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Are You Using The Best Way To Get Traffic To Your Site?

Small Business Mavericks

As she says, “ You can pay and pay but organic search still wins.” Organic Search sends 51% of the traffic to company websites when you combine all the industries, but they do vary when you break them down. The poorest performer was Paid Search, which only sent 10% of the total traffic to sites.

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Cyber Monday Is Here!

Firebelly

Cyber Monday is a marketing term that refers to the Monday immediately following Black Friday being the busiest day of the year for retail electronic commerce in the United States. Nearly 80% of online retailers say their sales went way up last year on Cyber Monday. That's more than 51 million people logging on at work.

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Best Social Media Stats, Facts and Marketing Research of 2010

Webbiquity SMM

Social Media 3Q Update: Who Uses Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, & MySpace? Regardless of age group, personal recommendations from company or industry colleagues are rated the most influential information source, while retail websites are least relied upon. Paid Search Gaining Respect, But Not Enough by MediaPost Online Media Daily.

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Best Social Media Stats and Market Research of 2010 (So Far)

Webbiquity SMM

The key takeaway — companies can’t put all of their marketing eggs in one basket, but need to balance budgets across several areas including email, social media, organic SEO, paid search and offline campaigns. Social Media: Everybody’s Doing It, But For Different Reasons [Charts] by Pamorama. While 28% of U.S.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Here’s a crazy one: An online hardware goods retailer that accidentally left their snow shovel AdWords (paid search) campaign running in spring months. Rather to organize yourself… your department… and/or your company in a way that makes this part of the daily routine.