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According to “Moms as Food Shoppers: Grocery Store and Supercenter Patterns and Trends,” a recently released report from market research firm Packaged Facts, the modern American mom is at the center of the new home-based food culture and at the front lines of the movement toward healthy eating.

What does this mean to the company marketing to these moms? It means you may need to update your packaging and cater to their needs. While your product may be for children or men, moms are the ones who contribute to spending nearly $200 billion on food each year.

In a report from Packaged Facts, 13.3 million moms (41 percent) consider their kitchen to be the most important room in their home, while 19.7 million (61 percent) say they enjoy cooking.

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Mark Beebe

Typically when you start a new business, you have no idea what you are getting into or the curves along the way. Being in this position today and having survived 20 years, I feel this list will help any new business start-up.

1. The manager is incompetent

Most small businesses fail because the owner does not have the knowledge to run a business properly.

Solution: Go to a business class before you open your doors.

2. Finances are not in place

Solution: Write a business plan or get an accountant to assist you. Cash is king and without proper funding even the best idea will fail.

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Nicole Wagner

I was watching Castle the other day and two commercials followed each other back to back. They were so similar in style that I thought they were the same product. Unfortunately that just meant that both agencies who created these commercials were just lazy.

The first was a Virgin Mobile Sparah ad. At first I thought it was a little cute, but quickly I found it just plain insulting. Another commercial spoofing realty tv, and not even a new show but something old and overdone already. Can’t we think of anything new?

And then Hanes came on with a spoof on morning television. Really? It’s Hanes! You have so much to work with and that’s all you can give me? From Bugs Bunny and Michael Jordan to this? Depressing.

What is the demo of Castle viewers anyway that I would get such STUPID commercials directed at me? I personally am a fan of Castle and I do not consider myself that dumb. Was this bad creative directing or a bad media buy? You decide.

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An article written by Mark Beebe, Principal at Stevens & Tate Marketing, has just been featured on FoodProcessing.com, the home page for the food & beverage industry. His article, titled Packaging: You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby, discusses private label products and packaging improvements.

Stevens & Tate Marketing is a Chicago advertising agency that specializes in grocery marketing and package design. To see some of our work with food and retail packaging, check out the Work section of our website.

To read Packaging: You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby, click here.

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Yesterday, Stevens & Tate Marketing and Endora Digital Solutions hosted a panel discussion titled “Where is digital technology headed for 2011?” at the Illinois Food Retailers Association/Grocery Merchandising Association’s (IFRA/GMA) 2010 Annual Conference on September 29. Panelists included online advertising experts and digital marketing consultants from Valassis, American Digital Signage, Tribune Media Group (TMG), and Endora Digital Solutions. They discussed the current landscape of digital technology and how the technology can improve marketing efforts and can help retailers increase sales.

In addition, Endora Digital Solutions Internet Director, Nicole Wagner, conducted website and social media site evaluations for conference attendees providing advice on how retailers can improve their sites to increase sales.

Below are some pictures of Stevens & Tate at the IFRA/GMA 2010 Annual Conference at the Hilton Conference Center in Champaign, Illinois. To see even more photos, check out our Flickr Photostream.

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Nicole Wagner

Well, it’s finally here – the new Apple iPhone 4.

The new iPhone sports a thinner form and a different shape. It’s little heavier, with a straight back replacing the curved back of the last two versions. The antenna is a split stainless steel band that runs around the edge of the phone. The shorter, left strip is used for WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS and the longer, right strip is used for UMTS/GSM cellular radio for voice and data.

One of my favorite new features on the phone is the FaceTime video calling service. Since my family is all across the US, this feature is a great way to connect. Because of this feature the new phone also includes two cameras; one on both sides of the phone. This makes it much easier, now to shoot self-portraits that actually look great.

For my sister, the Retina display will come in handy now that her iPhone has become her Kindle. And I think any app lover will appreciate the new multi-tasking feature that allows you to switch between third party apps seamlessly.

