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We all know how major security incidents can affect a company’s data, networks and corporate brand. We also know that sophisticated attacks, designed to gain continuous access to critical information or to cause damage in critical infrastructure, are becoming more severe, more frequent and more costly. But what can you do about it? The IBM white paper “Responding to—and recovering from—sophisticated security attacks” details four proactive steps that you can—and should—take now to help keep your organization safe: prioritize your business objectives and set your risk tolerance; protect your organization with a proactive security plan; prepare your response to the inevitable sophisticated attack and promote and support a culture of security awareness. Read the white paper to learn how to help keep your organization safe from sophisticated security attacks and find out how IBM can help.

If you don't think social media ROI can be measured, you need to learn the truth. Social media and word of mouth are more influential than any type of advertising, but many companies are not measuring its impact on sales. Marketers approaching social media with a direct marketing mindset and organizing their programs with the right methodology can clearly determine its impact on sales and ROI.

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With detailed planning and execution by an experienced agency, social media marketing (SMM) can be a valuable channel within integrated marketing campaigns, complementing and enhancing the results from other efforts.

It has been projected that interactive marketing spending will hit the $61 billion mark by 2012. With this much competition, a brand needs to make sure the dollars it invests in interactive marketing are well spent or risk being lost in the growing ad clutter. To help ensure its ad money won’t be wasted, a brand needs a blueprint to follow in order to guide it to interactive marketing success.

Download this white paper to learn about: Email marketing for complex buying processes, how email in marketing automation supports complex buying processes, when to use email marketing or when to upgrade to marketing automation, and marketing automation beyond email marketing

This white paper outlines some of the most salient challenges and demonstrates how technology managers can enable their development teams to streamline application development and troubleshooting, while keeping them current on emerging technology, new product versions, and changing market trends-allowing them to move right past the gotchas.

B2B marketers, like their B2C colleagues, have diligently worked at perfecting the art of shaping customer and prospect perceptions. They have years of experience developing precisely targeted communications comprised of finely tuned content directed at the specific audiences they want to influence. Traditional brand marketing requires the engineering of messages that engender the right impressions about the company’s products in the marketplace. The traditional art of branding has grown and flourished for many years. But that’s all begun to change.

Learn how hundreds of consumer product marketers are maintaining market share and profitability, even with significantly reduced advertising budgets.  DRTV pioneer Timothy R. Hawthorne offers his latest insights, with 10 Good Reasons to Test Direct Response TV Now.  Download this exclusive guide today!

A Microsite is an independent, focused website subsidiary to a larger, parent website. Its marketing, branding, and Search/Viral potential has been increasingly recognized by marketing and website managers, but measurement and analysis of a Microsite’s effectiveness requires analytical strategies and approaches that differ from the analysis of the parent website. Learn more today!

This Junta42 whitepaper shows you how to develop a content marketing strategy that positions your company as the expert. Learn how to create and distribute valuable content that will add to your bottom line, and turn prospects into loyal customers.

How do you create trust and meaningful marketing content that doesn't read like a sales pitch? In an age of digital noise and an abundance of information, how do you reach your target audience and become a trusted brand? This eBook will show you how.

Extending social capabilities across your company can improve both individual and team productivity. With online communities, information is made transparent and corporate knowledge is bubbled up to where it can be used - no longer buried in email inboxes, hard drives or isolated in silos.

Enabling people to register using an existing identity from Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, or other provider is one of the most powerful registration tools to emerge in the last few years. Registering people through an established online identity not only streamlines the registration process but also gives your business a head start on building deeper relationships with them.

Recruitment doesn't end with a job offer. It begins from the moment your business defines its candidate audience, and continues long after an employee leaves your company. CareerBuilder's Ultimate Recruitment Guide e-Book is a definitive how-to-hire guide compiled by our team of business experts.

It's no coincidence that many of today's most successful and admired businesses - Google, Whole Foods, IBM, USAA and UPS, to name just a few - are as widely recognized for their forward-thinking business practices as they are for their reputations as employers of choice. These companies all share one characteristic: A strong employment brand.

In 2012, 1.8 trillion display ads were paid for, but not seen. For advertisers looking for results, this is an unnecessary waste of effort and budget! Thankfully the industry is rallying towards a viewability standard, signaling a new wave of accountability for publishers, advertisers and ad vendors. As advertisers embrace viewability, they can benefit from knowing that their ads are seen, eliminating waste, and increasing campaign accountability and effectiveness.

"The implications from the 2013 IBM Global Reputational Risk and IT Study are clear. The question is no longer whether IT risks can damage your corporate reputation, but what you can do to effectively prevent and mitigate these risks. Find out what you can do to protect your reputation from IT risks. Read “Six keys to effective reputational and IT risk management” to learn about: · Practical advice and recommendations to help prevent and mitigate the IT risks that most affect reputation · The emerging role of the Chief Digital Officer · How to use social media as a tool for minimizing reputational damage · How your supply chain can put you at increased reputational risk"

Learn how your business can improve its customer service by providing a seamless multichannel experience across all channels.

Acquiring customers to join loyalty programs requires that brands offer amazing incentives and get creative with their marketing efforts. This e-book offers 25 strategies to help companies grow their loyalty program memberships.

Learn 20 key characteristics to include in a loyalty program that customers will love and keep them coming back for more.

Explore 12 mobile strategies that can help your brand fuel customer engagement and reinforce loyalty.

This quick guide-written by marketing automation expert Ardath Albee details practical strategies and tactics to use in retaining customers.

Learn the benefits of demand generation software. Our team of experienced professionals will also show you how to get to where you want to be with your marketing and lead generation efforts.

This 30-page complimentary guide was prepared by a team of professional observers, bloggers, consultants and users of Facebook business pages.