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8 Marketing Trends to Implement in Your 2012 Marketing Plan

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So here are my 8 marketing trends to implement in your 2012 marketing plan. I think these marketing trends are a must for your SMB this year, following how the landscape “ended” in 2011 and are going to be very powerful in 2012. Trend #1 – Humanize Your Business! Trend #2 – Know Your Target Customer!

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102 Compelling Social Media and Online Marketing Stats and Facts for 2012 (and 2013)

Webbiquity SMM

The first step to improving digital marketing results is to understand the emerging trends and best practices. This post, along with 79 Remarkable Social Media Marketing Facts and Statistics for 2012 and 87 More Vital Social Media Marketing Facts and Stats for 2012 previously published here, provide a solid foundation for that understanding.

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StumbleUpon Traffic to Magazine and Content Sites Down 27%

Adam Sherk

To get a better sense of the situation I pulled StumbleUpon referral figures from 2010-2012 for a group of 47 news and content sites that we work with at Define Media Group , primarily magazine brands. Declines in StumbleUpon Traffic: 2012 vs. 2011. One thing to point out is that not every site experienced a decline in 2012.

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Mobile Positioning: A Business Must

Webbiquity SMM

Consider these 2012 statistics: • Twitter estimates 55% of users access the site through a mobile device. • But what do these trends mean for today’s businesses? Focusing on just the iPhone ignores huge sections of your market. In fact, by 2015 more U.S. Still not convinced? 34% of marketers have generated leads using Twitter.

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Younger Consumers Turn Up Digital Music Listening

Idaconcpts

As a previous user of Pandora and a current user of Spotify, I understand the increasing trend of U.S. From those tuning in to online music services in the United States, here is an approximate breakdown as of Q4 2012: In another study from the NPD Group released in February 2013, the research organization found that close to 56% of U.S.

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A Mobile Marketing Strategy That Helps First, Sells Second

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Apple, of course, started this trend with the introduction of the first iPhone, but distilling entire companies down to a collection of utilities is now pervasive, and that is where the vast majority of technology and marketing development is headed. For decades, the key question has been “how valuable is the brand?”

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Are Brands Ready For The Instagram Economy?

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The fact that the company got bought by Facebook in back in April 2012 for about one billion dollars (it still stings for most). Back in August 2012, I penned an article for the Harvard Business Review titled, Does Your Company Need an Instagram Storefront? iphone case. iphone case. Is Instagram the future of e-commerce?