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Mars knows pet lovers and understands that they treat their pets like a member of the family. However, research showed that Walmart customers didn’t associate the store with pet care and felt that the store’s pet care selection was limited and often out of stock. Of the 90 million pet owners shopping at Walmart each week, less than 60% buy pet food at Walmart and less than 40% buy supplies, so there was a significant opportunity to capture market share.

To engage more deeply with its retail-restaurant clients, Unilever Food Solutions and Ryan Partnership developed a web site and email newsletter program that treated deli and QSR owners like the foodservice pros they aspire to be. The SandwichPro.com site spotlighted client chefs, offered recipes and research, and produced a 4% increase in mayonnaise sales.

What does it take to get an American to open email marketing messages? A bit more effort on marketers’ parts than in other regions, according to a new study from Silverpop.

Parago (#27 in the 2012 Promo 100) has seen some major shifts in incentive marketing but sees no end to the use of rebates to lure and keep the “new frugals” coming back.

The increasing number of marketing channels, combined with prospects’ enhanced ability to research their purchases, has created a significant budgeting problem.

Once upon a time, a marketer

How does your marketing team ensure that your brand is being prominently placed in search results and appropriately considered by consumers near your brand

Marketers have concerns about the impact their retention programs are having on customer loyalty, according to the top-line findings in a paper from SAS and Loyalty 360, with only 24% of them believing their efforts are very effective in delivering desired results.

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According to the Online Publishers Association (OPA), in collaboration with Frank N. Magid Associtaes Inc., tablet penetration is expected to reach 47 percent by 2013. This would reflect a rather large increase from the 31 percent penetration tablets have in 2012.