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Nearly nine out of every 10 businesses intend to maintain or increase their marketing budgets in 2010. One half expect their customers to be spending more in the coming year.
Email Marketing and social media marketing are at the top of the list of marketing tactics respondents will increase spending on in 2010. Search Engine Marketing came in third.
Combining social media and email marketing is a growing trend. More than four out of every 10 business executives said integrating the two tactics was one of their most important email marketing initiatives for 2010, just after improving performance and targeting and growing opt-in lists.
Around one-quarter of respondents had already implemented an integrated strategy, and another 24% had formulated a strategy and were researching how to put it in practice. But 18% of business executives wanted to add social components into their e-mail campaigns and did not know where to begin.
The above results camefrom a survey comnducted by StrongMail
More information and further analysis available at eMarketer.com
