Sunday Series: Boeing Helps Travel Category Get Going
Image from: Boeing / Shutterstock October was a great month for the “Corporate Travel” category. In fact, it was the best month that the category has had in the past two years. After a record 25%...
View Article20+ Black Friday & Cyber Monday Facts That You Need to Know
Image from: Black Friday / Shutterstock With Black Friday and Cyber Monday, two of the biggest shopping days of the year just around the corner, we have some good news for retailers. Shoppers looking...
View Article10 of the Best Ecommerce Tools to Help You Win this Holiday Season
Image from: eCommerce / Shutterstock The most jolly time for both consumers and retailers is on in full force, the holiday season has started. So how can retailers, or more specifically, eRetailers,...
View ArticleCase Study: Why Engagement Doesn’t Always Equal Higher Sales
Image from: Travel / Shutterstock In 1946, Juan Trippe established the InterContinental brand and opened their first hotel in Béllam, Brazil. Since then, the InterContinental Hotel Group has become...
View ArticleSunday Series: Hockey Picks Up Early in the Season
Image from: Image Title / Shutterstock If you are a hockey fan, you are used to the ups and downs that the sport can put you through—both by your favorite team and the league itself. This year seems...
View ArticleHoliday Gift Card Demand 2012 – 2013
Image from: Holiday Shopping / Shutterstock With every holiday season comes a handful of must-have items for kids (remember Tickle Me Elmo?) and adults alike. There is one item that continues to get...
View ArticleNovember Data is Now Live – BET.com, Hallmark.com, Black Friday and more…
Image from: Holiday Shopping / Shutterstock Happy holidays! To ring in the holiday season, November data is live and available in Compete PRO! Speaking of the holidays, Black Friday dominated the...
View ArticleBlack Friday & Cyber Monday Report: Everything’s Merry for Amazon
Image from: Image Title / Shutterstock It seems as though every year, more and more pressure gets put on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Not only are these important days for retailers to capture...
View Article3 Easy Ways to Discover New Business Prospects
Image from: Opportunities / Shutterstock Whether you work in sales, do full time business development work, or you handle new business prospecting at an agency, you need to stay on top of new ways to...
View ArticleMobile Traffic of the Internet’s Top Social Media Sites
Image from: Social Media / Shutterstock When it comes to social media, it’s hard to argue Facebook’s position as the leader. It’s the oldest of today’s top contenders, roughly one of every 7 people in...
View ArticleSunday Series: Virality Brings Fast Mover Status
Image from: Marriage / Shutterstock November was a good month for the personal blogs category, skyrocketing the second-highest amount of unique visitors (UVs) in two years. But this sharp jump in...
View ArticleIntroducing new Social Insights in Compete PRO
Image from: Social Insights / Shutterstock Today, we are incredibly excited to launch our new Compete PRO Social Insights module! The Compete PRO Social Insights module gives you information about...
View ArticleOnline Shoppers Favor PS4 by 3:2 — And They’re Going to Walmart.com to Buy it
Here’s an update to our earlier report on online shopping activity for the recently launched Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Console wars heat up as holiday season comes to full swing Last month,...
View ArticleMobile vs Desktop: Comparing the Traffic of 3 Major Retailers
Image from: Mobile vs Desktop / Shutterstock With holiday season coming to an end, we thought it would be a good idea to take a look at three of the top retailers, but in a slightly different way....
View ArticleWANTED for the New Healthcare Exchanges: Young People
Image from: Obamacare / Shutterstock The nascent effort now underway to enroll millions of Americans in health insurance plans via recently opened exchanges has been well received among a particular...
View ArticleHow Far Can Social Take You? A Look at the Release of “Beyonce”
Beyonce / Shutterstock Conventional marketing tactics be damned. Beyonce has proven that the power of social media can create a phenomenon much better than the traditional, costly and extravagant...
View ArticleBig Games, Big Records, Big Data: Comparing GTA V and COD: Ghosts
One of the most popular titles of 2013, Grand Theft Auto V (GTAV) currently holds 7 Guinness world records including, “highest grossing game in 24 hours” and “best-selling videogame in 24 hours.” Just...
View ArticleWhy Ron Burgundy is as Good of a Car Salesman as an Anchorman
“I’d like an ad that works and a tasty BLT.” So might say Ron Burgundy if he was a CMO of a major corporation, including an automaker. In fact, Ron Burgundy (actor Will Ferrell) is staring in several...
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