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  • Recalls Destroying Toyota's Reputation for Quality

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    The recent recalls of Toyota automobiles have undermined the carmakers' reputation: Consumers who have a positive perception of Toyota's commitment to building quality cars fell to 21.8% in March 2010, down 58.2 percentage points from the 80.0% recorded in 2008, according to America's Research Group.

  • Kodak CMO Jeff Hayzlett’s Advice: Ruffle Feathers.

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    MarketingProfs blogger Abe Mezrich shares a Marketing Obsessions segment featuring Kodak CMO Jeff Hayzlett.

  • Punchlines: What Marketing Can Learn From Comedy

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    MarketingProfs blogger Helena Bouchez shares tips from business coach and comedian Tim Davis.

  • Email Users Take Risks With Spam

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    Email users look for a variety of signs to identify spam in their inboxes: 75% look at senders' names or addresses and 67% look at subject lines, while approximately one-half cite unusual language, email content itself, spelling mistakes, or poor grammar as signs that email may be spam, according to Ipsos Public Affairs.

  • Trust in Yellow Pages Remains Strong

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    Nearly two-thirds (65%) of consumers surveyed say they referenced print or Internet Yellow Pages when looking for local business information in the previous month, according to a study by the Yellow Pages Association.

  • Carrier App Stores Strong, but Apple Leads

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    Despite the buzz around application stores tied to specific mobile devices such as the iPhone and the BlackBerry, carrier app stores are alive and well in the US: one-half (50%) of all mobile apps consumers accessed carrier app stores at the end of 2009, according to Nielsen's new App Playbook.

  • Podcast Interview with Simon Sinek: Start with Why

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    MarketingProfs bloggers John Wall and Christopher Penn share their Marketing Over Coffee podcast interview with Simon Sinek, author of "Start with Why."

  • Social Media Consumers More Likely to Buy, Recommend

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    Two-thirds (67%) of consumers who follow brands on Twitter are more likely to buy those brands after becoming a follower, and 51% of Facebook fans are more likely to buy after becoming a fan, according to a study from Chadwick Martin Bailey.

  • Free Webinar: Mapping Social Media to B2B Sales

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    In a story in MarketingProfs this week, Claire Coyne asks How Can You Map Social Media to B2B As it happens, that question also maps nicely to this Thursday’s free on integrating social media into your B2B marketing mix. Featuring our own Roy Young with a panel of four B2B marketers (including Dave Thomas from SAS,

  • iPad Matches Kindle in Awareness, Purchase Intent

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    Less than a week before iPad's April 3 ship date, nearly two-thirds (65%) of consumers are aware of Apple's tablet device and 15% are already thinking about buying it in the next three months, according to comScore.

  • The Starbucks of Healthy Food

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    MarketingProfs blogger Ted Mininni discusses the growing success of Freshii and owner Matthew Corrin's desire to be the new Starbucks.

  • Small Biz Search Spend Surges in 4Q09

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    Small business advertisers spent on average $2,149 on search advertising in the fourth quarter of 2009, up 111% from $1,018 spent in the same period a year earlier, and up 30% from the $1,658 spent in the third quarter of 2009, according to a study by WebVisible based on its small-biz clients

  • Incredibly Boring Web Content Challenge Poll: Which Finalist Would You Vote For?

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    You can have a great product or service, but unless you’re telling a good story on the web with interesting content, there’s a risk of being ignored. So says Captains of Industry in announcing the finalists for its Incredibly Boring Web Content Challenge. We'd love to get your vote! The Boring Web Content Challenge, as I

  • B2Bs, Your (Mobile!) Markets Need 'More Show, Less Tell'

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    MarketingProfs blogger Christina "CK" Kerley discusses how B2Bs need to formulate an action plan for the mobile market.

  • Build Your Brand on a Solid Sense of Your Identity

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    Think of your brand as a mosaic where you can select and place most, but not all, of the tiles: You can control the communications you make, your offerings, and how your organization behaves. But some of the tiles in your brand mosaic are placed by others––the media, bloggers, tweets, the conversations that happen outside your walls. It's important, therefore, to develop a strong foundation for your brand.

  • Increasing Sales Effectiveness: The Art and Science of Win/Loss Analysis

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    Do you really know why you lost the recent deal or why some customers keep coming back? Customers have the answers, but they rarely provide them in an unfiltered manner to your sales and service teams.

  • Problem Solved: How Can We Map Social Media to B2B Sales?

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    You've made a couple of forays into social media, and you like what you see! But what tactics are really working out there to draw prospects in—and not turn them off? What are some cool ways to match social with selling?

  • Web-Metrics Express: What You Need to Know to Avoid Mistakes

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    Approaching your website's analytics as a three-step process will allow you to not only understand the tools available and what they have to offer but also create a gauge by which you can determine how well key business objectives are being met.

  • Business Owners Feeling Increasingly Stressed

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    More than one-half (56%) of leaders of privately held businesses globally say their stress levels are greater now than they were a year ago, according to a survey from Grant Thornton.

  • Social Network Monthly Use: 5.5 Hours

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    Web audiences across 10 countries spent an average of 5.5 hours on social networking sites in February 2010, up from more than 2 hours in February 2009, but about half an hour less than US Web users' average, according to the Nielsen Company.