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  • B2B Marketers to Boost Spending on Social Media, Digital

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    B2B marketers continue to shift their marketing mix away from traditional marketing vehicles toward social media and digital channels: 67% plan to increase spending on social media over the next two to three years and 64% plan to increase spending on digital and online marketing over the same period, according to a study by Booz & Co.

  • Refresh Your Email Writing Skills

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    MarketingProfs blogger Veronica Maria Jarski shares a quick list of tips for refreshing your email writing skills.

  • Content Marketing Vital to B2B Marketers

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    Content marketing is now a well-established, core marketing strategy in the B2B marketplace, with B2B marketers considering content integral to their marketing mix: fully 9 in 10 organizations say they market with content, according to a new study from MarketingProfs and Junta42.

  • What B2B Organizations Can Learn From Good Marriages

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    MarketingProfs blogger Carlos Hidalgo shares what B2B organizations can learn from the communication of happily married couples.

  • Friendly's to Become Faster and Friendlier

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    MarketingProfs blogger Ted Mininni shares Friendly's ideas for launching express locations that are faster, friendlier and change customers' perception of the company as slow.

  • Marketers to Double Spending on Digital Data by 2012

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    US marketers are expected to more than double their investments in online-derived data sources by 2012, allocating a projected $840 million to information about digital audiences, transactions, and clickstream behaviors, according to a study by the Winterberry Group.

  • Three Ways to Find Negative Keywords

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    Keyword discovery is a huge component of pay-per-click advertising. You need to find relevant keywords so you can create topical ad groups, text ads, and landing pages. But for truly cost-effective, high-ROI PPC campaigns, it's equally important to find negative keywords—those that aren't relevant to your offerings or customers—so you don't waste ad spend.

  • Content Marketing Has Been a Successful PR Strategy for Decades

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    The highly effective strategy of creating informational content that's valuable to prospects and customers has been with us for decades. Demonstrating expertise, becoming an authority, providing "how-to" information, and speaking about subjects of interest or relevance to your market are a superb way of promoting or driving market engagement for B2C or B2B brands.

  • Five Reasons Why Social Media Is Right for Small Business

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    When it comes to social media, the one thing that small and midsize businesses want to know is this: Is it worth it? Yes, it is. Here are five quick reasons why.

  • Achieve Less Din, More Dialogue With Your Social-Media Presence

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    There's not merely buzz but outright din surrounding social media and how "everyone" is using it to win hearts and minds, and maybe even help grow business. But before you jump in, take pause to reframe your thinking about social media—away from the tactical, and toward the strategic. Doing so will ensure that instead of adding to the noise you're positioning your organization to win.

  • US Ad Spend Increases 5.7% in 1H10

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    Led by television media spending, total measured advertising expenditures reached $63.6 billion in the first half of 2010, up 5.7% from the same period a year earlier, according to data from Kantar Media. Ad spending during the second quarter of 2010 grew 5.4% over the same period in 2009.

  • Know Your Audience When Telling Stories

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    MarketingProfs blogger Paul Barsch discusses how different cultures approach telling stories and why it's important to know your audience.

  • Top 10 B2B Blogging Tips From #TechChat With Mack Collier

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    MarketingProfs blogger Megan Leap needs your vote for the top 10 tips from #TechChat for a free virtual pass to SocialTech 2010.

  • Brand Marketers Not (Yet) Sold on Social Media

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    With brand awareness cited as their primary brand-management goal in 2010, most corporate brand executives say online communications and traditional public relations—not social media—are still the most effective channels to reach their audiences, according to a survey from MiresBall and KRC Research.

  • Google Instant Means 5 Big Changes for Search Marketers

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    Google recently unveiled Google Instant, which displays search results to a user as they type. The benefits of these changes, according to Google, are (a) Predictive Typing: as you type, a prediction is made of what you are seeking; and (b) Instant Results: as you type, the results appear. Every new character updates the search results instantly.

  • Men More Likely to Act on Ads, Women More Likely to Click

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    Businesswomen deliver a 23% higher click-through rate for online ads than businessmen, who are 53% more likely, however, to take action—such as download a whitepaper, start a free trial, or make a purchase—after clicking on an ad, according to a study by Bizo.

  • Taking Action: 8 Ways To Classify Ideas

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    MarketingProfs blogger Paul Williams offers eight ways to classify ideas during a brainstorm, so you know which ones to pursue and which ones to abandon.

  • Help Your Customers Count on You

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    MarketingProfs blogger Jeanne Bliss shares how TD Bank found a service magnet by using Penny Arcades and letting customers count on them.

  • Adults Texting More, but Teens Still Rule

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    Texting among US adults has increased substantially over the past year, but still does not approach the magnitude of texting activity among teens: 72% of adult cell-phone owners send and receive text messages now, up from the 65% who did so in September 2009, whereas 87% of teen cell-phone owners exchange text messages on a typical day, according to Pew Research.

  • Marketing Baby Carrots: Cool, Crisp & Conveniently Packaged

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    MarketingProfs blogger Ted Mininni discusses the new marketing campaign that sells the concept of baby carrots as junk food.