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Activate Acquires Green Leads

Smashmouth Marketing

Then in the late ‘90s, when I was a co-founder and CEO of a startup, Pangaea, which used rudimentary AI to do product configuration. (We 2008 The two of us get married. 2010 Expanded our pipeline generation offering with MQLs/HQLs (marketing qualified/highly qualified leads). A closet, two computers, and a credit card.

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How B2B Brands Can Benefit from Social Listening

Brandwatch Marketing

Alternatively, they can keep an eye on the audience that really matters: the kind of people that are looking for their brand’s types of products and services. 6/ Embrace Product Feedback Social media gives companies the ability to get the kind of quick, voluntary feedback they require to stay agile.

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Tech layoffs? Great companies are actively hiring marketing technology talent

chiefmartech

A Dilbert cartoon from 2010 quipped that marketing was “just liquor and guessing.” For my inaugural post in 2008 , I did a Google search for the phrase “director of marketing technology” It turned up 7,520 matches. They didn’t really understand or appreciate what the other did. Maybe not bad.

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How B2B brands can benefit from social listening

Brandwatch Marketing

Alternatively, they can keep an eye on the audience that really matters: the kind of people that are looking for their brand’s types of products and services. 6/ Embrace Product Feedback Social media gives companies the ability to get the kind of quick, voluntary feedback they require to stay agile.

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The Twilight renaissance: Why retailers need social media for trend forecasting

Sprout Social

But thanks to the combined forces of Netflix and social media, teens are flocking to thrift stores to find everything you probably wore back in 2010. Even a vampire romance movie from 2008. If it looks like Bella Swan might have worn it in the 2008 film adaptation of Twilight, it fits the vibe. Here’s why.

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More on Marketo Financials: Despite Past Losses, Prospects Are Bright

Customer Experience Matrix

million) for 2010. Data I've collected over the years shows that Marketo had about 120 clients at the start of 2009, 325 at the start of 2010, and should end 2010 with about 800. The table below throws in a reasonable guess for 2008 as well. million in 2009 and $21 million in 2010. million actual vs. $10.4

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2010 B2B Marketing Budgets and Mix Trends Research

Online Marketing Institute

Here are some of the more interesting things found in the January, 2010 survey: 1) Social media became the hot new marketing tool. Almost half (49%) employ corporate blogging, a number much higher than the 32% who embraced this digital medium in 2008. More than half of respondents (55%) said they use Twitter for marketing purposes.