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Market Survey by Internet Marketing Services Indicates Bright Future in the Market for Nokia N9

Nokia N9 is all set to rule the global Smartphone market in the days to come, predicts Internet Marketing Services, a private market research company from Ontario. This amazing phone is yet to make its appearance in this part of the world. However, it has constantly been amongst the news

(PRWEB) February 16, 2012

A recently concluded market survey by Ontario based Internet Marketing Services has suggested that Nokia N9 would be one of the top players in the global market for Smartphones. This extremely popular phone is still not available in Canada and the United States, but there have been enough speculations in the market about it. The research conducted by Internet Marketing Services involved a comparative analysis between different popular Smartphones in the market. Several factors like price, features, ease of use and appearance were taken into account in this market research.

Apart from Nokia N9, the company conducted its research with some other highly popular phones like Apple iPhone 4S, Samsung Galaxy S II, Nokia Lumia 800, Sony Ericsson Experia Arc, and some more. Nokia Lumia is one of the latest models from Nokia, but N9 still has better acceptability in the market because of its 1024 MB RAM, and UMTS/GSM network that works anywhere in the world. The research by Internet Marketing Services has indicated that along with the N9 model from Nokia, Apple iPhone 4S and Samsung Galaxy S II are probably the two other phones that are most impressive amongst all.

Nokia N9 was released in the market in the month of June, 2011. In spite of its limited availability across different countries, it has become one of the most popular phones ever made by any company. The phone has already received two software updates within its short life span. The Mee Go operating system used in the phone is one of its unique features. The users have also appreciated the highly sophisticated user interface of the phone. The research reveals that this model from Nokia probably has the best camera out of all phones in the market. The additional features like face detection, geo tagging, and touch focus, etc have made this model a favorite with the photographers.    

About Internet Marketing Services: Internet Marketing Services is a private market research company that conducts market research on various topics. The company is based out of Ontario.

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What specific activity this week will you pursue to move your Social Marketing strategy forward? – Video

15-02-2012 08:22 Don't shoot in the dark; create a very specific, well-defined Social Marketing strategy---and work it!

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Four Out of Ten UK SMEs Adopt Social Media Marketing

LONDON--(BUSINESSWIRE)--

Increasing use of social media marketing expected in the coming year, finds Constant Contact study

A new study from Constant Contact®, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTCT) reveals that almost 40 per cent of UK small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) are using social media to market their business. What’s more, the study suggests that nearly eight out of ten (79 per cent) of those currently using social media marketing expect to increase their use of the tool to drive business results in the next year. Of those not using social media marketing currently, 27 per cent plan to begin using it in the next year.

The study, which surveyed almost 700 UK SMEs, found that they have a keen understanding that social media marketing will be increasingly important in the coming months. In fact, over two-thirds (68 per cent) report that social media is an effective way to market their business, and 64 per cent report that social media will become more important in the future.

Specifically, these smaller companies report that social media is a good way to generate word of mouth and referrals (48 per cent), is cost effective (47 per cent), is a good way to communicate with existing and prospective customers (roughly 45 per cent), and can help their business succeed (45 per cent).

Facebook is the tool of choice among those SMEs using social media with half (51 per cent) using it for marketing purposes, followed by Twitter (42 per cent), LinkedIn (39 per cent), Flickr (16 per cent) and group deals (10 per cent).

“What’s interesting is that, while the number of UK SMEs using social media marketing is still under 50 per cent, those SMEs who are using it clearly see its value – and are looking to increase their social media efforts,” said Annette Iafrate, UK managing director at Constant Contact. “We’ve believed for some time that social media marketing could offer big value to SMEs, primarily because it is all about engaging, and that’s something that SMEs are real experts at. The issue has been getting to the understanding that doing social media marketing doesn’t have to take a lot of time.”

Time is indeed a clear hurdle to SMEs’ use of social media; a full 41 per cent reported that they believe social media marketing requires a lot of time – something they just don’t have much of. Furthermore, four out of ten feel they need to know more about how to use social media marketing.

“The great news for SMEs is that these hurdles are easily surmounted. There are fantastic tools available today that make social media marketing very easy to manage, both from a time and knowledge perspective,” said Iafrate. “The hardest part is getting started – and we have ways to help there as well.”

Constant Contact offers a full set of tools to help SMEs find social media success whether they have yet to begin dabbling with social media or they already have engaged fans and followers. SMEs can:

Of note, SMEs are using social media in tandem with other, more traditional marketing tools to take advantage of the additive effect. Other highly rated marketing tactics cited include hosting events, doing email blasts, using paid search, using online event marketing tools, and running traditional advertising.

About the Study

This Constant Contact-sponsored survey was conducted in October 2011 by Chadwick Martin Bailey via an online forum launched in the UK, questioning small business owners and their marketing decision makers. Results include responses from British small businesses across a range of business-to-business and business-to-consumer industries, as well as nonprofits. A total of 680 respondents participated in the study.

About Constant Contact, Inc.

Constant Contact is revolutionizing the success formula for small organizations through affordable, easy-to-use Engagement Marketing™ tools that help create and grow customer relationships. More than half a million small businesses, nonprofits, and associations worldwide rely on Constant Contact to drive ongoing customer dialogs through email marketing, social media marketing, event marketing, and online surveys. All Constant Contact products come with unrivaled KnowHow, education, and free coaching with a personal touch, including award-winning customer support.

Constant Contact and the Constant Contact Logo are registered trademarks of Constant Contact, Inc. All Constant Contact product names and other brand names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of Constant Contact, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.

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Durbin wants explanation of Twitter's new censorship policy

WASHINGTON • Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin has been as aggressive as any member of Congress in pressing technology companies to promote Internet freedoms. Last year, he lectured Facebook about the need to protect users from authoritarian regimes.

Today, Durbin focused on Twitter, the microblogging giant that announced last month that it had begun censoring content in countries that restrict Internet use.

Durbin, a Democrat, chairs a Senate Judiciary subcommittee with a wide perview: the Constitution, civil rights and human rights. He is joined in his request to Twitter by Tom Coburn, R-Okla., among the Senate's most conservative members.

A letter from Durbin and Coburn to Twitter CEO Dick Costolo this morning began by praising the San Francisco-based company for providing "an important tool to democracy and human rights activists."

But it raised a series of questions such as what procedures Twitter will use when it receives a censorship request from a foreign government.

Twitter was vague on details when the company declared in a blog post on Jan. 26: "Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively witthold content from users in a specific country - while keeping it available in the rest of the world."

The Durbin-Coburn letter asks, among other things, how Twitter determines whether requests from presumably authoritarian governments are valid.

Among other questions to Twitter:

• Do you make an assessment of whether complying with such a request may put the human rights of the Twitter user at risk?

• Do you assess whether such a request complies with international human rights laws?

• Where do you store the private information of your users?

The senators also pressed Twitter to join the Global Network Initiative, an alliance of Internet and technology companies who have agreed to submit to a voluntary code of conduct that involves protecing human rights.

Twitter has thus far has balked, responding two years ago that the company hadn't had the time to "fully evaluate" the initiative but, initially, considered it "better suited to bigger companies."

In renewing the request to join, Durbin and Coburn observed that Twitter has grown to the point where it has users in nearly every country in the world.

"Twitter clearly faces the significant human rights issues that the (initiative) is designed to help companies address, namely government pressure to violate the freedom of expression and user privacy," the letter reads.

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