Don’t Get Caught Up In The Data Madness
Data and metrics are everywhere these days, making it easy to compile numbers on nearly any topic, from email marketing and lead generation to social media and digital campaigns. But often these marketing metrics are not actionable and can lead to misinformed business decisions. It is important to keep in mind that in excess, metrics may become cumbersome, overburdening, and may even lead to a false sense of success. Continue reading
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Hannibal Smith, the fearless leader of the A-team, always loved it when a plan came together and on that campy ’80′s TV show, they always seemed to, no matter how intricate and contrived. It seems quaint now. In the real world, things rarely happen as we imagine they will.
As Mike Tyson, another icon from the ’80′s liked to say, everybody’s got a plan until they get hit and, like it or not, we all get hit, usually sooner rather than later. When that happens, as it inevitably always does, even our best laid plans go awry. Continue reading
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Tagged Data, Numbers, Plan, Statistics, Strategic Planning
The flaws associated with current social media platforms Continue reading
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Tagged Flaws, Platforms, Social Media
This is an infographic about…infographics. It includes our definition of an infographic, charts internet popularity and explains the benefits of using them. Continue reading
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Tagged Benefits, Charts, Infographics, Numbers, Statistics
In our white paper Why Strategic Account Management Fails, we noted that high performers in strategic account management were significantly less likely to face 16 of 19 common challenges in Strategic Account Management. We didn’t, however, have space to go into much detail in this specific area. Since publishing the white paper, we’ve been asked quite a bit for more detail on the specific challenges faced by companies that engage in formal strategic account management, and the differences between high performers and average / below-average performers. Continue reading
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Tagged Challenges, Sales, Strategic Account Management
Blame it on the media when people seem to think that their hot tech startup will make them a billionaire by their mid-20s.
Being a startup ourselves, we are very interested in the factors that contribute to a startup’s success, so we created this infographic on the chances that your startup will fail or succeed. This also includes some research on projections for the best sectors to start your new business. Continue reading
Posted in Business, Small Business, Statistics
Tagged Busdiness, Factors, Fail, Numbers, Sectors, Startup, Success
Living in a digital age, Americans are accustomed to rapid advances in technology. With most toddlers fully capable of working smartphones and tablets, the youngest generations of U.S. children are being raised on advanced technology. Seemingly without limits, the digital revolution continues to grow exponentially. Continue reading
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Tagged Advertising, Baby Boomer, Demographics, Marketing, Social Media
Pinterest has surprised the social media world by rising to become one of the most popular social media networking sites in a very short period of time. According to totalpinterest.com Pinterest has 25 million+ active users worldwide and another source puts the number of unique visitors at 31.5million+ (compete.com). Continue reading
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Tagged Brands, Demographics, Information, Pinterest
Topics in this Infographic/Article: Search, Organic Search, B2B Marketing, Traffic, Lead, Social Media, Online Marketing We released our 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report, and we decided to create an infographic that will highlight some of the more interesting data points … Continue reading
Instagram is in the news for all the wrong reasons. After announcing new terms, the service experienced a huge drop in usage and visits. The infographic below was created by wishpond and includes numbers and statistics from before the change … Continue reading
Google+ celebrated nearing the end of its first full calendar year as a social network by publishing this infographic displaying highlights about the network achieved in 2012.
China’s Online Population Rises by 51 Million in 2012.
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Tagged China, Internet User, Mobile, Online, tablets
Insurance in general is a complicated subject with many ever-changing parts. Health insurance is one of the most popular (if not the most popular) types of insurance in America today and directly affects the life of every person in this country. In the infographic below, you will find some not so well known statistics and facts about health insurance and healthcare today.
The U.S. spent 2.47 trillion dollars on health care in 2009 and it is being projected that it will spend 4.5 trillion dollars on health care in 2019.
41% of working age Americans either have medical bill problems or are currently paying off medical debt. Medical bills are a major factor in more that 60% of the personal bankruptcies in the United States. Of those, 75% of them involved individuals that actually DID have health insurance.
Over the last decade, the number of Americans without health insurance has risen from about 28 million to about 52 million. Today, 18% of Americans are uninsured.
Women pay approximately 30% more for health insurance.
Source: Enhance Insurance
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Tagged Facts, health, Healthcare, Insurance, Statistics
Retailers already know how to use customer data to run their brick-and-mortar operations. And they’ve been digging through reams of website analytics for at least a decade now. But data didn’t really get “big” until an explosion in smartphone use and social media addiction, resulting in the need for more agile, relevant marketing.
Thanks to consumers’ increasing use of mobile devices and social media, the volume and variety of data points continue to mushroom at a dizzying pace. What are the challenges and opportunities around leveraging Big Data, and how can retailers put together a plan to harness its power?
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Tagged Analytics, Business, Customer Data, Data, Mobile, Retailers, Social Media
We live in an information-saturated world. For your business to succeed, you need to capture and hold the attention of customers long enough to get your message across. The big question is how do you get your message noticed, understood and retained? The answer is simple – leverage the superior communication powers of information graphics.
Source: Kapdesign
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Tagged Business, Communication, Communication Power, Custormers, Infographics, Information, Message
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