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		<title>Tech marketers’ expectations as return of their investment &#8211; Top marketing priorities for 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/07/29/tech-marketers%e2%80%99-expectations-as-return-of-their-investment-top-marketing-priorities-for-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sorina</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The results from the annual Marketing Survey conducted by Unisfair reveal interesting findings regarding what marketers see as top priorities for the year 2010 and what they expect to obtain from their marketing efforts. As the study shows, it seems that traditional marketing goals such as customer retention and brand awareness lose ground in favor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guerilla Marketing Metrics &#8211; Nokia &#8211; The World&#8217;s Biggest Signpost</title>
		<link>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/03/30/guerilla-marketing-metrics-nokia-the-worlds-biggest-signpost/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/03/30/guerilla-marketing-metrics-nokia-the-worlds-biggest-signpost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ophenia</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Right Direction in the Simplest Way

A signpost the size of two double decker buses
A 50 meter tall motorized crane, weighting 60 tonnes
A location: Potters Field, London
A time period: 16 October – 6 November 2009

Results

The World&#8217;s Biggest Signpost
862 000 views of the installation just by walking over Tower Bridge alone
Increase by 129% of unique visitors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The World&#8217;s Most Innovative Companies 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/03/23/the-worlds-most-innovative-companies-in-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ophenia</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[“The World’s Most Innovative Companies 2010” report was recently published by Fast Company. It reports analyzes over 250 companies, including more than 75 non-U.S. businesses, and emphasizes the Top 50 Most Innovative Companies. In addition to the Top 50, Fast Company cited 59 Innovation All-stars, culled from past Top 50 honorees, plus ranked the Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Email use remains strong despite social media buzz</title>
		<link>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/03/17/email-use-remains-strong-despite-social-media-buzz/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/03/17/email-use-remains-strong-despite-social-media-buzz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ophenia</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Merkle, a US based provider of fully integrated customer marketing solutions, released at the beginning of 2010 a ten page report with the title &#8220;View from the Social Inbox 2010 &#8211; Actionable Information for Marketers&#8220;.
The report presents original findings about social media users’ attitudes and their behavior related to using social media versus email. Here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Performance in Social Media marketing: Tweet, but don&#8217;t forget to measure!</title>
		<link>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/03/04/performance-in-social-media-marketing-tweet-but-don%e2%80%99t-forget-to-measure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sorina</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent Mzinga and Babson Executive Education survey on the topic of social software in business, comprising over 900 executives, managers and individual contributors identified what they call Social Media Customer Leaders (SMC Leaders). According to them, SMC Leaders are companies where employees &#8220;strongly agree&#8221; with the following statement within the survey: &#8220;our organization has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Several considerations on performance measurement and metrics in current marketing reality</title>
		<link>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/03/02/several-considerations-on-performance-measurement-and-metrics-in-current-marketing-reality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/03/02/several-considerations-on-performance-measurement-and-metrics-in-current-marketing-reality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sorina</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Although argued that marketing, as functional area, generates rather intangible outcomes, thus assessment being quite problematic, our series of blog posts on marketing put under attention metrics that capture performance in various marketing dimensions.
smartKPIs.com contains a comprehensive online repository of more than 100 KPIs in marketing functional area, measures that focus on the market (share, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Measuring advertising performance: a recommended set of 8 media metrics</title>
		<link>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/02/22/measuring-advertising-performance-a-recommended-set-of-8-media-metrics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/02/22/measuring-advertising-performance-a-recommended-set-of-8-media-metrics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sorina</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of the promotion mix in marketing, advertising is one of the most dynamic and costly promotional activity. Although declined with about 2,6 % by comparison to the previous year, the U.S. advertising expenditure  has still been above $ 130 billion dollars in 2008 (according to a The Nielsen Company report).
Performance management in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When marketing meets finance: the break-even level of sales</title>
		<link>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/02/16/when-marketing-meets-finance-the-break-even-level-of-sales/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/02/16/when-marketing-meets-finance-the-break-even-level-of-sales/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sorina</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous blog post we investigated the Return on Marketing Investment, a metric that analyzes the marketing activity from a financial point of view that is more complex than the revenue from sales generated by marketing.
The current blog post aims at exploring another area where finance meets marketing: the break-even analysis. In this area, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When marketing meets finance: Return on Marketing Investment</title>
		<link>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/02/14/when-marketing-meets-finance-return-on-marketing-investment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/02/14/when-marketing-meets-finance-return-on-marketing-investment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sorina</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the greatest challenges for marketing professionals is to “probate” the results of their activity in terms of financial numbers. To do so, a simplistic approach that might still be in use in organizations which lack an accurate performance measurement system is looking into the value of sales.  Fair enough, marketing efforts should, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marketing program performance appraisal: from baseline to incremental sales</title>
		<link>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/02/02/marketing-program-performance-appraisal-from-baseline-to-incremental-sales/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/02/02/marketing-program-performance-appraisal-from-baseline-to-incremental-sales/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sorina</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When assessing the outcomes of various marketing promotional initiatives, careful attention should be paid to the very “law” of sales, that is: total sales equals baseline sales plus incremental sales from marketing.

Baseline sales define the expected level of sales that would be achieved without the marketing program, whereas incremental sales refer to sales that, on [...]]]></description>
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