These companies are flexible, quick to switch designs and marketing patterns to meet the demands of changing fashions around the world.

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The initiative around educating moms about boy play-patterns was a valid and smart marketing tactic to address the barrier to purchase.

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In a recent article, Joseph Turian observes that crowdsourced labor is already being used by many companies to analyze and code retail-store surveillance footage for customer visitation patterns, or by ad and marketing agencies to perform granular sentiment analysis and do keyword research, writing, editing and tagging images.

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Marketing is being transformed as companies like Target to recognize individual buying patterns.

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If Jango were to record its master's buying patterns and supply them to the stores it searches, it could enjoy many of the direct-marketing advantages of a NetMarket's database.

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Analytics and marketing applications-oriented software companies are today providing new solutions that enable marketers to target communications based on behavioral patterns revealed in data from social networks, customer loyalty programs, call centers or transaction histories.

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