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Growth of B2B Marketing Budgets to be Slow

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

A recent survey by Target Marketing magazine indicates that B2B direct marketing budgets will grow only slowly in 2010.  Over half (55%) of B2B marketers responding to the "Media Usage Forecast 2010" survey (conducted in January 2010) said they expect 2010 budgets to be the same as 2009, while 23% ...

Why Marketing Content Matters More Than Ever

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

One of the major trends in B2B marketing for 2010 will be the continuing growth of content marketing.  A recent study by the Custom Publishing Council found that branded content accounted for 32 percent of the average overall marketing, advertising, and communications budgets in 2009.  According to the CPC, this ...

Social and Antisocial Media

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

I was meeting with my accountant last week, and since I am always curious as to what other professionals and businesses outside the printing industry are doing, the subject of social media came up—LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, et al., and he just sighed and said, “You know, I just don’t want ...

CMO Council Releases Study on Customer Loyalty Program Effectiveness

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

The Leaders in Loyalty: Feeling the Love from the Loyalty Clubs, released by The CMO Council and InfoPrint Solutions,  is the first study the CMO Council has done specifically on loyalty programs.  It was conducted by InfoPrint who polled more than 600 marketers who deploy loyalty programs and 700 ...

I Have an App for That

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

I admit it: I am becoming iPhone app-happy. I hadn’t intended to, but gradually—no, check that; actually pretty rapidly—I have become obsessed with mobile phone applications. iPhone apps were something that had been at the very periphery of my radar, but as I was researching my new WhatTheyThink primer report, ...

Digital Marketing to Grow at the Expense of Traditional Channels

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

The growth of digital marketing no longer constitutes "breaking news" for most of us, but research from several firms continues to track the fundamental changes that are occurring in the practice of marketing.  A recent example is the "US Interactive Marketing Forecast, 2009 To 2014" published last month by Forrester ...

Marketing Collateral Matters

Monday, July 20th, 2009

How valuable is marketing collateral in driving sales?  What types of collateral have the greatest influence on purchasing decisions?  What types of collateral are most widely used by prospective buyers?  These were some of the questions that Eccolo Media sought to answer in a recent study of collateral usage by ...