Although I believe editing video is hard enough to do on my computer, I’m sure there are video lovers out there who appreciate the new HD video recording and editing features. Other features of the phone include folders for your apps, iBook reader, and more voice control features.

I have been holding out on actually purchasing the iPhone 4 due to the reported antenna problems and if you hold the phone a certain way you can degrade the signal and potentially drop your calls and Internet connection. But my birthday is in July, so they better fix this fast because it’s the only present I want.

Information on the iPhone: http://www.apple.com/iphone/design/#design-video

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Nicole Wagner

ClickTale is the industry leader in Customer Experience Analytics (CEA), providing businesses with revolutionary insights into their customer’s online behavior.

ClickTale tracks every mouse move, click and scroll, creating playable videos of customers’ entire browsing sessions as well as powerful visual heatmaps and behavioral reports that complement traditional web analytics.

Features of ClickTale Include:
1. Visitor Recordings
The Visitor Recordings feature of ClickTale allows you to see everything that your visitors do on your web page.

ClickTale captures every mouse move, click, scroll and keystroke by using a tiny piece of JavaScript embedded into your website. The whole process is completely transparent to the end user and has no effect on site performance.

2. Mouse Move Heatmaps
ClickTale’s Mouse Move Heatmaps allow you to get a comprehensive, visual representation of what visitors are looking at and focusing on within a web page based on thousands of visitors to your site.

**Independent research shows that there is an 84% to 88% correlation between mouse and eye movements, allowing us to create high-precision heatmaps based on just user’s mouse movements.

3. Attention Heatmaps
ClickTale’s Attention Heatmaps allow you to see how much attention a specific web site are gets from your visitors, what content your visitors care about, what they read and what they skip over.

Using the Attention Heatmaps, marketers can identify the boring areas of a site that most visitors skip. These areas increase visitor frustration and cause potential customers to abandon the site.

4. Scroll Reach Heatmaps
ClickTale’s Scroll Reach Heatmaps allow you to see where the page fold lies on your site and how far visitors scroll down, and at what point your visitors abandon the page.

Using the Scroll Reach Heatmaps, you can discover which pages need to be shorter and which ones could be made longer.

5. Click Heatmaps
ClickTale’s Click Heatmaps allow you to discover everywhere a visitor clicks on your site, whether it is a link, image, text or dead space.

Using a Click Heatmap you can see which links aren’t getting enough clicks and which call-to-action buttons are being ignored.

6. Form Analytics
Using the Form Analytics, you are able to discover which fields of your online forms take too long to complete, which ones are most frequently left blank, and which ones cause your visitors to leave.

7. Link Analysis
Discover how visitors respond to and interact with your hyperlinks. ClickTale reports on:

  • Hovers
  • Clicks
  • Hesitation Time
  • Visit Order

8. Custom Alerts
ClickTale allows you to set up custom e-mail alerts for when your customers complete or drop out of any business process or conversion funnel.

Alerts can be set up:

  • 1/Week
  • 1/Day
  • Real Time

9. Real Time Monitor
The Real Time Monitor allows you to see where your visitors are coming from and watch exactly what they are doing and where they are browsing in Real-Time.

10. Page Reports
ClickTale gives users the ability to monitor unique page performance statistics.

Page Reports include:

  • Most & Least Engaging Pages
  • Most & Least Clicked Pages
  • Most & Least Errored Pages
  • Most & Least Scrolled Pages
  • Slowest & Fastest Loading Pages

11. Demographics Report
ClickTale allows you to see a complete analysis of your visitors’ demographic information, including:

  • Visitor Language
  • Country of Origin
  • Browser Version
  • Operation System
  • Screen Size

Benefits of ClickTale
ClickTale helps you improve the quality and effectiveness of your web site. The Benefits of using ClickTale include:

  • Seeing your web site through the eyes of your visitors
  • Understanding how visitors use your site
  • Work towards getting a better conversion rate
  • Reduce abandonment rate
  • Identify problem areas on your site & work to revise them

Does your company currently use ClickTale? Contact us and let us know what you find beneficial? We would love to tell your story.

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