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Why Social Media Really Matters

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Social media is the latest stage in this evolution. The final, related factoid is that social media have grown from virtually nothing to nearly 20% of online time over the past few years. Thus, social media present a major threat to search advertising revenues. social marketing.

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Alterian Pushes Into Social Media Management with Techrigy Acquisition

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Summary: Alterian's purchase of Techrigy marks the first integration of serious social media management with marketing automation. Marketing automation vendor Alterian yesterday announced its acquisition of social media monitoring company Techrigy. Others are sure to follow.

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Show Me the Numbers: Hard Data on Internet Use and Media Spend

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Summary: Here are links to about twenty studies with statistics on online media consumption and advertising spend. Many are contradictory, but it's clear that marketers need to invest in social media, which might eventually replace search as the primary way that customers find them. asl the dominant uses.

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List of Mid-Tier Business-to-Consumer Marketing Automation Systems

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Here are some others, in rough order of industry familiarity: Alterian – extends beyond multi-channel campaign management to include Web content management, Web analytics, and social media monitoring. The campaign management portion is based on the Million Handshakes system purchased by Portrait in 2008.

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Balihoo Offers "Local Marketing Automation" for Channel Partners

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content distribution with pre-packaged campaigns in email, direct mail, mobile, online ads, print, and broadcast media. It also helps local partners set up their own Web sites and social network accounts, register with local directories and search engines, and record telephone as well as online responses. I’m glad I did.

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Hubspot Offers Small Business Marketers a Big Bundle of Features

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Although Hubspot positions itself as an “inbound marketing system,” it actually does more than the search engine optimization, blogging, social media interactions and related analytics needed to generate Web traffic. Other features include automated Web scans to identify changes in keyword rankings and relevant social media articles.

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New Marketing Automation Options for Small Business in the VEST Report

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The features within these functions are unusually sophisticated for a micro-business system: email includes dynamic content and a/b tests; Web pages also support a/b testing; Web forms allow progressive profiling; email and Web responses can automatically trigger a follow-up action.