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Why Social Media Really Matters

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: marketing has shifted steadily over time from passive to active consumer engagement. Marketers need to master new skills at each stage; as they do, advertising budgets will shift to take advantage of the new medium's increased effectiveness. database marketing, or, more poetically, narrowcasting. authority.

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Engagement is Everything: Our Takeaways from Marketing Nation 2015

Vidyard

Marketo’s Marketing Nation Summit is like starter’s pistol for marketers in Q2. Spring has sprung, and thousands of marketers descended on San Francisco to learn from one another, share some drinks at the annual gala, and discover new technologies to take their marketing to the next level. Channels are dead.