digital marketing-survey-feb2011

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Irish digital marketing sentiment survey

Feburary 2011

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Methodology

• Online questionnaire conducted January- February 2011 by AMAS and the Marketing Institute of Ireland (MII)

• 411 responses• 80% of respondents are full MII members • 61% of respondents are responsible for marketing

budgets in their organisations• Over one third of respondents (35.5%) work in the B2B

services sector, 19.5% in consumer services and 11.4% in consumer packaged goods

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How many employees does your organisation have?

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Are you responsible for your organisation's marketing budget?

Which aspects of the marketing budget control are you involved in?

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Approximately what amount of your marketing budget is currently being spent online?

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Online includes Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM) such as Google AdWords campaigns, online advertising, email campaigns, podcasts and other forms of online marketing and promotion.

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Approximately what amount of your marketing budget was spent online this time last year?

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Which of the following online marketing/advertising formats do you use?

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Top reasons for using online marketing: rate each of the following in terms of importance?

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Do you currently get a more accountable return on investment (ROI) from your online marketing and media activity than your more traditional marketing tools?

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To what extent have you moved advertising/marketing spend from other media to online in the last three years?

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Which of the following social media sites is your company using for marketing/communication purposes?

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What do you use social media sites for?

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How long have you been using social media in a business context?

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Please rate the following statements on social media

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Please rate the following statements on social media

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More information

For more analysis on this survey, download the Spring 2011 issue of State of the Net on www.amas.ie

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