A new study from ExactTarget explores the ways in which marketers and online consumers (both smartphone and non-smartphone owners) differ in their channel usage and behavior, finding some significant gaps that might affect how they relate to consumers. For example, 93% of marketers surveyed have made a purchase as a direct result of an email marketing message, compared to 56% of smartphone-owning consumers and 42% of consumers without a smartphone. In fact, marketers were more likely than each consumer group to have made a purchase as a direct result of a marketing message on Facebook, Twitter, a daily deal site, and direct mail. Read the rest at MarketingCharts.
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