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  • More TVs Than People per Home, Drama Rules Primetime

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    Americans now have on average 2.93 TV sets per household, up from 2.86 in 2009—the largest year-over-year increase since 2006, according to Nielsen's latest Television Audience Report. Although the US total population continues to increase, the number of people per TV home has held steady at 2.5, which means there are more TVs at home than people.

  • Small Biz Confidence Improving, Owners Going Social

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    America's small businesses are becoming more optimistic about the economy: The Discover Small Business Watch, a monthly index on the pulse of small business owners, increased to 85.1 in April 2010, up 9.4 points from March and back to levels registered at the start of the year, Discover reported.

  • How Can Your Organization Plan for Political Boycotts?

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    MarketingProfs blogger Elaine Fogel discusses how Arizona businesses have been affected by the state's new anti-immigration law. How can marketers, business owners and managers plan for such a thing as a political boycott?

  • Twitter Catches Up With Facebook in Awareness

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    The number of US consumers who say they are aware of Twitter has surged to 87% in 2010, up from 26% a year earlier; but despite that near-ubiquitous awareness, just 7% of the population—approximately 17 million Americans—use Twitter, according to a survey from Edison Research and Arbitron.

  • Online Video Viewing Up 11% in March

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    Some 31.2 billion videos were delivered to US Internet users in March 2010, up 11.0% from 28.1 billion in February, and 180.2 million people watched online videos in during the month, up 3.4% from 174.2 million in the previous month, according to comScore data.

  • The Future of Email Marketing

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    MarketingProfs blogger Paul Chaney discusses the future of email marketing.

  • Business Tech Buyers Up Social Media Use

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    Technology buyers are aggressively adopting social technologies to help them make business decisions—most often using new social channels to complement traditional decision-making approaches and information sources, according to a survey from Forrester.

  • Comfortable Speaking About Statistics?

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    MarketingProfs blogger Paul Barsch discusses the importance of understanding numbers, especially statistics, in business.

  • Is McDonald’s a Bad Egg or Good Egg?

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    Or is the fast food giant just plain laying an egg? Lots of controversy has accompanied the company’s recent decision not to use eggs from cage-free chickens for its Egg McMuffin and other breakfast The U.S. Humane Society asked McDonald’s to take of its egg-laying hens out of cages that are smaller than a sheet of

  • Small Biz Owners Optimistic About Future, Resilient

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    Although one-half (52%) of small business owners say their business's economic situation is worse than it was 12 months earlier, almost three-quarters (73%) are optimistic about the future of their businesses, according to a February survey from Pitney Bowes.

  • 'Facebook' Top Search Term in March

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    "Facebook" was the top search term in the US across three major search engines—Google, Yahoo, and Bing—in the four weeks ended March 27, 2010, according to Experian Hitwise.

  • Why Small Businesses Fail on the Web

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    MarketingProfs blogger Abe Mezrich shares the latest video of Marketing Obsessions and why small businesses fail on the Web.

  • Best Place to Get an Email Budget in 2010: Steal It

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    Email marketing is not forecast to grow a lot this year, but there is still an opportunity to grow the channel investment by tying contribution back to business goals.

  • Business Leaders Embracing Social Media

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    Social media is here to stay: Though many business leaders say social media is somewhat "over-hyped," 63% disagree with the idea that it's a marketing fad and over 80% say social media tools can provide a valuable way to monitor and engage with customers, according to a survey from SmartBrief.

  • Websites Fail to Protect Consumers From Fraud

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    Most consumer-facing websites (92%) in the US fail to fully protect their visitors from online fraud, even as growing numbers of businesses continue to deploy online safety measures, according to the Online Trust Alliance (OTA). Among the 1,200 domains of leading companies analyzed, only 8% earned a spot on the OTA Online Safety 2010 Honor Roll.

  • Understanding How and Why B2B 'Buyers Are Liars' ... and What This Means for Demand Generation

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    MarketingProfs blogger Adam Needles discusses how and why B2b buyers are liars and how this affects demand generation.

  • Consumer Confidence at 19-month High

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    The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index, which had rebounded in March, increased further in April and now stands at 57.9 (1985=100), up from 52.3 in March—and at its highest reading since Sept. 2008 (61.4), the Conference Board reported.

  • The Nine Most Common Data Mining Techniques Used in Predictive Analytics

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    Predictive analytics take you beyond the traditional slicing and dicing of your data so you can be smarter and more agile in marketing. With predictive analytics, you can gain faster insights and optimize programs by simultaneously testing copy, offers, and creative rather than deploying the more traditional A/B-testing methodology, which may take longer and delay course adjustments.

  • Failing to Prepare in Web Analytics Is Preparing to Fail

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    Far too often, Web-analytics initiatives fail to provide the insight that most businesses need and want. Companies are so eager to obtain immediate value from newly implemented Web-measurement systems that they overlook the complexity of Web analytics, which require a significant investment in preparation and pre-planning.

  • Seven Score and Seven Years Ago: Writing Lessons We Can Learn From Lincoln's Masterpiece

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    As marketing professionals, business owners, and salespeople, our livelihood depends in large part on our ability to communicate. And as we prepare for our next marcom project, marketing campaign, sales presentation, or public-speaking opportunity, we would do well to call to mind the lessons to be learned from Lincoln's masterpiece.