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ad:tech Survey: Best and Worst Online Tactics, Budget Plans for '08

Behavioral targeting, search engine optimization (SEO) and direct email using house lists are the best-performing tactics in online marketing, according to MarketingSherpa's annual survey of ad:tech attendees, writes Mark  [...]

'Customer Affinity' New Measure of B2B Marketing Effectiveness

Despite increased focus on customer engagement, most B2B technology companies continue to fall short of meeting customer expectations and commitments, according to the results of a new research initiative by the Chief Marketing Officers Council, MarketingCharts reports  [...]

Study: Companies Ignore Half of Customer Emails

People who contact companies through email are waiting longer to get a response - if they get one at all, writes CBC News, citing a new study by Hornstein Associates. Only half of the contacted companies bothered to respond at all - down from a high of 86 percent five years earlier. Hornstein said this year's 24-hour turnaround rate was the lowest since the first survey was conducted in 2  [...]

Websites Brace for Holiday Shoppers

The holiday shoppers are coming, and the retailers whose websites aren't ready to meet the demand could see that traffic going elsewhere, according to two recent studies. New studies from Gomez and JupiterResearch have discovered that while most shoppers plan to do the majority of their shopping online, those customers are experiencing problems and outages on many retailers' websites, InternetRetailer reports. A jus  [...]

Survey: Email response, Customer Service Slow Down

Online businesses have gotten worse at responding to customer email requests from websites in the last three years, according to an annual survey, reported Internet Retailer. Only 42% of 38 companies tested responded to emails within 24 hours, the Hornstein Associates survey says. Moreover, 36% did not respond at all. In 2002, 63% responded within 24 hours. The State of Connecticut had the fastest response rate at t  [...]

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Don't Train Your Customers to Sell You Their Loyalty

Clickz: Are You Firing Your Customers? Too many marketers are just catering to their most-demanding customers. They buy those customers' propensity to repurchase with incentives, rewards, privileges, and other benefits. Marketing has trained consumers well. A few have become quite savvy; some have become demanding. There's a large segment of customers in every category whose tendency to repurchase is for sale. Wh  [...]