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February 23, 2010 American Marketing Association

This Issues Top Story

 Ready to Flip the Funnel? Succeeding in the New Age of the Customer

To play on an old cliché, now is the time for all good marketers to experiment with the traditional funnel. The funnel needs to be turned on its side and transformed into a megaphone that today’s customers can use to spread the word about a brand’s products and services. Learn how organizations can effectively empower and incentivize their customers in this exclusive interview with Joseph Jaffe, author of Flip the Funnel.

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For B2B marketing and selling organizations, content is the fuel that drives the revenue engine. Lead generation, lead management with marketing automation, and sales enablement initiatives all depend on relevant, "contagious" content.  Learn how to implement a framework for content strategy and execution in your organization.

Surviving 2010
A sea change wrought by the recession is causing researchers to adjust their focus and reassess their processes to prove their worth. Learn how researchers today are amping up their systems and surpassing business demands to prove their worth in this budget-minded economy.

Fore! Public Apology Leaves Tiger’s Brand in the Bunker
In his first public appearance in two months, Tiger Woods may have stepped up to the tee in his televised mea culpa last week for his marital infidelities, but the result was anything but a hole-in-one. For Tiger, the brand, the apology failed to score.  Marketing experts assess the impact the public apology might have on his image and suggest that Woods still faces Toyota-size problems as he travels the road to recovery.

The Silo Crisis
There is a silo crisis. For 100 years, autonomous organizational silos have been the answer to managing complexity, keeping close to customers and products, and holding managers accountable. But they no longer work today. Instead, they’re leading to lost opportunities to develop great products and marketing programs.

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Internet Marketing
Social Media Mapping: Discipline, Please
2010-02-19 08:14:26 Media Post
Social Media As A Sales Tool
2010-02-19 14:09:15 Media Post
Top tips on mobile and social media
2010-02-19 11:32:13 Internet Advertising Bureau UK
Small Businesses Use Social Media to Pursue Customers
2010-02-19 08:00:54 MarketingVOX
Journalists' Use of Social Media Is Surging, According to 2nd Annual Middleberg/SNCR Survey of Media in the Wired World
2010-02-19 12:45:10 NewsBlaze
Social Gaming Integral to Social Networking
2010-02-19 12:15:50 MarketingProfs.com
Improve Marketing Effectiveness in a Digital World: Kevin Tigges, Microsoft
2010-02-19 07:10:06 Consumer Goods Technology
Advertising
Justice Department Closes Investigation of Search Advertising Agreement Between Microsoft Corporation and Yahoo! Inc.
2010-02-19 09:12:49 Kansas City Infozine
Red Robin Invites Burger Lovers to "Answer the Call" Through New Marketing Campaign That Capitalizes on Memorable YUMMM Tagline
2010-02-19 09:34:51 Yahoo! Canada
CBS Profit Falls Amid Mixed Advertising Picture
2010-02-19 11:10:58 Moneynews
Nestle Says Sales Growth to Accelerate as Advertising Increases
2010-02-19 02:30:30 BusinessWeek
30-SECOND SPOTS / DISPATCHES FROM THE WORLD OF MEDIA AND ADVERTISING
2010-02-19 02:19:26 Globe Investor
US Online Display Advertising Grows 21%
2010-02-19 08:00:42 MarketingVOX
Saatchi to Toyota: Stop Advertising During the Recall
2010-02-19 20:18:09 BNET
CRM and Direct Marketing
Save the Children launches legacy marketing campaign
2010-02-19 07:52:29 Brand Republic
The Conservatives under fire for "ill-thought-out" marketing guidelines
2010-02-19 06:57:33 Brand Republic
Inside Intel
2010-02-19 22:37:19 TMC Net
Who needs spam? I do!
2010-02-19 10:54:36 Computer Active
Not-for-Profit Marketing
Will Other Online Companies Follow in the Sponsorship Footsteps of AOL and GoDaddy.com?
2010-02-19 16:18:44 Sponsorship.com
Shedding Light On Epilepsy
2010-02-19 07:54:22 HealthNewsDigest.com
Two Events to Bring Relief and Ideas for Challenged San Diego Nonprofits
2010-02-19 02:02:32 PR.com
A recipe for nonprofit marketing success
2010-02-15 00:31:32 DMNews.com
Marketing Research
Survey Says Loyalty Programs Must Get Personal
2010-02-19 12:21:46 Hotel Interactive
There’s no such thing as ‘Black buying power’
2010-02-19 15:32:53 Florida Courier
Don't Forget the iPod
2010-02-19 21:19:52 Media Post
CIT Study Finds U.S. Small Businesses Intend to Use Lessons Learned from Economic Downturn to Grow Revenues in 2010
2010-02-17 07:37:50 FinanzNachrichten.de
Online contact growing between physicians, patients
2010-02-14 21:10:01 American Medical News
Despite Success Of Pure Michigan Ad Campaign, Critics Remain
2010-02-14 20:06:40 Michigan Technology News
B-to-B Marketing
From One Company to Another
2010-02-17 06:40:11 Black Enterprise
What It Takes to Be an 'Undercover Boss'
2010-02-14 16:57:50 Advertising Age
Socially challenged
2010-02-08 09:29:07 BToBOnline
Affinity uses direct mail to prompt dialogue over cup of coffee
2010-02-08 13:27:44 BToBOnline
Report: E-mail deliverability improves, but still problematic
2010-02-05 16:53:46 BToBOnline
Branding
Martin Lindstrom on sensory branding
2010-02-19 06:35:03 Examiner.com
Network dollars buy blanding of Games
2010-02-19 05:15:53 New York Post
Brands fail to follow rules of engagement
2010-02-17 08:21:16 Marketing Week
SEO and Google Dollars
2010-02-19 18:24:29 TMC Net
Marketing experts: Woods' public apology helped image, but he still faces Toyota-like problems
2010-02-22 12:27:23 Biz Journals
Retail
Paying the Price - For the first time, Wal-Mart's U.S. division has a drop in sales
2010-02-19 01:50:17 Winston-Salem Journal
OrientalTrading.com`s new site design helps shoppers find products faster
2010-02-19 02:30:35 InternetRetailer.com
Snow brings worst retail figures in 18 months
2010-02-19 05:08:43 Times Online
Nine inspiring multichannel marketing presentations
2010-02-19 07:43:51 E-Consultancy.com

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