Marketers count just about everything: emails sent, opened, deleted, web pages visited and abandoned, widgets bought, and so much more. In this new book from Spider Trainers, we've captured about 175 stats that verify there's a little mathematician in all of us.
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Great Big Book of
Things Marketers Count
A huge collection of shareable email, web, and general marketing stats.
2. Introduction
In the second of ourGreat Big Book series, this collection of stats and
notable numbers collected by all types of marketers is a great source of
reference content and sharable content.
We found thousands of statistics and huge collections of analytical data
as we were compiling theGreat Big Book ofThings MarketersCount,
but it was simply too much for one document — even a digital
document.We culled the numerical content and settled on those pieces
of information we felt have a real value to our clients, followers,
colleagues, and vendors.
In the following pages, we hope you find numbers that will support your
efforts or dispel the myths, and come out smarter for having done so.
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3. — 2012 Association Email Marketing Benchmark Report
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.052%
Average email unsubscribe
rate for associations.
5. — SpiderTrainers
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something.”
6. — Experian email market study
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1in2
Marketers who have used
animated GIFs in their email
campaigns.
7. —Wired.com,Typographic Insanity:This Poster Is Covered in All 265,000Words From Ulysses
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1.7T
ype size used by the
designers at Blotto to print all
820,000 words of the King
James Bible on a poster.
8. — Nielsen’s quarterly Global AdView Pulse report
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1.9%
Growth in global ad spend for
the first quarter of 2013 from
first quarter 2012.
9. — Convario
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2%
Average click-through rate for
paid search in 2010
(worldwide).
10. — 2011 USPS Household Diary Study
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2.3
Responses to advertising mail
per week by households with
incomes greater than
$150,000.
11. — SpiderTrainers
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3Types of automated email
campaigns that Spider
Trainers builds for clients
(blast, drip, and nurture).
12. — SEOmoz
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3X
More inbound links attracted
by blog posts incorporating
video (compared to those
without video).
13. — Marketing Charts
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4%
Marketers who say they and
their companies effectively
measured social marketing
in 2012.
14. — 2011 USPS Household Diary Study
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5%
Average click-through rate for
internet advertising.
15. — Deloitte
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5%
In-store retail sales influenced
by mobile; equivalent to more
than $159 billion in sales.
16. — Jeff Ernst, Forrester Research
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5%
Marketers who use a
full-featured marketing-
automation solution.
17. — Forester Research
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6%
Consumers who last year said
they often bought products
advertised to them via email.
18. — SpiderTrainers
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7 Minimum number of
recommended events for an
effective lead-nurturing
campaign.
19. — Epsilon/DMA
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7
.8%
Increase in email open rates in
the third quarter of 2012
compared with the year-
earlier period.
20. —The Daily Reckoning on Mary Meeker’s “State of theWeb” D11 2013 conference presentation
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8thof 10
American-owned companies’
internet sites with the most unique
monthly visits (even though 81% of
the traffic comes from outside the
United States).
21. — Content Marketing Institute
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8of 10
U.S. internet users reached by
social media and blogs.
22. — Content Marketing Institute
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9in 10
Organizations that market
with content.
23. — Qualcomm
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9%
Mobile device users that video
chat at least twice a week on
their phone.
24. — Marketing Charts
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9.5%
Increase in open rates for
Twitter follow-us mailings
over other types.
25. — SpiderTrainers
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10Average number of new
resources added daily to
Spider Trainers’ Marketing
Resource Library on LinkedIn.
33. — Aberdeen Group
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15%
Gartner-estimated savings on
creative production by those
using marketing automation.
34. — Adestra Subject Line Analysis Report
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16.2%
The increase of performance
of news-related terms in
subject lines over discount-
related terms.
35. — Marketing Sherpa
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17%
Of more than 1,000 global
businesses, the percentage that
said that their list growth was
very positive.
36. — Content Marketing Institute and Marketing Profs
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18Different content-marketing
tactics used by companies
with 10,000 or more
employees.
37. — 2011 USPS Household Diary Study
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18%
Households that do not read
any of the advertising mail
they receive each week.
38. — Demand Gen, 2013 B2B Content Preferences Survey
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18%
Respondents who say they use
Facebook to share content
with their colleagues
frequently.
39. — Jupiter Research
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18X
More revenue generated by
relevant emails over
broadcast emails.
41. — Experian
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19.5%
Average open rate for
promotional mailings with
personalized subject lines.
