Everything Is Broken (Photo credit: Wikipedia). For many in marketing and sales, the march continues towards the attempt to develop tactical plans that will connect them to buyers.  We have seen many variations over the past two as these attempts are made.  Whether they relate to demand generation, content marketing, sales enablement, and more, efforts are being made to make adaptations to changing buying behaviors. After two or three years, there is still much frustration that some of these new tactics are not working.  By systems, I do not refer to technology.  Buyer Designed Systems. MORE >>

Click here if you can’t see this video interview with Storify Founder Xavier Damman. Xavier Damman of Storify. If you’re immersed in the social web it would be hard to miss   Storify. The young company has been everywhere lately and it is a result of the passion and vision of its founder and CEO Xavier Damman. In this video interview, Damman relates the interesting story of how he rapidly progressed from putting code together in his apartment in Belgium to building a company now backed by one of the most powerful venture capital firms in America. So Xavier, tell us about your story. MORE >>

I was just reading a post written by Margie Clayman, Myth: Marketing consists of just talking to people (or what is social media marketing?). Margie asked her community the question What is marketing? to begin to get at the premise for social media marketing beyond those vague terms of "engagement" and questioning how just "talking to people" (if that's the definition of social media marketing) can actually impact the outcome of selling stuff. This is a great topic! Of course, Margie always comes up with great topics for discussion. The Quest for Information. MORE >>

by Jason Miller Pinterest is now the third most popular social network in the country. Traffic to the digital pin-board rose 50 percent from January to February of this year, with over 21 million visits in the last week of January alone. Those numbers reinforce the potential for businesses to utilize yet another social channel for customers to engage and share their products. The implications for B2B marketing are just beginning to come to light as marketers quickly adapt to this new visual approach. Hear from: Rohit Bhargava, SVP of Global Strategy & Planning at Ogilvy. MORE >>

Links still matter for SEO. Not low-quality links, not reciprocal links, not the kind of links you can buy in bulk for cheap from some sketchy source in the third world, but real, valid, quality links. So—how do you build those high-quality links? What types of links should you be seeking exactly? What are the best link-building strategies in a post-Panda world? What “red flag” linking practices and other common linking mistakes you should avoid? How can you leverage business relationships and giveaways to quickly build quality backlinks? by WebProNews. by Performics. MORE >>