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Show Me the Numbers: Hard Data on Internet Use and Media Spend

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Many are contradictory, but it's clear that marketers need to invest in social media, which might eventually replace search as the primary way that customers find them. This showed that as of December 2008, search was still the most common Internet activity (used by 85.9% The Twitter figures are surely much higher by now.)

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Optify Lets Agencies Provide Small Business with Marketing Automation, Distributed Marketing, and Sales Enablement

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Optify was founded in 2008 and launched its original product, a search engine optimization (SEO) tool, about a year later. Users can create lists and segments based on all contact properties, activities, email history, and custom fields. Its primary clients were then, and still remain, digital marketing agencies.

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Alterian Pushes Into Social Media Management with Techrigy Acquisition

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Although other marketing automation vendors like Unica and SAS are generally more expansive, Alterian has been particularly aggressive about integrated customer management. Previous acquisitions include Web content management (MediaSurface, 2008), contact optimisation (Campaign Calculus 2.0, microblogs (Twitter, Friendfeed , etc.),

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Why Social Media Really Matters

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Of all that research I mentioned last week , two pairs of facts stood out. If you’ve been wondering why Google should be concerned about Twitter and Facebook , that’s your answer. This is about direct contact with segmented groups of customers. Social media is the latest stage in this evolution. Date it from 1985 to 1997.

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SQLStream Simplifies Event Stream Processing

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Although the connection is a little less obvious, the system can also be used as an alternative to conventional batch data preparation methods for tasks like customer data integration. I say “apparently” because I haven’t researched the competition in any depth. Other vendors in this space apparently use more proprietary approaches.

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