• Tweet Marketers who fail to segment and target their messages may be at risk Marketing trends—especially in digital—are motivating brands to be more interactive and engaged with their customers. Rather than pushing out interruptive messages that targets will ignore or find annoying, many are working to create marketing experiences that appeal to customers as individuals. [&hellip

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  • Tweet Microsoft, which saw its total core search engine query volume drop 4% month-over-month in November 2010, rebounded strongly in December 2010 with a 9% gain, according to new comScore qSearch data. Microsoft’s core search queries grew from about 2.01 billion to 2.18 billion, placing it third overall. Overall, Americans conducted about 18.2 billion total [&hellip

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  • Tweet Marketers must begin to seriously evaluate their programs and focus on internal education Marketers and social strategists hope to develop better ways to determine return on investment for social media outreach in 2011. ROI has always been a big issue, but as more companies plan to increase social media budgets in 2011, it has [&hellip

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  • Tweet Social network advertising to account for 10.8% of online market US marketers will spend $3.08 billion to advertise on social networking sites this year, eMarketer predicts. Spending will be up 55% over the $1.99 billion advertisers devoted to social networks in 2010 and will rise by a further 27.7% next year to reach nearly [&hellip

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  • Tweet Life stage a critical factor Age plays a major role in how likely a person is to be a social media user, but important demographic characteristics go far beyond simply how old a potential user is. Consumers’ life stages influence their presence on social media as well as their concerns as shoppers and buyers, [&hellip

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