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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

49% of monthly Twitter users follow brands or companies, compared to just 16% of social network users overall. Brand Interaction is a Major Part of Life on Twitter In addition to following brands, Twitter users research and engage with companies. 42% learn about products and services via Twitter. 19% seek customer support.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Eccolo Media 2008 B2B Technology Collateral Survey. Her company Marketing Interactions helps companies with complex sales and quantify marketing effectiveness by using interactive e-marketing strategies driven by compelling content. Velocity's The B2B Content Marketing Workbook.

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Ambal's Amusings

OCTOBER 15, 2009

B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Her company Marketing Interactions helps companies with complex sales and quantify marketing effectiveness by using interactive e-marketing strategies driven by compelling content. But I have a secret: I get a kick out of traffic stats. MarketingSherpa. Measure momentum.

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APRIL 20, 2010

While this is important for a blog like mine, it’s flat-out critical for e-commerce companies, and others that are blogging for business. Those long-tail stats are real eye-openers. Those long-tail stats are real eye-openers. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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MARCH 25, 2010

On the ROI front, Swix CEO Scott Lake ( @scottica ) told me that the company puts as much emphasis on tracking the “I&# as they do the “R&#. Mr. Lake believe that access will be granted however, allowing his company to deliver a whole suite of new Facebook data points into the Swix system. New YouTube video that goes viral.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. Creating and calibrating a social media strategy for any company should follow the same process. Size Doesn’t Matter I’m also often asked about how social media execution differs between large and small companies.

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JULY 14, 2010

Losing in social media can be akin to the experiences of companies like Kraft, Nestle, and BP in the social media realm. At the very least those companies are engaged in the conversation and have a strong awareness of the perceptions of their brand. Most of us don't look in our GA stats daily either way. Why ignore it?

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Awareness of Twitter has exploded; 87% of Americans said they were “familiar with” Twitter in a poll taken earlier this year, versus just 5% in 2008 and 26% in 2009. Although fewer Americans use Twitter than Facebook, Twitter users “are far more likely to follow Brands/ Companies than social networkers in general. And much more.

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AUGUST 10, 2010

JB : How are companies incorporating influence metrics into their marketing? JB : In addition to influencer outreach, how can companies engage in influence mining for customer service? Should companies treat customers differently? TA : Each of our companies is a “smart agent&# in some way.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Because our behaviors on the social Web leave a noticeable fingerprint, smart companies can modify the way they engage and interact with us, based on our social graph, purchase history, etc. But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. million followers on Twitter? population.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 17, 2011

Discover the answers to all of these questions and more here in more than 40 of the best resources for social media and marketing stats, facts and research of the past year. Social Media Facts and Stats. have a company page on at least one social networking site (but only 39% blog and just 26% tweet). in the latter half of 2010.

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MARCH 23, 2010

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 22, 2009

So click here to find out whether they changed my mind… Read more… Stan Woods | June 16th, 2009 | one comment The Content Marketing Workbook It’s here. Read more… Doug Kessler | June 11th, 2009 | 3 comments Choose your patients carefully The most respected surgeons in the world have the best survival rates.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

But there are still plenty of PR firms (and companies, for that matter) looking at social media purely as a distribution vehicle. I feel that PR companies can be a huge education resource to their clients. So I think there's a bit of relevance to tracking those stats. What do you think?

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APRIL 5, 2012

Read on for insights from Lauren, and Eric’s Social Media Stat of the Week (this week: is CEO engagement on social media channels important?). Huge thanks to data-driven social media management software company Argyle Social for their presenting sponsorship, as well as Infusionsoft and Jim Kukral at DigitalBookLaunch. Listen Now.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Written by Bernard Lunn / May 21, 2008 11:15 AM. / LinkedIns 361% year-over-year growth handily beats Facebooks 56% growth in the same period, according to the latest stats from Nielsen: However many people have pointed out to me that my case is unusual. and tagged with. 2008 Web Predictions. RWW Daily by Email.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Companies that simply put a “Follow me on Twitter&# or “Like us on Facebook&# without registration are doing themselves a disadvantage as they throw away hard earned traffic to a social network. (I Thanks, Bas Jeremiah Owyang Bas Many companies are integrating social media into their corporate website without a plan.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

co-authored with Clinton Bonner ) Is Your Company More Interesting Than My Wife? 1 (Danny Brown) Tagged as: blogging , blogs , content creation , content marketing , Convince and Convert , cotent lessons , headline writing Did you enjoy this blog post? Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

MySpace answered in July, 2008 – almost a full year later. Don’t Sell Too Early Many of the missteps that contributed to MySpace’s decay were based on the company not moving beyond its core proposition. In 2006, you have a veritable ATM machine, with companies begging you to put banner ads on your site.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Social media relies on the premise that we’ll believe what people tell us more readily than if we were told the same thing by a nameless, faceless company. That’s why it’s more important than ever for companies (in social media or otherwise) to embrace the truth. A survey of 4,875 adults (500 U.S.)

