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Fostering Innovation: Why You Need It and How to Get More of It

Webbiquity

A great example of this is BlackBerry, which is credited with developing the first smartphone. At its peak, it had over 85 million subscribers worldwide in September 2011. and no business can survive if it doesn’t embrace new ideas, products, and methods over time.

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7 Key Stats That Point to the Future of Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

And that by 2100, populations will plunge a lot across what we call the “developed world” (hate that term – it’s so condescending isn’t it?). With today’s tech-driven world, then, marketers must look for developments that are possible — and promise huge impact. Blame a few fuzzy data in a 2011 study.

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5 Companies Using Technology To Improve The Developing World

Marketing Insider Group

But, what about low-income families or woman residing in developing countries? In 2011 Samsung “launched its Samsung Electronics Engineering Academy in South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria as part of the company’s broader goal to develop 10,000 Electronics Engineers across the continent by 2015.” million students from K-12.

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2011 Social Media Marketing Trends

Webbiquity

A new report from Focus, 2011 Trends Report: Social Media Marketing presents observations and predictions from eight leading social media experts (and me) about social media trends and developments to watch for in the coming year. So what’s next? “Social is much bigger than marketing and PR.

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How to Create a Conversion-Driven Image SEO Strategy

Webbiquity

Moz did that eye-tracking study back in 2011 when Google was just starting to show video thumbnails in search results when there were fewer of those than we see today. Label Images for Commercial Intent Include an image in your product structured markup for those images to be labeled with “product.”

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Social Media Marketing: 2011 Trends Report

Marketing Insider Group

“ Over the holidays I was honored to learn that I was being included in the Focus 2011 Trends Report: Social Media Marketing. This will demonstrate itself as social moves into product development, operations, customer service and even sales. Among the main points made in the report along with some of my feedback: 1.

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10 Inside Sales Predictions for 2011

ViewPoint

Comment on The Bridge Group's ten predictions for inside sales in 2011. Many are toys but some are real tools that increase productivity and yield. That understanding will allow them to develop messaging that resonates. Trish Bertuzzi and Laurie Page start the new year off with some surprising predictions.