42. — SpiderTrainers
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20
Inbound content resources
created by Spider Trainer
in 2013 year to date.
43. — Demand Gen, 2013 B2B Content Preferences Survey
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20%
Survey respondents who use
Twitter to find relevant
content to make B2B
purchasing decisions.
44. — UK Email Marketing Benchmark Report
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21.47%
UK open rates.
45. —Sirius Decisions
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22%
Average sales cycle increase
over the past five years due to
more decision makers being
involved in the buying process.
46. — Content Marketing Institute
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23%
Of all time spent online by
US internet users on social
media and blog sites.
48. —WebHostingBuzz, State of Social Sharing in 2013 Infographic
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25%
Of LinkedIn employee profile
views are from coworkers.
49. — B2B Marketing Insider
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25%
Marketing budget spent by
marketers on content
marketing.
50. — Gartner
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28%
Marketers who have reduced
their advertising budget to
fund more digital marketing.
51. — Shullman Research Center,
Generational Differences in Luxury Consumers’ Attitudes and Buying Plans
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31%
Of baby boomers plan on
spending more next year.
52. — Knotice Mobile Email Opens Report
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33%
Emails opened on the
iPhone and iPad.
53. —The Experts Bench
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33%
Of companies who use both
CRM and marketing
automation who said the
two integrated well.
54. — Alchemyworx
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33%
UK brands that generated
more revenue from email
than all other digital channels
combined.
55. — Content Marketing Institute and Marketing Profs
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33%
Increase in mobile-optimized
content marketing in 2012
over 2011.
56. — Radicati, Email Statistics Report 2012-2016
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34%
Email users access their email
via a mobile device.
57. — Shullman Research Center,
Generational Differences in Luxury Consumers’ Attitudes and Buying Plans
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34%
Generation Xers who plan to
spend more in the next year.
58. — MarketingSherpa 2013 SEO Marketing Benchmark Survey
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35%
Marketers that had an outside
agency or consultancy help
with SEO work.
59. — Demand Gen, 2013 B2B Content Preferences Survey
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36%
B2B buyers who share content
with their colleagues on
Twitter.
60. — Content+
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37%
Marketers who say blogs are
the most-valuable type of
content marketing.
61. — Social Media Marketing Industry Report 2013
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37%
Marketers who say their
Facebook marketing efforts
have been effective.
62. — Custom Content Council and ContentWise
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39%
Marketing, advertising, and
communications budgets that
will be dedicated to content
marketing this year.
63. —WebHostingBuzz, State of Social Sharing in 2013 Infographic
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40%
Twitter users who rarely
post but largely consume
content there.
64. —The Relevancy Group
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40%
Marketers who have direct
dashboard access to click-through
rate and deliverability/inbox
placement rate.
65. — HubSpot 2013 State of Inbond Marketing
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41%
Marketers who confirm
content marketing’s positive
return on investment.
66. — Robert Half International
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42%
Companies who say lack of
human resources is the key
barrier to content marketing.
67. — Content Marketing Institute and Marketing Profs
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42%
Marketing budget allocated
to content by companies with
less than 10 employees.
68. — 2012 International Email Marketing Summit
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42%
Online retailers that perform
copy optimization.
69. — Spencer Stuart, executive-recruitment firm
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43
Months average CMO tenure.
70. — BlueHornet ConsumerViews of Email Marketing 2013
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43%
Consumers who say they read
emails most often on a
smartphone or tablet as opposed
to a desktop or laptop computer.
71. — Forrester
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44%
Consumers who said they
delete most advertising email.
73. — Shullman Research Center “Generational Differences in Luxury Consumers’
Attitudes and Buying Plans”
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44%
Ultra-affluent millennials say
they will spend more in the
next year, while only 7% say
they will spend less.
74. — DMA
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$44.25
Average return on email
marketing investment for
every dollar spent.
75. — Eloqua
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46%
People who say they’d be more
likely to seek out information
about a product or service after
seeing it in an online video.
76. — Forrester Research
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46%
Marketers with mature lead-
management processes who have
sales teams that follow up on
more than 75% of marketing-
generated leads.
77. — 2011 USPS Household Diary Study
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47%
Households that read all or
some of the zero to seven
pieces of advertising mail
they receive per week.
78. — DMA
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47%
Survey respondents that said
automatically sending an
email based on a trigger is
somewhat effective.
79. —The Annuitas Group
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47%
Increase in purchase order size
by nurtured leads (compared
to non-nurtured leads.)
