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MarketingPower Today
February 16, 2010 American Marketing Association

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Mastering Metrics50+ Metrics Every Marketer Should Master

With dozens of metrics at their disposal, it’s important for today’s marketers to understand which metrics matter most.  In this webinar, learn about key metrics shaping marketing measurement, who is using which metrics and how they are using metrics to drive bottom-line results.

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Competing Through Organizational Agility
In turbulent markets, organizational agility is invaluable. The benefits of enhanced agility include higher revenues, more satisfied customers and employees, improved operational efficiency, and a faster time to market. Three types of agility---strategic, portfolio and operational---are critical for organizations interested in identifying and capturing opportunities more quickly than rivals.

Impact of Online Consumer Reviews on Sales
Understanding how online consumer reviews affect consumers’ purchase decisions is of vital importance to firms that rely on online word of mouth (WOM) to disseminate information about their products. As the Internet population continues to grow, consumers inevitably become more experienced with the Web. This article suggests that over time, marketing managers will find online consumer reviews to be increasingly influential and thus should devote more resources to online channels.

Are You Feeling the Love from your Loyalty Club?
Marketers are failing to feel the love from their loyalty and rewards programs even as customers give the perks, discounts, deals and additional service opportunities high marks.  New research from the CMO Council reveals that while loyal consumers expect marketers to understand them better and deliver more relevant and valued offers, marketers are questioning their ability to meet the needs of the customer.

Applied Innovation: A Guide to the “Breakthrough Idea”
Do you know how to get to that next big thing in your organization? The shift in the economic climate has created a sense of urgency among business leaders who need innovation now in order to survive—if not thrive—in the future. For years, companies have heavily invested resources into streamlining processes, taking costs out of the system and applying stringent “Six Sigma-esque” criteria to kill ideas that don’t deliver big ROI returns in six months or less. What they didn’t do was create the space for their people to make and explore opportunities, develop theories, and play in the world of possibilities before running forward with a solution.

Staying in the Loop: Game Changing Benefits of the Viral Loop 
What if you could replicate in your own business the secret model behind the exponential growth of Twitter and Facebook? Learn about a new business paradigm called “the viral loop” and how you can replicate it in your business to generate growth that spreads rapidly and scales quickly.

News

Internet Marketing
Social Media Marketing Best Practices
2010-02-08 08:12:40 EMarketer
Why You Need a Strategy for Social Media
2010-02-10 08:12:07 EMarketer
Best Practices in Word of Mouth and Social Media: WOMMA
2010-02-12 14:25:09 Promo Magazine
Marketers will shift spending to social media, search and mobile
2010-02-09 15:12:13 InternetRetailer.com
Advertising
Advertising: For G.E., a Human Face on Its Role in Health Care
2010-02-11 20:52:42 New York Times
30-SECOND SPOTS / DISPATCHES FROM THE WORLD OF MEDIA AND ADVERTISING
2010-02-12 02:32:45 Globe Investor
CRM and Direct Marketing
Direct Mail to Weather Digital Inroads, Budget Cuts
2010-02-09 08:47:14 RBC Dain Rauscher
Four strategies to create integrated direct with impact
2010-02-08 13:29:04 BToBOnline
Direct experts examine the effects of emerging channels
2010-02-08 13:28:11 BToBOnline
Not-for-Profit Marketing
Gov. agencies team up for $130M building efficiency initiative
2010-02-12 19:46:53 Venturebeat
2009 Nonprofit Social Network Survey Report
2010-02-09 19:58:52 Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network
Salem College to offer nonprofit certificate
2010-02-07 11:10:09 Philanthropy Journal
Should Nonprofit Leaders Have Ghostwriters?
2010-02-12 04:24:37 Chronicle of Philanthropy
Despite Recession, Home Depot Keeps on Giving
2010-02-09 05:25:34 Triple Pundit
Sales and Marketing
Former exec sues Pfizer over Lipitor marketing: Whistleblower suit alleges promotion for unapproved uses
2010-02-12 19:40:24 RBC Dain Rauscher
Domino's Freebie Celebrates $1B In Online Sales
2010-02-12 19:33:40 Media Post
Smart Management: Selling Into 2010: A Cause for Optimism?
2010-02-12 19:39:16 Manage Smarter
Toyota puts faith in consumers
2010-02-12 21:50:05 Financial Post
Marketing Research
Fifth ANA/Forrester Survey Measures Marketers' Attitudes Toward TV/Video Advertising
2010-02-08 18:06:47 ShootOnline
Coremetrics Study Finds Online Marketers Still Flying Blind
2010-02-09 07:07:35 Internet Ad Sales
Survey Finds Consumer Frustration With Web Site Performance
2010-02-08 08:29:43 GlobeNewswire via MSN Money
Study finds no link between alcohol sponsorship in sport and drinking
2010-02-11 18:54:43 SportBusiness.com
Loyalty Programs Fail To Connect With Consumers: New CMO Council Study!
2010-02-11 03:10:57 Adoimagazine.com
Is Your Online Dream Date Looking to Steal More Than Your Heart?
2010-02-11 14:03:25 Yahoo! Canada
B-to-B Marketing
B-to-b companies seek new ways to push social marketing beyond customer intelligence to demand generation and sales
2010-02-08 09:28:08 BToBOnline
Pitney Bowes Addresses a Shifting B-to-B Market
2010-02-12 00:13:39 Chief Marketer
B-to-b marketers cautiously explore mobile marketing
2010-02-08 16:38:20 BToBOnline
Hopeful signs of a recovery
2010-02-08 05:54:00 BToBOnline
Best practices: 4 tips for video e-mails
2010-02-11 14:56:08 BToBOnline
Survey: Customer acquisition tops marketer concerns
2010-02-08 15:44:22 BToBOnline
Branding
Why Branding Makes It Harder to Sell
2010-02-10 13:45:09 BNET
Branding Needs to be Emotionally Intelligent
2010-02-12 13:07:06 AllAfrica.com
National Survey Says 9/11 Defined Decade for Influential 'Alpha' Women Branding Firm Ginger Consulting Releases Second Annual ..
2010-02-11 07:16:01 PR inside
Branding Back to basics
2010-02-08 12:25:07 Adfocus
Deutsche Bank to strip branding down to logo
2010-02-10 05:39:58 Brand Republic
Retail
The Future Of Retailing In The US - New Market Report Published
2010-02-10 11:04:24 OfficialWire
The Importance of Multichannel Retailing
2010-02-09 04:28:43 Internet Ad Sales

 

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Based on this year's SuperBowl ads, which brand proved to be the clear winner?

44% Snickers (Betty White).
20% Doritos (man in casket)
18% E-Trade (those cute babies)
16% Budweiser (human bridge)

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