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Smartphones & Tablets: How We Shop Now [Research]
With 115.8 million US smartphone owners and 54.8 million US tablet owners estimated by eMarketer in 2012, how we shop is changing. Using multiple devices, particularly smartphones and tablets, at different steps of the purchase process is an emerging trend.
Tags: eMarketer, Nielsen, shopping, smartphone, Tablet
2012 Marketing Checkup [Mobile, Social Media & Content Marketing Included]
As marketing students graduate and start their first jobs, they bring a fresh perspective to businesses. Similarly, marketers can take this same approach to assess 2012’s opportunities and challenges to maximize their marketing effectiveness before the holiday push and budget season begins. [Hint: Mobile, social media and content marketing are on the list!] Here are 5 opportunities and 5 challenges. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog.
Tags: Big Data, Branding, smartphone, Tablet
Mobile Search: 15 SEO Experts Give Their Advice [Research]
Mobile search is an integral part of any mobile marketing strategy with steady growth of smartphones and tablets. Use mobile search to ensure prospects and customers can find you when they actively look for you when they’re on-the-go. (Here’s some more mobile shopping data you need now!] Here’s advice from fifteen SEO experts regarding how to optimize you mobile search strategy. Your top priority for mobile should be to have a mobile optimized version of your website.
Tags: Eric Enge, Greg Jarboe, Heidi Cohen, Jeffrey L. Cohen, John Biggs, Kipp Bodner, Lisa Buyer, Marc Engelsman, Nick Stamoulis, Paul Roetzer, Performics, Rebecca Lieb, Ric Dragon, Riverside Marketing Strategies, Ron Jones, Search, search optimization, SEO, Shari Thurow, smartphone, Social Marketology, Tablet, The Art of SEO, The B2B Social Media Book, The Marketing Agency Insider, The Truth About SEarch Engine Optimization, Thom Craver, YouTube Marketing An Hour A Day
Tablet Roundup – 21 Research Charts & Infographics
Tablets are an exploding market. As a marketer, it’s important to understand how this combination light-weight alternative to a laptop computer and a personal leisure device is used, how it changes content consumption and advertising, and how it fits into consumers’ lives relative to other connected devices, namely computers and smartphones. [Here's earlier tablet data.] Here are 21 research charts and infographics to help you with your marketing. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
25 Mobile Research Charts to Guide Your 2012 Marketing
Mobile phones and particularly the increasing adoption of smartphones, continue to change how people receive information, consume content and engage with others.
To take advantage of the opportunities presented by these mobile devices and their expanded functionality and create an effective mobile marketing strategy, marketers must understand how consumers use them and what the implications are for content marketing, promotions, communications and purchase channels. Here are twenty-five charts to help you to better understand how the mobile landscape has evolved.
Mobile – Content to Go Please [Research]
Consumers have smartphones and tablets and they’re using them to get content. In December, 2011, 8.2% of all digital page views were delivered via a mobile device. This breaks down to 5.2% for smartphones, 2.5% for tablets and 0.5% for other connected devices, according to comScore. Here’s how consumers are using their mobile devices and what they’re looking for as well as what it means for marketers. (Includes 4 market research charts.)
Tags: advertising spend, comScore, eMarketer, smartphone, Tablet, US
4Ps Drive Mobile Commerce (& The Marketing You Need!) [Research]
US mobile commerce sales including travel grew to $6.7 billion in 2011, an increase of over 90% from 2010, despite retailers’ slow response to offer mobile shopping options. eMarketer projects US m-commerce sales to grow at a 55% compound annual rate from 2010 to 2015. This expansion is driven by a combination of increased smartphone ownership, enhanced use of smartphone functionality and improved m-commerce options. Here are the 4 Ps of m-commerce in order of importance and what marketers must do to supply this information. [Data included]
111 Points to Jumpstart Your 2012 Marketing
To get your 2012 marketing on track to achieve your business goals, here are 111 points you need now to get a jumpstart. This 2012 Marketing Checklist is an important business tool for every marketer regardless of whether you’re working for a B2C, B2B, not-for-profit or solopreneur.
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2011 – Year of the Smartphone [Research & Charts]
US Smartphone ownership reached a tipping point in June, 2011 when smartphone shipments increased and feature phone shipments decreased, based on comScore data. Smartphones facilitates mobile Internet and app functions that un-tether users from their desktops. For marketers, this changes consumer engagement with social media and digital content affecting their interaction, purchase and use products. (Here are 38 mobile marketing charts.) Here are ten mobile marketing facts you need now and what they mean for your marketing.
Tags: Actionable Marketing Tip, Chart, comScore, Nielsen, Research, smartphone
21 Point Social Media And Mobile Checklist [Research]
Social media and mobile savvy, small to medium sized businesses (aka SMBs) provide useful insights for all marketers because they’ve more limited resources than their larger competitors. As a result, they develop cost-effective marketing that translates to measurable revenue generation. Here’s a twenty-one point small and medium size business social media and mobile marketing checklist. Any marketer can (and should) use it to maximize business results.
Tags: actionable marketing, Mobile, small business, SMB
Did You Miss These 34 Million Mobile Buyers? [Research]
Do you have a mobile marketing strategy prospects can use to shop when and where they want? If not, your marketing may be out-of-sight, out-of-mind because mobile’s the device people have within arm’s reach all the time. Like it or not, mobile phones are an integral part of the purchase process. Here are seven facts proving that as a marketer, you need to provide a mobile offering that supplies useful content and communications channels 24/7. [Research with charts]
Tags: Charts, Mobile shopping, Research, smartphone
Mobile Marketing Research You Need Now! [Charts]
Mobile is a fact of life. Our mobile phones are where we connect, communicate and consume content. Mobile marketing in the US continues to grow at accelerated rates, fueled by increased smartphone ownership. In addition to expanded communications and content consumption, consumer use smartphones to research and buy products and other services, often while in retail establishments, causing marketers to focus and allocate budget to this growing channel. Here are thirty-eight charts and analysis to help you develop your 2012 marketing plans.
