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The real and complete history of social media marketing

illumin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

While Facebook may be only 19 as of 2023, the very first use of the internet to socialize dates all the way back to 1978 with the creation of the Computerized Hobbyists Bulletin Board System. The early 2000s also saw the birth of Facebook in 2004 (originally launched as Thefacebook). billion social media users across the globe.

Social Media

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Facebook Success Summit - 22 Sessions on Everything Facebook.

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 2, 2010

Now with more than 500 million global members, Facebook is changing the way we interact, communicate, share, and shop. Despite Facebook’s apparent addiction to public relations missteps and half-baked schemes, they still keep chugging along, taking over the world one “like&# button at a time.

Facebook

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Marketing Storytelling for 2020: Woo Customers With Age Old and Cutting Edge Techniques

Martech Advisor

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Storytelling in marketing works because it engages your audience, evokes an emotional response, and guides them through their buyer’s journey. In this article, we share a few ideas to combine classic storytelling techniques with modern marketing to win over your audience in 2020. The answer is by telling stories.

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How to Leverage Behavioral Science Insights for Direct Mail Success

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The Twofold Benefit of Optimizing Marketing Content

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

Optimizing your marketing content around keywords or phrases is the first step in your content marketing strategy. However, there is another strong reason for optimizing your marketing content that has nothing to do with SEO. I am referring to optimizing customer engagement in B2B marketing.

Optimization

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Focus on Content in B2B Marketing

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

However, to be successful with social media, you have to provide real value and that usually comes from great content. Paul Dunay in his blog post, “4 C’s of B2B Marketing” has defined this very nicely. The old ways of pushing out content is no longer effective. Don’t sell. Don’t interrupt.

Marketing Budget Creation

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50 Content Marketing Influencers You Need To Follow

Atomic Reach

JANUARY 3, 2019

This is where content marketing comes into play. Content Marketing allows brands to speak to you while coming across as authentic, empathetic, and dedicated to connecting with you. For the foreseeable future, content will remain as king. Content Marketing Influencers: Who Are They?

Paid Content

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How to write for social media

Biznology

JANUARY 13, 2016

This webinar covers the basics of writing for the blogosphere as well as how to write for Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn in a manner that recognizes the unique culture of each. Paul Gillin is one of our Biznology authors, and a writer, speaker and online marketing consultant specializing in B2B social media.

Social Media

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Creating Relevant B2B Marketing Content: Walk the Talk

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

That is pretty much the mantra of B2B content marketing. Nothing happens until your site visitors and blog readers take some kind of an action after reading your content. Understanding and building accurate profiles of different personas requires a close alignment between sales and marketing.

Relevance

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99 Amazing Facts On The Future Of Business [Slides]

Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Consider: Over 40% of the companies that were at the top of the Fortune 500 in 2000 were no longer there in 2010. Facebook has more than 1 Billion network users. The half-life of a piece of content shared on top social networks Twitter and Facebook is 3 hours. Content on the internet tripled between 2010 and 2013.

Enterprise Management

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Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content by Achinta Mitra on May 18, 2010 in B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies You can find plenty of clichés used (overused?)

B2B Marketing

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How Relevant Marketing Content Helps B2B Branding

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

Most CEOs of manufacturing, engineering and technical companies do not believe in the value of brand building and consider it the domain of consumer marketing (B2C). Branding is an expense item like the rest of marketing. He suggests that B2B marketers take a cue from their B2C counterparts when it comes to increasing brand awareness.

Relevance

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Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More.

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More With Less? Google News, aggregating content via RSS feeds and social bookmarking sites have been around for a while. So curated content is not something new.

Curation

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7 “Rs” for B2B Marketing Content Planning

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

With a majority of marketing efforts going digital, that means even more content is needed. The instant gratification mindset of B2B content consumers means they’re demanding more content, faster. Designing content for 1X use is wasteful. See my post Rule of 5 for B2B content development.

Planning

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The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

The majority of Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) consider customer engagement as their top priority according to a recent study done by Forbes Insights and George P. The New Rules of Engagement: CMOs Rethink Their Marketing Mix is based on a survey of 314 marketing executives at companies with more than $500 million in annual revenue.

B2B Marketing

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2011 Social Media Marketing Trends

Webbiquity

JANUARY 7, 2011

Social media marketing has progressed from radical new idea to widely adopted practice in a remarkably short period of time. Just 5% of Americans said they were familiar with Twitter in 2008; by the fall of last year, that figure was 87%, and Twitter is now adding 300,000 new users per day. Share this on Facebook.

Social Media

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7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products by Achinta Mitra on May 14, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog I am a big fan of Content Marketing or as some people like to refer to it as Inbound Marketing.

Webinar Metrics

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Taming Your Brand Mascot « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

MAY 10, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Taming Your Brand Mascot From Tony The Tiger, Trix Rabbit and Energizer Bunny to Ronald McDonald and even John McCain (?!) In 2008, revenues were up to $16.6 The duck has 165,000 facebook fans in the US.

