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African-Americans Major Influence in Tech, Media and Buying Power

According to a comprehensive BET survey of the African-American community recently released, African Americans in 2008 accounted for a 10% increase in population from 2008 versus 2000, while African-American buying power increased more than 55% during the same period to $913 billion. By the year 2013 black buying power will reach $1.2 trillion dollars, a 35% increase versus 2008.

The “African Americans Revealed” study of more than 80,000 African-American consumers on multi-media engagement and digital applications, shows African-Americans are very tech savvy, with roughly 31% of African American discretionary spending dollars, or $39 billion, going toward the purchase of computers, cell phones and electronics – a proportionally higher percentage when compared to non-African-Americans.

African Americans:

* Spend more weekly time online (18 hours) than watching television (15 hours)
* 93% go online traditionally via their PC’s, while 76% access the web via their cell phones
* 60% have downloaded music, a TV show, movie or ringtone in the previous month
* 50% regularly update and access a social networking account

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Clarity, clarity, clarity. And when you think you’ve given your website guest enough…give some more!

Clarity Trumps Persuasion: How changing the first seven seconds of user experience drove a 201% gain

While marketers invest the majority of their time and budgets on areas deeper down in the funnel, MarketingExperiments research has found that most of the gain from optimizing a website occurs in the first seven seconds of users’ experience.

Millions of dollars are won or lost in these first few moments a visitor spends on your site. So in this issue of MarketingExperiments Journal, we’ll explore what can be done in this very short period of time to increase the probability of converting those visitors into customers.

All of the complex analysis and formulaic methodologies used by our scientists to create optimized pages that deliver triple-digit conversion gains can be summed up in three simple words…Clarity Trumps Persuasion

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How I found all the customers I needed for 30 years….

Marketing with Directories in B2B business –
How I acquired all the new customers I ever needed
using nothing more than a 28¢ salesman…

By Mark Goggin

Peter Drucker – the father of marketing consulting – said that THE PURPOSE of a
business – any business — is to attract customers. It would be best, to do that at a profit.
But, for a business to be a business its number one task is to…

…Acquire customers

Yet, in many small and medium size businesses customer acquisition is put on the back
burner.

There can be many reasons for this.

Expense is often one of them. Also, it is time-consuming. And, finally, it is seen as an
unreliable, “hit or miss” process.

For 30 years I had a small business and so I faced each of these issues.

How I solved my customer acquisition problem helped me stay in business for 30 years.
If you are in a B2B business, my solution may help you streamline at least part of your
customer acquisition problem. Certainly, there is no cheaper and more effective way to
accomplish this.

Here’s what I did…

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eBrand Interactive connects buyers with brands quickly, profitably, and cost effectively!

What are your plans for significantly increasing your company’s revenue while cutting costs?  You’ll benefit from our years of online advertising and marketing experience. eBrand Interactive optimizes online businesses in a number of ways, including but not limited to, managing Paid Search, Shopping Comparison Websites, Can-Spam compliant e-mail campaigns, and Display Advertising campaigns for many of the internets leading name brands.  We work with many small and medium sized companies as well. 

In a very real sense, you’ll be able to take advantage of “second mover” learning’s.  Over the years, a vast number of companies have tested hundreds of campaigns, across many different platforms through us, and as a result, your company won’t have to spend precious budget trying to find placements or databases that convert. Your company will capitalize on the millions of dollars we’ve invested in refining an advertising formula that will drive high quality, targeted traffic to your site. 

Can-Spam Compliant E-mail Campaigns to Permission Based Databases
• E-mail marketing is still one of the internet’s most powerful marketing tools. 
• Low-cost.  
• No spam!
• Opted-in Databases only.
• Speed of delivery – millions of emails can be sent in only a few hours.  
• Accountability.
• Targeted demographics.  
• 50 million fresh and interested people available.
• Deliver a wide variety of preferences, aspirations, habits and purchase histories.
• Mass broadcasts of tens of millions to small mail outs for niche products.

To learn more, click here, eBrand Interactive creates great permission based e-mail campaigns to third party lists for a variety of advertisers.

Display Advertising Campaigns
• Display your company’s offer from a minimum of 33 positions, all above the fold, through banners and rich media.
• Reach receptive and demographically correct audiences at MSN and Yahoo!
• Drive an extraordinary volume of visitors to your site. 
• Can be bought on a CPC or CPM basis. 
• Behavioral targeting and contextual retargeting. 

Click here to discover more, eBrand Interactive delivers banner advertising success.

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