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Consumers Don't Spend Any More Time Standing In ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008

Consumers don’t spend any more time standing in line to examine your product than their grandparents did, but they have a lot more lines to choose from. So if one line isn’t moving at a speed they like, they move to another one. Today marketers have to give their customers more than the traditional ...read more

Tags: Business And Marketplace

Packaged Facts Reports African Americans In The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008

Packaged Facts reports African Americans in the U.S. number 39 million and their buying power of $892 bn. is expected to exceed $1.1 trillion in ’12. This would be a cumulative growth of 28.4%. Also: 54% of African-American buying power lives in the South while 48% resides in central cities. ...read more

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Church Stores Now Comprise 14.2% Of Cba ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008

Church stores now comprise 14.2% of CBA (Christian Booksellers Assoc.) ...read more

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75% Of All U.s. Firms Do Not Have Employees, But ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008

75% of all U.S. firms do not have employees, but are single person ...read more

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According To A Recent Deloitte Consumer Product ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008

According to a recent Deloitte Consumer Product group, 62% of consumers read consumer-written product reviews on the Internet, and of these, more than 80% say their purchase decisions have been directly influenced by the reviews, either influencing them to buy a different product than the one they ...read more

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Interactive Marketing Spending In The Us Will ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008

Interactive Marketing spending in the US will more than triple over the next five years, reaching $61 billion by 2012, finds a Forrester Research report. The growth in interactive marketing spending represents a 27% compound annual growth rate over the next five years. Interactive marketing, 8% of ...read more

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Jane Friedman, President Of Harpercollins World, ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008

Jane Friedman, President of HarperCollins World, identified the "Five Tenets of Publishing" at a recent ECPA Publishers University. They are: foster relationships; create and develop great content; remember that the author is the most important asset; move with technology and ...read more

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A New Survey From Shop.org And Forrester ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008

A new survey from Shop.org and Forrester Research finds retailers are becoming more fluent in selling across channels, and of total marketing dollars spent, 18% is now directed toward driving cross-channel sales vs. 13% in '06. Retailers say 43% of catalog customers have also purchased from their ...read more

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Customer/Donor Loyalty

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008

CUSTOMER/DONOR LOYALTY According to the 2006 One to One Customer Loyalty Survey, 87% of corporate executives say their companies understand loyalty is driven by the overall customer experience created, yet only 38% have a system in place to identify ...read more

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It's Not Easy Being A Consumer. Current ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008

It’s not easy being a consumer. Current estimates indicate the average urban dweller is exposed to between 3,000 and 5,000 advertising messages every day. That means, settling on the middle number, that every waking hour you’re presented with an ad every 14.4 seconds. That’s 14.4 seconds of every ...read more

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A New Ipsos Media Poll Reports The Average ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008

A new Ipsos Media poll reports the average American elite business leader is male, aged 51, earns $408,000 per year, and has a personal net worth of $1.7 million. As a group, they garner a total combined annual income of $246 billion with combined personal net worth valued at over $1 trillion. A ...read more

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31% Of Americans View Advertising ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008

• 31% of Americans view advertising professionals as a “necessary ...read more

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Engaged Consumers A Brand With Strong Customer ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008

Engaged Consumers A brand with strong customer engagement has customers who promote the brand, come back in the future, go out of their way to do business with the company, and feel strongly for a brand, claims a study by PeopleMetrics. Overall, companies with more engaged customers outperformed ...read more

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The Average Percentage Of Growth In Spanish ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008

The average percentage of growth in Spanish Christian products in ’07 is estimated to be 15% says, Tessie DeVore, President of the Spanish Evangelical Products Association. The growth is ...read more

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The Market For Gifts And Home Decorative Accents ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008

The Market for Gifts and home decorative accents hit $65.2 billion in ’07. The gift market grew at a compound annual rate of 14.7% from ’02 to ’07, while home decor rose 9.4%. Change is the norm. Unity Marketing’s Pam Danziger notes, “What was hot 5 years ago has gone frigidly cold. And what is hot ...read more

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Cba's (Formerly Christian Bookseller's Assoc.) ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008

CBA’s (formerly Christian Bookseller’s Assoc.) current store membership count is 1,813 of the nation’s total estimated 2,800 Christian stores. According to CBA, just 98 stores were added in ’07, compared to 589 in ’06 and 437 in ’05. Store closures continue, although they’ve slowed: 160 in ’07, vs. ...read more

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There Are Approximately 20 Million Sole ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008

There are approximately 20 million sole proprietorships and partnerships and 5.2 million ...read more

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The Top Concerns Of Cfo's

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008

THE TOP CONCERNS OF CFO’S 1-Consumer Demands, 2-Cost of labor, 3-Credit markets/Interest rate, 4-Cost of fuel, 5-Health care cost, 6-Housing market fallout, 7-Skilled-labor shortage, 8-Cost ...read more

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Busyness Is An Illness Of Spirit…

Contributed by Charles Wallis on Jan 28, 2009

"Busyness is an illness of spirit…" -- Eugene ...read more

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Denomination: Pentecostal

Religious Book Sales Could See An 11.3% Growth ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Religious Book Sales could see an 11.3% growth between ’03 and ’07 and help the entire book industry towards an 8% book-sales growth, claims an article in the 2/05 issue of CBA Marketplace. 90% of “religious” book sales ...read more

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