Fri.Jan 25, 2013

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Perspective on the B2B Demand Generation Benchmark Survey Report

KoMarketing Associates

Last October, KoMarketing Associates announced the launch of research consultancy Software Advice’s B2B Demand Generation Benchmark Survey. Software Advice’s Managing Editor Ashley Verrill shared some of the charts and information highlighting results of the survey. In a poll of 155 primarily C-level marketing experts, social media received the largest percentage of votes for demand generation channels that marketers will spend more on in 2013.

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The Critical Interplay Between Social and Search

Convince & Convert

Rand Fishkin, SEOmoz @randfish. Rand Fishkin , Founder and CEO of SEOmoz , joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss content calendar and community management at SEOmoz, the rumors of Google’s Author Rank, and the future of Facebook’s new Graph Search feature. Read on for some of the highlights and tweetable moments, or listen to the full podcast.

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SEO is Dead. Long Live SEO!

B2B Marketing Traction

Remember the days when SEO was king? Way back when we optimized for Inktomi and Overture? Later when we had to create reciprocal links to appease Google, now a frowned-upon practice? I have news for you. It’s over. SEO as we knew it is dead. But, long live SEO, because it’s re-emerged through SMO. Social media optimization is the art of optimally using social media platforms to increase awareness of a product, service, event or brand.

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Going from Good to Great Marketing: Leading and Managing Change

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Dayna Rothman We have seen a huge transformation in marketing over the past 10-12 years. Buyers are now in control of when and how they access information during the purchase process. At the same time, marketers are constrained by tight budgets and are being asked to interact with buyers across a huge array of channels. All of these changes can prove to add up to numerous challenges, but they also open up new opportunities for marketers.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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How to Transform Yourself Into an Agile Business Blogger

Hubspot

Many inbound marketers and business bloggers get so caught up in (or weighed down by?) the idea of creating blog content , that after hours or days of looking at a blinking cursor, there's nothing but an outline or a few introductory sentences to show for their work. Well, I guess that's one way to approach business blogging. But another way is the agile way -- the way that lets bloggers go with the flow, respond to new opportunities, and generally get over the fear of the blinking cursor and, a

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Will Facebook users give Graph Search time to evolve?

Biznology

Image via CrunchBase. Facebook has recently announced its new Graph Search product. Aside from needing some very serious counsel on naming a product (Graph Search? Really? Middle America and the rest of the non-tech world will most certainly understand that one… geesh!) it raises many questions about just how patient Facebook and its account holders are going to be around this new idea.

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Twitter Makes Video Marketing More Accessible With GIF-Like Mobile App, Vine

Hubspot

We'll make this one fairly short and sweet, folks, because well, that's what it is. Yesterday, Twitter announced the launch of its new, integrated mobile video app called Vine. The GIF-like app, which was acquired by Twitter in October 2012, enables mobile users to capture and share short videos of six seconds or fewer, which complements the brevity of 140-character tweets quite nicely.