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20 LinkedIn Groups Every Marketer Should Join

Hubspot

Maybe you''ll grow your marketing expertise just by taking a little time out of your day-to-day and checking out some thought-provoking posts and discussions. Marketing. 1) Digital Marketing. Created: March 3, 2008. 2) Inbound Marketers - For Marketing Professionals. Created: September 21, 2007.

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How 5 Companies Are Using Inbound Marketing to Succeed in Competitive Markets

Hubspot

When you’re the shop on the corner, good luck competing with corporations with quarterly marketing budgets larger than your entire annual revenue. Inbound marketing helps level the playing field for marketers with less budget, and more brains. Sounds like inbound marketing to me! Even better?

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Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content

Industrial Marketing Today

Back in 2006, David Meerman Scott had a done comprehensive analysis over a nine-month period of the large number of meaningless phrases used in corporate marketing and PR materials. He has updated the original analysis with new data from November 1, 2006, to July 31, 2007. He called it “The Gobbledygook Manifesto.” All Rights Reserved.

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B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The.

Industrial Marketing Today

ThomasNet study, 2006) For IT solutions in excess of $50,000, the most wanted data in the early stage awareness was price ( Source: Joint study done by MarketingSherpa and Enquiro , 2007) Today, a majority of industrial buying decisions begin online. This was second only to downloading product data sheets. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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Colleges and Universities Lead the Way with Social Media Adoption

Hubspot

It is one of the top 3 most important building blocks of inbound marketing today. Inbound marketing is no longer cold-calling, junk mail, unsolicited email or print advertising. They have been studying US colleges and universities and their use of social media since the 2007-2008 academic school year.

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3 Marketing Lessons From Charles Darwin

Hubspot

Companies spent 17% less on trade shows in 2009 verses 2008 4. This presentation contains dozens more stats that illustrate this shift: It's Time to Transform Your Marketing. Simply put, if you’re still heavily relying on outbound marketing tactics, it’s time to transform your marketing and adapt to the changed buyer.

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9 Reasons Your Marketing Agency's Retainers Aren't Bigger

Hubspot

It's why I started HubSpot's agency partner program in 2008, and why I've launched an agency partner program at my new company, Databox. 1) Your Own Marketing Sucks. Today, HubSpot is a full marketing and sales growth stack that makes it possible to execute a multi-channel marketing campaign. Go ahead, I dare you.