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		<title>Critiques are Critical</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that half of Internet users research online before making any type of purchase—whether on the Web or in a store? With the vast number of emerging social media vehicles available, it’s easy to forget the simple tactics that can make a huge impact on sales.  I was reminded of this when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adakc.idea-agency.com/adamsonia/?p=59</link>
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		<title>Brands Will “Like” What Facebook is Doing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you didn’t catch Facebook’s big announcement, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the new “Open Graph protocol”, which allows people to share the connections they make on any website with their friends on Facebook.
Facebook is now essentially building “live” profiles on everyone, as opposed to the traditional static profiles that are stored in a database. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adakc.idea-agency.com/adamsonia/?p=51</link>
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		<title>Online Will Influence 53% of U.S. Retail Sales by 2014</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Alan Epstein
Are you ready to take advantage?
In a new report issued this week, Forrester Research predicts that online retail sales will grow 10% per year for the next five years. Nothing earth shattering there. But get this, according to Forrester… “the web will influence 53% of U.S. retail sales by 2014”, meaning that products [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adakc.idea-agency.com/adamsonia/?p=39</link>
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		<title>Marketing to Moms in the B to B Category</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Kim Boyer
Many business to business marketers think of their target audience as a job function or category.  We typically look at SIC codes or department functions.  It is a rare business to business marketer that looks at the emotions of the target audience. It is even more rare for a business marketer to look [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adakc.idea-agency.com/adamsonia/?p=30</link>
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		<title>Marketing to Moms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Kim Boyer
Marketing to Moms – Why?
You might be asking yourself, why worry about marketing to Moms, we are marketing our brands to women, that should cover it.
This attitude is why, according to PMI Enterprises, 60% of Moms believe that marketers are ignoring them and 73% of Moms believe marketers do not understand what it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adakc.idea-agency.com/adamsonia/?p=25</link>
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		<title>And You Thought You’d Never Make the Cover of Time Magazine</title>
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by Geoff Pickering
In late October of 2006, Adamson put a stake in the ground and decided our service offerings were not enough to sustain our company for long-term success. Put simply, we needed to change, or run the risk of perishing. Roughly one month later, on December 13, 2006, Time Magazine announced its Person of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adakc.idea-agency.com/adamsonia/?p=17</link>
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		<title>Ambient Intimacy</title>
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by Geoff Pickering
The pace of change and new concepts and TLA&#8217;s (Three Letter Acronyms) is absolutely maddening. I try really hard not to adopt too many of the latest concepts until the marketplace pressure vets their stability. That being said, a few weeks ago I saw a term the other day from Leisa Reicheit that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adakc.idea-agency.com/adamsonia/?p=15</link>
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		<title>Eyeballs A Measure Past its Prime</title>
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by Geoff Pickering
CMO Simon Clift delivered a message at the Ad Age conference a few months ago that really resonated with me and our beliefs here at Adamson.
&#8220;Brands aren&#8217;t simply brands anymore. They are the center of a maelstrom of social and political dialogue made possible by digital media,&#8221; said Unilever Chief Marketing Officer Simon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adakc.idea-agency.com/adamsonia/?p=12</link>
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		<title>How Much Time People Really Spend with Ads &#8211; eMarketer</title>
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How Much Time People Really Spend with Ads &#8211; eMarketer
There&#8217;s an interesting report out via eMarketer and Eyeblaster on how much time people really spend with Internet ads. An excerpt:
The difference between clicks and general interaction was huge in 2008. For example, the average worldwide click-through rate for rich media ads studied was 0.35%. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adakc.idea-agency.com/adamsonia/?p=11</link>
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		<title>More marketers use social networking to reach customers &#8211; USATODAY.com</title>
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Social media needs a few high-visibility campaigns that lead to increased sales to put it truly at the center of contemporary marketing. Maybe it is beginning to happen.
SAN FRANCISCO — Ford Motor has high hopes for Fiesta, a popular model abroad launching in the U.S. next year.
So how does it introduce the subcompact car to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adakc.idea-agency.com/adamsonia/?p=8</link>
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