Planning

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Why Content Marketing Matters To Me And Should To You

Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

Sure, I pay attention to where I’m ranked in the AdAge Power 150 (a broader ranking of all marketing blogs), and I look at my search rankings, etc. But I am incredibly delighted to top the list of content marketing blogs, because for me content marketing is becoming fundamental to business success at every level.

Paid Content

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Social Media Budget Ratio in B2B Marketing

Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 9, 2010

Which prompted a question by Scott Zosel about how much should you allocate for Social Media in your budget – and so I created the Social Media Budget Ratio (SMBR) post back in 2008 which was good but it lacked historical data like I have now. Share this on Facebook. So here is my take …. Take for example your classic white paper.

Social Media

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How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project by Achinta Mitra on June 3, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development What comes first – site content or site design?

Marketing Websites

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Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well by Achinta Mitra on April 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing , Social Networking For a while, it was difficult to find hardcore data to make a business case for social media.

Social Media

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Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

Buying Cycle

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Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the.

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

In Needs Awareness and Research phases, the first two stages of the industrial buy cycle (see my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ) your prospects and customers use a variety of online content to find solutions to their current problems and needs.

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Using Content to Move Prospects Forward in the Sales Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

That however is only part of the solution because if your content doesn’t engage the visitor s/he won’t take a desired action to move forward in the sales cycle. Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc. Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc. You can’t satisfy all of them with one-size-fits all content.

Sales Cycle

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Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? This long time staple has become the Rodney “No Respect&# Dangerfield of B2B and industrial marketing. Do you have any good examples of social media used in email marketing?

Social Media

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Content Creation Made Easy

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Creation Made Easy by Achinta Mitra on August 24, 2009 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Blog Are you struggling with creating content? Content creation doesn’t have to be hard.

Web 2.0

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

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Social media marketing is all about potential audience. The same dynamic is present on Facebook. What percentage of your status updates are seen by each of your Facebook fans? In fact, BrandGlue estimates that as few as 1% of the status updates brands send on Facebook are seen by the fans of those brands. Very, very few.

Social Media

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10 Best B2B Marketing blogs for Entrepreneurs

Valasys

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When thinking about an all-inclusive content strategy, the first thing that comes to our minds is the original ideas generated from deep insightful research. According to research by Forbes, 89% of the companies today compete primarily based on customer experience, as compared to 36% back in the year 2010.

B2B Marketing

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Get Your Social Media Story Straight | Blogging and Content.

Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

The team’s record for the last five years: 2009-10 (14-60) so far 2008-09 (24-58) 2007-08 (22-60) 2006-07 (32-50) 2005-06 (33-49) In fact, the Timberwolves have won a playoff series only one time in their 21 years of existence. If Your Story is Inconsistent, At Least Leverage Your Content Ouch. But then it gets even worse.

Social Media

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Build Your Brand a Social Content Ladder in 5 Steps | Blogging and.

Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

Too many companies and organizations are reinventing the content wheel for every social outpost they maintain. A better approach is to create a content ecosystem that allows you to repurpose and cascade your best information. Instead of a series of self-contained initiatives, build yourself a content ladder.

Paid Content

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Social Media Lawsuits Protect Yourself From Them | Guest Posts.

Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

The Lawyers Are Coming Social networks give people the ability to share incredible volumes of content. Been Caught Stealing Let’s start with content creation and copyright issues. In other words put a copyright, all rights reserved on your content or the bottom of your blog. All that stuff? Read the fine print.

Social Media

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The Stories Behind 5 Social Networks That Never Caught On

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

While many people will recall it being Facebook or Twitter, others might remember some of the earlier, less popular social networks. In the late 2000s and early 2010s came Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+, which experimented with short-form and visual content, as well as aggregating and saving content for later consumption.

Social Networks

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The Role of B2B Marketing is Shifting from Lead Generation to.

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

However, the role of B2B marketers is changing and evolving more into revenue generation. The recently released B2B Marketing Skills Survey jointly done by Genius and BtoB Magazine reveals some new trends and contradicts certain popular beliefs. Stay tuned as the role of B2B marketer continues to evolve.

Lead Generation

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High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging.

Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

And that reality of the flooded inbox is very evident from steadily dropping response rates of only 1% to 3% range for traditional email marketing. The old email marketing strategy of batch and blast or spray and pray is no longer effective. The old email marketing strategy of batch and blast or spray and pray is no longer effective.

Email Marketing

Email Marketing Planning Web 2.0 BtoB

Marketer of the Month Podcast – Cutting through the Clutter – “Content Marketing” from the POV of the person who coined the term: Joe Pulizzi

Outgrow

MAY 23, 2022

Welcome to the Marketer Of The Month blog! We recently interviewed Joe Pulizzi for our monthly podcast – ‘ Marketer of the Month ’! The evolution of content marketing since 2001 – building and monetizing an audience. The evolution of content marketing since 2001 – building and monetizing an audience.