80. — Pew Research Center
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47%
Teens with a smartphone.
81. — InsideView
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47%
B2B marketers who say they are
actively using LinkedIn (vs. 90% on
Facebook); even though LinkedIn
generates more leads for B2B companies
than Facebook, Twitter, or blogs
individually.
82. — Demand Gen, 2013 B2B Content Preferences Survey
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48%
Survey respondents who use
blogs to find relevant content
for their B2B purchasing
decisions.
83. — 2011 USPS Household Diary Study
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50%
Overall read rates
for mail ads.
84. — Gleanster
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50%
Qualified leads that are not
ready to purchase
immediately.
85. — Focus
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50%
Respondents who have not
realized the full value of their
marketing-automation
investment.
86. — Sirius Decisions
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50%
The expected increase of the
adoption of marketing-
automation technology
by 2015.
87. — Gleanster Research
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50%
Increase in sales-ready leads
generated by companies that
excel at lead nurturing (at
33% lower cost).
88. — LexisNexisWorkplace Productivity Study
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51%
Of time professionals spent on
managing information rather
than acting on it.
90. — HubSpot 2013 State of Inbound Marketing Report
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53%
CEOs/CMOs who augmented
their 2013 inbound-marketing
budgets.
91. — Mist Media
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53%
Increase in likelihood of your
website appearing on page 1
of Google when you have a
video on the landing page.
92. — HubSpot
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54%
Increase in leads delivered into
the marketing funnel due to
inbound marketing (over
traditional outbound marketing).
93. — Demand Gen 2012 B2B Buyer Behavior Survey
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55%
Buyers who say they spend more
time researching purchases than
they did in the past (compared to
47% of the buyers surveyed in 2011).
95. — iContact
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56%
Businesses that say they plan
to increase their use of email
marketing in 2013.
96. — CEB
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57%
Purchase process completed
by buyers before ever
talking to sales.
97. — Experian
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57%
Marketers who seek zip code
information, preceded by first
and last name.
98. — the Shullman Research Center. Generational Differences in Luxury Consumers’
Attitudes and Buying Plans
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57%
Ultra-affluent millennials who say
that they enjoy purchasing luxury
and designer brands, compared to
28% of all adults who say the same.
99. — Altimeter
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57%
Marketers who report content
marketing is their top
marketing priority for 2013.
102. — StrongMail
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59.8%
Email marketers who plan to
spend more on welcome
email marketing.
103. — MecLabs
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60%
Marketers who report a
positive ROI from email
marketing.
104. — Demand Metric
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60%
Buyers who are inspired to
seek out a product after
reading content about it.
105. — CMI and MarketingProfs
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60%
Marketers who use content
marketing on a weekly basis.
106. — Content Marketing Institute and Marketing Profs
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61%
B2B marketers who rate
webcasts as the most-effective
content-marketing tactic.
107. — Custom Content Council
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61%
Consumers who say they feel
better about a company that
delivers custom content, and who
are also more likely to buy from
that company.
108. — HubSpot
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62%
Reduction in content marketing
costs that generates about three
times as many leads and
compared to traditional
marketing.
109. — Custom Content Council
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62%
Marketers who use video in
their content marketing.
110. — Mashable
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62%
Companies that outsource
their content marketing.
112. —Transformational Marketing, Forbes and gyro
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64%
Millennials who think companies
should offer more ways for
consumers to share their opinions
online in the future.
113. —The Annuitas Group
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64%
CMOs who have either an
informal or no process to
manage their marketing
automation.
114. — Demand Gen, 2013 B2B Content Preferences Survey
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65%
Those who strongly agree
that B2B vendors should
stop using small print with
text-heavy pages.
115. — Social Media B2B
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67%
Increase in leads per month
generated by B2B companies
that blog over those that
do not.
116. — comScore.
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67%
T
witter users who are more
likely to buy from brands
they follow.
117. —The CMA
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68%
Increase in time spent by
consumers reading content
from a brand in which they
are interested.
118. — Demand Gen, 2013 B2B Content Preferences Survey
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69
.7%
B2B buyers who said they rely
more on content today than
they did one year ago.
119. — Eloqua
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70%
B2B marketers who use some
form of online video with
their overall strategies.
120. — Content Plus
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70%
Consumers who prefer getting
to know a company via
articles rather than ads.
121. — Content Marketing Institute
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70%
Consumers who say content
marketing makes them feel
closer to the sponsoring
company.
