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Strategic Guy: Three Phases of Social Media Maturation

Online Marketing Institute

Regardless of the reason, the social media champion correctly concludes that how companies position, brand, promote and identify leads has shifted. Is there an appropriate way to cross this last mile to identify members of our engaged community as sales leads, potential partners or new hires? Image created by Ryan Schradin.)

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9 call analytics platforms for marketing teams to consider

Martech

CallRail serves SMBs or marketing agencies with clients that rely on communications with customers — phone calls, texts, form submissions, and/or chats — to generate leads, close deals, and grow their businesses in the home services, real estate, legal services, financial services, healthcare and automotive industries.

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B2B Marketplaces: A New Breed Takes On an Old Problem

Webbiquity

Since the early days of the Internet, b2b purchasing has seemed like an area ripe for the efficiency and transparency improvements the web could bring. The theory has been that b2b buying processes are labor-intensive and inefficient, with heavy reliance on phone calls, emails and even face to face meetings. technologies.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: The IT Hierarchy of Needs: Categorizing.

The ROI Guy

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B Sales & Marke.

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How to Calculate Social Marketing ROI

Paul Gillin

whose blog-driven search strategy yielded a six-fold increase in leads in just one quarter, and Clickable , whose Gurus drove a 400% one-year growth in billings. ROI analysis enforces rigor that leads to better decisions. That’s what Pitney Bowes did when a 2007 Postal Service rate increase prompted 430,000 calls from customers.

ROI 50
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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Don’t laugh – this was in 2007. The rise of the social media website plugin is allowing its functionality to metastasize across the web to become a part of the infrastructure – Facebook’s little announcement is the first of what will undoubtedly be many such initiatives to make social websites the default.

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16 marketing automation platforms your organization should consider

Martech

Marketing automation platforms are a critical part of the martech ecosystem for many businesses, offering numerous benefits by streamlining manual B2B marketing tasks, including lead management, email campaign development and landing page creation. It is currently backed by Centerbridge Partners and employs 900 people.