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Marketing Smarts Podcast: Making the Most of the Mobile Momentby Matthew Grant
"Mobile is a behavior. It's not a technology." That's what Tim Hayden, CMO of 44Doors, told me when we discussed the "mobile moment" in this episode of our Marketing Smarts ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Mobile Social Media: Top Apps, Deal Sites, and More
Social consumers—people who are active on various social networking sites—use mobile devices broadly in their social activities, such as checking in with social networking sites, sharing content, playing games, and ...
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Five Big Mobile Engagement Mistakes Made at Live Events [Slide Show]by Amanda Van Nuys
One of the best times to use mobile marketing is during a live event. But marketers often make mistakes at events that hinder their success. Here are five mobile engagement ...
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How Retailers and Brands Are Using Mobile to Win at Shelf... and Beyond [Slide Show]by Rick Gardinier
This holiday season, leading brands are capitalizing on the mobile boom. Is your brand following suit? If your brand hasn't quite cracked the mobile code yet, learn four quick points ...
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Social Media Chatter Reveals Mobile Shoppers' Frustrations
Many consumers are unhappy with recent mobile shopping experiences, according to study by Tealeaf; among social media conversations related to mobile shopping over the Thanksgiving weekend of 2011, 58% expressed ...
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Five Internet Trends to Factor Into Your 2012 Business Plan
In a post at the B2B Marketing Insider blog, Michael Brenner reports on the latest prognostications of analyst Mary Meeker. "Mary has been nailing it each year with her analysis ...
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Android and iOS Rule US Mobile Apps Market
Consumers who own Apple iPhones and Google Android devices together constitute the majority of the smartphone and mobile app user segments in the US, according to new data from Nielsen.
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Small Businesses to Ramp Up Mobile, Social Marketing in 2012
With smartphone penetration reaching an impressive 80% in the small-business community, interest in mobile marketing is mounting: 21.8% of small-business decision-makers say they plan to dedicate more resources to mobile ...
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Four Tips for Mobile Email Design
"Designing emails that look great no matter where they're read can be quite the challenge," writes Justine Jordan at the Litmus blog. "As more people read email on mobile devices, ...
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Four Tips for Mobile SEO
"Despite some predictions that mobile SEO will be of negligible importance, mobile search has grown 5x in the past 5 years—far outpacing PC searches—and the growth is only set to ...
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It Is Written on the Tablets: News Consumption Going Mobile
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 ...
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Social Networking via Mobile Devices Surging
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, ...
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Location-Based Coupon Users Concerned About Privacy
Though more than two-thirds of mobile consumers (67.0%) say location-based coupons are convenient and useful, nearly one-half (44.8%) say they have security concerns about their locations being tracked, according to ...
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Three Ways B2B Mobile Apps Can Boost Client Services
"The B2B app market has been slow to take off, but there is no reason why one, or several, popular apps should not emerge across different vertical markets," writes Gordon ...
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M-Commerce Taking Comparison Shopping to a New Level
Mobile commerce has become widespread in the US: 80% of smartphone owners say they have used their devices to help make buying decisions in the past year and two-thirds have ...
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The Five Rules of Great Radio: Rule 4 (a) [Video]by Brent Walker
You're driving. Through Iowa. Endless fields of corn. Row after row of stalks the same size, the same height, the same color. That, actually, is much like a drive through ...
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Local Business Search: Mobile Surges 34%
Mobile local search is growing at unprecedented levels: 77.1 million mobile subscribers accessed local content* via mobile devices in January 2011, up 34% from the 57.6 million who did so ...
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Mobile Ad Campaigns Still Beating Online
Mobile campaigns continue to be a powerful ad channel for marketers, outperforming online advertising by roughly three times across a variety of metrics, including ad awareness, message association, and purchase ...