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2010 B2B Marketing Budgets and Mix Trends Research

Online Marketing Institute

Two of my recently published Forrester reports take a deeper look at marketing mix effectiveness and program spending trends. Here are some of the more interesting things found in the January, 2010 survey: 1) Social media became the hot new marketing tool. " in the marketing mix.

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The State of the Blogosphere 2010

Online Marketing Institute

Brian Solis Home Articles Business – Marketing PR 2.0 – New Communications Social Media Speaking Books Appearances About The State of the Blogosphere 2010 December 13, 2010 View Comments The question we ask ourselves when examining the state of the blogosphere is whether or not the cup is half full or half empty?

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Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner Downgrade IT Spending Outlook

The ROI Guy

In the latest research from Gartner and Forrester, both IT research firms revised their annual spending projections over the next few years, predicting lower budgets and slower growth. Forrester Research: More Optimistic, But Less So Forrester Research has updated its U.S. IT spending predictions for 2010, estimating 8.1%

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Hard Data to Justify Your Marketing Automation Investment

Customer Experience Matrix

It includes five pages of properly sourced industry statistics from Aberdeen , Forrester , Gartner and SiriusDecisions. The Heart of Growing Conversion Rates," 2008): Best in Class Average % higher Inquires to Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) nearly 10% 3.9% The data is a couple of years old but still valid. Statistics include: • 16.5%

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Industrial and B2B Customer Engagement Simplified

Industrial Marketing Today

Defining B2B Customer Engagement Forrester Research has proposed a definition of customer engagement that makes a lot of sense to me. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. The good news is that you can use a free tool like Google Analytics to get a very good handle on your customer engagement.

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Top 60 B2B Marketing Posts and Hottest Topics November 2010

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

Ten reasons to blog – even if nobody reads it - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , November 7, 2010 Building an engaged community through a business blog can be extremely difficult — sometimes impossible. Twitter for B2B Marketing - MI6 Marketing Agency , November 18, 2010 Author: Chris Herbert. There better be. Why not use it?

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Creating Relevant B2B Marketing Content: Walk the Talk

Industrial Marketing Today

The chart below from a research study done by Forrester illustrates this point very clearly. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. Even if you have carefully segmented your target audience by demographics, different people within the same company can and do react differently to your content.