Wed.Jun 29, 2011

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ExactTarget and Eloqua Stake Their Claim To Centralized Customer Management

Customer Experience Matrix

You probably saw ExactTarget ’s June 13 announcement of its strategic partnership with Marketo and Eloqua ’s June 21 announcement of its new AppCloud marketplace for connectors with other systems. So did I. But it took a little while to connect with the vendors to get the details, so I’m only now ready to write about them. Both announcements shared a theme of integration between core marketing platforms and other marketing systems.

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Search is three-dimensional chess

Biznology

by Chris Abraham. I try to read through my RSS feeds every day. Today I stumbled upon an article by my friend Christopher S Penn , entitled Social media now directly influences search rankings , that shows that Google is playing Tri-D chess in a world where most companies are mastering checkers: If you're marketing something, there's now a direct incentive to build your network as large as possible among your prospective customers.

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12+ Tips for Trade Show Success

The Effective Marketer

Make Your Trade Shows Count. The old fashioned trade show may not be the hottest topic coming through your inbox these days but odds are that you may still be doing quite a few events and have trade shows as part of your marketing budget. So how do you make the most out of it? A recent MarketingProfs article, Is Tradeshow Marketing Dead? , brings 12 tips for ensuring shows deliver the leads you expect.

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When a Picture is Truly Worth 1,000 Words

Convince & Convert

Guest post by Aaron Strout , head of location-based marketing at global agency WCG. He blogs at Citizen Marketing 2.1. There is a lot of excitement these days about the potential of location-based services among marketers and social media professionals. For anyone that doesn’t know what a location based service is, it’s an application or website that you access from a mobile device to check in — or digitally acknowledge — that you are at a particular location.

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WorkCast's Ultimate Webinar Handbook 2024

Elevate your webinar game with WorkCast's Ultimate Webinar Handbook! Packed with insights from our seasoned webinar experts, this comprehensive guide is your go-to resource for mastering the art of B2B webinars. Learn the fundamentals, from defining webinars to exploring their benefits and diverse use cases. Discover the key elements of running a successful webinar, avoiding common mistakes, and making your sessions more engaging.

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Online Media Needs Innovation, Not a TV Standard

Digital B2B Marketing

This is my opinion about the recent IAB , ANA and 4A’s principles for online measurement. If you don’t like rants, or think the advertising associations can do no wrong, stop reading and go back to Lycos. Otherwise, read on and share your reactions in the comments below. The IAB, ANA and 4A’s recently outlined five measurement principles as part of Making Measurement Make Sense.

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This is not a post about Google+

Biznology

Image via CrunchBase. You probably heard about the little announcement that Google made this week. Google finally has its social network. Again. If you don't count Orkut or Google Wave or Google Buzz, then it is Google's first try at dethroning Facebook. At least that is what all the stories say. Google vs. Facebook in that virtual steel-cage match--winner take all.

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7 Effective Ecommerce Applications of Twitter

Hubspot

Twitter, the popular micro-blogging service, can be somewhat of a quagmire for marketers. Many have yet to really nail down the specific value that they can bring to consumers on Twitter as well as understand the methods they can use to engage with potential customers without drifting into the realm of SPAM. Here are a few tactics you can use to leverage the amazing volume and openness of Twitter for your eCommerce marketing: 1.

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Who Do B2B Buyers Trust?

The ROI Guy

A common debate in B2B marketing is how to create and deliver the right content at the right time to help improve the connection and engagement with prospects and their buying decisions. When analyzing decision making patterns, buyers make purchasing decisions based on content containing the most valuable information and seek out sources, which are trustworthy and relevant.

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What Every Marketer Needs to Know About Google +1 for AdWords

Hubspot

Google recently launched the +1 button - a new way for content publishers to let their readers vote for content they think is high quality. Just yesterday I received an email from Google announcing that they are rolling out the Google +1 button across Google AdWords as well. Here's what every marketer needs to know about Google +1 for AdWords. How Google +1 for AdWords Works.

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21 Advanced ChatGPT Prompts To Take Your Social Media to the Next Level

Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.

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Blog Conversations Don't Lead to More Views or Links [New Data]

Hubspot

For more mythbusting and social media science, don't forget to register for my Science of Social Media webinar. My favorite unicorns and rainbows myth to pick on is "engage in the conversation." While it can be useful for customer service, from a results-driven marketing perspective, I believe conversations aren't very important. To continue proving that point, I analyzed comment, view and link data on over 100,000 blog posts.

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3 Ways to Track Offline Lead Conversions With Call Tracking

Hubspot

This is a guest blog post by Kathleen Colan. Kathleen is director of marketing and content at Mongoose Metrics, a call tracking solution provider, and has written dozens of blog posts, guest posts and whitepapers on the topic of call tracking. You can follow her on Twitter @mongoosemetrics or her blog at www.mongoosemetrics.com/blog. To maintain a successful inbound marketing campaign , marketers have to effectively track and record all lead conversions and associate them with specific marketing

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78% of Executives Say Having a Social Strategy Is Critical to Future Success [Infographic]

Hubspot

Social enterprise software company Jive just released a new study called the Jive Social Business Index , which surveyed 902 U.S.-based executives at large and mid-sized companies. A few interesting stats from the study include: 53% of executives believe they must adopt social business or risk falling behind. 70% of executives and 51% of millennials have downloaded at least 1 web-­based application for work use, either on their mobile device or personal computer. 89% of executives, 88% of mi