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A new report from the Online Publishers Association (OPA), conducted in partnership with Frank N. Magid Associates Inc., dives deep into profiling smartphone users in the U.S. Among the findings in the report is that 57 percent of the U.S. Internet population is expected to own smartphones by 2013. According to the report, “A Portrait […]

Cost Plus World Market runs “Pin It To Win It Contest” that sends players in search of its wide variety of products.

According to Monetate’s “Ecommerce Quarterly: EQ 2012” report, smartphone users have a higher average order value (AOV) than tablet users. Also, traffic from search yields a higher AOV than traffic from email or social. The study examined smartphones’ share of total website traffic. It found that 5.41 percent of total visits to leading e-commerce websites […]

A recent study from xAd and Telmetrics, using data provided by Nielsen, examined mobile consumer behavior and preferences. Among the findings is that nearly 9 in 10 mobile searchers looking for restaurants have the intent of making a purchase within the day. According to “Mobile Path-to-Purchase,” 2 out of 3 consumers notice mobile ads, while […]

Your website is up and running in two languages, and you’re seeing increased web traffic and inbound sales leads. The translated site is paying off. In fact, your salespeople are clamoring for more languages before the end of the year. However, your boss is complaining about the cost of translation and maintenance. And everyone is looking to you for the solution. What’s a marketing executive to do?

Here are five tips to ensure that your global web strategy continues to gain traction:

Social media is a rich data source, if your brand is up to the task of mining it safely and well. Chief Marketer spoke with Ben Salmon, global solutions owner at Pitney Bowes Software, about the challenges and potential rewards of incorporating this data into marketing campaigns.

In what it claims is the first geo-targeted Twitter promotion, Clif Bar’s MojoGo campaign asks fans for geo-tagged tweets that trigger a coupon download and a sweepstakes entry.

Is your email marketing program ready for the holidays? Here’s 12 tips to help your team prepare for the season, optimize cross-channel engagement, and increase sales and ROI.

Not all data points are easily quantifiable. Take PetRelocation.com, which pulls from its store of successful pet relocation stories based on pet type, destination and origin point when offering quotes for its services. Does cute and cuddly work as a hard-edged sales tactic? Absolutely!

“Big data” is the new hot topic, the latest hook to sell marketing books and webinars, and I can’t wait for it to go away. Not because there’s not a large kernel of truth buried in it: Marketers can make very profitable use of the amounts of data they may already hold on their customers, parsing it or combining it legitimately to segment new demographics or uncover buried customer profiles.