122. — MailOnline
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72%
Marketers who think branded
content is more effective than
magazine advertisements.
131. — Custom Content Council and ContentWise
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79%
Marketers who report their
organizations are shifting to
branded content.
132. — Content Marketing Institute and Marketing Profs
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79%
B2B marketers who use
content marketing to achieve
brand-awareness goals.
133. — Joe Puluzzi, founder of Content Marketing Institute
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80%
Marketing professionals who
do not use buyer personas in
the process of creating content
for their marketing efforts.
134. — MarketingSherpa
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82%
Prospects who say content
targeted to their industry is
more valuable.
139. —Transformational Marketing, Forbes and gyro
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84%
Millennials who are thankful
they have access to strangers’
opinions and experiences as they
research and make purchases.
140. — SpiderTrainers
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85
Spider Trainers’ team members
dedicated to developing a client’s
automated marketing
campaigns, websites, and SEO.
141. — Content Marketing Institute
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86%
B2C marketers who use
content marketing.
142. — CMO Council
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87%
B2B buyers who say content
has a major or moderate
impact on vendor selection.
143. — Content Marketing Institute and Marketing Profs
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87%
B2B marketers who use social
media to distribute content.
144. — Mist Media
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88%
More time spent by the
average user on a website
with video.
145. — Forrester Research
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89%
Marketers who said email
was their primary channel for
lead generation.
146. — SpiderTrainers
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90%
Spider Trainers’ clients who
automatically and successfully
share marketing analytics and
lead scoring with their CRM.
148. —WebHostingBuzz, State of Social Sharing in 2013 Infographic
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90%
Companies (with 100
employees) that use social
media in their marketing mix.
150. — Morgan Stanley
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91%
U.S. citizens who have
their mobile device
within reach 24/7.
151. — Content Marketing Institute
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91%
B2B marketers who use
content marketing.
152. — University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s research on blogging
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92%
Companies that say blogs
have been successful for
their business.
153. — Jeff Bullas
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94%
More views of articles that
contain images.
154. — Content Marketing Institute
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95%
B2B enterprise marketers who
use content marketing.
155. — HubSpot
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96%
First-time visitors at your
website who are not there to
do business with you.
156. — Social Media Marketing Industry Report 2013
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97%
Marketers say they
participate in social media
marketing.
157. — Informz
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98.15%
Delivery rate of emails sent
by associations.
158. — Demand Gen, 2013 B2B Content Preferences Survey
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98.8%
B2B buyers who say they
now place a higher emphasis
on the trustworthiness of the
content they view.
159. — Spencer Stuart, executive-recruitment firm
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99
Months average tenure for
CMOs in industrial
companies, specifically.
160. — SpiderTrainers
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100%
Spider Trainers’ clients who
experience successful campaigns
when using targeted landing
pages or squeeze pages.
162. — Blitzlocal,WhatWe've Learned From 120 Billion Facebook Impressions, 2011 Study
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100–119
Number of characters in
Facebook posts that creates the
optimum interaction.
163. — Google+
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$143
Average cost to generate a lead
through inbound marketing;
about half the average for
outbound marketing ($373).
164. — eMarketer
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$118.4
Billion spent on content
marketing, video marketing,
and social media in 2013.
166. — GetResponse
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158%
Higher click-thru rate for
emails that include social-
sharing buttons over those
that do not.
167. —The Daily Reckoning on Mary Meeker “State of theWeb” D11 2013 conference presentation
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205%
Iran’s, the fastest, internet
population growth.
168. — SpiderTrainers
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423
Members of Spider Trainers’
exclusive Marketing Resource
Library group on LinkedIn.
170. —The Annuitas Group
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451%
Increase in qualified leads by
businesses that use marketing
automation to nurture
prospects.
171. — Orion21
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800%
Increase in conversions
achieved using landing pages
with video.
172. — HubSpot 2013 State of Inbound Marketing Report
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1,200
New leads per month
generated by brands that
create 15 blog posts per month.
173. — SpiderTrainers
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2,000
People who viewed or
downloaded the Great Big
Book of Things Marketers Say
in the first 48 hours.
174. — AOL and Nielsen 2011 report
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27
Million pieces of content
shared each day.
175. — Adestra B2B subject line analysis
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1 Billion emails studied that
showed keywords such as
money, revenue, and profit
performed well in subject lines.
176. — SpiderTrainers
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Number of data points
Spider Trainers’ clients can learn
about their campaigns and
customers as a result of testing,
tracking, and tweaking.
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