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  • MarketingProfs blogger Ted Mininni reviews the latest book by Chip and Dan Heath, "Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard."

  • If you're passionate about something and you have an idea that just won't go away, now is the time to explore it and to make something remarkable happen. Here are seven key steps you can take to ensure your great idea becomes a success.

  • When you're marketing to global audiences, your messages must be accurate, concise, and targeted to establish consumer trust and brand loyalty. Satisfied customers often result in repeat purchases and increased return on investment (ROI). That is where translating marketing content comes into play, ensuring that messages are properly conveyed to various global audiences.

  • In today's consumer-goods industry, manufacturers and retailers alike are recognizing the value of developing an integrated understanding of the consumer and the shopper. Combining the voice of the shopper into brand and category plans is rapidly becoming a cost of entry for successful trading relationships.

  • Analytics are especially useful in the burgeoning field of interactive ads delivered to shoppers' smartphones and other portable devices. The immediacy of those ads—their ability to spark impulse purchases—can be very powerful. But to be successful, they must be personalized—the right ad aimed at the right customer at the right moment.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • MarketingProfs blogger Paul Chaney discusses the future of email marketing.

  • 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.

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

  • 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

  • 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" 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.