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  • MarketingProfs Daily Fix blogger, Elaine Fogel, discusses how non-profits should use marketing like for-profit organizations.

  • Although companies know they need a marketing message that stands out in the marketplace, 62% of executives rate their company's message as average to poor and only 38% say their company has a differentiated story, according to a survey from Corporate Visions.

  • Google's Android has been available as an open-source platform for just over one year, but the new mobile operating system has already gained significant market traction: Android users initiated seven times more downloads of mobile entertainment content than iPhone users in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to Myxer.

  • MarketingProfs' Daily Fix blogger, Jacob Morgan, discusses Enterprise 2.0 and social media tools.

  • 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 to neglect long-term strategy, according to a survey from Spencer Stuart.

  • The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index, which had increased in December, improved further in January and now stands at 55.9 (1985=100), up from 53.6 in December, the Conference Board reported.

  • The most significant online viral campaign of the decade was "Mentos and Diet Coke experiments" by Eepybird.com, according to a survey conducted by GoViral.

  • With 2010 Census questionnaires set to arrive in mailboxes across the country by mid-March, 84% of Hispanics intend to be counted this year and are confident that personal information collected won't be shared with other government organizations, according to a survey from Telemundo and Ipsos Public Affairs.

  • Even in the current economic climate, investments in fraud management are paying off as total estimated online revenues lost to fraud fell 18% in 2009, down to $3.3 billion from $4 billion in 2008, according to a survey from CyberSource.

  • Millennial women are optimistic about their career prospects: 94% of young (age 22-35) professional females surveyed say they can achieve a balance between a satisfying professional life and a gratifying personal life, according to a survey from Accenture.

  • Guest post by Ted Murphy, CEO of IZEA, on MarketingProfs' Daily Fix blog, discusses best practices for sponsored tweets.

  • MarketingProfs' Daily Fix blogger, Len Kendall, discusses five ways to maximize your technology story utilizing smart public relations.

  • In anticipation of a stronger global economy, digital marketing––fueled by social technologies that interact directly with customers––is positioned to thrive in 2010: 81% of brand executives expect increases in the volume of digital projects during the year, according to a survey form the Society of Digital Agencies (SoDA).

  • Even as more marketers adopt loyalty and rewards programs to improve sales, they are failing to fully engage their customers: Most consumers surveyed (54%) say the barrage of irrelevant messages, low-value rewards, and impersonal engagement don't particularly engender loyalty, according to a survey from the CMO council.

  • Ted Minnini, MarketingProfs Daily Fix blogger, discusses AdAge's article on how consumer packaged goods companies are aiming for innovative products for 2010.

  • Only 38% of US adults age 65+ are online––a significantly lower rate of Internet adoption than both the general population (74%) and the next-oldest group, adults age 50-64 (70%), according to research from Pew Internet.

  • Newspaper and magazine ads are still the preferred way for consumers to find shopping deals, but the Internet is not far behind, according to a survey from Harris Interactive.

  • In the B2C space there's a lot of buzz around mobile marketing, but in the B2B sector it's more likened to a whisper. B2Bs are missing out on super-sized opportunities for integrating a valuable new brand touch point for their customers and establishing a dynamic new communications channel with professional audiences.

  • New vision and approaches can add significantly more value to brands over their competitors. Some brands can easily become commodities. Unless they choose otherwise.

  • Billy Mays, who, sadly, passed away at age 50, was a potbellied, black-bearded Atlantic City carnival barker who wore a blue long-sleeve shirt and a white undershirt. And direct marketers loved him. According to Mays, to be great and an easy sell, a product must have these five essential character traits.