demand ...
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• Measuring What Matters in Email Marketing, Part 2 by Karen Talavera
  There are many approaches to using email-campaign metrics to measure and improve marketing performance. The following are the top five approaches, along with appropriate measures and usable insights for each.
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• Five Tools for Tracking, Measuring, and Evaluating Your Personal Brand Online by William Arruda
  The best kind of personal branding combines real-world communications with virtual visibility and community-building via social media. Online brand-building enables you to reach beyond the people you can connect with in person and allows you to measure the impact of your ...
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• Setting Performance Targets: The Ins and Outs in 10 Steps by Laura Patterson
  Despite the emphasis on and progress in marketing performance measurement and management over the past decade, research continues to show that the link between marketing and the business still needs to be stronger and clearer.
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• Why CMOs Need to Instill Better Measurement Discipline... Now by Jim Lenskold
  Putting a measurement discipline in place involves going beyond the occasional campaign measurement or results tracking; it means establishing standard processes across the organization. Within large marketing organizations there are usually a few measurement "champions" who recognize the benefits of and ...
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• Measuring What Matters in Email Marketing, Part 1 by Karen Talavera
  It's high time for email marketers to assess campaign performance in terms of the business and marketing goals, objectives, and contribution expectations that matter. So how do you figure out what matters? Hint: There is no one-size-fits-all answer.
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• Making Twitter Success Measurable by Evan Gerber
  For new-media darling Twitter, marketers are finding more tools to help them understand how their efforts are performing. This article will explore different ways to measure success (and mistakes) on Twitter by examining several real-world campaigns and the tools marketers can ...
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• Get Socialized
  "The more comfortable we get about the idea of measuring social media, the more we want to dig into the practical application of it," writes Amber Naslund at the Altitude ...
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• Marketers Redefine Success During Recession
  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 ...
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• Crossing the Channel
  "[I]n today's environment," writes Laura Patterson at MarketingProfs, "we may need to gather data from an email campaign, a physical event, and an online advertising campaign to better understand purchasing ...
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• CMOs Want Measurable Results From Social Media
  Though 2009 may have been a trial run for many companies using social media, CMOs expect social initiatives to have a direct impact on their bottom lines in 2010, according ...
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• The Word on the (Virtual) Street
  In a recent post at the Retail Email blog, Chad White highlights a host of interesting takeaways from this month's Winter Email Insider Summit. Among them are some hot email marketing tactics you may ...
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• Are You Hot or Not?
  On a scale of one to 10, how would you rate your ability to measure the impact of your social-media initiatives? Be honest. Because if you're like the marketers who ...
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• Don't You Dare Record This
  "This call may be monitored for training purposes." We've all heard that message, or something similar, when calling for tech support or customer service. Generally, we accept it. But what ...
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• SEO Will Cure That SOS
  Business owner Fran Murdy presented all the symptoms of full-blown Search Overload Syndrome (SOS), Microsoft's term coined in its recent commercials for Bing, when he fessed up in a forum discussion not ...
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• Do You Love Us?
  "Our experience suggests that most companies use a crude approach to gathering vital customer data," says David Jackson in an article at MarketingProfs. "Periodic, often annual, surveys that are disconnected ...
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• Marketing-Performance Measurement Yields Competitive Advantage
  Companies that have fully embraced marketing-performance have marketing organizations that make a more positive impact on business—and are more likely to be market leaders—according to a study conducted by CMG ...
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• The Ho-Ho Heat Is On
  "The holiday season is the most important time of year for retailers, when aggressive goals are set for increased traffic and sales, both in-store and online," says eROI's Alex Williams ...
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• Yes, It's Viral, but I'm not Afraid
  This time of year, the word "viral" strikes fear in the best of us. Images of flu viruses ready to attack spring to mind. (Shudder.) But that word holds a scary ...
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• No Excuses
  "One of the ultimate excuses for not measuring [the impact of marketing efforts] is: 'Oh, that's just a branding campaign,'" says Avinash Kaushik in a post at the Occam's Razor ...
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• Stay Tough, Stay Trendy
  Want to boost search results? Try benchmarking based on the latest trends, says Performics' Michael Kahn in a Chief Marketer article. An analysis by Performics of data from more than ...
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• Problem Solved: What's the Right Social-Media Fit?by Claire Coyne
  You know your company needs to jump in to social media to compete in today's Internet-based marketing world. But which channel is right for you? How can you find the ...
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• Better Than a Magic 8 Ball
  "It can be difficult to measure success of efforts that rely on emerging media," says Evan Gerber in an article at MarketingProfs. "[D]espite the fact that they are online channels, ...
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• Facebook, Nielsen Partner to Measure Ads' Impact
  Facebook has entered into a multiyear partnership with Nielsen to allow better measurement of the effectiveness of advertising on the widely popular social networking site. The alliance is yet another ...
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• How Do You Measure Your Social Efforts?
  How do you know whether your social media efforts are bearing fruit? The answer, according to Katie Paine, is to create benchmarks against which to measure your efforts.
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• Show Me the Numbers That Count
  "It's high time email marketers assess campaign performance in terms of the business and marketing goals, objectives, and contribution expectations that matter," says Karen Talavera in an article at MarketingProfs. ...
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• You've Come a Long Way, Baby
  "The use of mathematics in marketing seems to be one of the hot topics today," begins a post at The DoubleThink blog. "But is it that new? Not really." The ...
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• How Businesses Are Marketing With Facebook & Twitter (FREE)Attendee rating:  - 2/23/2010
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• Building and Sustaining Brand Communities: This Ain’t Your Mama’s Discussion ForumAttendee rating:  - 8/13/2009
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• Putting Why Before How: Seven Steps for Focusing Your Social Media StrategyAttendee rating:  - 7/30/2009
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• You 2.0: Measuring (and Improving) Your Personal Brand on the WebAttendee rating:  - 6/12/2009
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• Promotions: Instant Gratification for Small Business MarketersAttendee rating:  - 12/14/2007
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• Small Biz How-To Guide: Market Research
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  This comprehensive, step-by-step how-to guide will help you assess the position in the market of your product or firm, by identifying the product's Strengths and Weaknesses, by considering the potential Opportunities the product has in the marketingplace, and by assessing the potential Threats posed by either the competition or the marketplace.
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  This guide will give you a mini-seminar on the art and the science of forecasting. Learn the four different ways to create forecasting models and choose the ones that best suit your needs. Then follow these easy-to-follow steps to creating a model where you too can predict the future.
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• Benchmark Report : Marketing ROI (Year 2)
  This 2006 survey, the second annual ROI study, demonstrates that companies are definitely getting the ROI message. This study shows a significant increase in the number of companies that have implemented some form of Marketing ROI measurements. And let's face it, Marketing ROI is here to stay. Jim Lenskold says, "Marketing ROI will continue to be a priority as long as maximizing profits is a priority for corporations." Well said, Jim.
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• Benchmark Report: Marketing ROI (Year 1)
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