Content Marketing

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Integrating Email and Social Media with Flowtown | Email Marketing.

Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

“Should we be on Twitter, or Facebook, or Linkedin, or YouTube, or some other places?&# Export your email subscriber or customer database to Flowtown, and you’ll know in minutes what percentage of your audience is on Facebook or some other social outpost. Flowtown gives you the answer in seconds.

Social Media

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Does Your Blog Have a Long Tail | Blogging and Content Creation.

Convince & Convert

APRIL 20, 2010

The free “Blogging’s Long Tail Approach&# white paper is devoted to describing this notion of blog content breadth, and its impact on search term selection, and search term optimization. More from Convince and Convert 5 Ways to be a Social Networking Smash How to Create a Share of Voice Report Does Your Facebook Page Have a Pulse?

Long Tail Marketing

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Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing.

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing Content to Engage and Sell by Achinta Mitra on July 6, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies Marketing 101 teaches you “Customers buy benefits and not product features.”

Features

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Are You Creating Irresistible Offers with Your Email Marketing?

Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Are You Creating Irresistible Offers with Your Email Marketing? by Achinta Mitra on November 16, 2009 in B2B E-Mail Marketing Do you know the key component of email marketing that generates more high-quality leads and drives sales? What is it?

Email Marketing

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5 Things Industrial Marketers Must Do to Attract Engineers and.

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Having worked closely with many manufacturers and companies from the industrial sector, I have learned several valuable lessons about what works when it comes to marketing to engineers and technical buyers. It is always a good idea to serve up your marketing content in different formats but your text is the key component.

Web 2.0

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Don't Count on Marketing Automation to Solve All Your Lead.

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

Of course, Marketing Automation alone cannot live up to those hyped up expectations and has to take the brunt of the blame. That is unfortunate because Marketing Automation software is a very useful tool and in my opinion, a necessity these days. However, is improving efficiency enough to justify investing in Marketing Automation?

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Business Value of Social Networking

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Business Value of Social Networking by Achinta Mitra on July 29, 2009 in Social Media Marketing , Social Networking Saw a very interesting video where Seth Godin talks about how useful social media is to businesses. Get Engineers Can Sell white paper now.

Social Networks

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A Blogging Style to Call Your Own

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 28, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website A Blogging Style to Call Your Own by Achinta Mitra on April 28, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Blog , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing Creating a blog is not too difficult but building an active community around it is.

Web 2.0

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Can Industrial and B2B Marketers Learn Creative Problem Solving.

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Can Industrial and B2B Marketers Learn Creative Problem Solving from Fifth Graders? How can industrial and B2B marketers apply the same creative problem solving lessons in engaging with their prospects and customers? The four steps are: 1.

Creativity

Creativity B2B Marketing Lead Ranking Lead Scoring

The real and complete history of social media marketing

Facebook Success Summit - 22 Sessions on Everything Facebook.

Webinars

Trending Sources

Marketing Storytelling for 2020: Woo Customers With Age Old and Cutting Edge Techniques

Webinars

The Twofold Benefit of Optimizing Marketing Content

Focus on Content in B2B Marketing

50 Content Marketing Influencers You Need To Follow

How to write for social media

Creating Relevant B2B Marketing Content: Walk the Talk

99 Amazing Facts On The Future Of Business [Slides]

Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content

How Relevant Marketing Content Helps B2B Branding

Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More.

7 “Rs” for B2B Marketing Content Planning

The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement

2011 Social Media Marketing Trends

7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products

Taming Your Brand Mascot « The Effective Marketer

Why Content Marketing Matters To Me And Should To You

Social Media Budget Ratio in B2B Marketing

How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project

Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well

Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle

Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the.

Using Content to Move Prospects Forward in the Sales Cycle

Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?

Content Creation Made Easy

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

10 Best B2B Marketing blogs for Entrepreneurs

Get Your Social Media Story Straight | Blogging and Content.

Build Your Brand a Social Content Ladder in 5 Steps | Blogging and.

Social Media Lawsuits Protect Yourself From Them | Guest Posts.

The Stories Behind 5 Social Networks That Never Caught On

The Role of B2B Marketing is Shifting from Lead Generation to.

High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging.

Marketer of the Month Podcast – Cutting through the Clutter – “Content Marketing” from the POV of the person who coined the term: Joe Pulizzi

Integrating Email and Social Media with Flowtown | Email Marketing.

Does Your Blog Have a Long Tail | Blogging and Content Creation.

Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing.

Are You Creating Irresistible Offers with Your Email Marketing?

5 Things Industrial Marketers Must Do to Attract Engineers and.

Don't Count on Marketing Automation to Solve All Your Lead.

Business Value of Social Networking

A Blogging Style to Call Your Own

Can Industrial and B2B Marketers Learn Creative Problem Solving.

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