The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) is launching a first-ever comprehensive survey to estimate the size of the North American advertiser spending on search engine marketing and critical trends in the burgeoning SEM sector.

Sophos conducted a poll of more than 1,000 computer users at small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) regarding the issue of spam.

Yahoo Personals’ National Singles Week Survey Reveals 94 Percent of Singles Want a Date That Can Make Them Laugh; Yahoo Launches New Dating Tools within Yahoo! Messenger and Yahoo Personals.

PlanView today announced the results of a process maturity survey completed by senior IT officials from the world’s top financial institutions.

A new survey, sponsored by Unisys reveals that corporate executives and IT managers are growing increasingly aggravated by the complexity of business intelligence (BI) solutions intended to streamline their business decision-making processes.

Starting salaries for new graduates vary greatly, says CollegeJournal.com, The Wall Street Journal’s guide for career-minded college students.

A new survey from the MSN and Harris Interactive reveals that these days, Internet users in the United States are quite likely to turn to a search engine in their search for themselves.

A study of some 37,000 Yahoo! Mail users in 11 different countries has apparently confirmed what many Internet users have long suspected (and despaired): spam email is working. Despite the fact that spam email is almost universally reviled as a nuisance, there are apparently enough people clicking to justify the industry – or perpetuate the problem, depending on your point of view.

When I think back to all the times I’ve missed opportunities in life because I was too afraid to ask potentially embarrassing questions, it makes me wonder how much more I could have learned and accomplished if only I’d had the nerve to ask more questions.

Want to increase the number of sales from your website? I am about to reveal a no-cost method for not only increasing the NUMBER of sales, but increasing the profit per sale as well.

A study done by Standard & Poor’s Equity Research Services that was conducted on search engines has released its results. The survey’s findings indicate that 48% of search engine users say they use Google most overall, compared to 20% for Yahoo, 14% for MSN and 7% for AOL.

A survey conducted by iProspect has found that search engine click-through behavior can be predicted by gender, education and other factors. Meaning that by knowing the characteristics of your target audience you can improve and impact an online marketing campaign.

Yesterday, WebProNews reported on a survey conducted by DoubleClick that indicated internet-based ads have had an increase in click through rates. The largest click through rates came from rich media ads, which received a click rate of 1%.

According to a survey completed by Mosaic Media, 57.1 percent of Google AdWords advertisers want their ads to appear contextually in Google new email service, Gmail.

It’s tough to find employment in today’s job market, especially if a person lacks a formal education or has minimal work experience. Still, even without such background deficits, attempts to find home-based employment may be fruitless at best, financially and emotionally draining at worst.

Our feature article today investigates a great way to increase sales (that doesn’t involve a search engine… imagine that . Please read “Double Your Sales With A Customer Survey” to learn more. If you have questions for him feel free to send them in and I’ll pass them along.

We all are well aware of a simple fact in marketing – Acquiring new customers is 10 times more difficult and expensive than retaining existing ones. This is one of the fundamental driving forces behind the wide-spread adoption and interest in CRM and related customer retention strategies.

A November 2003 survey published by the UK-based Internet services company Netcraft made the claim that the Apache Web server “has a significant percentage gain” over its chief rival, Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS), and now controls over two-thirds of the global Web server market. Only days later, Port80 Software released a survey stating that “Microsoft IIS maintains dominance of the corporate Web server market” with 53.8 percent of the market. With two seemingly similar surveys drawing contradictory conclusions, clearly the question of whose software powers the majority of the Web server market demands a deeper examination.

Few managers are genuinely surprised when the results of an employee satisfaction survey are revealed. You really don’t need the science of statistics to know that people aren’t entirely pleased with every aspect of their work lives.

So you’ve decided to conduct an online survey. There are a few questions in your mind that you would like answered, and you are on the lookout for a fast and inexpensive way to find out more about your customers, clients and so on.

I asked you what your pet peeves were, and you let me know! Several of you made pointed comments about iEntry sites (I’ll see what I can do there, but no promises). Thanks for all the great input. Now let’s find out what really irks you when it comes to site design…