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New Online Business Show Opens Up the Boardroom to “Everybody’s Business” (CRM Daily)
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Posted: 07/31/2009
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Microsoft is opening up the boardroom with an innovative new online show featuring Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, and his wife, Suzy to promote emerging new products and services. An extension of Microsoft’s business-to-business marketing platform and mission, the duo, who also write a weekly BusinessWeek column, will help companies like Hertz car rental company take on crucial business decisions and discover “people-ready solutions” to meet whatever business challenges are on the horizon. Co-created by reality show producer Reveille Productions (credits include the Biggest Loser) and ad agency JWT, “It's Everybody's Business” is available at http://EverybodysBusiness.msn.com. The Web site also featuring out-takes, behind-the-scenes footage and in-depth information about the issues and products discussed.
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Industry:
Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,
Retail & Products,
Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services
Topic:
Content Strategy,
Creative & Design,
Experience & Interaction,
Marketing Communications,
Technology Implementation
Region:
Global
Audience:
Business to Business
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Growing the List: Hot New Tactics for 2009 (Marketing Vox)
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Posted: 07/31/2009
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Research conducted by ExactTarget, Ball State University, and the Email Marketers Club, provides an insider’s view into successful list growth. Best practices include on-site registration and capturing information through inbound call centers. Collecting customers’ email addresses during times of active participation-at point of sale, during online shopping and in store via text messaging- is an actionable strategy with a 60% higher success rate than offline activities like list rental and display advertising. The fastest-growing tactics for 2009 include email subscriptions via text messaging and enabling consumers to share email content with their social networks, with growth projected at 500% and 348%, respectively. The study also reports that B2B marketers entice more new subscribers with ‘incentivized’ registrations while ‘non-incentivized’ subscriptions are more effective for B2C marketers.
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Industry:
Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,
Retail & Products,
Telecommunications
Topic:
Business Intelligence,
Content Strategy,
E-Commerce,
Experience & Interaction,
Marketing Communications
Region:
Global
Audience:
Business to Business,
Business to Consumer
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Alcatel-Lucent Takes the Plunge Into Mobile Advertising (Information Week)
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Posted: 07/18/2009
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Redefining the drive-by, Alcatel-Lucent recently announced plans to launch a product allowing cellular carriers to reach millions of mobile customers with location-relevant advertisements. Partnering with mobile ad company 1020 Placecast, the technology will
help mobile operators determine the location of the customer with accuracy within a few meters. The new advertising vehicle, dubbed proximity marketing, is poised to reach sales of $10 billion by 2013. So don’t be too surprised if soon it’s more than your taste
buds beckoning you into the nearest Starbucks for a cup of joe and coffee cake.
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Industry:
Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,
Retail & Products,
Telecommunications
Topic:
Business Intelligence,
Content Strategy,
Experience & Interaction,
Marketing Communications,
Technology Implementation
Region:
Global
Audience:
Business to Business,
Business to Consumer
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In a Flash: Time Saving Tips for Creating Animation with ActionScript 3.0 (.net)
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Posted: 07/03/2009
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Pulling another all-nighter to meet tomorrow’s looming deadline? Download Paul
Wyatt’s article unveiling time-saving tips to producing keyframe animations and
motion tweens in a flash. Rather than wasting hours of effort creating similarly-styled
animations from scratch, Wyatt’s clear-cut tutorial will teach you how to copy Flash
animation to ActionScript 3.0 code by reusing code that can be applied to any movie clip
across the platform. Eventually, you’ll even be able to compile your own unique master
document of signature animation styles. Once you learn Wyatt’s simple, practical
techniques, you’ll be delivering client creative with time to spare.
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Industry:
Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,
Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services
Topic:
Technology Implementation
Region:
Global
Audience:
Business to Business
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Club Med Latest Hotel to “Check In” with its Own Social Network (ClickZ)
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Posted: 06/19/2009
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Travelers now have the chance to ‘check in’ to Club Med’s new social network long after checking out from an exotic Club Med vacation. After testing its viability on Facebook, the luxury brand recently launched its own social network, Club Med Insiders, offering guests the opportunity to share experiences long past the last Mai Tai. Since its April launch, the site is exceeding its platform goals to encourage bookings, pass along expert travel advice, and create a loyal community of Club Med vacationers. In a down economy, the French-based company has already seen a nearly 2 percent jump between first quarter revenues in 2009 and the first quarter of 2008.
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Industry:
Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications
Topic:
Business Intelligence,
Content Strategy,
Creative & Design,
E-Commerce,
Experience & Interaction,
Marketing Communications
Region:
Global,
Europe
Audience:
Business to Consumer,
Peer Groups & Communities
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