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Jenise Uehara Henrikson highlights the phenomenal growth of social media over the last six years, and particularly since 2008. 71% of companies now have a presence on Facebook. 59% are on Twitter, and 43% use a company blog for marketing. ” Social Networking Growth Stats and Patterns by Social Media Today.

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MAY 20, 2010

The first is the experimental, dip the toe in the water approach whereby a company begins a modest collection of initiatives to get familiar with the morays and methods of social media. Ready, Fire, Aim There are two schools of thought regarding social media effectiveness tracking. This is the pet naming program.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Tags: b2bmarketing. This is set to reach 12% by 2013 Source : AMR International B2B Online Marketing Assessment and Forecast to 2013 US business-to-business (B2B) advertising and marketing spending will increase by 0.8% this year, to $129 billion Interactive spending will climb 9.2%, to $51.5 Powered by Logic In Motion.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Increased spending on online marketing is driving companies to try new and innovative means of getting the word out about their products and services — one area that’s getting a lot of buzz with B2B marketers is social media. That’s what Kinaxis , an Ottawa-based supply-chain software company, did.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

Invest in a custom design In my own blogging from 2005 – 2009 I was using/tweaking various free themes, which did the job. Create projects tagging others that are not blog posts Tagging a large group of others in blog posts is all well and good. Sample image from 2009 blogger quotes project 7.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

50 (of the) Best Twitter Guides, Stats, Tips and Tools of 2010 (So Far) , October 5, 2010 While a dwindling number of business executives still dismiss Twitter as a waste of time, recent research suggests it is one of the most valuable social networks for business. Great content this month via the B2B Marketing Zone. Have I gone MAD??

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Webbiquity

MARCH 31, 2010

Searchers Using Longer Queries in 2009 by Small Business Search Marketing. in 2009, while 4-word searches increased from 13.3% Companies with the highest level of social media activity increased revenue by 18 percent in the last 12 months, while companies that were the least active saw a 6 percent drop in sales.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Data junkies, stats addicts, web trivia buffs rejoice — here are a deluge of social media, search and other marketing research facts and figures from 50 articles and blog posts published so far in 2010. What percentage of Fortune 100 companies are on Twitter? How do B2B social media marketing practices differ from B2C companies?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Google Alerts Like most marketing professionals, I have several Google Alerts set up for my name, my company name, and topics of interest to me. Analytics For basic stats tracking, this app is better and faster than Google Analytics on the computer. WordPress The WordPress iPhone app is slick.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 4, 2010

Ultimately, this will make for stronger companies. Social media just makes it easier for companies to do the listening, learning & recognizing issues that might be out there that never really arose in the office when the product or service was created. Too bad to see that a company that already understood the issue ignores it now.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 30, 2010

If we’re not using the available data (made even richer by the coming ubiquity of “like&# ) to boost relevancy of our social and email communication, our fans will gravitate toward companies that are. Because relevancy = respect. It’s time to start thinking about social media the same way.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Google Alerts Like most marketing professionals, I have several Google Alerts set up for my name, my company name, and topics of interest to me. Analytics For basic stats tracking, this app is better and faster than Google Analytics on the computer. WordPress The WordPress iPhone app is slick.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 2, 2010

mid-sized and large companies today, the email group and the social media group are not the same, and communicate infrequently. This will provide companies with an holistic view of their customer relationships and each customer’s communication modality preferences. to be larger than email by 2012 doesn’t hurt, either.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Nobody forced companies to get involved with their customers in this way. But yet so many companies are using Twitter as a post-modern headline news service. Startling to me, but less than 1% of the participants would use Twitter as the first way they’d contact a company when they need customer service. And for what?

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Within 12 months of its invention, 1,200 companies entered the radio “business&# in some form or fashion. Social media adoption is happening at an extraordinary rate, and I believe every company will have some sort of social media presence within the next 24 months. And that’s the problem.

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