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2011 Social Media Marketing Trends

Webbiquity

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. Social media marketing has progressed from radical new idea to widely adopted practice in a remarkably short period of time. So what’s next?

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Activate Acquires Green Leads

Smashmouth Marketing

Linda and I learned and understood the B2B sales and marketing business as well as the appointment setting business. 2008 The two of us get married. 2011 Acquired Target 250 in London to enter the EMEA market. In fact, one of our colleagues referred to us as the “odd couple.”. Then one day it comes to me, “Wait!

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Top 10 Industrial Marketing Posts of 2011

Industrial Marketing Today

As we wind down 2011, this is a good time to review all the industrial marketing posts that I have published here and been viewed by you, my readers, during the year. Not all the posts were written in 2011, one was way back from 2008. B2B Lead Generation without Lead Nurturing is Doomed to Fail.

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The Yin and Yang of High-Performance Marketing

B2B Marketing Directions

For example, a yin-yang approach would have B2B marketers focus on building a strong brand and on running effective demand generation marketing programs. The inaugural (2011) version of Scott Brinker's marketing technology landscape graphic contained about 150 solution providers. On both customer retention and new customer acquisition.

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B2B MarTech Future: 8 Changes You Can’t Afford to Ignore

Rev

Scott , the VP of Platform Ecosystems at Hubspot and the editor of chiefmartec.com, has been categorizing marketing technology since 2011. A Useful Perspective on the B2B Marketing Stack. I talk to people like David Lewis who brings considerable perspective to B2B martech used for demand generation and lead management.

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5 Silly Things Digital Marketers Do

B2B Digital Marketer

In addition, Jay highlights the significance of humanizing your brand in the B2B space and shares examples of successful B2B brands that have broken the mold. He sold the firm in 2005, and in 2008 started over, creating Convince & Convert, a global digital strategy firm that’s served 40 FORTUNE 500 brands. It took off.

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Why More Members, Money, and Ads Don’t Always Mean More Success: A B2B Marketer’s Survival Guide

Webbiquity

So the question is–are there things that today’s B2B marketers can learn from history, specifically, the tremendous success of Facebook and the rise, fall and possible resurrection of Myspace? How can the respective histories and behaviors of these two companies inform the best practices for B2B marketers? Guest post by Ariel Applbaum.