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IABC World Conference

06/24/2012 - 06/27/2012 Chicago Illinois

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06/25/2012 - 06/26/2012 Chicago ILlinois

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07/18/2012 Chicago ILlinois

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08/27/2012 - 08/30/2012 Boston Ma

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10/13/2012 - 10/16/2012 San Francisco CA

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Companies struggle to engage customers

Warc 

NEW YORK: Less than 10% of US companies think they are genuinely “customer-centric” in their strategy and activities, new analysis has shown. The Temkin Group, a consultancy, polled 255 representatives of firms with revenues topping $500m, and found that just 7% of the panel believed the customer experience they provided was superior to all of their rivals. A further 28% placed performance levels “considerably above” the industry average, while 30% “slightly” improved on the norm, and 23% fell into line with typical standards for their sector.

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Sales Productivity Blog- Hey Sales Reps, Don’t be “Clippy”

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By, Michael Gerard 

I was reading an article in MIT’s technology review this past weekend about social intelligence, and I came across an interesting comment by Stanford professor Clifford Nass, an expert on human-computer interaction.  You may be thinking, “what could this possibly do with sales?”  Well, Nass was commenting on why Microsoft’s 1997 intelligent assistant for Microsoft Office, Clippy, failed so miserably.  As Nass suggests, “Clippy’s problem was it said ‘I’ll do everything’ and then procreeded to disappoint [its customers].”  Sound familiar?. . . I hear this from a lot of CIOs about their interaction with their vendors’ sales teams.

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TV Universe Continues To Contract, Nielsen Attributes Declines To Census, Technology Too

MediaPost 

Nielsen this morning released preliminary estimates for television’s so-called “universe” — the percentage of U.S. households with at least one conventional TV set capable of receiving at least one conventional TV signal — and for the second year in a row, it has declined, albeit at a miniscule rate. Like last year’s decline, Nielsen executives attribute some of the reduction to changes in the U.S. Census’s estimates for the number and composition of U.S. households, which the TV universe estimates are based on, but they say at least part of it is a function of changes in the media technology composition of U.S. homes. Precisely how much, they cannot say.

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Room For New Tactics From B2B Marketers

MediaPost

According to a comprehensive survey of B2B marketers across the U.S. by Crain’s BtoB in conjunction with Bizo, there are significant opportunities for B2B marketers to expand their marketing mix and more effectively leverage data and emerging channels in the changing digital media environment in 2012.

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US adspend outlook improves

Warc 

LONDON/WASHINGTON: The outlook for the US ad market is improving ahead of other key countries, Warc’s latest Consensus Ad Forecast shows.Within the 13 markets measured by the new research, US adspend received the largest single upgrade in forecast growth. The world’s largest ad market is now predicted to raise expenditure by 4.1% this year, a rise of +0.8pp from the January Forecast.

The Forecast, which is compiled based on a weighted average of adspend predictions at current prices from ad agencies, media monitoring companies and other industry bodies, as well as Warc’s own data, indicated that global expenditure will be raised by 5.3% in 2012 and by 5.4% in 2013.

Forrester says b2b marketers will increase budgets 6.8% this year

BtoB daily news 

Cambridge, Mass.—B2b marketers will increase their marketing budgets by an average of 6.8% this year, according to a report from Forrester Research. The report, “B2B Marketers Must Focus on Partnership and Experimentation as 2012 Budgets Rise,” was based on an online survey of 864 b2b marketing executives in North America and Europe, conducted in the fourth quarter.

According to the report, 27.0% of marketers will increase their budgets between 10% and 19% this year; 20.0% will increase budgets between 5% and 9%; and 18.0% will increase them between 1% and 4%. Sixteen percent of b2b marketers will boost budgets by more than 20% this year. The remaining 19.0% will decrease marketing budgets.

Gap Global CMO: Marketing ‘More Honest’ Than Journalism

ClickZ 

Gap Global Chief Marketing Officer Seth Farbman contends that marketers are “more honest” and transparent than journalists.

“In journalism, I always had the sense that I was creating information, but the real purpose of that information was to sell something – to sell newspapers and ad space,” he said today during a question-and-answer session during the Ad Age Digital Conference in New York.

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Intel rolls out new ad campaign

BtoB 

Intel Corp. earlier this month rolled out its largest ad campaign in nearly a decade, designed to show how Intel-inspired ultrabook computers provide faster, more engaging experiences for users.

The campaign, “A New Era of Computing,” was created by Venables, Bell & Partners, San Francisco, and includes TV, print, online and out-of-home ads, as well as a website (www.intel.com/ultrabook).

New Forecast: Media Spending Growing Faster Than GDP

Forbes

This may not feel like for much of a recovery, but for the media and communications sector, the economic prospects are bright and getting brighter — provided you’re in the right parts of it.

Overall communications spending by consumers, marketers and institutions is expected to reach $1.419 trillion by 2015, giving it a compound annual growth rate of 5.7%, according to a new forecast from the private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson. That’s substantially faster than GDP, which has a projected CAGR of 4.4% over that period.

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Video, Social Boost US Mobile Content Consumption

eMarketer 

One-third of US population will use social networking and video on mobile devices by 2016

With smartphone users expected to make up over half of US mobile users by next year, content consumption on mobile devices is also on the rise, including video viewing and social networking.

eMarketer estimates that by 2016, more than 110 million Americans—or one-third of the total US population—will watch video content on a mobile phone at least once per month. This year, just under 20% of the population, or 25.2% of US mobile phone users, are expected to watch mobile video monthly.

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